Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts

Friday, August 21, 2009

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.

Friday, August 14, 2009

...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!

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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.

Monday, August 10, 2009

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.

Papa's got a brand new blog!


Here I am! This new blog is designed to serve several purposes: give me a bigger internet presence, provide you with some stunning photos taken by yours truly, and last but certainly not least, a chance to find out some really neat trivia!

Everyone loves trivia, and my head is full of it.
I spew it out at people regularly, why not share it with the world? For instance: did you know that Carol Vorderman has the most appearances of any actor or actress on the IMDB, with over 5000?

I'll have to share a picture later, I don't have one handy. Oh wait, here we go! Flamingos!