Printable bible trivia questions

Yes, that's right. Printable bible trivia questions. No, I don't have any, but were you aware that this is one of the most searched keywords (phrases) even as I write this? Who would thought that? I wonder if it depends on the time of year. This is prime Vacation Bible School time, or we're actually just past that I suppose.
Well, speaking of the Bible: everyone knows all about some of the unpronounceably long names in the book. So-and-so begat so-and-so, begat so-and-so. And so on. Ever cross your mind to wonder what the longest name in the Bible is? Certainly has crossed mine. Mahershalalhashbaz. Isa. 8:1-3 I think it means "unpronounceable name" or something. Oh wait, there is an actor with that name! Obviously someone can pronounce it. He's got a website! mahershalalhashbaz-ali.com You go with your bad self, Mahershalalhashbaz!
Hey, what do you know, I actually have a bible trivia question on here. Ha.

Love and the Ancient World

Were you aware that only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is still standing? The Great Pyramid of Giza, built for the Pharaoh, Khufu. Quite a wonder, indeed, considering the latest of them was built around 280 b.c. and it being the oldest having been completed around 2561 b.c.
The original Hawkman, from DC Comics, is supposed to be a reincarnation of Khufu. Funny that, considering Khufu was evidently known to be a tyrannical and ruthless ruler. Quite the antithesis of a superhero. Khufu ordered the building of his own tomb, the Great Pyramid of Giza. He truly loved himself.
Shah Jahan, the Mughal Emperor, loved his wife. He had the Taj Mahal erected in Mumtaz Mahal's memory as a resting place for her and a symbol of their love. It isn't one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but it has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Pretty much our modern day equivalent. If you've ever wondered, like me, what purpose the Taj Mahal serves, that's it. A monument to love.

...after the late Thag Simmons

Happy birthday to, among others, Far Side cartoonist, Gary Larson! In 1982 Gary did a Far Side cartoon in which a group of cavemen refer to the tail spikes of the stegosaurus as the "thagomizer" after the late Thag Simmons. A paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science picked up on the term, and it has since been used as the informal anatomical term in displays at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, in the book The Complete Dinosaur, and in the stegosaur display at the Smithsonian. Go Gary!

RIP Les Paul

Wow, Les Paul died today. If you don't know, he invented the solid body electric guitar, and helped reshape music into what it is today. Rock and roll wouldn't have ever come about if it hadn't have been for Les Paul and his guitar, which is kind of funny on several levels. Les wasn't ever really a rock and roll kind of guy, instead spreading out 40's pop hits, country, and jazz over his lifetime. Did you know that one of his big early influences was Django Reinhardt? Django was a gypsy, and played a compelling style of gypsy swing jazz that also made a large impact on the scene.
I guess you could say that by following the lines, rock and roll is the spawn of gypsies. I like that.

Ah, a trip to the movies!

Were you aware that the first movie cinema with two screens was in Canada? 1957 was the year it opened. Durwood Theatres (a predecessor of today's AMC chain) opened the first multi-plex in the US at the Ward Parkway Shopping Center in Kansas City, in 1963.

Wild, wild woman

That's right, pardner. One woman is known to have ever robbed a stagecoach in the Old West. Pearl Hart, in Arizona robbed the Globe, Arizona stage on May 29, 1899 with a man called Joe Boot. Then they got lost, and arrested. Got lost, huh? She must have been leading. Kidding, totally kidding.

Did you know that the longest word in the English language is 189,819 letters long? Its the chemical name for titin, the largest known protein. Still, some folks don't accept it because they don't accept chemical names. They're probably just jealous.

A google or a googol

Were you aware that the company "Google" gets its name as derived from the term "googol" which is a name for the number 1 with a hundred zeroes following it. It was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner, when he was 9 years old.
Its kind of funny, because the company Google uses the name to kind of show how vast the search engine is, but Kasner used the original term to contrast an unimaginably large number to infinity. The number is still quantifiable, whereas infinity is still infinity.