Do you love trivia and interesting facts? This book has 1,500 fascinating facts across a wide range of subjects: animals, arts, history, literature, miscellaneous, movies, science and nature, sports, television, U.S. geography, U.S. presidents, and world geography. For example:
The classic film It's a Wonderful Life originated from a Christmas card. Philip Van Doren Stern had written a short story, The Greatest Gift, and had unsuccessfully tried to get it published. He sent it out as a 21-page Christmas card to his closest friends; a producer at RKO Pictures got hold of it and purchased the movie rights.
The Bible doesn't say how many wise men there were. It says wise men and mentions the gifts; there is no indication of how many wise men.
Today's British accent first appeared among the British upper class about the time of the American Revolution. Before that, the British accent was like Americans.
The video game company Nintendo was founded in 1889; it originally produced handmade playing cards.
Frances Folsom Cleveland is the youngest U.S. first lady ever. She was 21 when she married Grover Cleveland in the White House; he was 49.
No witches were burned at the stake during the Salem witch trials; 20 were executed, but most were hung, and none were burned.
Roman gladiator fights started as a part of funerals; when wealthy nobles died, they would have bouts at the graveside.
All the bacteria in an average human body collectively weigh about four pounds.
In the song "Yankee Doodle", the term macaroni means stylish or fashionable. In late 18th century England, the term macaroni came to mean stylish or fashionable; in the song, it is used to mock the Americans who think they can be stylish by simply sticking a feather in their cap.
George Bernard Shaw and Bob Dylan are the only two people to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. George Bernard Shaw won the Nobel Literature Prize in 1925 and the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Pygmalion in 1936; Bob Dylan won the Best Original Song Oscar for "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys in 2000 and the Nobel Literature Prize in 2016.
Neil Armstrong didn't say "one small step for man" when he set foot on the Moon. He said, "one small step for a man"; that is what Armstrong claims he said, and audio analysis confirms it. It has been misquoted all these years.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only recognized person in the world to survive both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb blasts. He was in Hiroshima on business for the first bomb and then returned home to Nagasaki.
Please note: This book has substantial overlap with What's the Best Trivia Book? combined with new trivia that doesn't fit well in a question and answer format. It is designed for people who prefer trivia as interesting facts rather than a test yourself quiz format. This is book 1 of my Really Interesting Stuff series; I hope you enjoy it, and if you do, look for other books in the series.
What makes this the best sports trivia book? There are 1,500 questions organized into 6 wide-ranging categories: miscellaneous, baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and Olympics. To make it quick and easy to test yourself without seeing the answers first, the categories are broken into short 10 question quizzes followed immediately by their answers, and additional details are frequently included to expand on the basic answer and add even more to your knowledge. For example:
In what country did volleyball originate?
Who was the first pitcher to win a Cy Young Award in both leagues?
Who holds the NBA record for most career fouls?
Who was the first NCAA Division I player to rush for 2,000 yards in a season?
What two teammates finished one and two in the NHL scoring race five times?
Who was the first American to win the Olympic marathon gold medal?
How many players are there on a cricket side?
Who was the first player with 3,000 hits and 500 home runs in their MLB career?
Who are the only two NBA players with more than 50 rebounds in a game?
Who is the only person to win the Heisman Trophy twice?
Who was the first woman to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup?
What famous U.S. general placed fifth in the pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics?
Who is the only male or female six-time winner of the Associated Press Athlete of the year?
Who is the only MLB player to hit a home run in every inning from the first to the sixteenth in their career?
Who is the only coach to win both an NCAA Division I basketball championship and an NBA title?
Who was the first NFL player who wasn't a kicker to score 1,000 career points?
Who was the first NHL player with 500 career goals?
What country did the U.S. defeat in the men's hockey gold medal game in Lake Placid in 1980?
What sport originated the term southpaw?
What MLB pitcher led his league the most times in strikeouts?
Who holds the NBA record for most career free throws made?
Who was the first NFL player to intercept 80 passes in their career?
What is the only jersey number retired league wide by the NHL?
Who was the first person to win a gold medal in three different Olympics?
Who was the first driver in NASCAR history to win 20 races in a season?
Horse racing's Triple Crown has only been won once in consecutive years; what years?
What male or female singles figure skater has won the most U.S. Championships?
What golfer holds the record for most PGA tour wins in a season?
Who was the last man to win a calendar year tennis Grand Slam?
