National Trivia Day

Mount Whitney, which is just above my house, is 14,495 feet. It's the highest peak in the lower 48 states.

 

Joe Jackson is the franchise leader in career average for the Cleveland Indians (.375) and Chicago White Sox (.340).

 

Who caught the final out in Game 7 of the 1985 World Series?

 

For more than 10 years I worked for one of co-inventors of Trivial Pursuit. (He remains a friend, or I guess as friendly as a bum like me could be with a guy with that much cash.) He told me the first question ever written for TP was a geography question about the Ginza.

 

Did you ever ask him about the Moops?


Sammy Haggar wrote the Rick Springfield song 'I've Done Everything for You.'

 

There is a fish that survives dangers by hiding in the anus of a sea cucumber. The fish is called the Pearl Fish.

(I am going to get one of those fish and call him Buck)

 

If you divide 1 by 998,001 you get all three digit numbers from 000 to 999 in order

 

Marven Gardens is not a street and it is not in Atlantic City.
It is a section of Margate, two towns south of Atlantic City on Absecon Island.
It is spelled 'Marven,' not 'Marvin.'

 

In Walter Johnson's last game of his career, he didn't pitch. Instead, he was a pinch-hitter for pitcher Tom Zachary, who earlier in the game, gave up Babe Ruth's 60th home run of 1927.

 

Barry Bonds, Mel Ott and Dusty Baker - Since 1918, these three are the only hitters to have a certain single-game feat more than once in their careers.

Only 56 other players have even done it once.

5 PA and no at-bats

 

Duck Commander Phil Robertson was the starting QB for LA Tech before Terry Bradshaw.

 

Wade Boggs was born with both a penis and a vagina