Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Knowing is half the battle

Actually it's all of the battle.

If you knew the following, you should've been on my trivia team tonight. Because we didn't know them.

Timex is more popular than Swatch.

Alice in Wonderland was written in 1865.

A Hitchcock film with numbers in the title? 39 Steps

Greek word for milk, used in astronomy. Galaxy

Celebrity who first touted the Corinthian leather of the Chrysler Cordoba? Ricardo Montalban. (Seriously trivia?)

1200 mile wide hurricane from 1956? Hurricane Greta

1 comment:

peetie said...

I only knew the hitchcock one. I'd be curious to know if even our esteemed colleague and trivia meister, MES would know more of these.