1001 Things You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know PDF
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Fall River Press and the distinctive Fall River Press logo are registered trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. © 2006 by JW Cappelens Forlag under license from Gusto Company AS Designed by Allen Boe All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. ISBN 978-1-4351-3902-2 (e-book) 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 For information about custom editions, special sales, and premium and corporate purchases, please contact Sterling Special Sales at 800-805-5489 or [email protected]. www.sterlingpublishing.com INTRODUCTION From annoying clichés to electoral vote counts, here is a trivia book that eclipses all others. It isn’t full of just the conventional trivia you might expect to find everywhere else. Instead, it has all the stuff that you didn’t even know that you wanted to know. Fortunately, we have made it our business to know what you didn’t know that you wanted to know in order to include it in this book. Choosing material that we anticipate you didn’t know you wanted to know was a significant challenge. We were required to make a distinction between four things: stuff you wanted to know, and knew you wanted to know; things that you didn’t know, but knew you didn’t know and didn’t want to; things you didn’t know, didn’t know you didn’t know, but wouldn’t want to know if you did; and, most elusive of all, things you didn’t know you even wanted to know, but would soon discover that you wanted to, once you knew them. It is this stuff that appears in this book. If there is anything that you feel strongly that you now know you didn’t know you wanted to know that isn’t here—please let us know. CONTENTS Television Movies Animals Politics Weather Art Science Education Food & Drink Geography Transportation Celebrities Numbers Technology History Sports Racing Fashion Sex Business Inventions Health Religion Literature Music Language Miscellaneous TELEVISION The Cosby Show ran on NBC for eight seasons (1984-1992). The Huxtable Kids on the show were: Sondra Denise “Theo” (Theodore) Vanessa Rudy Remember the popular television show The Waltons (1972-1981), set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia? Can you name all of the family members? Zebulon Walton (grandfather) Esther Walton (grandmother) John Walton (father) Olivia Walton (mother) John Walton Junior (eldest son, known as John Boy) Jason Walton (son) Mary-Ellen Walton Willard Jones (eldest daughter) Ben Walton (son) Erin Esther Walton Northridge (daughter) James Robert Walton (youngest son, known as Jim-Bob) Elizabeth Walton The first Miss World competition took place in 1951. The winner was Kiki Haakonson from Sweden. Laura Ellison-Davies (from the U.K.) was the first runner up. Cable television was first introduced in Pennsylvania in 1948. Just who belonged to television’s All-American family, The Brady Bunch (1969-1974)? Carol (mother) Mike (father) Greg (oldest son) Marcia (oldest daughter) Peter (son) Jan (daughter) Bobby (youngest son) Cindy (youngest daughter) Actress Demi Moore starred on ABC’s long-running soap opera General Hospital. WHERE IT HAPPENS: FICTIONAL SETTINGS FOR DAY-TIME TELEVISION SOAP OPERAS: FICTIONAL TOWN SOAP OPERA General Hospital Port Charles All My Children Pine Valley One Life to Live Llanview The Young and the Restless Genoa City The Bold and the Beautiful Cedarville Rock Hudson played the President of the United States in the mini-series World
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