"365 AMAZING TRIVIA FACTS FOR 2005"

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1. What was the last letter added to the modern English alphabet?

2. What is the name of the oldest operating inn in the United States? Hint: it inspired a book of poems by a famous American poet.

3. How many minues of screen time did Judi Dench have in Shakespeare in Love, the 1998 film for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress?

4. What modern electronic device--first demonstrated to the publish at the 1939 World's Fair--was discussed and illustrated in Scientific American magazine in 1880?

5. How many harps are required for an orchestral performance of Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold?

1. The j.

2. Longfellow's Wayside Inn, in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

3. Eight minutes.

4. The television, in an article entited "Seeing by Electricity."

5. Six harps.