Category: Trivia

 I took a 12 question survey by Time Magazine that predicted my politics.  I came out as 85% Conservative and 15% Liberal.  

The 85% Conservative rating surprised me. I know it will shock my buddy, John Beatty who thinks I’m a full blown liberal.  I would have guessed that I’d be rated about 50-50 because that’s how this types of surveys usually score me.

What do you know?  I’m a conservative.  Don’t argue with me about it.  Conservatives are always right.

According to Professor Kevin Dutton…

Psychopathy is a condition that causes people to display anti-social behaviour, lack of empathy and remorse, and fearless dominance.  Everyone has these characteristics to some degree – take the test and find out where you sit on the spectrum.

I took the test and think the results are pretty accurate. The good news is that I didn’t rate all that high on the spectrum scale.  The even better news is that my wife rated lower than me.  Whew!  Who wants to live with a psycho?

If you’d like to find out where you fall on the psychopathic spectrum, you can here.

We’re about six hours out from the new year.  I hope that 2013 was good for you and yours and that 2014 will be even better.

I’ve been chilling out with The Twilight Zone marathon on Syfy, but tradition will hold and we will flip over long enough to see the countdown from Times Square at midnight.  If seeing the new year in by watching the ball drop is one of your traditions you’ll probably get a kick out  of 12 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About New Year’s Eve in Times Square.

See ya next year!

Source: Buzzfeed.

The map above is the result of me answering 25 questions about how I pronounce words.  I guess I’ve retained a midwest accent despite living in Florida for over 40 years.

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from?  Take this quiz and you’ll know!

Source: New York Times.

What you’re looking at  [if you’re looking at the photo above] is what scientists believe to be is the only meteorite from Mercury on our planet.

How can they tell? The rock’s magnetism matches that of Mercury perfectly. It also has high amounts of magnesium and chromium but a low amount of iron, which is apparently what scientists would expect from a chip off of Mercury.

Don’t you love stuff like this?

Source: Neatorama.

It is one of our oldest mysteries…

It’s a mystery that has intrigued Americans for centuries: What happened to the lost colonists of North Carolina’s Roanoke Island?…

The settlers, who arrived in 1587, disappeared in 1590, leaving behind only two clues: the words “Croatoan” carved into a fort’s gatepost and “Cro” etched into a tree.

 Theories about the disappearance have ranged from an annihilating disease to a violent rampage by local Native American tribes. Previous digs have turned up some information and artifacts from the original colonists but very little about what happened to them.

Until now…

You can read the full article at National Geographic: Have We Found the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island?

If you check out 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Apollo Moon Landings, you’ll learn…

• Why all the American flags left on the moon are now colorless.

• Which Apollo astronaut conduced unauthorized ESP experiments.

• Which Apollo astronaut cried while on the moon and why.

• Which Apollo astronaut violated NASA rules and celebrated communion on the moon.

• What the first words spoken on the moon may have been… and it wasn’t “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

• What the moon smells like.

• The records set by Apollo 11.

• Which lunar module pilot actually got to pilot the lunar module.

• What sculpture was left on the moon and why it was left.

• Why a geologist was finally sent to the moon.

Source: Listverse.

What is the furthest one human being has ever been from every other living person?

That’s an interesting question.  My first thought was, it had to be an astronaut.  Although that’s probably the right answer, it may not be!  It’s definitely not the only reasonable answer.

Randall Monroe explains why when he answers Bryan J. McCarter’s question in Monroe’s weekly blog, What If?

Source: What If  and  Neatorama.

Buzzfeed has 18 Tips to Make Your Day at DisneyLand Magical.