Who is the first world boxing champion to hold a PhD degree?
Who is the only person to be number one in the world in both table tennis and tennis?
Of all the players in North American men's professional sports, who has won the most MVP awards?
Who was the first driver to win two consecutive Indianapolis 500 races?
In darts, what is the highest score possible with three darts?
What is the only sport where you can see teams defending goals of different sizes?
What is the fastest racquet sport?
Who was the 20-year-old amateur American golfer who won the U.S. Open in 1913 and started a boom in golf in the U.S.?
This is book 3 of the What's the Best Trivia? series; look for other books in the series covering a variety of trivia topics.
What makes this the best trivia book? There are over 3,000 questions organized into 10 wide-ranging categories: animals, history, miscellaneous, movies, science and nature, sports, television, U.S. geography, U.S. presidents, and world geography. To make it quick and easy to test yourself without seeing the answers first, the categories are broken into short 20 question quizzes followed immediately by their answers, and additional details are frequently included to expand on the basic answer and add even more to your knowledge. For example:
What animal's fingerprints are virtually indistinguishable from human fingerprints even with careful analysis under a microscope?
What does "E Pluribus Unum," the motto on the U.S. great seal, mean?
What country created the Smurfs?
What is the name of the computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey?
At normal atmospheric pressure, what is the only element in the universe that can't freeze?
What sport originated the term southpaw?
On Game of Thrones, the seven kingdoms are part of what continent?
What is the largest desert in the U.S.?
Who was the first U.S. president to win a Grammy Award?
What country has the northernmost permanent settlement in the world?
What mammal sweats milk?
Who was the first female head of state in the Western Hemisphere?
What is the most popular birth month in the U.S.?
What is the only film where cartoon characters from Walt Disney and Warner Brothers appear together?
What metal melts in your hand?
Who was the first MLB player to hit 400 home runs and steal 400 bases?
What is the family name on television's Everybody Loves Raymond?
By area, what is the largest lake entirely within the U.S.?
What U.S. president was credited with saving 77 people from drowning?
What national capital city is closest to the equator?
A male donkey and a female horse produce what offspring?
What did Alfred Nobel invent to make his money and establish the Nobel Prizes?
What is the tall, pleated chef's hat called?
In the movie Love Actually, who plays the aging rocker Billy Mack?
Brass is an alloy of what two metals?
Who won the 2018 men's soccer World Cup?
What actress won six consecutive Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmys from 2012-2017?
What river flows through three U.S. state capitals?
Who was the first U.S. president with a beard?
What country's flag has the most stars?
What animal kills the most people in world?
What state was the setting of the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
Who said, "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"?
After Sleeping Beauty in 1959, what was the next fairy tale produced by Disney?
In terms of mass, what is the most abundant element in the human body?
Who was the first African American Heisman Trophy winner?
Who was the first person to win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing for the same series?
What U.S. state experienced the greatest temperature variation ever recorded in a 24-hour period?
What U.S. president holds the record with over 1,000 rounds of golf played while he was in office?
What mountain range passes through the most countries?
This is book 7 of the What's the Best Trivia? series; look for other books in the series covering a variety of trivia topics.
Автор: Fickey Brenda Hutcheson Название: Whispering Darkness ISBN: 1938624971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781938624971 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 12870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Susan Aasman, Andreas Fickers, Joseph Wachelder Название: Materializing Memories: Dispositifs, Generations, Amateurs ISBN: 1501333232 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501333231 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 126720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
A multitude of devices and technological tools now exist to make, share, and store memories and moments with family, friends, and even strangers. Memory practices such as home movies, which originated as the privilege of a few, well-to-do families, have now emerged as ubiquitous and immediate cultures of sharing. Departing from the history of home movies, this volume offers a sophisticated understanding of technologically mediated, mostly ritualized memory practices, from early beginnings in the fin-de-si cle to today.
Departing from a longue dur e perspective on home movie practices, Materializing Memories moves beyond a strict historical study to grapple with highly theorized fields, such as media studies, memory studies, and science and technology studies (STS). The contributors to this volume reflect on these different intellectual backgrounds and perspectives, but all chapters share a common framework by addressing practices of use, user configurations, and relevant media landscapes. Grasping the cultural dynamics of such multi-faceted practices requires a multidimensional conceptual approach, here achieved by centering around three concepts as central analytical lenses: dispositifs, generations, and amateurs.
