11/14/24 Grif.Net - Robin's Funeral (+ Answers to Trivial Poor Suit Quiz)
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While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently his five-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small shoe box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased.
The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said.
"Glory be to the Faaaather...and to the Sonnnn...and into the hole he gooooes."
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1. How many countries are in the European Union?
Answer: 27
2. A bit is the smallest unit of memory in computers. What is “bit” short for?
Answer: A bit is short for binary digit
3. The Hawaiian Islands archipelago is made up of what number of major islands?
Answer: Eight major islands (plus a bunch of smaller islands and islets for a total of 137 islands!)
4. Who is considered the first female self-made millionaire in the U.S.?
Answer: Madam C.J. Walker, a Black woman and entrepreneur who built a hugely successful haircare and beauty product business in the early 1900’s
5. What country has the national language with the longest alphabet?
Answer: Cambodia — their national language, Khmer, has 74 characters
6. What color is opposite blue on the color wheel?
Answer: Orange
7. How many ribs are in a human body?
Answer: Twenty-four
8. What does “HTTP” stand for?
Answer: HyperText Transfer Protocol
9. What is the term for the fear of being without a mobile phone or unable to use it?
Answer: Nomophobia
10. Who invented the World Wide Web?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee (not the charlatan Al Gore)
11. Who was the top-earning Hollywood star of 2023?
Answer: Adam Sandler (no joke)
12. What best-selling author and TV star had an earlier career as a secret agent, during which time they contributed to the development of a still-in-use shark repellent to keep curious sharks from detonating underwater explosives?
Answer: Julia Child
13. What national park is home to the largest population of Photinus carolinus — fireflies that blink in synchronization — in the Western Hemisphere?
Answer: The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
14. What is the world's largest flower?
Answer: Rafflesia arnoldii, also known as the “corpse flower” due to it smelling like, well, a corpse
15. Which is the only vowel on a standard keyboard that is not on the top line of letters?
Answer: A
16. What is the name of the ship that rescued the Titanic’s passengers hours after the “unsinkable” ship went down?
Answer: The Carpathia
17. What type of flower was once used as money?
Answer: Tulips, whose bulbs were once used as a form of currency in Holland
18. In what country is the world’s oldest university located?
Answer: Italy — found in the city of Bologna, the University of Bologna was founded in 1088
19. What is the only letter that doesn't appear in any U.S. state name?
Answer: Q
20. How long do cicadas live underground before emerging above ground for just a few weeks?
Answer: 17 years (most) but others have varying cycles up to 20 years
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Dr Bob Griffin
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"
