⁉️ DECEMBER'S TRIVIA

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Yesterday's Answer:

👙 Elle Macpherson is an Australian model, businesswoman, television host and actress. She is well known for her record five cover appearances for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue beginning in the 1980s, leading to her nickname The Body. She appeared on the cover a record five times: 1986, 1987, 1988, 1994, and 2006. In 1989 she was given the nickname Elle "The Body" Macpherson by Time Magazine after she appeared on their cover. She went on to use the name in a number of business ventures.
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TODAY'S QUESTION:
🌴 What island is Pearl Harbor on?

Oahu

Maui

Lanai

Kauai


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Previous Answer:

👙 Elle Macpherson is an Australian model, businesswoman, television host and actress. She is well known for her record five cover appearances for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue beginning in the 1980s, leading to her nickname The Body. She appeared on the cover a record five times: 1986, 1987, 1988, 1994, and 2006. In 1989 she was given the nickname Elle "The Body" Macpherson by Time Magazine after she appeared on their cover. She went on to use the name in a number of business ventures.
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NEXT QUESTION:
👓 Who is credited with the invention of bifocals?

Leonardo da Vinci

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Edison

Benjamin Franklin


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Yesterday's Answer:
Benjamin Franklin is generally credited with the invention of bifocals. Getting tired of switching between two types of glasses, he devised a way to have both types of lenses fit into the frame. The distance lens was placed at the top and the the up-close lens was placed at the bottom. Franklin wrote, in August 1784 to his friend George Whatley, that he was "happy in the invention of double spectacles, which serving for distant objects as well as near ones, make my eyes as useful to me as ever they were."
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TODAYS QUESTION:
🎓 Which Ivy League school is located in New Hampshire?

Dartmouth

Yale

Brown

Cornell


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Previous Answer:
Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university located in Hanover, New Hampshire. One of the eight historic Ivy League schools, Dartmouth College was established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational minister. Incorporated as the "Trustees of Dartmouth College," it is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. With an undergraduate enrollment of 4,276 and a total student enrollment of 6,342, Dartmouth is the smallest university in the Ivy League. It was the last Ivy League school to admit women, in 1972.

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NEXT QUESTION
Who did TIME Magazine select as "Person of the Year" for 2015?

Donald Trump

Caitlyn Jenner

Vladimir Putin

Angela Merkel


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Yesterday's Answer:
Time magazine selected German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its Person of the Year yesterday. The German leader bested seven other finalists, namely Black Lives Matter activists, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, transgender figure Caitlyn Jenner, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and businessman-reality TV star-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Time editor-at-large Karl Vick said the award is given each year to the newsmaker who, for good or ill, was considered to have had the greatest impact on world events. The magazine bestowed the title on German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the way she managed the European economic crisis, and the way she's handling the refugee crisis and terrorism threat looming over Europe.

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TODAY'S QUESTION:

Which U.S. President was born William Jefferson Blythe III?

Thomas Jefferson

William McKinley

Grover Cleveland

Bill Clinton


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Previous Answer:
William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946), commonly known as Bill Clinton, served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr. was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before Clinton was born. In 1950, Bill's mother married Roger Clinton, Sr. and Bill immediately assumed use of his stepfather's surname. However, it was not until Clinton turned fifteen that he formally adopted the surname Clinton as a gesture toward his stepfather.

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NEXT QUESTION:

What does the "Q" in IQ stand for?

Quiz

Question

Quotient

Quality


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Yesterday's Answer:

An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a score derived from one of several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence. The abbreviation "IQ" was coined by the psychologist William Stern for the German term Intelligence quotient, his term for a scoring method for intelligence tests he advocated in a 1912 book. When current IQ tests are developed, the median raw score of the norming sample is defined as IQ 100 and scores each standard deviation up or down are defined as 15 IQ points greater or less. Approximately two-thirds of the population scores between IQ 85 and IQ 115, and about 5 percent of the population scores above 125.

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Today's Question:

🌹What household item was invented by Herbert Cecil Booth in 1901?

