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American Trivia In 1814 when Francis Scott Key wrote what is
now our National Anthem, how many stars and stripes were on the flag
flying over Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor? Who was Florence Nightingale Graham? How much did Texas millionaire H. Ross Perot
pay for a copy of the Magna Carta in 1984? Where in the U.S. will you find both Neon and
Krypton? How did the town of Disco, Michigan, get its
name? What are the numbers of the three interstate
highways that run from coast to coast? How many elevators are there in the Empire
State Building in New York City? How many windows are there in the Pentagon, the
world's largest office building? What was the given name of Doc Holliday, the
frontier dentist, gambler and gunman who befriended Wyatt Earp and
was at his side during the shootout at the O.K. Corral? Which American city was the first to establish
a police department? What comic strip character did the grateful
farmers of Crystal City, Texas, honor with a six-foot-high stone
mountain in 1937? Who came in second to Eleanor Roosevelt in a
1945 Fortune magazine poll taken to determine the most famous woman
in America? Who once said: "The hardest thing in the world
to understand is the income tax?" Whose appearance in a nearly transparent white
fishnet bathing suit in the 1978 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue
led an editor to promise, "We never have, and never will, run
anything so revealing again"? What was the average amount of money left per
visit by the tooth fairy in 1950? Why did Trinity College in Durham, North
Carolina, change its name to Duke University in 1924? How much did Baltimore seamstress Mary Young
Pickersgill charge for materials and labor for the 30-by 42-foot
woolen flag immortalized in Frances Scott Key's "The Star Spangled
Banner"? How high was the 1,340-foot-long wall that gave
New York's Wall Street its name? Which U.S. Supreme Court justice wrote the
greatest number of majority opinions?
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