The new trivia thread.

How many years did the pony express last?

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Answer :

The Pony Express only lasted 18 months. Riding 20kms at full speed wore out too many horses and gave the riders a sore ass.
 
What are the origins of whistling Dixie?

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Dixie was a Confederate cannon in the American Civil War. Not to be confused with the song Dixie Land. The reasn the cannon was names Whistling Dixie was because it made a whistling sound when it was shot.

 
Not true. there are shorter panagrams such as "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz". These two sentences are used for the text display at different point sizes in a .ttf or .otf font file. The sentence displayed will vary, depending on which font making software is used.

The most commonly used French panagram is "Portez ce vieux whiskey au juge blond qui fume".
Sounds to me like you know from whence you speak. I stand corrected.
 
Sounds to me like you know from whence you speak. I stand corrected.

Some more interesting panagrams:

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

My jocks box, get hard, unzip, quiver, flow.

Bright vixens jump; dozy fowl quack.

Few quips galvanized the mock jury box.

Boxers had zap of gay jock love, quit women.

A wizard's job is to vex chumps quickly in fog.

Watch "Jeopardy!", Alex Trebek's fun TV quiz game.

By Jove, my quick study of lexicography won a prize.

"Who am taking the ebonics quiz?", the prof jovially axed.

Cute, kind, jovial, foxy physique, amazing beauty. Wowser!
 
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The United States has five percent of the world's population, but (_______)%of the world's prison population.
 
What is this animal and what is unique about it?

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How did the Snickers bar get its name?

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What is unique about bed bug reproduction?

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When early settlers took a voyage from Europe to the new world in what is now the U.S. or to New France ( Canada ), what would be the most common liquid they would have had to drink on the long Atlantic voyage that could have lasted 8 to 10 weeks on the Ocean.

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Sea travelers in the 17th. century drank beer or ale during the voyage. Clear water taste pretty bad when in a barrel for more than a week.

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