365 Days of Amazing Trivia! (2014)

He was the Danish king who united the warring tribes of Scandinavia. His name was used for the new technology because, like Harald, it had Scandinavian origins and it brought diverse groups together. In the namesake's case, it provided a short-range wireless link between cellular, computer, and other network devices. Harald's last name, by the way, was actually Blatand, which somehow was translated into English as Bluetooth.



Wednesday, January 8, 2014

What connection, relatively speaking, does Napoleon Bonaparte have to the FBI?​
 
His grandnephew, Charles Bonaparte, founded the government agency that became the FBI. While serving as U.S. attorney general in President Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet in 1908, Charles created a unit of special agents in the Justice Department that in 1909 was named the Bureau of Investigation, and in 1935 was renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation.



Thursday, January 9, 2014

What is the record high number of points scored by a losing team in a National Basketball Association game?​
 
Ina Garten, known professionally as the Barefoot Contessa. Garten served as a budget analyst in the White House's Office of Management and Budget during the Ford and Carter administrations, writing budget and policy papers on nuclear power plants. She left in 1978 to buy a specialty food store in the Hamptons.



Saturday, January 11, 2014

What industry refers to customers who routinely pay their bills in full and on time as "deadbeats"?​
 
"Little Monsters," which is what she affectionately calls her followers. The tattoo, inked in 2010, is just below a lengthy quote in German from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke that Lady Gaga had tattooed on the inside of her upper left arm.



Monday, January 13, 2014

What strange Southeast Asian mammal smells like a batch of fresh, hot buttered popcorn?​
 
It served as an intravenous fluid to rehydrate patients. Coconut water, which is found in young coconuts, acts like a saline solution when mixed with plasma. (It is not the same as coconut milk, which is made from grated coconut meat.)



Wednesday, January 15, 2014

For what alleged minor offense was Martin Luther King Jr. arrested and jailed in January 1956 while he was leading the Montgomery, Albama, bus boycott?​
 
Driving 30 mph in a 25 mph zone, is an offense that usually resulted in a citation rather than an arrest. Four days after his arrest—his first ever—King's house was bombed. The bus boycott was organized to protest segregation on the city's buses.



Thursday, January 16, 2014

What Hollywood heartthrob provided the voice of Sparky, Stan's gray dog, in the animated TV comedy South Park?​
 
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