Tue, 26 January 2010  Historical People Trivia History can be Fun
AD 193-194 Publius Helvius Pertinax
Became emperor in 1 January AD 193. Pertinax reign might have been a short one. But it formed an enormously important precedent. Pertinax is understood to be the first 'Soldier Emperor' or 'Praetorian Emperor'. They were raised to the throne by the provincial legions which they commanded and ruled only till ejected and killed by another soldier who seized the succession.
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Mon, 11 January 2010  Matches and Lighters Trivia A Striking-ly Informative Show
The King's Cross fire was a devastating underground fire in London on 18 November 1987 which killed 31 people. It was caused by rubbish and grease beneath wooden escalators being ignited, probably by a discarded match.
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Sun, 27 December 2009  Gumby Trivia If you’ve got a heart then Gumby’s a part of you
Gumby!
He was once a little green slab of clay.
Numbers: Dallas McKennon voiced Gumby in these and in the others (he did Pokey in these and others). An extremely prolific character actor, Dallas McKennon (often known as simply "Dal" McKennon, misspelled on Gumby credits as Dal "McKinnon") worked often for Walter Lantz, Walt Disney, UPA and some others to say the least. He also did Daniel Boone and worked for Will Vinton's Claymation.
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10% off any order: TRIVIAL1 $5 off $30 or more: TRIVIAL2 $7.49 .com domains: TRIVIAL3 ______________ What do you know, Joe? What is the name of Gumby's dog? A: Yeppy B: Nopey C: Maybe D: Gumby had a cat Last Post Answers: A: Food The Eskimos have always been hunters, primarily of seals, walrus, and whales on the coast and of wolves and caribou inland. They also fished for salmon and herring. They developed ingenious hunting tools like the toggle harpoon and the light, one-man hunting boats-kayaks-now popular with non-Eskimos as recreational craft. Netflix is our new sponsor. Click on the Netflix Ad on the left hand side of the site. Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you, yes YOU, to leave a Review in iTunes or anywhere else that you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. This ALL helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we still get more and more! If you have a Podcast as well, do one for Mostly Trivial! This is groovy, go to Go Daddy.com and use our promo codes to help support Mostly Trivial.Comments[0] |
Thu, 10 December 2009  Eskimo Trivia You think its cold where YOU live!
The first Eskimos immigrated to Alaska from northern Asia, specifically the Siberian Arctic. Archaeologists set the date at somewhere between 2,000 and 8,000 years ago, after the land bridge across the Bering Strait had been reclaimed by the ocean waters. These migrants probably crossed in umiaks, skin boats large enough to hold a family.
Numbers: About 28,000 Eskimo Americans live in Alaska today; there are also about 11,000 Eskimos in Canada, 22,000 in Greenland, and 1,200 in Siberia. An estimated 32,000 Eskimos lived in Alaska just prior to contact with the white man.
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Last Post Answers: A: Tom, Dick and Harry The imprisoned servicemen imprisoned at Stalag Luft III constructed three tunnels - called Tom, Dick and Harry - around 33ft underground. Netflix is our new sponsor. Click on the Netflix Ad on the left hand side of the site. Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you, yes YOU, to leave a Review in iTunes or anywhere else that you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. This ALL helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we still get more and more! If you have a Podcast as well, do one for Mostly Trivial! This is groovy, go to Go Daddy.com and use our promo codes to help support Mostly Trivial.Comments[0] |
Tue, 1 December 2009  Great Escapes Trivia You will love this show!
Stalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe (derived from the words "Luft"= air and "Waffe"=weapon,is a generic German term for an air force) run prisoner-of-war camp during World War II that housed captured air force servicemen. It was in Poland, 100 miles southeast of Berlin.
The site was selected because it would be difficult to escape by tunnelling. However, the camp is best known for two famous prisoner escapes that took place there by tunnelling, which were depicted in the films The Great Escape (1963)
Great Escape war hero dies Alex Lees, a Second World War veteran whose heroism was immortalised in the classic film The Great Escape, has died, aged 97.
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Last Post Answers: A: Black Eyed Peas member Probably better known as 'Fergie', Stacy Ann Ferguson first showed up on the TV show "Kids, Incorporated" before shifting her sights on music. Appearing on the Black Eyed Peas roster for their album "Elephunk", Fergie soon became one of the more popular members of the band. Netflix is our new sponsor. Click on the Netflix Ad on the left hand side of the site. Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you, yes YOU, to leave a Review in iTunes or anywhere else that you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. This ALL helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we still get more and more! If you have a Podcast as well, do one for Mostly Trivial! This is groovy, go to Go Daddy.com and use our promo codes to help support Mostly Trivial.Direct download: 178_Mostly_Trivial_178_Famous_Escapes_trivia.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:32 PM Comments[0] |
Tue, 17 November 2009  Who Are They Trivia This is a Tough One
John Forbes Nash, Jr? He is a famous twentieth-century mathematician. Born in 1928, John Nash graduated from Princeton and eventually went on to win the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994. Of course, much of his fame also comes from his life story. In 1959, Nash was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia for which he was treated for nearly a decade. His life was under the microscope in the Ron Howard film "A Beautiful Mind" which starred Russell Crowe in 2001. Crowe's performance as Nash won an Oscar as well as Howard's direction and the screenplay. The film also took home 'Best Picture'.
