"365 AMAZING TRIVIA FACTS FOR 2007"

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1. If you hit a "sleeping policeman" while you're driving in Great Britain, what have you hit?

2. What is the oldest city in the U.S. that serves as a state capital?

3. What's the derivation of the name LoJack, the stolen-vehicle recovery system?

4. Which U.S. state is the most earthquake prone?

5. Who coined the phrase "the shot heard round the world"?

1. A speed bump.

2. Santa Fe, New Mexico, which Spanish settlers first inhabited in 1607.

3. It's a play on hijack, which it's intended to discourage or nip in the bud.

4. Alaska. It has many as 4,000 earthquakes a year, and expereinces a magnitude 7 quake almost every year and a magnitude 8 on an average of once every 14 years.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his poem "The Concord Hymn," about the April 19, 1775, Battle of Lexington and Concord.