1001 Things You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know

184 Pages·2008·1.33 MB·English

by  Anna Mantzaris

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INTRODUCTION
From annoying clichés to electoral vote counts, here is a trivia book that eclipses
all others. It isn’t full of just the conventional trivia you might expect to find
everywhere else.
Instead, it has all the stuff that you didn’t even know that you wanted to know.
Fortunately, we have made it our business to know what you didn’t know that
you wanted to know in order to include it in this book.
Choosing material that we anticipate you didn’t know you wanted to know was a
significant challenge. We were required to make a distinction between four
things: stuff you wanted to know, and knew you wanted to know; things that you
didn’t know, but knew you didn’t know and didn’t want to; things you didn’t
know, didn’t know you didn’t know, but wouldn’t want to know if you did; and,
most elusive of all, things you didn’t know you even wanted to know, but would
soon discover that you wanted to, once you knew them. It is this stuff that
appears in this book.
If there is anything that you feel strongly that you now know you didn’t know
you wanted to know that isn’t here—please let us know.
CONTENTS
Television
Movies
Animals
Politics
Weather
Art
Science
Education
Food & Drink
Geography
Transportation
Celebrities
Numbers
Technology
History
Sports
Racing
Fashion
Sex
Business
Inventions
Health
Religion
Literature
Music
Language
Miscellaneous
TELEVISION
The Cosby Show ran on NBC for eight seasons (1984-1992).
The Huxtable Kids on the show were: Sondra
Denise
“Theo” (Theodore)
Vanessa
Rudy
Remember the popular television show The Waltons (1972-1981), set in the
Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia? Can you name all of the family members?
Zebulon Walton (grandfather) Esther Walton (grandmother) John Walton (father)
Olivia Walton (mother)
John Walton Junior (eldest son, known as John Boy) Jason Walton (son)
Mary-Ellen Walton Willard Jones (eldest daughter) Ben Walton (son)
Erin Esther Walton Northridge (daughter) James Robert Walton (youngest son,
known as Jim-Bob) Elizabeth Walton
The first Miss World competition took place in 1951. The winner was Kiki
Haakonson from Sweden. Laura Ellison-Davies (from the U.K.) was the first
runner up.
Cable television was first introduced in Pennsylvania in 1948.
Just who belonged to television’s All-American family, The Brady Bunch
(1969-1974)?
Carol (mother)
Mike (father)
Greg (oldest son)
Marcia (oldest daughter) Peter (son)
Jan (daughter)
Bobby (youngest son)
Cindy (youngest daughter) Actress Demi Moore starred on ABC’s long-running
soap opera General Hospital.
WHERE IT HAPPENS: FICTIONAL SETTINGS FOR DAY-TIME
TELEVISION SOAP OPERAS:
FICTIONAL TOWN
SOAP OPERA
General Hospital Port Charles
All My Children Pine Valley
One Life to Live Llanview
The Young and the Restless Genoa City
The Bold and the Beautiful Cedarville
Rock Hudson played the President of the United States in the mini-series World