Why did Meg turn down the role of Clarice?

Daily Trivia / October 05, 2024

Meg Ryan turned down plum lead parts in the films Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman, and Silence of the Lambs. A few years after her rejection of Silence of the Lambs, which earned Jodie Foster a Best Actress Oscar, Ryan ...Read More

How wide is a Boabab?

Daily Trivia / October 05, 2024

The trunk of the African Boabab Tree is sometimes as wide as the tree is high. The tree is pollinated by bats, and its blossoms open only in moonlight.

Which two women founded the radical 'National Woman Suffrage Association' in 1869?

Daily Trivia / October 04, 2024

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The National Suffrage Association was established by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan N. Anthony with the primary goal to amend the U.S. Constitution. Their political actions ...Read More

Which sense is the last to die?

Daily Trivia / October 04, 2024

When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then follows taste, smell, and touch.

Was the organ in Bach's blood?

Daily Trivia / October 04, 2024

It would seem so. More than 100 descendants of the prolific (and some would say definitive) composer for the grand instrument, Johann Sebastian Bach, have been cathedral organists.

How many words did Noah define?

Daily Trivia / October 04, 2024

The last dictionary that Noah Webster wrote contained 70,000 words and their meanings. He wrote it with no help and by hand. After his death his family sold the right to publish to G&C Merriam and Co.