Fact or Crap Trivia (2013)

Status
Not open for further replies.
Fact: 0 Votes
Crap: 0 Votes
Total: 0 Votes

It's a Fact.

It is claimed that on November 10, 1775, the United States Marine Corps was founded by Commandant Samuel Nicholas in a Philadelphia tavern known as Tun Tavern, where Nicholas enlisted two battalions of Marines to fight the British. Oo-rah!
 
Fact: 0 Votes
Crap: 1 Vote
Total: 1 Vote

It's Crap.

George was born in 1961 in Georgetown, Kentucky, and was named George Timothy Clooney. His ancestry is Irish, German, and English. George's first film was Return of the Killer Tomatoes, released in 1987, a film he'd like to forget!



Tuesday, November 19, 2013

The Dramatic Prairie Dog has been the mascot of the Harvard Drama Club since 1890.

Fact or Crap?
 
Fact: 2 Votes
Crap: 0 Votes
Total: 2 Votes

It's Crap.

It's not the mascot of the Harvard Drama Club. It is, however, the new mascot for the Southern Utah University. The school said that they chose the small rodent because they were a small school and, like the prairie dog, they must work fast and forage hard to succeed.



Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Eddie Van Halen wrote a concerto in E minor.

Fact or Crap?
 
Fact: 2 Votes
Crap: 0 Votes
Total: 2 Votes

It's Crap.

Eddie Van Halen has sold over 80 million rock albums worldwide and was trained as a classical pianist, but switched to the guitar as a teenager. Playing the piano as a child was as close to a concerto as Eddie has ever come!



Thursday, November 21, 2013

Nine people died in the Great London Beer Flood of 1814.

Fact or Crap?
 
Fact: 1 Vote
Crap: 1 Vote
Total: 2 Votes

It's a Fact.

Huge brewery vats of beer broke apart at the Meux and Company Brewery, causing nearby buildings to collapse and basements and streets to flood with over 300,000 gallons of beer. Eight people died that day in 1814, some drowned in basements full of beer, and others under the rubble of the destroyed buildings. The court ruled it was an "act of God" and declared the brewery free from all responsibility for the disaster.



Friday, November 22, 2013

In Atlantic Canada, they eat dulse, which is dried purple seaweed.

Fact or Crap?
 
Fact: 1 Vote
Crap: 1 Vote
Total: 2 Votes

It's a Fact.

Also known as Palmaria palmata, sea lettuce, sea parsley, dillisk, and red dulse, dulse is a red alga that grows on the northern coast of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. This sea lettuce is high in vitamin B and supplies a lot of fiber and protein, so if you like seaweed you're going to love dulse.
 
Vipsoccermaster said:
Fact: 1 Vote
Crap: 1 Vote
Total: 2 Votes

It's a Fact.

Also known as Palmaria palmata, sea lettuce, sea parsley, dillisk, and red dulse, dulse is a red alga that grows on the northern coast of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. This sea lettuce is high in vitamin B and supplies a lot of fiber and protein, so if you like seaweed you're going to love dulse.
Click to expand...

The More You Know  :star:
 
Fact: 2 Votes
Crap: 0 Votes
Total: 2 Votes

It's a Fact.

Alyse Eady, Miss Arkansas, demonstrated her unusual talent of yodeling ventriloquism using two dummies named Rosie and Rocky so successfully that she finished runner-up in the 2011 Miss America contest. Yippee-ki-yay!



Tuesday, November 26, 2013

A mite called Funkotriplogynium iagobadius is named after James Brown.

Fact or Crap?
 
Fact: 2 Votes
Crap: 0 Votes
Total: 2 Votes

It's a Fact.

Funkotriplogynium iagobadius is the scientific name for a subtropical and tropical rainforest mite that is found in fungi that grow in rotting or dead trees. The name honors the King of Funk, James Brown. Iago means James and badius means Brown, and everyone knows what Funk means!



Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Every 20th-century British Prime Minister has had a wife.

Fact or Crap?
 
Fact: 0 Votes
Crap: 2 Votes
Total: 2 Votes

It's Crap.

Well, this has to be crap because Margaret Thatcher, the first woman prime minister of Britain, didn't have a wife when she served in the 1970s; she had a husband.



Thursday, November 28, 2013

Origami is the Japanese art of breeding miniature kittens.

Fact or Crap?
 
Fact: 0 Votes
Crap: 0 Votes
Total: 0 Votes

It's Crap.

Origami comes from Japanese words ori, meaning "folding," and kami, "paper." You can create an origami kitten, but it is impossible to breed kittens, no matter what you call it!



Friday, November 29, 2013

St. Patrick's Day can never come after Palm Sunday.

Fact or Crap?
 
Fact: 1 Vote
Crap: 0 Votes
Total: 1 Vote

It's Crap.

In 2008 Palm Sunday fell on March 16th, so it's true that St. Patrick's Day can come after Palm Sunday. But, this is not exactly true because in 2008 the calendar was adjusted so that St. Patrick's Day was celebrated on March 14th. Fortunately, this problem will not reoccur until the year 2160!
 
Fact: 0 Votes
Crap: 0 Votes
Total: 0 Votes

It's Crap.

Bond films have won two Oscars. The first was awarded to Norman Wanstall for Best Sound Effects in Goldfinger and the second to John Stears for Best Visual Effects in Thunderball. The Bond franchise has strongly affected the film industry!



Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Al Capone was ambushed by Feds and shot to death in 1940.

Fact or Crap?
 
Fact: 1 Vote
Crap: 1 Vote
Total: 2 Votes

It's Crap.

Al Capone died in 1947 of fatal cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke in his home in Palm Island, Florida. Many people have characterized him as a modern-day Robin hood, but most people see him as a mentally deranged killer.



Wednesday, December 4, 2013

A Jehovah's Witness went to the Supreme Court for permission to cover the "or die" part of New Hampshire's Live Free or Die state license plate.

Fact or Crap?
 
Fact: 1 Vote
Crap: 0 Votes
Total: 1 Vote

It's a Fact.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1977 in favor of George Maynard, a Jehovah's Witness, by concluding "that the state's interests paled in comparison to individuals' free-expression rights." Today American motorists have a choice of alternate license plates including Star Trek plates. "Live Free and Prosper!"



Thursday, December 5, 2013

Among the ancient Greeks, the official mourning period ended on the thirtieth day after the funeral.

Fact or Crap?
 
Fact: 0 Votes
Crap: 0 Votes
Total: 0 Votes

It's a Fact.

During the days following a funeral, Greek mourners traditionally never appeared in public, always wore black, and often cut off their hair or shaved their heads. Good grief!



Friday, December 6, 2013

Rudyard Kipling invented a game called snow golf while writing The Jungle Book.

Fact or Crap?
 
Fact: 0 Votes
Crap: 1 Vote
Total: 1 Vote

It's a Fact.

Kipling, a golf enthusiast, invented snow golf, based on the Dutch game played in the Middle Ages called kolf. He devised the game while he was in Vermont in the early 1890s writing The Jungle Book. He painted the golf balls red, and the golf holes were replaced by red cups. Did birdies become penguins?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top