Did you know Thomas Jefferson wrote part of the Declaration of Independence in a tavern? Did you know that Calvin Klein’s Obsession for men is used by researchers to attract animals to cameras in the wild? Did you know Spain means the “land of rabbits”? The better question is: why is any of this important? Well, it is National Trivia Day.
The team here at Equities suggests one of the stock market quizzes on Sporcle.com. Celebrate this day of useless knowledge with one of the quizzes on the site.
For example, the DowJones quiz will time you as you enter all the companies of the Down Jones Industrial (pictured above). You can also try the “Word Ladder: Market Trends” quiz (below).
The quiz gives you a clue and you must describe the type of market trend. I took one quiz and was told to try “with my eyes open.” So, maybe you will do better than me.
Here are few more interesting facts that only seem relevant on Trivia Day:
- A dog’s nose is unique and equivalent to a human fingerprint.
- “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language to end in “mt.”
- In 1962, a laughing epidemic broke out in Tanzania (at that time Tanganyika).
- Canada comes from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word, Kanata, meaning a village.
- In Finland, Donald Duck cartoons were banned because he does not wear pants.
- A rat can give birth to 2,000 offspring in a year.
- Gravity is not the same at every point of the Earth. The gravity field is described as lumpy by scientists.
- In the 1800s, lobsters were abundant and fed to the homeless.
- Lighters were invented three years before the matchstick.
- William Faulkner once refused a dinner request from JFK at the White House. He said, “Why that’s a hundred miles away. That’s a very long way to go just to eat.”
- Michael Jackson’s 1988 autobiography Moonwalk was edited by Jackie Onassis.
- 1980, Detroit gave Saddam Hussein the keys to the city.
- Reno, Nevada is further west than Los Angeles, California.
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