365 Days of Amazing Trivia! (2014)

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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Where on earth is there a mountain that is closer to the sun, moon, and stars than Mount Everest, the highest mountain on the planet?​
 
In Ecuador, where the summit of Mount Chimborazo is about 1.5 miles closer to outer space than Everest. Although Everest is 29,035 feet above sea level to Chimborazo's 20,565, the Ecuadorian mountain is closer to the stars because it gets a big boost from the 26.5-mile bulge that encircles the imperfectly shaped earth at the equator. Chimborazo, at one degree south of the equator, sits higher on the bulge than Everest, which is 28 degrees north of the equator.



Friday, June 20, 2014

The taped voice of what acting legend was used in creating the gibberish spoken by Garindan, the long-nosed Kubaz spy in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope?​
 
From George Dempster, the man who invented the construction debris container in 1935 and called it the Dempster-Dumpster. The big metal container was designed so that either it or its contents could be loaded onto a specially equipped truck and hauled to a landfill.



Sunday, June 22, 2014

Who officiated at the marriage of the Owl and the Pussy-cat in the famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear?​
 
Monet Green. It is a bright green that the artist described as chrome green and used in Giverny, France, on the outside shutters and stairs of his home and on the footbridge, benches, and arches in his famous garden.



Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Who was the youngest golfer to shoot his age on the PGA Tour?​
 
The recycling symbol—three bent green arrows that form a triangle (♻). It was created by Gary Anderson, then a graduate student at the University of Southern California, for a contest sponsored by the Container Corporation of America (now the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation). Anderson received a $2,500 tuition grant for the green icon that is used to identify recycled and recyclable products.



Saturday, June 28, 2014

When it comes to language, what is a dysphemism?​
 
The opposite of a euphemism. It's a disparaging or offensive word or phrase that's used in place of an inoffensive word or phrase. Examples include using lackey rather than assistant and cheap rather than thrifty.



Sunday, June 29, 2014

Where in the world did the pineapple originate?​
 
Not in Hawaii. It originated in Paraguay and southern Brazil, and later was spread throughout South and Central America into the Caribbean. Christopher Columbus found the fruit in Guadeloupe in 1493 and brought some back to Spain. Pineapple wasn't planted in Hawaii until 1813, when a Spanish adviser to King Kamehameha I planted some that he'd carried there by ship.



Monday, June 30, 2014

What is the full name of former Florida governor Jeb Bush, the son of President George H. W. Bush and brother of President George W. Bush?​
 
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