Author: Evelyn Beresford
Step 1 : Introduction to the question “The “Y” in the company name Yahoo! stands for which of these words?” …The word “yahoo” is a backronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”. The term “hierarchical” described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories. The term “oracle” was intended to mean “source of truth and wisdom”, and the term “officious”, rather than being related to the word’s normal meaning, described the office workers who would use the Yahoo database while surfing from work. Yahoo! was founded by Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994 and was one…
Step 1 : Introduction to the question “What state’s tourism slogan used to be “Fresh Air and Fond Memories Served Daily”? ” …1. Maine 2. California 3. Colorado 4. Vermont Step 2 : Answer to the question “What state’s tourism slogan used to be “Fresh Air and Fond Memories Served Daily”? ” Colorado – From dramatic river canyons to the snow-capped Rocky Mountains, it’s no secret that Colorado offers scenery in spades. The state is home to no fewer than four national parks, 13 national forests, and thousand-year-old Native American sites that reveal fascinating history. Still, the Centennial State has used a variety of promotional…
Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Robert Morris University was the first college in America to offer scholarships for what?” All those long nights staying up till 3 a.m. to play video games can now finally pay off… literally. There are quite a few scholarships for gamers who are looking to pay for college. Commonly referred to as eSports, the activity consists of organized video game competitions. Robert Morris University was the first college in the United States to offer video gaming scholarships, where students can earn up to $19,000 a year in gaming scholarships. The school says it also wanted…
Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Which of these classic books is the longest?” …War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It is regarded as a central work of world literature and one of Tolstoy’s finest literary achievements. Tolstoy’s historical novel on the Napoleonic invasion of Russia has become a byword for long books. War and Peace has 587,287 words with 1,215 pages. Tolstoy completed his first draft in 1863, but he later spent three years rewriting most of it. In comparison, J. R. R. Tolkien managed to write his classic The Lord of the Rings…
Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Which of these states does NOT contain an Ivy League school?” …The Ivy League is comprised of eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The Ivy League is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group. The eight institutions are Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Brown University in Rhode Island, Columbia University in New York, Cornell University in New York, Harvard University in Massachusetts, Princeton University in New Jersey, Yale University in Connecticut. and the University of Pennsylvania. Step 2 : Answer to the question “Which of these…
Step 1 : Introduction to the question “What do Paul Revere, J. Edgar Hoover and Betsy Ross all have in common?” …Some of our favorite historical figures were born on the first day of the year. Paul Revere, J. Edgar Hoover, and Betsy Ross all made their entrance into this world on January 1st. Tradition states that babies born on this day live the luckiest of lives. These babies supposedly bring joy and good fortune to everyone around them. The iconic “baby new year” personifies this association of good luck in the New Year. This tradition began in ancient Greece with an…
Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Martin Luther King Jr. has received all the following honors, except one. Which did he NOT receive?” Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. His life and work have been honored with a national holiday, public buildings named after him, and a memorial in Washington, D.C. At age 35, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1977, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom by…
Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Whose grave is widely said to carry a curse against whoever disturbs it?” …William Shakespeare is buried in Holy Trinity Church in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. Apparently, Shakespeare had an unusual obsession with burial and a fear of exhumation. Those visiting his tomb, will notice a sign on his grave that is believed to be penned by William Shakespeare himself. The inscription is in fact, a curse that reads: “Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be…
Step 1 : Introduction to the question “Which celestial body was named by an 11-year-old schoolgirl?” …Venetia Burney was only 11-years-old when her grandfather revealed the finding of a new planet to her over breakfast one morning. A newspaper article mentioned that the newly discovered planet had not yet been named, prompting Venetia to suggest her own. Fascinated by both astronomy and classical mythology, Venetia came up with the name Pluto. Her grandfather, a retired librarian at the University of Oxford, forwarded the name to an Oxford astronomy professor, who sent a telegram to the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff,Arizona, where the planet…
Step 1 : Introduction to the question “What happened in the year written MCMLXIX?” …Roman numerals, the numeric system of ancient Rome, uses combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet to signify values. They are composed of seven Latin letters. They are, in this order, from lowest to highest: I (one), V (five), X (ten), L (fifty), C (one hundred), D (five hundred), and M (one thousand). The United States’ Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on July 20, 1969. To convert 1969 to Roman Numerals you need to split it up into place values (ones,…