"365 AMAZING TRIVIA FACTS FOR 2011"

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1. According to the New Testament, how many people did Jesus feed with five loaves of bread and two fishes?

2. How many years were there between the admission of the first and fiftieth states into the United States?

3. According to the Old Testament, what were the ten plagues visited upon the Egyptians when their pharoah refused to free the Israeli slaves?

4. The remains of what famous animal are kept in a peanut butter jar at Tufts University?

5. What is April Fools' Day known as in France, where the annual prank-pulling day is believed to have originated?

1. 5,000, as recounted in Mark 6:38-44.

2. Almost 172. Delaware achieved statehood on December 7, 1787; Hawaii, on August 21, 1959.

3. As told in Exodus 7-12, the plagues were: the waters of Egypt turning into blood; frogs; lice; flies; cattle disease; boils; hail; locusts; darkness; and the slaying of the firstborn.

4. Jumbo the Elephant, of Barnum & Bailey Circus fame. After Jumbo died in a train accident in 1885, showman P.T. Barnum had him stuffed and in 1889 donated him to Tufts, where he became the university mascot.

5. April Fish or Poisson d'Avril, which is the phrase French youngsters shout after taping paper fish of pictures of a fish onto the backs of friends.