What makes this the best television trivia book? There are 1,600 questions broken into 7 decades from the 1950s to the 2010s plus an all-time category. To make it quick and easy to test yourself without seeing the answers first, the decades are divided into short 10 question quizzes followed immediately by their answers, and additional details are frequently included to expand on the basic answer and add even more to your knowledge. For example:
Who was the first woman to host Saturday Night Live?
On Bonanza, before becoming a rancher, what was Ben Cartwright's occupation?
What fashion craze was Mary Tyler Moore responsible for based on her role on The Dick Van Dyke Show?
What popular series of short videos included segments like Interjection ; Conjunction Junction; Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here; and I'm Just a Bill?
What was the name of the children's reading series hosted by LeVar Burton?
What was Ross' occupation on Friends?
What is the name of the sarcastic space alien on the animated sitcom American Dad?
Who plays Dwayne Pride, leader of the NCIS team, on NCIS: New Orleans?
What was the first toy advertised on U.S. television?
What was the first television western written for adults?
On Get Smart, what was Maxwell Smart's agent number?
What was Hawkeye's full name on M*A*S*H?
One of Johnny Depp's early starring roles was on what police show?
Who played the title role on Xena: Warrior Princess?
What city was the setting for the crime drama Dexter?
For what series did Rachel Brosnahan win the 2018 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy?
What was the first American series to feature teenagers as the lead characters?
What show had the Muppets first television appearance?
On The Munsters, what is the name of Eddie's pet dragon that lives under the stairs?
What was Archie's nickname for Edith on All in the Family?
On Seinfeld, what was Kramer's first name?
What was the name of Tim Taylor's television cohost on Home Improvement?
What character did Bryan Cranston play on Breaking Bad?
On Game of Thrones, what is the name of the brotherhood that defends the realm against the creatures north of the wall?
What show featured the first interracial kiss broadcast in the U.S.?
What was Beaver Cleaver's real first name?
On The Flintstones, Dino was Fred's pet; what was Barney's pet called?
What city was the setting for Happy Days?
What sitcom featured Tom Hanks in drag?
Who played the captain on Star Trek: Voyager?
In the sitcom Community, the original study group was formed for what subject?
Better Call Saul is a spinoff of what series?
This is book 4 of the What's the Best Trivia? series; look for other books in the series covering a variety of trivia topics.
Автор: Ficken Elizabeth Bagwell Название: That You May Know the Lord: An In-Depth Study of Ezekiel ISBN: 0990593320 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780990593324 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Don't miss this great book The glory of the Lord. The destruction of Solomon's temple. The exile of the Israelites. The judgment of nations. The pouring out of the Holy Spirit. The Shepherd King. The Millennial Kingdom. These are the topics of the book of Ezekiel As you study this intriguing book, you will be humbled by the holiness, sovereignty and glory of God; you will be challenged to examine your own lives as you see the sin of the Israelites; you will be inspired as you see the power of the Holy Spirit; and you will be excited as you anticipate wonderful promises to be fulfilled by the Lord. This in-depth Bible study will give you a better understanding of the past, present and future of Israel and as you consider the character and attributes of God, you will come to know Him as your awesome God who is faithful to His word and who is worthy of obedience and reverence. Explore the book of Ezekiel with me so that you may know the Lord more intimately An excellent companion study is Letters to the Thessalonians: An in-depth Bible study of 1st and 2nd Thessalonians These letters are about faith, hope, and love; holiness, prayer, and perseverance; the will of God and the glorious return of Christ, including descriptions of rapture, the day of the Lord, tribulation, and the antichrist. And there is so much more Almost every major doctrine of our faith is covered in these personal writings from the apostle Paul. Join me as we read someone else's mail. I'm sure you'll find a few things that you will think were written just to you Elizabeth's studies follow the inductive study process: observation (what the Scripture says), interpretation (what the author intended, what the Scripture means) and application (what difference the Scripture makes in your life.) Coordinating free videos are available on the author's website Study the Bible with Me elizabethficken.com
Автор: Colson Charles W., Fickett Harold Название: The Faith: What Christians Believe, Why They Believe It, and Why It Matters ISBN: 0310342317 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780310342311 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Where do you go when the critics question the existence of God and the Christian faith? Charles Colson explains the foundations of faith, bridging the gap between belief, understanding and life. Be inspired as you read powerful stories of personal change that passionate, intelligent believers have made for centuries. Read The Faith. Live The Faith.
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