Tuesday, April 08, 2008

You belong among the TRIVIA QUIZzes!

Today is Counter Stool Memorial Day, a day to see if you can remember the last diner or lunch counter where you spun round-and-round on a stool at the counter. Is there still a place where you can do it again?

Today is National Notice a Wildflower Day.


Today is National Peanuts Kids Baseball Day. Um, what does that mean? Could I have just said "today is Locality Noun Noun Noun Day"?

Today is Hammerin' Hank Day, marking Hank Aaron's 715th home run, breaking Babe Ruth's long-standing record, on this date in 1974.

On this day in 1953, relatives of the great Hunkpapa Sioux medicine man Sitting Bull secretly moved his remains from Fort Yates, North Dakota, to his birthplace, the banks of the Missouri River west of Mobridge, South Dakota. The army had buried him at Fort Yates 62 years earlier.

On this day in 1975, history’s oldest canary died in Hull, England. Joey, owned by Mrs. Kay Ross, was 34 years old.

On this day in 1990, 11-year-old Richard Daff Jr. of Crownsville, Maryland, bowled a perfect game. He is believed to be the youngest bowler ever to score 300.


On this day in 1995, Associated Press reported that Virginia prisoner Robert Lee Brock’s lawsuit for $5-million against himself had been dismissed in state court. Brock claimed he had violated his own civil rights by getting himself arrested for grand larceny and asked the state to pay the $5-million because he had no income in prison.

On this day in 2001, a Valparaiso, Indiana, couple who met through their mutual love of jogging were married in their running shorts after completing a 5-kilometer race in which they competed against their pastor and best man. During Wanda Johns' and Clarence Melion's wedding, the Rev. Duane Schmidt told the sweaty couple they were starting the "marathon of life." Johns' racing outfit included a white veil attached to a baseball cap, a wrist corsage and a white lace garter.

Ok, trivia fans...so let's say you're suffering from peladophobia. What are you afraid of?

Good luck :)

3 Comments:

At 2:56 PM, April 08, 2008, Blogger Kim said...

Damn, I don't remember if it is fear of going bald or a fear of bald people. I think it's fear of bald people though.

 
At 2:56 PM, April 08, 2008, Blogger Kim said...

by the way, this blog is making me realize just how much of my brain is taken up by useless knowledge :)

 
At 7:46 AM, April 09, 2008, Blogger R-dogg said...

It's a fear of bald people! The fear of becoming bald is called phalacrophobia.

The Kim, the Kim, the Kim is on fire! Nice work...I'm going to guess you're not picked last when choosing teams for Trivia Pursuit :)

 

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