TASTY TRIVIA -- A Call for suggestions & submissions of favorite bits of triva (vanity)

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[Our man in washington]

Correct again! It was the worst airline accident in history. (Some would say 9/11, but I would argue that was a terrorist attack, not an accident.) Anyway, you are good!

[FreeKeys]

There are SIX state capitals at a longitude WEST of Los Angeles: Honolulu, Juneau, Olympia, Salem, Sacramento and ... and Carson City! The only two state capitals which end in the letter “u” are the farthest west ones (which are also the farthest south one and the farthest north one). One’s a “lulu.” Did juneau that?

[DennisR]

What are you using as your point of reference?

[21stCenturion]

I believe the disease is malaria and it hasn’t yet been ‘cured’.

[Tazlo]

The late John Cazale.

[mrreaganaut]

The California grizzly bear (Ursus californicus) was designated official State Animal in 1953. The last one was killed in Tulare County in August 1922.

[Richard Kimball]

Charles Lindbergh would have been named Charles Manson if his father hadn’t changed the family name.

[boop]

Albert Brooks’ real name is Albert Einstein. Michael Keaton’s real name is Michael Douglas.

[steve8714]

“Run faster, jump higher, in your__________.”

[steve8714]

Wasn’t that by Toto?

[Wingy]

What are you using as your point of reference?

Latitude and longitude. 180 degrees is the demarcation between the Far West and the Far East. So Alaska is both the eastern most AND western most state. In my college days I won a lot of beer with that one.

[FreeKeys]

THANK YOU!

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

No searching. Albert Brooks’ brother is also an actor/writer/director. What is his best known character's stage name? Hint: he played Officer Judy ( and was a writer ) on the “Smothers Brothers” show.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

His real name is Bob Einstein.

[boop]

I had to peek. Super Dave Osborne! I would have NEVER gotten that. “Super Bob Einstein” just doesn’t have that same ring to it. Although it would be kind of funny.

[Tainan]

P.F. Flyers...and nope, I didn’t “look it up.”

I actually remember them.

[Triple]

JFK issued treasury backed currency, in competition with the Federal Reserve currency in the months prior to his death. This currency bears a red seal, rather than the green Federal Reserve seal.

[Joe 6-pack]

Napoleon Bonaparte was indirectly responsible for the impressionist movement in painting. During his conquests, Napoleon was among the first military leaders to recognize the importance of "winning the hearts and minds" of the populations he was overrunning. Up until that time, Armies in the field largely sustained themselves by pillaging and foraging food, cattle, horses, etc. from the locals.

Napoleon sought a means of preserving food in order to limit the amount his Army would need to forcibly take from the locals. This effort led to canning, however another option that was examined had been foil tubes. While this was not received as a method of food storage, many painters found it an ideal means of storing oil paints, which heretofore had to be mixed in the studios. Foil tubes allowed artists to cart their canvasses, paints an easels into the landscape initiating the en plen air movement which led to the high point of impressionism.

[steve8714]

I won a trivia night for my table with that one. You must be old, too. What was I talking about? Where are my keys?

[Vaquero]

Grandpa Simpson sez

"When I was a pup, we got spanked by Presidents till the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions,"