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trivia 7/2
DID YOU KNOW ...
The Great Wall of China is about 1,500 miles long.
It's a 1,400 mile drive from Philadelphia to Dallas.
1. Name That Flick ;
Josie was a nerd in high school. Years later, as a 25-year-old, her
employer, the Chicago Sun-Times, wants her to write about today's high
schools. She returns to high school as a student and gets the opportunity to
do everything over again, but better this time.
(Hint; Starred Drew Barrymore, Michael Vartan, David Arquette, John C.
Reilly and Molly Shannon )
2. What photograph-related term was chosen by Oxford Dictionaries as the
word of the year 2013?
3. Which book of the Old Testament shares its name with an Elton John song ?
4. According to the proverb what is "Apple pie without cheese is like
...'A Kiss without a _______'
5. Who Wrote That ??
'The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep...'
6. Who was the oldest man to hold the rank of Heavyweight Champion of the
World ?
a. - Rocky Marciano
b. - Jack Johnson
c. - Evander Holyfield
d. - George Foreman
7. Name the explorer who's credited with 'discovering' Australia and
Hawaii...
8. In what sort of deck are the cards divided into Major and Minor Arcana ?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
Apple employees are instructed to ensure that the screens of all laptops
displayed in its stores are angled at exactly 76 degrees.
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1. 'Never Been Kissed'
2. Selfie
3. 'Daniel'
4. Squeeze
5. Robert frost
6. - d
7. James Cook
8. Tarot
TRUTH !!
Famously, Apple employees were once instructed to ensure that the screens of
all laptops displayed in its stores were angled at exactly 70 degrees.
But a while back, that instruction changed, a source tells Business Insider:
Now, Apple laptop screens must all be set at exactly 76 degrees.
That's a six-degree change.
The reason remains the same: The laptop screens tempt customers to adjust
the screens when they look at a new Macbook. That requires them to touch the
screen, thus letting them feel the full benefit of that all-metal seamless
casing and the dampened hinge that sets the screen just-so.
The new angle, being closer to 90 degrees, will make the laptops look just a
leeetle bit more closed than they were before.
Apple store employees still use the Simply Angle app on their iPhones to get
this angle just right. Simply Angle is an automated angle-measurer, a bit
like a protractor, except that it uses the accelerometer on your iPhone to
read off what angle the phone is being held at.
Oddly, Simply Angle is no longer available in the App Store.
We asked Apple for comment but did not hear back.
DID YOU KNOW ...
The Great Wall of China is about 1,500 miles long.
It's a 1,400 mile drive from Philadelphia to Dallas.
1. Name That Flick ;
Josie was a nerd in high school. Years later, as a 25-year-old, her
employer, the Chicago Sun-Times, wants her to write about today's high
schools. She returns to high school as a student and gets the opportunity to
do everything over again, but better this time.
(Hint; Starred Drew Barrymore, Michael Vartan, David Arquette, John C.
Reilly and Molly Shannon )
2. What photograph-related term was chosen by Oxford Dictionaries as the
word of the year 2013?
3. Which book of the Old Testament shares its name with an Elton John song ?
4. According to the proverb what is "Apple pie without cheese is like
...'A Kiss without a _______'
5. Who Wrote That ??
'The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep...'
6. Who was the oldest man to hold the rank of Heavyweight Champion of the
World ?
a. - Rocky Marciano
b. - Jack Johnson
c. - Evander Holyfield
d. - George Foreman
7. Name the explorer who's credited with 'discovering' Australia and
Hawaii...
8. In what sort of deck are the cards divided into Major and Minor Arcana ?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
Apple employees are instructed to ensure that the screens of all laptops
displayed in its stores are angled at exactly 76 degrees.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1. 'Never Been Kissed'
2. Selfie
3. 'Daniel'
4. Squeeze
5. Robert frost
6. - d
7. James Cook
8. Tarot
TRUTH !!
Famously, Apple employees were once instructed to ensure that the screens of
all laptops displayed in its stores were angled at exactly 70 degrees.
But a while back, that instruction changed, a source tells Business Insider:
Now, Apple laptop screens must all be set at exactly 76 degrees.
That's a six-degree change.
The reason remains the same: The laptop screens tempt customers to adjust
the screens when they look at a new Macbook. That requires them to touch the
screen, thus letting them feel the full benefit of that all-metal seamless
casing and the dampened hinge that sets the screen just-so.
The new angle, being closer to 90 degrees, will make the laptops look just a
leeetle bit more closed than they were before.
Apple store employees still use the Simply Angle app on their iPhones to get
this angle just right. Simply Angle is an automated angle-measurer, a bit
like a protractor, except that it uses the accelerometer on your iPhone to
read off what angle the phone is being held at.
Oddly, Simply Angle is no longer available in the App Store.
We asked Apple for comment but did not hear back.
