Fact or Crap..some friday fun

I got a calender Christmas 2004 that was simply called "Fact or Crap" and it was a fun trivia calender. After a few months I realized I should have saved some of the "better ones". So, here for you is some fun. Answers on Monday.

Trivia.

1) Fact or Crap- TV Guide Outsells Reader's Digest.
2) Fact or Crap -Wile E. Coyote never caught the road runner.
3) Fact or Crap - Florida has more miles of shoreline than any other U.S. State.
4) Fact or Crap - The World Cup is the most watched sporting event in the world.
5) Fact or Crap - All gasoline is shipped from the refinery in the same pipeline, no matter which oil company is buying it for resale.

6) Fact or Crap - A cup of tea has more caffeine than a cup of coffee
7) Fact or Crap - California has more war veterans than any other state.
8) Fact or Crap - Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America.
9) Fact or Crap - The New York Yankees adopted a pinstripe uniform to help Babe Ruth appear slimmer.

10) Fact or Crap - A Dragonfly can fly 25mph.
11) Fact or Crap - Every girl with a color blind father will inherit the color blindness gene.

12) Fact or Crap - Nearly a quarter of all mammals can fly.
13) Fact or Crap - The walls of microwave ovens help heat food.
14) Fact or Crap - Twins can have different fathers.
15) Fact of Crap - Polar bears actually have light yellow, not white, fur.
16) Fact or Crap - The original price tag on an Apple I computer was $666.66.
17) Fact or Crap - The largest living tree is 42 feet in circumference.
18) Fact or Crap - Bingo was invented by church elders as a way to raise money.
19) Fact or Crap - Etiquette dictates that it is improper to use the term congratulations when greeting a bride.

20) Fact or Crap - Bottling rights for Coca-Cola were sold for one dollar.
21) Fact or Crap - Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826

22) Fact or Crap - The Virgin Islands does not observe Daylight Savings Time
23) Fact or Crap - If Barbie were a real woman her measurements would be 36-24-36
24) Fact or Crap - The Dog on the Cracker Jack box is named Jack.
25) Fact or Crap - The roadrunner is the fastest bird on land.
26) Fact or Crap - Classmates Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman were voted most likely to succeed

27) Fact or Crap - The official taste tester at Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream has his taste buds insured for $1 Million.

28) Fact or Crap - Toto earned more money per week than Judy Garland in making "The Wizard of Oz"

29) Fact or Crap - Silly Putty was used to fasten down tolls on Apollo 8.
30) Fact or Crap - Leonardo da Vinci\ wrote his notebook in mirror images.
31) Fact or Crap - The White House has a bowling lane and movie theater.
32) Fact or Crap - By the year 2000 only three countries had launched men in to outer space.

33) Fact or Crap - The world's first test tube baby was a boy.
34) Fact or Crap - The can opener was invented 48 years after the invention of cans.
35) Fact or Crap - September 10, 1752 does not officially exist in American History
36) Fact or Crap - Airplane pioneers Orville Wright and Amelia Earhard both died in plane crashes.

37) Fact or Crap - Coral can replace human bone in surgery
38) Fact or Crap - Run DMC was the first rap group to earn a gold record.
39) Fact or Crap - There are fewer cab drivers in New York City today than there were 75 years ago.

40) Fact or Crap - Guinness Irish Beer was actually created by an Englishman
41) Fact or Crap - A deck of cards was the first bar-coded product ever scanned
42) Fact or Crap - In his homeland, Bruce Lee was considered an awkward dancer.
43) Fact or Crap - The guillotine is named after a reformist who was trying to eliminate the death penalty.

44) Fact or Crap - The novel "Memoirs of a Geisha" was the first published autobiography by a woman who lived as a geisha.

45) Fact or Crap - The ostrich buries its head in the sand when it senses danger.
46) Fact or Crap - Louis Pasteur discovered cures for anthrax, silkworm disease and rabies.

47) Fact or Crap - The Yo-Yo is the oldest known toy.
48) Fact or Crap - The giant squid has the largest eyes of any animal.
49) Fact or Crap - Snails never sleep
50) Fact or Crap - Walt Disney died before Walt Disney World opened to the public
51) Fact or Crap -The first child to be eliminated in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is Veruca Salt.

