Know-It-Alls: Trivia Tuesday

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Today’s category is America—Then & Now

How much does the Washington Monument in DC weigh?

What is the length and width of a dollar bill?

How many windows are there on the 102 -story empire State Building?

On the reverse of the $100 bill, what time is shown on the Independence Hall clock?

Where are the only remaining free-roaming panthers in North America?

What’s on the flip side of the Susan B. Anthony $1 coin?

Mistletoe is the state flower of which US state?

How much does the Liberty Bell weigh?

How many islands compose the Hawaiian Islands?

How much does it cost the government to produce a quarter?

How much does the Plymouth Rock weigh?

How many crayons does the average American child wear down in his or her coloring lifetime? (ages 2 to 8)

Where are the oldest church bells in the United States?

What is the most frequently stolen street sign in New York City?

What major vegetable crop was grown in Beverly Hills, California, before it became the home to the rich and famous?

Whose body was the first to lie in state in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, DC?

What did Thomas Jefferson smuggle out of Italy in 1784 to help boost America’s post-Revolution economy?

How many chests of tea were dumped overboard at the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773?

What triggered the legendary feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys in 1873?

What is the second most visited house in America? (the White House is the first)

The US bought the Virgin Islands for $25 million in 1917 from what country?

In an effort to avoid recapture, how did convicted robber Robert Alan Litchfield change his features after his 1989 escape from Fort Leavenworth?

How many signatures are on the Declaration of Independence?

How many signers went on to become US Presidents?

Where is the Superman Museum located?

What state capital was originally called Pig’s Eye?

What is Mary E. Suratt’s significance in US History?

Where were the Library of Congress’s original copies of the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence kept during WWII?

ANSWERS

90,854 tons

6.14 inches by 2.61 inches

6,000

4:10

In southern Florida. In the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp

An eagle landing on the moon, commemorating the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969.

Rhode Island

2,080

132—8 major islands and 124 islets

2 ½ cents

Approximately 4 tons

730, according to the Crayola folks

In Boston’s Old North Church. They were made in England in 1744 and shipped to Boston.

Hooker Place

Lima beans

Senator Henry Clay’s.  He died in 1852.

2 sacks of an improved strain of rice-despite a ban on its export from Italy.

342

The alleged theft of a pig.

Graceland—Elvis Presley’s mansion.

Denmark

He underwent plastic surgery to look like actor Robert DeNiro.

56

2

In Metropolis, Illinois

St. Paul, Minnesota

She was the first woman executed by hanging for her part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln.

Fort Knox, Kentucky

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128 thoughts on “Know-It-Alls: Trivia Tuesday”

  1. Supposedly armed standoff at Caesar’s Palace in LV – one guy inside the hotel…should take about 2 seconds to take him out – what’s the problem???

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  2. Pat, I usually put the gifs at M’s – I never know what you’ll have the time to watch and what you won’t. Let me know if you want me to drop them here, too, please! They are always short.

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    1. i never know…sometimes kea drops a lot of videos for the next morning and sometimes not. and if i don’t get to see them all, i never remember to go back.
      but thanks for thinking of me!

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      1. I figured since you read over there anyway, as does pretty much everyone else, no need to clutter up the board.

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  3. now we don’t need illegals to pick the fruit—okay what ARE they doing here?
    sucking off the taxpayers’ teat

    sync
    July 11, 2023 1:39 pm

    We need illegals to do what?

    AI powered tethered drones picking apples 🤯

    These drones use AI image recognition models to determine ripeness and sugar levels in the apples.

    Then they use a little arm to pick them.

    AI & robotics will completely revolutionize the agriculture industry. pic.twitter.com/gMawB4AYkM

    — Linus (●ᴗ●) (@LinusEkenstam) July 9, 2023

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    1. Those are the areas where AI should be focused, not on people! I can see the value for those who are paralyzed or have other brain problems but, as with everything, it depends on who is controlling that AI. We know we can’t trust the scientists, that’s for damned sure!

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  6. man, I am getting old…LOL
    just got off the phone with my son who told us he is riding his “ebike” to work every day he can. that’s a 26 mile trip one way. he drives to some nearby trailhead so he doesn’t have to ride major roads, and then bikes the 26 miles to work. (I am grateful for that because of his previous accident where he was struck by a tractor trailer who wasn’t even going to stop!)

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      1. yeah. he can either pedal like a regular bike or use the small motor to increase his speed. he still pedals, but it allows him to go faster i think

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  7. so sotomayor is having her staff push books to the places where she speaks…sounds like an ethics violation to me.
    FTA
    She has benefited, too — from schools’ purchases of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of the books she has written over the years.

    Sotomayor’s staff has often prodded public institutions that have hosted the justice to buy her memoir or children’s books, works that have earned her at least $3.7 million since she joined the court in 2009. Details of those events, largely out of public view, were obtained by The Associated Press through more than 100 open records requests to public institutions. The resulting tens of thousands of pages of documents offer a rare look at Sotomayor and her fellow justices beyond their official duties.

    In her case, the documents reveal repeated examples of taxpayer-funded court staff performing tasks for the justice’s book ventures, which workers in other branches of government are barred from doing. [….]

    Supreme Court staffers have been deeply involved in organizing speaking engagements intended to sell books.

    snip

    In 2019, as Sotomayor traveled the country to promote her new children’s book, “Just Ask!,” library and community college officials in Portland, Oregon, jumped at the chance to host an event.

    They put in long hours and accommodated the shifting requests of Sotomayor’s court staff. Then, as the public cost of hosting the event soared almost tenfold, a Sotomayor aide emailed with a different, urgent concern: She said the organizers did not buy enough copies of the justice’s book, which attendees had to purchase or have on hand in order to meet Sotomayor after her talk.

    “For an event with 1,000 people and they have to have a copy of Just Ask to get into the line, 250 books is definitely not enough,” the aide, Anh Le, wrote staffers at the Multnomah County Library. “Families purchase multiples and people will be upset if they are unable to get in line because the book required is sold out.”

    It was not an isolated push. As Sotomayor prepared for commencement weekend at the University of California, Davis law school, her staff pitched officials there on buying copies of signed books in connection with the event. Before a visit to the University of Wisconsin, the staff suggested a book signing.

    At Clemson University in South Carolina, school officials offered to buy 60 signed copies before a 2017 appearance; Sotomayor’s staff noted that most schools order around 400. Michigan State University asked Sotomayor to come to campus and in 2018 spent more than $100,000 on copies of her memoir, “My Beloved World,” to distribute to incoming first-year students. The books were shipped to the Supreme Court, where copies were taken to her chambers by court workers and signed by her before being sent to the school.

    https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/07/11/new-sotomayor-ethics-questions-would-have-dems-demanding-impeachment-if-it-were-thomas-n774813

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  10. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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