Trivia 10/6

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trivia 10/6

DID YOU KNOW...

A TYPICAL PORCUPINE HAS ABOUT 30,000 QUILLS.





1. Who was the USA's first female Attorney General ?

2. What fast-food chain blew up its logo to change its image after a tainted

beef

incident?

3. What was the sole function of IBM's "Deep Blue" computer of the 70's ?

4. What's the second-tallest mountain (dry land) in the world ?

5. According to Greek Mythology, what was Atlas condemned to hold upon his

shoulders ?

6. What "First" did African American Mae Jamison achieve?

7. How old was Sweden's Queen Christina when she ascended to the throne?

a. - 6

b. - 9

c. - 12

d. - 15

8. Canton, Ohio is home to which Presidential Museum ?



TRUTH OR CRAP ??

A Light-Year is over 60 trillion miles long.

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1. JANET RENO

2. jack-in-the-box

3. IT PLAYED (Grand-master level)CHESS

4. K2

5. the heavens

6. first black woman in space

7. - a

8. President McKinley's

CRAP !!

A light-year is measured by the distance light travels in a vacum in one

year, which is

(only) about 6 trillion miles. Light travels at about 186,000 miles per

second.

he light-year is used to measure distances between planets and galaxies. The

Andromeda Galaxy, one of our closest, is about 2.2 million light years away.



When we look through a telescope at the Andromeda, we are seeing it as it

was over 2

million years ago
 

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