365 Days of Amazing Trivia! (2014)

Cardiac surgeon Mehmet Oz, in January 2012. O was launched in 2000. Oprah had been the first guest on Dr. Oz's medical series, Second Opinion, on the Discovery Health Channel in 2003.



Friday, August 1, 2014

How did "tank" become the name of the armored assault vehicle originally called a landship by the British during World War I?​
 
British military officials didn't want the Germans to find out that they were developing a new top-secret weapon, so they referred to the prototype of the landship as a water carrier or water tank. The name tank stuck.



Saturday, August 2, 2014

How many of the original 13 colonies bordered on the Atlantic Ocean?​
 
A skin condition suffered by someone who has had a hot laptop in his or her lap for an extended period of time. Symptoms include mottled skin or a rash.



Monday, August 4, 2014

Scenes for what 1961 hit movie were shot in a second-floor loft on New York City's Times Square that later served as the studio for ABC-TV's Good Morning America?​
 
The Hustler, starring Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. In 1961 the Ames Billiard Academy occupied the space that was the setting for the pool hall scenes in the film. GMA has since moved its studio to street level in the building. The billiard academy closed in 1966.



Tuesday, August 5, 2014

What was dumped on President Ronald Reagan from a Gatorade cooler when the New York Giants football team celebrated its 1987 Super Bowl win at the White House?​
 
The ice had to be painted white to make the black puck easier to see. Games previously had been played on water that was frozen on top of concrete, which created a dull gray surface. To accommodate the new rule, teams began adding white paint to the water before freezing it.



Sunday, August 10, 2014

What name did an Ernest Hemingway heroine share with the author's famous 38-foot fishing boat?​
 
Pilar. It was Hemingway's nickname for his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, to whom he was married when he purchased and christened the fishing boat in 1937. Pilar was also the name Hemingway gave a central character in his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, which was published in 1940, two weeks before he and Pfeiffer were divorced.



Monday, August 11, 2014

Which three popular 2011 films included performances by Uggie, a gifted Jack Russell terrier?​
 
The Big Bang Theory, which contends that the universe was created in a single powerful explosion billions of years ago. The theory was derisively labeled the Big Bang in a 1950 radio broadcast by British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, a proponent of the rival Steady State Theory. Hoyle's favored theory has long since been disproven, while the theory he disparaged and the name he mockingly gave it have gained wide acceptance.



Wednesday, August 13, 2014

What is the meaning of the slang word chillax?​
 
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