Toaster Oven

Coffee maker

Vacuum Cleaner

Washing machine


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Previous Answer:
British inventor Herbert Cecil Booth is credited with inventing the first vacuum cleaner. Hubert Cecil Booth patented a motorized vacuum cleaner on August 30, 1901. Booth's machine took the form of a large, horse-drawn, petrol-driven unit, which was parked outside the building to be cleaned with long hoses being fed through the windows. Booth first demonstrated his vacuuming device in a restaurant that same year and successfully sucked dirt.
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Next Question:
Consumption was the former name of which disease?

Tuberculosis

Chickenpox

Rabies

Ebola


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Yesterday's Answer:

Tuberculosis, in the past called consumption, is a widespread infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. The word “tuberculosis” was coined by Johann Lukas Schönle in 1839, from the Latin “tuberculum,” meaning “small, swelling bump or pimple.” However, it wouldn’t be until 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch discovered the tubercle bacillus, for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1905, that the name “tuberculosis” began being exclusively used to refer to the disease formerly popularly known as consumption.

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Today's Question:
💻 Which company created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass was launched in 2006?

Google

Facebook

YouTube

Twitter


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Previous Answer: Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and launched by July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users who in 2012 posted 340 million tweets per day. In 2013 Twitter was one of the ten most-visited websites, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". As of May 2015, Twitter has more than 500 million users.
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NEXT QUESTION:
☀️ How hot is the core of the sun?

27,000 degrees F

270,000 degrees F

27 million degrees F

27 billion degrees F

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Yesterday's Answer: At the sun's core, gravity causes intense pressure, and temperatures of up to 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. This generates the nuclear fusion responsible for the star's energy. The sun is the largest and most massive object in the solar system. It is about 93 million miles from Earth. The sun's light and heat takes about eight minutes to reach us. The sun formed approximately 4.567 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of matter within a region of a large molecular cloud.

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Famous for his attempts to predict the future, 16th century prophet Nostradamus hailed from what country?

Germany

France

Iran

Egypt


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Previous Answer:
Nostradamus was a French prophet who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He studied medicine and became a physician, treating plague victims throughout France and Italy. He began to practice the occult and make predictions of the future, which he published in The Prophecies in 1555. Nostradamus has attracted a following that credits him with predicting many major world events. Nostradamus has been credited with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Great Fire of London, and the rise of Napoleon and Adolf Hitler, to the September 11attacks on the World Trade Center. According to legend, Nostradamus predicted his own death in 1566. When his assistant wished him a good night, he told him that he would not be alive the next morning. And so it was.
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NEXT QUESTION:
😎 Panama hats originated in which country?

Panama

Ecuador

Costa Rica

Mexico


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Yesterday's Answer: A Panama hat is a traditional brimmed straw hat of Ecuadorian origin. Beginning in the early to mid-1600’s hat weaving evolved as a cottage industry all along the Ecuadorian coast. Hat weaving and wearing grew steadily in Ecuador through the 17th and 18th centuries. Straw hats woven in Ecuador, like many other 19th and early 20th century South American goods, were shipped first to the Isthmus of Panama before sailing for their destinations in Asia, the rest of the Americas and Europe, subsequently acquiring a name that reflected their point of international sale, "Panama hats", rather than their place of domestic origin.

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TODAY'S QUESTION:
🔫 Joseph Stalin twice ordered the KGB to assassinate which famous American?

Frank Sinatra

Bob Hope

John Wayne

Babe Ruth


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Previous Answer:
Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Joseph Stalin ordered the KGB to assassinate John Wayne because he considered his anti-communist rhetoric a threat to the Soviet Union. Assassins were supposedly sent to LA but failed to kill Wayne before Stalin's death. When Khrushchev met John Wayne in 1958, he told him "that was a decision of Stalin during his last five mad years. When Stalin died, I rescinded that order."
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Next Question:

What was the original name of New York?

New London

New George

New Amsterdam

New Land

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Yesterday's Answer:
New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, which served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland. New Amsterdam was renamed New York on September 8, 1664, in honor of the then Duke of York (later James II of England), in whose name the English had captured it. In 1667 the Dutch gave up their claim to the town and the rest of the colony, in exchange for control of the Spice Islands.

🌀 TODAY'S QUESTION:
✈️. What branch of the U.S. military features the Blue Angels precision flying squad?

United States Army

United States Navy

United States Air Force

United States Coast Guard


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