Top Rated Trivia

Title	Teaser	Author	Views	Rating
19th Century whale oil industry & the economics of oil	Rocky Mountain Institute CEO Amory Lovins: "In 1850, the fifth-biggest industry in our country was whaling, and most...	root	70
A brief history of Censorship in America	Seven years after the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791, Congress enacted the Sedition Act [1798] making it a crime...	root	160
A hugging epidemic?	Nara Schoenberg (The Chicago Tribune): "Beyond all the hand-wringing over the so-called hugging ban at [a Chicago-area]	root	67
A human life in numbers	Life expectancy – 78.5 years or 2,475,576,000 seconds Words Spoken in Lifetime - 123,205,750 Friendships –...	root	107
A mother's stress may affect her child's sex	A boy or a girl? That is usually the first question asked when a woman gives birth. Remarkably, the answer varies with...	root	138
A Poltergeist Curse?	Shortly after filming wrapped on Poltergeist (1982), Dominique Dunn, who played Dana Freeling in the film, was murdered by...	Anonymous	81
Afghanistania?	Afghanistan is the only nation on earth whose name begins with an "A" but doesn`t end with one.	root	68
AI & comatose patients	Studies show that loved ones accurately predict a comatose patient`s wishes only about 68 per cent of the time. So,...	root	55
Alexander Graham Bell vs Thomas Edison - telephone greetings	When the telephone appeared in the 1870s, people worried about receiving calls from people to whom they had not been properly...	root	73
America's Climate Security Act includes something for everyone	John Warner and the bill`s co-author, Joe Lieberman, an estranged Democrat, have included something for almost everyone...	root	58