WATER
Percentage of fresh water is located in what part of the world.
ANTARTICA - Over 90% of the world's supply of fresh water is located in Antartica.
Paris Hilton gave birth to a baby girl and gave her what name?
LONDON - Paris Hilton, American media personality is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels. She became a fixture in NYC's social scene, and at the age of 19 she signed up with Donald Trump's modelling agency. Hilton is said to have influenced the revival of the "famous for being famous". On January 23rd., she and her husband welcomed their first child, a boy named Phoenix and on November 23rd. a baby girl named London.
In 1979, Sony released a product that allowed you to take music on the go.
THE WALKMAN - The Walkman is a brand of portable audio players manufactured and marketed by Japanese company Sony in 1979. The original Walkman started out as a portable cassette player and was later extended to serve most of Sony"s portable audio devices.
"The Parish Boy's Progress," which included picking a pocket or two.
OLIVER TWIST - Charles Dickens' second novel was first published in serialized form, appearing in semi-regular installments over the course of two years. Its lesser-known subtitle makes reference to John Bunyan's 1678 novel "The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come," as well as 18th-century works by William Hogarth. Numerous adaptations of "Oliver Twist" have appeared on stage and screen.
What are the humps on camels for?
SORE RICH FAT - Camel humps actually store rich fat, which allows them to go long periods without eating or drinking because their body converts the stored fat into needed energy. They can store up to 80 ounds of fat in one hump, and the size of the hump changes depending on how much food the camel eats. When the camel uses the fat inside the hump, the hump will become limp and droop down. With proper food and rest the hump will return to normal.
Amount of water in the human body.
37 LITERS -
Place where we can find the world's largest iceberg!
ANTARCTICA - The Antarctica iceberg measures 1,500 square miles and became stuck to the ocean floor and had remained for many years in the Weddle Sea. The iceberg is about three times the size of New York City and more than twice the size of London, measuring around 4,000 sq. kilometers. On November 24, the world's largest iceberg was on the move for the first time
The last on-air television commercial for cigarettes aired in 1971 was during what night show.
THE TONIGHT SHOW with JOHNNY CARSON - The last televised cigarette ad ran at 11:50pm during The Johnny Carson Show on January 1, 1971. Though they continued to bombard unregulated print media with ads for cigarettes, tobacco companies lost the regulatory battle over television and radio.
( In 1951, Camel Cigarettes wre endorsed by John Wayne in advertisements)
In this Steinbeck work, George kills his friend Lennie to spare him from a lynch mob.
OF MICE AND MEN - John Steinbeck's harrowing novella centers on two migrant workers, one of whom has a learning disability. Set during the Great Depression, the story grapples with themes of loneliness and despair. A fixture in school classrooms, the frank use of racist language in "Of Mice and Men" occasionally draws scrutiny from concerned parents and educators.
Name of the scale that is used to measure the spiciness of peppers.
SCOVILLE SCALE - the scoville scale is a measurement of pungency (spiciness or 'heat') of chili peppers and other substances, recorded in Scoville heat units. Wilbur Scoville, a pharmacologist, invented the scale in 1912. The hottest pepper today, according to the Guiness World Records, is Pepper X from South Caroline, U.S., which is about 1,000 times hotter than the average jalapeno.
Water is the only substance that is found naturally on earth in which three forms.
LIQUID, GAS, SOLID -
Thanksgiving is followed by Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and one more weekday named for a certain way to shop.
CYBER MONDAY - Cyber Monday began in 2005, as more consumers began gravitating to on-line shopping. It is a marketing term for e-commerce transactions on the Monday after Thanksgiving in the U.S. Traditional retailers generally offer exclusive, websites-only deals on Cyber Monday. Since the pandemic in 2020, many retailers are advertising the kind of deal you'd find on Black Friday asc well as Cyber Monday.throughout the month of November.
Popular toy that was introduced in 1977, consisting of colored plastic tiles
RUBIK's CUBE - The Rubik's cube is a 3-D combination puzzle originally invented in 1974 by a Hunfgarian sculpture and professor of architecture. Originally called the Magic Cube. As of March 2021, over 450 million cubes had been sold worldwide, making it the bestselling puzzle game and bestselling toy. The Rubik's cube was inducted into the US National Hall of Fame.
This Tolstoy tome centers on the 1812 invasion of Russia and the ensuing Russian resistance.
WAR AND PEACE - Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece was originally envisioned as a trilogy that would largely center on the attempted overthrow of Tsar Nicholas I. When writing about the lives of soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars, Tolstoy shifted the focus toward that time period to create one of history's most legendary tomes. Its first installments appeared in the journal Russian Messenger under the working title of "The Year 1805."
It's one of India's biggest and most important holiday of the year.
DIWALI - During Diwali, the Indian community gathers at each other's home or temple to hug and exchange best wishes, it's the one time of a year they see each other in their Indian outfits and come together. It is a Festival of Lights that celebrate the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil and human ability to overcome.
Water is called hard water when it contains what?
CALCIUM and MAGNESIUM - When water contains a lot of calcium and magnesium, it is called hard water. Hard water is not suited for all purposes water is normally used for.
November 22 marks the anniversary of the passing of an American politician who played a big role in the world.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK and by the nickname Jack, was an American Politician who served as the 35th president of the U.S. JFK was the youngest man elected to the office. On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, becoming also the youngest President to die.
Tech giant that was founded in 1975.
MICROSOFT - Microsoft is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Washington. It's a computer firm, the world's leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications.
Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
Lewis Carrol was best known as the author of which children's book.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Alice in Wonderland details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of creatures with human traits. Lewis Carroll, the English novelist and poet, is best known as the author of the children's book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and it sequel "Through the Looking Glass" (1871) - two of the most popular works of fiction in the English language.
Heading directly south from San Diego, California, what border town resort will be the first city you hit in Mexico.
TIJUANA - Tijuana is a border city in Mexico, just South of Calfornia. It is the largest city in the state of Baja California located on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Tijuana is the second most populous city in Mexico, and one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the country with a population of more than 2million. The city is the most visited border city in the world of about 24km with its sister city San Diego. More than 50 million people cross the border between these two cities every year.
Amount of time a human can live without water.
ONE WEEK - A person can live without food for more than a month, but can only survive for approximately one week without water, depending upon conditions.
November 30th. marks the 50th. year of the world's favourite Comic Strip.
CHARLIE BROWN - the 50th. anniversary of the classic "Peanut" special, "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" has arrived.These days the show, which first aired on the American TV station CBS in 1973, feels like a bittersweet relic from the era of the Vietnam War. Fifty years later Charlie Brown can be watched on Apple-TV
Global figure who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
MOTHER TERESA - Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 "for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity".
Mother Teresa was born August 1910 in the Ottoman Empire and died in 1997 in Calcutta, India.
Talk show host who started a megastar's book club that led to a total sales of over 55 million copies.
OPRAH WINFREY - Oprah's Book Club was a book discussion club segment of the American talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, highlighting books chosen by the host herself. She started the book club in 1996, selecting a new book, usually a novel, for viewers to read and discuss each month. Due to the club's widespread popularity, many obscure titles have become very popular bestsellers, increasing sales for the authors.
Camembert is packaged in boxes that are made off what material.
WOOD - Typically camembert tends to be sold whole in thin, round, wooden containers made from poplar. Modern variations in packaging include cartons and tin cans. (Tin boxes do not exist on the French market and the cardboard boxes are reserved for the low-cost camemberts. Wood is hard to recycle sustainably, and the EU wants to remove it from food packaging as much as possible. The French say "NON"!