John Bernhisel

Questions:

1. How many golf balls are on the Moon?

2. The Mississippi River has an average outflow of approximately 593,000 CFS. What do the letters CFS stand for? 

3. Name the 729-foot freighter that sank during a fierce storm on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975.

4. What are the actual dimensions of a standard 2-by-4 piece of lumber?

5. What is the difference between a coffin and a casket?

Fun Facts:

More than 2,000 nuclear explosions have occurred since the first atomic bomb test in 1945.

There is a point in the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo that is farther from land than anywhere else on Earth. It is approximately 1,670 miles from the nearest land. When the International Space Station passes overhead, its astronauts may be the closest humans, a few hundred miles overhead.

Atlanta, Georgia, is farther west than Detroit, Michigan.

On some low Pacific atolls, thick giant-clam shells were once the hardest materials available. Islanders shaped them into sharp knives and axes, using the tools to cut wood and help hollow out canoes. 

Dum Dums’ mystery flavor is created when one flavor batch transitions into another without completely cleaning the candy-making equipment. The two flavors blend together, creating an ever-changing mystery combination wrapped in paper decorated with question marks.

At the 1863 dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg, renowned orator Edward Everett delivered the keynote address, speaking for about two hours. President Abraham Lincoln followed with his 272-word Gettysburg Address, which took about two minutes.  

Despite a persistent myth, there is no reliable evidence that more Vietnam War veterans died by suicide than American service members killed during the war. 

Harvard University is 140 years older than the United States of America.

Harriet Tubman, the famous Underground Railroad conductor, died in 1913, the same year civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born.

Answers:

1. Two. (Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard hit both golf balls on the Moon on Feb. 6, 1971. )

2. CFS stands for cubic feet per second 

3. The SS Edmund Fitzgerald. (All 29 crew members died when the freighter sank. We probably know about it most from the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot.)

4. 1½ inches by 3½ inches. 

5. A traditional coffin is six-sided, wider at the shoulders and narrower at the head and feet. A casket is generally rectangular.

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