365 Days of Amazing Trivia! (2014)

The Calgary Flames, who headed north in 1980 after 8 seasons as the Atlanta Flames; and the Winnipeg Jets, who were the Atlanta Thrashers before they picked up their sticks in 2011 after playing in the U.S. for 11 seasons.



Saturday, August 16, 2014

How many bone fractures did daredevil motorcyclist Evel Knievel suffer during his perilous career?​
 
Al Capone. His oldest brother, James, was a bodyguard for President Calvin Coolidge at the 1927 "Summer White House" in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where James had been working as a special agent for the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs. Years earlier, James had settled in Nebraska, where he changed his name to Richard Hart and served as a town marshal, state sheriff, and prohibition enforcement officer, becoming known as "Two Gun" Hart because of the pair of pearl-handled pistols he sported.



Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Who owned the yellow 1957 Chevy Bel Air convertible decorated with orange flames that was pictured in Time and Newsweek magazines in October 1975?​
 
Singer Bruce Springsteen. Pictures of the convertible, Springsteen's first car and the inspiration for his songs "Born to Run," "Jungleland," and "Racing in the Street," accompanied Time and Newsweek cover stories on October 27, 1975, shortly after the release of his celebrated Born to Run album and hit single.



Wednesday, August 20, 2014

What popular children's toy, to the dismay of anti-smoking activists, originally came packaged with a miniature tobacco pipe?​
 
Mr. Potato Head. In 1987, after 35 years, Mr. Potato Head kicked the habit and manufacturer Hasbro, in a symbolic gesture, surrendered his pipe to the U.S. Surgeon General. In return, Mr. Potato Head was declared the "official spokespud" of the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout campaign.



Thursday, August 21, 2014

To what land mass was the island of Madagascar most recently attached?​
 
The Indian subcontinent. Madagascar broke away from it 88 million years ago to become what is now the fourth-largest island in the world.



Friday, August 22, 2014

What common career studies did Charles Darwin, John Keats, and Giorgio Armani abandon to follow the interests that led each of them to fame in different fields?​
 
Winston Churchill, who had an American mother and British father. A memorial plaque explains that the placement of the statue "is a symbol of Churchill's U.S.-Anglo descent and of the alliance he did so much to forge, in war and in peace."



Tuesday, August 26, 2014

What fast-food chain got its name from an amusement park attraction briefly seen in the 1978 movie musical Grease?​
 
The Shake Shack. The burger chain's founder Danny Meyer said he saw the name during the "You're the One That I Want" song-and-dance number performed by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.



Wednesday, August 27, 2014

How did the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, dramatically announce his planned 2011 crackdown on illegal parking?​
 
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