365 Days of Amazing Trivia! (2014)

It's an automatic gratuity—or tip—that some restaurants include on bills for tables of more than six or eight diners. Rather than leave the size of the tip up to its customers' discretion, the restaurant adds a predetermined amount to the bill, generally 18 percent of the cost of the meal.



Sunday, June 1, 2014

What European country has an approved list of 7,000 names for parents to use in naming their children?​
 
Norway. Its strict Law on Personal Names is intended to prevent parents from saddling their offspring with names that could lead to ridicule or abuse. Names that are not on the list must be submitted to a local parish church, which sends them on for review by Copenhagen University's Names Investigation Division and for a final ruling by the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs.



Monday, June 2, 2014

In the world of nuclear physics, how long is the time interval known as a shake?​
 
Ten nanoseconds. Scientists working on the atomic bomb during World War II needed a word to describe ten nanoseconds, the approximate lifetime of an individual neutron. They settled on shake based on the expression "two shakes of a lamb's tail," which means very quick.



Tuesday, June 3, 2014

What Jerry Lee Lewis hit was the first song played when Dick Clark's American Bandstand debuted on national TV in August 1957?​
 
James Naismith, the man who invented the sport in 1891. Colleges and universities across the U.S. helped raise money to send him to the Olympics by charging spectators an extra penny for admission to their 1935-36 basketball games. Naismith, 74, saw 21 teams compete and handed out the medals, awarding the gold to the United States.



Thursday, June 5, 2014

How heavy was the largest hailstone ever found in the United States?​
 
1 pound, 15 ounces. The hailstone, which landed in Vivian, South Dakota, during a severe thunderstorm on July 23, 2010, had an eight-inch diameter, making it almost as large as a volleyball.



Friday, June 6, 2014

Jerry Seinfeld's apartment house in the hit TV sitcom Seinfeld had a New York City address—but in what city was the apartment building that was shown in all exterior shots?​
 
The greyhound. The dogs, the fastest on earth, were imported from Europe to hunt down jackrabbits that were eating crops and competing with livestock for food. Jackrabbit hunting led to the sport of coursing, with greyhounds set loose to chase jackrabbits in an enclosed field. In 1886 the first regulated greyhound coursing meet was held. Mechanical game replaced live game in 1920.



Tuesday, June 10, 2014

What country is served by Yeti Airlines?​
 
Nepal. The airline, named for the mythical monster said to inhabit the Himalayas, provides service to a number of the country's isolated mountain settlements.



Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Which members of Hollywood's Brat Pack portrayed the five high school students who spend a Saturday together in detention in the 1985 hit film The Breakfast Club?​
 
Aspirin and Heroin. The trademarks were war reparations awarded to the United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia under the 1919 treaty.



Friday, June 13, 2014

What president so feared the number 13 that he would summon his secretary to White House dinners when a 14th person was needed at the table?​
 
15, on the U.S. flag adopted in 1795 after Vermont and Kentucky joined the original 13 colonies as states. In 1818, after five more states had joined the Union, Congress permanently set the number of stripes on the flag at 13 and ruled that every year on July 4th an additional star would be added to the flag for each state admitted to the Union since the previous July 4th.



Sunday, June 15, 2014

Who were the actors who portrayed the surrogate fathers in the 1987 film comedy Three Men and a Baby?​
 
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