The only common English word that has five vowels in a row is queueing.
Trivia
Till Death, Um …
Famous bachelors:
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Johannes Brahms
- Plato
- Lewis Carroll
- Sir John Gielgud
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Henry James
- Bill Maher
- Isaac Newton
- Al Pacino
- Blaise Pascal
- Alexander Pope
- Cecil Rhodes
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Adam Smith
- Nikola Tesla
- Luther Vandross
- Voltaire
- King William II of England
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Gold Star
Bill Gates has not missed a day of work since 1975.
Heigh-Ho
Rejected dwarf names considered for Disney’s Snow White (1937):
- Awful
- Hoppy
- Weepy
- Dirty
- Cranky
- Hungry
- Sneezy-Wheezy
- Lazy
- Snoopy
- Goopy
- Wistful
- Soulful
- Gabby-Blabby
- Crabby
- Flabby
- Helpful
- Tearful
- Deafy
- Thrifty
- Shifty
- Nifty
Only about 3 people in 100 can name the seven dwarfs that were finally used.
Hotcakes
Both Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince set records as the fastest-selling books in history.
American Idols
The “most admired people of the 20th century,” compiled by the Gallup Organization:
- Mother Teresa
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- John F. Kennedy
- Albert Einstein
- Helen Keller
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Billy Graham
- Pope John Paul II
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Winston Churchill
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Nelson Mandela
- Ronald Reagan
- Henry Ford
- Bill Clinton
- Margaret Thatcher
Duck!
Famous people who have been hit with pies:
- Pat Buchanan, politician and columnist (hit with a salad)
- Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, monarch
- Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and chairman
- Jean-Luc Godard, filmmaker
- Calvin Klein, clothing designer
- Helmut Kohl, former chancellor of Germany
- Ralph Nader, American Green party politician
- Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer
- William Shatner, then-Star Trek star
- Jeffrey Skilling, Enron CEO
- Sylvester Stallone, action movie star
- Andy Warhol, artist
Zzz
Giraffes sleep only two hours a day.
Little Women
Heights of famous females:
- Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist, 4 feet 7 inches
- Linda Hunt, actress, 4 feet 9 inches
- Charlotte Brontë, novelist, 4 feet 10 inches
- Tammy Faye Bakker, televangelist, 4 feet 11 inches
- Barbara Boxer, U.S. senator, 4 feet 11 inches
- Dorothy Parker, author, 4 feet 11 inches
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, author, 4 feet 11 inches
- Lil’ Kim, rapper, 4 feet 11 in
- Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State, 5 feet
- Gracie Allen, actress, 5 feet
- Kylie Minogue, musician, 5 feet
- Dolly Parton, actress and muscian, 5 feet
- Mary Pickford, actress, 5 feet
- Mother Teresa, Roman Catholic nun, 5 feet
- Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, 5 feet
- Mae West, actress, 5 feet
Medic!
What do these writers have in common?
- Ernest Hemingway
- John Dos Passos
- e.e. cummings
- Somerset Maugham
- John Masefield
- Malcolm Cowley
- Sidney Howard
- Robert Service
- Louis Bromfield
- Harry Crosby
- Julian Green
- Dashiell Hammett
- William Seabrook
- Robert Hillyer
- John Howard Lawson
- William Slater Brown
- Charles Nordhoff
- Sir Hugh Walpole
- Desmond MacCarthy
- Russell Davenport
- Edward Weeks
- C. Leroy Baldridge
- Samuel Chamberlain
All drove ambulances during World War I.