Trivia

[Joe Paul]

  Karol, you are up

[okarol]

Ok...

How are New Year's Day and April Fool's Day related?

[KR Cincy]

they both end in the letters d-a-y
both are celebrated on the first of the month
ummmmmmm....

[thegrammalady]

in the 1500's before the georgian calendar was adopted new years day was celebrated on april 1

[okarol]

Yeah KR, but not what I was looking for.

In sixteenth-century France, the start of the new year was observed on April first. It was celebrated in much the same way as it is today with parties and dancing into the late hours of the night. Then in 1562, Pope Gregory introduced a new calendar for the Christian world, and the new year fell on January first. There were some people, however, who hadn't heard or didn't believe the change in the date, so they continued to celebrate New Year's Day on April first. Others played tricks on them and called them "April fools." They sent them on a "fool's errand" or tried to make them believe that something false was true.




 Your turn grammalady 

[kidney4traci]

That's a good one, I never knew that!  Fooled me!

[thegrammalady]

who invented the band-aid?

[goofynina]

I got it  I got it 
Earle Dickson invented the Band-Aid     Earle Dickson was employed as a cotton buyer for the Johnson & Johnson when he invented the band-aid in 1921. His wife Josephine Dickson was always cutting her fingers in the kitchen while preparing food.
At that time a bandage consisted of separate gauze and adhesive tape that you would cut to size and apply yourself. Earle Dickson noticed that gauze and adhesive tape she used would soon fall off her active fingers. He decided to invent something that would stay in place and protect small wounds better.

Earle Dickson took a piece of gauze and attached it to the center of a piece of tape, and then covered the product with crinoline to keep it sterile.

His boss, James Johnson, saw Earle Dickson's invention and decided to manufacture band-aids to the public and make Earle Dickson vice-president of Johnson & Johnson

[goofynina]

What was the name of the two cops that first recognized George Bailey at the end of It's a Wonderful Life?? 

[thegrammalady]

I got it  I got it 
Earle Dickson invented the Band-Aid     Earle Dickson was employed as a cotton buyer for the Johnson & Johnson when he invented the band-aid in 1921. His wife Josephine Dickson was always cutting her fingers in the kitchen while preparing food.
At that time a bandage consisted of separate gauze and adhesive tape that you would cut to size and apply yourself. Earle Dickson noticed that gauze and adhesive tape she used would soon fall off her active fingers. He decided to invent something that would stay in place and protect small wounds better.

Earle Dickson took a piece of gauze and attached it to the center of a piece of tape, and then covered the product with crinoline to keep it sterile.

His boss, James Johnson, saw Earle Dickson's invention and decided to manufacture band-aids to the public and make Earle Dickson vice-president of Johnson & Johnson

nice job

[okarol]

What was the name of the two cops that first recognized George Bailey at the end of It's a Wonderful Life?? 

The names of the cops would become the inspiration for two memorable characters on Sesame Street:  Ernie and Bert.

[goofynina]

What was the name of the two cops that first recognized George Bailey at the end of It's a Wonderful Life?? 

The names of the cops would become the inspiration for two memorable characters on Sesame Street:  Ernie and Bert.

Correctamundo Karol............Johnny, tell her what she's won    She has one the honor of asking the next questing  (audience claps) 

[okarol]

 

Before turkey was introduced to Britain from the US what did the wealthy eat for their traditional Christmas dinner?

[Wattle]

 A traditional Christmas dinner in medieval England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard.   (Where is the vomit icon?  )

[goofynina]

 A traditional Christmas dinner in medieval England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard. (Where is the vomit icon? )

Wattle, when you find that vomit icon, add one on for me too    YUCK

[okarol]

Ugh! That's not what I was thinking of. The wealthy ate something else!

[Wattle]

 A traditional Christmas dinner in medieval England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard. (Where is the vomit icon? )

Wattle, when you find that vomit icon, add one on for me too    YUCK

Coming from the girl who eats Pigs Trotters   

[goofynina]

 A traditional Christmas dinner in medieval England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard. (Where is the vomit icon? )

Wattle, when you find that vomit icon, add one on for me too    YUCK

Coming from the girl who gets Pigs Trotters   

But there are no eyeballs and stuff in their "trotters"  lol,   

[Wattle]

Duck or Goose?

[okarol]

Ok Miss Wattle, I will accept your answer, because I think a boar is considered to be a wild pig; however, in the majority of sources it states:

1. At lavish Christmas feasts in the Middle Ages, swans and peacocks were sometimes served "endored". The flesh was painted with saffron dissolved in melted butter and the birds were served wrapped in their own skin and feathers, which had been removed and set aside prior to roasting. Around Victorian times another traditional Christmas feast was roasted goose.

2. In Medieval England, the main course was either a peacock or a boar, the boar usually the mainstay. After the French Jesuits imported the turkey into Great Britain, it became the main course in the 1700s.


  Go for it Sally!

[Wattle]

2. In Medieval England, the main course was either a peacock or a boar, the boar usually the mainstay. After the French Jesuits imported the turkey into Great Britain, it became the main course in the 1700s.


  Go for it Sally!

This is off Wikipedia and I try not to use it. I don't believe it is very reliable. I was about to post peacock too but I was still looking for the vomit icon.   

O.K ........ uummmmm

[okarol]

Well the only reason I gave it to ya was cuz of the boar reference in Wiki, otherwise other stuff only mentioned peacocks. So now ya telling me I shouldn't have?? 

[Wattle]

In the Wizard of Oz....

How did they make the Emerald City horses coloured?

[Joe Paul]

The horses in Emerald City palace were colored with Jell-O crystals

[Wattle]

The horses in Emerald City palace were colored with Jell-O crystals

Yep you win JP.     The horses kept licking the Jelly crystals off. They had to take the shots quickly. I love the Wizard of Oz