52) Fact or Crap - Apocalypse Now was released five years before US Troops pulled out of Vietnam,.

53) Fact or Crap - Evel Knievel coined the phrase "Kids, do not try this at home"
54) Fact or Crap - The creator of Atari also started the Chuck E. Cheese franchise.
55) Fact or Crap - Hapers Bazaar was the first major publication to feature and African American Cover girl.

56) Fact or Crap - The Eruption of Mt St Helens in 1980 produced no casualties.
57) Fact or Crap - The leading cause of house fires in the USA is burning candles.
58) Fact or Crap - McDonalds eliminated close to 1 million pounds of waster per year by making its straws lighter.

59) Fact or Crap - Napoleon's troops shot the nose off the sphinx in Egypt.
60) Fact or Crap - The statue of liberty's framework was made of steel
61) Fact or Crap - Chocolate can be toxic to dogs.
62) Fact or Crap - A cockroach can live for a week with its head cut off
63) Fact or Crap - Columbus's ship "Santa maria" met her fate at the hands of pirates.

64) Fact or Crap - The first Planet Hollywood was opened in New York.
65) Fact or Crap - Liberace owned 39 pianos.
66) Fact or Crap - The Colosseum in Rome is home to a pack of stray dogs.
67) Fact or Crap - It takes 3 to 4 cashmere goats to make a sweater.
68) Fact or Crap - The "s" in Harry S Truman does not stand for anything.
69) Fact or Crap - Pork is a white meat.
70) Fact or Crap - The oldest team sport in history is Polo.
71) Fact or Crap - Butterflies have ears.
72) Fact or Crap - Ancient Egyptians made dice from bone.
73) Fact or Crap - When it was first launched the Walkman was called the Soundabout
74) Fact or Crap - The World record for most worms eaten in 30 seconds is 75.
75) Fact or Crap - Botts Dots is the condition a horse has when infected by a botfly
76) Fact or Crap - The name of the paint used on the Golden Gate Bridge is called "Sun Kissed"

77) Fact or Crap - In her divorce settlement Princess Di was stripped of the title Royal Highness

78) Fact or Crap - Sammy Davis Jnr. lost his eye in a car accident.
79) Fact or Crap - Pampers was the first disposable diaper.
80) Fact or Crap - Sesame Street's Ernie made it to the top 20 with the song "Rubber Duckie"

81) Fact or Crap - Toys for Tots was started by the US Marine Corps
82) Fact or Crap - Flooding is the leading cause of weather related deaths in the United States

83) Fact or Crap - A pig can get sunburn
84) Fact or Crap - Cows have no upper teeth.
85) Fact or Crap - the singular form of the word graffiti is graffito
86) Fact or Crap - There are more than 2.5 Million possible poker hands in a 52 card deck

87) Fact or Crap -Lobster was part of the first Thanksgiving.
88) Fact or Crap -In bullfighting, the matador's cape is red to make the bull charge.
89) Fact or Crap - Nails are measured in pennies.
90) Fact or Crap - Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson"
91) Fact or Crap - Maggot therapy is used to tread bedsores
92) Fact or Crap - Brad Pitt is an alumnus of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America
93) Fact or Crap - Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history

94) Fact or Crap - Apollo 12 brought back rock and soil samples from the moon.
95) Fact or Crap - The Nobel Prize is awarded in Zurich, Switzerland.
96) Fact or Crap - The alcohol in wine evaporates when it is exposed to high heat.
97) Fact or Crap - Betty Crocker was a Cub Scout den mother.
98) Fact or Crap - The Ferris wheel was invented to rival the Eiffel Tower.
99) Fact or Crap - One cannot purchase a "Tiffany Blue Box" by itself from a Tiffany & Co. store.

100) Fact or Crap - The original name for the game Twister was Pretzel.
101) Fact or Crap - Elevator music was first used to encourage riders to talk to each other.

102) Fact or Crap - A champagne cork should pop loudly, because that signifies bad air leaving the bottle.


Good luck!