>>While flying back from Las Vegas US Air/American West, I didn't even know they got hitched:), was showing some trivia questions to pass the fourty five minute it takes to fly to LA.
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>>See if you know the answer to few of them....
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>>1) Which president helped to rebuild the Congressional Library?

Thomas Jefferson. When the original library was burn down during the war of 1812 by the British, Jefferson sold his library to replace it.

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>>2) How many millimeter is in a kilometer?

>Well - 1,000 * 1,000 = 1 million

Correct. You're a Euro. You should know this. :)

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>3) .T. or .F., Canary Island is named so because of type of birds that migrate there each winter.


>Is this an island called "Canary" or the "Canary Isles" (inc. Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote) in the Atlantic, part of Spain?

Ancient Romans named it. Latin "Canaria" - meaning wild and "isula" meaning dogs so wild dogs for the island was inhabited by bunch wild dogs, much like the Australian dingo dogs.


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>>4) .T. or .F. John Glen was the first American to walk on the moon.

>Surely no-one would get that wrong - "... One small step ..." Louis Armstrong (looking back at Earth inspired him to write "What a Wonderful World"), then Buzz Lightyear (poor Phil Collins had to stay in the Command Module, composing "Something in the Air")

>John Glen - wasn't he the first American to circumnavigate the world, as opposed to Alan Sheppard's parabollic flight?
And later became the Galactic Commander of the astronauts.

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>>5) What is the Latin meaning/version of "oxymoron", hint, "oxy" does not mean "Sam" and moron does not mean "Ahn".

Latin "oxy" - meaning sharp "moro" meaning dull