Every Tuesday is a Trivia Tuesday on AmericaJR. Look for five new questions and answers from the “365 Amazing Trivia Facts for 2017” calendar.
This week’s questions:
- How many letters are there in the Russian alphabet?
- Who said, “The man with no imagination has no wings”?
- Only one US president ever filed for a patent. Which one?
- In 2009, Jason Mesnick became the first and only contestant on The Bachelor to do what at the end of the season?
- What did Rabbi Yaacov Deyo invent in 1998?
This week’s answers:
- 32, or 33 with the inclusion of the soft sound.
- Muhammad Ali. His more famous quote involving winged creatures was “Float like a butterfly; sting like a bee.”
- Abraham Lincoln. Years before his presidential run, Lincoln invented a system for lifting riverboats out of the water when they’d gotten stuck on sandbars.
- Choose one woman in the finale, only to change his mind and go back to his second choice in the “After the Final Rose” reunion. The couple is still together after getting married in 2010.
- Speed dating. He and his collaborators tried to patent the idea, but it had already become too popular just a year later.
Source: Workman Publishing/”Page-A-Day”