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Last Post Answers: C: England The scale of the fraud was uncovered after two rival gangs clashed over who 'owned' the meters in Connaught Square. Their dispute culminated in a shooting that left one man dead, two wounded and two more hurling themselves through a second-floor window as they fled for their lives. Netflix is our new sponsor. Click on the Netflix Ad on the left hand side of the site. Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you, yes YOU, to leave a Review in iTunes or anywhere else that you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. This ALL helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we still get more and more! If you have a Podcast as well, do one for Mostly Trivial! This is groovy, go to Go Daddy.com and use our promo codes to help support Mostly Trivial.Direct download: 177_Mostly_Trivial_177_Who_Are_They_trivia.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:20 AM Comments[0] |
Mon, 2 November 2009  Parking Meters Trivia It Pays to Park...
Hands Down The parking meter has been almost unchanged since it started driving in 1959: one meter per space; put your money in the slot. In driving in Northern Europe younever see parking meters; You buy a piece of paper at a parking automat (typically one per block) and put it on your dashboard. Why the difference? I assume that available technologies are the same on both sides of the Atlantic, so it must be that the lower wage in the U.S. of the low-skilled meter collectors leads us to choose individual meters. Why the change? One would think it’s because the price of the kiosks has fallen steadily while even low-skilled wages continue to rise — to the point where the European-style technology is now cost-effective.
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Last Post Answers: A: Boxing In old boxing days many bruised fighters couldn't get to their feet when the bell for the new round began. Their managers new they could do nothing but give up since they were took weak to continue. As a signal, one of them would toss in an article used to soak up blood -- a towel or sponge. Today's boxing regulations are meant to limit the brutality of the past. But the saying today meaning when you are forced to give up of "throwing in the towel" still remains. Netflix is our new sponsor. Click on the Netflix Ad on the left hand side of the site. Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you, yes YOU, to leave a Review in iTunes or anywhere else that you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. This ALL helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we still get more and more! If you have a Podcast as well, do one for Mostly Trivial! This is groovy, go to Go Daddy.com and use our promo codes to help support Mostly Trivial.Direct download: 176_Mostly_Trivial_176_Parking_Meters_trivia.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:18 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 14 October 2009  Word Origins Trivia More Fun on Word Origins
Hands Down This basically means to score a victory without much work. One version is with horse racing the jockey doesn't even have to lift his hands to guide his horse if he's way out in front. Another one is for boxing in which the opponent is a pushover and so the winner doesn't even have to raise his hands to protect himself. Pass the Buck Anyone who avoids making decisions or accepting responsibility is said to pass the buck. This all starts from the old days of card playing in which piece of buckshot is placed before someone who has the deal. The dealer has a lot of responsibility on determining the game's format. If a cautious player doesn't want to take on this responsibility, he's allowed to "pass the buck" to the next player who will be the dealer.
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Last Post Answers: D: Reeding Reeding on genuine coins is even and distinct. The counterfeit coin's reeding may be uneven, crooked or missing altogether. Netflix is our new sponsor. Click on the Netflix Ad on the left hand side of the site. Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you, yes YOU, to leave a Review in iTunes or anywhere else that you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. This ALL helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we still get more and more! If you have a Podcast as well, do one for Mostly Trivial! This is groovy, go to Go Daddy.com and use our promo codes to help support Mostly Trivial.Direct download: 175_Mostly_Trivial_175_Word_Origins_trivia.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:21 PM Comments[0] |
Fri, 9 October 2009  Trinity Day a.k.a. the day we entered the nuclear age.
On 16 july 1945, at 05:29:45 a.m. mst., in the white sands proving ground [NM, USA] the first atomic explosion was detonated; code name: Trinity Trinity was a test of an implosion-design plutonium bomb; the same basic design of the bomb that was dropped 24 days later on Nagasaki [the second nuclear bomb dropped on japan]. ______________ Help Mostly Trivial out would ya? Netflix is our new sponsor. Click on the Netflix Ad on the left hand side of the site. Or Go Daddy.com picked us for a Go Daddy campaign. If you go their site and you buy a domain name use the Promo Codes below
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Thu, 1 October 2009  Counterfeiting Trivia Biggest software counterfeiting bust in history!
As a Windows user we all get tired of Windows Genuine Advantage validations. Turns out the investment Microsoft made in that may have shut down a counterfeit ring that has distributed more than 2 billion dollars of counterfeited software. The FBI and Chinese authorities have a bunch of people under arrest. Based on what we have seen overseas I am betting this is just the tip of the iceberg. How to Spot Counterfeiting Due to continuing improvements by U.S. mints, it's pretty tough to make counterfeit bills credible. However, there are still counterfeiters out there. It's not as hard to make paper money that will at least pass to a cashier's till, and new technology is used on the black market to create counterfeit bills. It takes a skilled eye to spot some counterfeit money, as well as attention to detail and a few moments to scan different parts of the bill.
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10% off any order: TRIVIAL1 $5 off $30 or more: TRIVIAL2 $7.49 .com domains: TRIVIAL3 ______________ What do you know, Joe? Most U.S. Coins should have corrugated outer edges, referred to as "What?" A: Edging B: Gateing C: Searing D: Reeding
Last Post Answers: A: Dip it in boiling water for a few seconds The corn on the cob our great-grandmothers ate was starchy field corn that had to be boiled for a half hour or more to become tender. Gradually, sweet corn hybrids containing more and more sugar were developed. Netflix is our new sponsor. Click on the Netflix Ad on the left hand side of the site. Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you, yes YOU, to leave a Review in iTunes or anywhere else that you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. This ALL helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we still get more and more! If you have a Podcast as well, do one for Mostly Trivial! This is groovy, go to Go Daddy.com and use our promo codes to help support Mostly Trivial. D: Reeding Reeding on genuine coins is even and distinct. The counterfeit coin's reeding may be uneven, crooked or missing altogether.Direct download: 174_Mostly_Trivial_174_Counterfeiting_trivia.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:39 PM Comments[0] |
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