2006 REUNION QUIZ
ANSWERS
AUGUST 19, 2006
1.
Money isn’t made out of
paper, it’s made out of COTTON.
2. The Declaration of
Independence was written on HEMP paper.
3. The dot over the
letter “i” is called a TITTLE.
4. 315 entries in the
Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were MISSPELLED.
5. CHOCOLATE
affects a dog’s heart and nervous system; a few ounces will
kill a small size dog.
6. Most lipstick
contains fish SCALES.
7. KETCHUP
was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
8. Leonardo da Vinci
could write with one hand and draw with the other at the
same time…hence, MULTI-TASKING was invented.
9. Because metal was
scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made
of WOOD.
10. There are no
CLOCKS in Las Vegas casinos.
11. How many words in the
Dictionary rhyme with each of the following?
Orange ( 0
) Purple ( 0 ) Silver (
0 )
12. The GUINNESS
BOOK OF RECORDS holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from Public Libraries.
13. What two (2) foods
have negative calories, i.e. they take more calories to eat
than they have to begin with? CELERY
APPLES
14. A tiny amount of
LIQUOR on a scorpion will make it instantly go
mad and sting itself to death.
15. The name WENDY
was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a
recorded WENDY before!!!
Dick Lusch, 8/6/2006
