A kicky, sassy way to learn about incredible women and their amazing accomplishments, The Ladies' Room Reader Quiz Book offers thousands of bits of trivia around the lives and work of women, including:SenatorsRock starsCooksSports heroesNobel LaureatesThe book offers many different kinds of brain-teasing quizzes, fill in the blank, matching, true or false, multiple choice, and more. (Answers are provided with accompanying explanations in th ...
Fifty-seven percent of women would rather shop than have sex. Jodie Foster was born Ariane Munker, and Lauren Bacall, Betty Joan Perske. Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery, both nominated for Best Supporting Actress Oscars for The Color Purple, were the first two African-American women nominated in the same year for the same category. At the height of her popularity, screen star Betty Grable had her legs insured for ,000 – a modest sum compared to ...
"Home," writes Susannah Seton. «There are few words that carry such potent feelings. It's the place where we can let down our hair, loosen our clothes, put our feet up. It's where those we love most share in the ordinariness and extraordinariness of our days. It's the place many of us spend lifetimes trying to get back to. As the proverb goes, it's where our hearts are. Simple Pleasures of the Home is for everyone who ha ...
From devastating remarks made by teachers («Addled, backward dunce» said about young Thomas Edison) to the rich and famous on campus (William Randolph Hearst kept a pet alligator at Harvard), this is a spirited and humorous collection of facts about teachers and students. ...
Every little fact cat lovers could want to know about the mysterious creatures that live in their homes is contained in this collection. For example, cats use at least a hundred different sounds to communicate and can pronounce thirteen vowel sounds and seven or eight consonant sounds; housecats typically blink twice a minute; and in ancient Egypt, the penalty for killing a cat was death! ...
What is it about the game of golf that can cause otherwise normal folks to lose all perspective? More than one person has seen their loved one become consumed with the details of the quality of wood used in clubs, or the type of cleats on their shoes. What is it about the game of golf that can cause otherwise normal folks to lose all perspective? More than one person has seen their loved one become consumed with the details of the quality of woo ...
We are all fascinated by the legal system and the people behind it. With Dracula Was a Lawyer, trivia experts Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo explore lawyers we love to hate (until we need one!), the pitfalls in our legal system, celebrity lawyers, and more. This compendium puts lawyers and legal history on trial and exposes over 500 outrageous oddities from the wild world of law. ...
Useless Facts and Funny Trivia for Women "Women's matters are anything but trivial." –Anon (who was a woman) Fun facts. Women outnumber men by five to one in shoplifting convictions. The very first Artichoke Queen was Marilyn Monroe in 1947. Diamonds didn’t become a girl’s best friend until the thirteenth century. Before that, they were for men only. The first human cannonball was a woman named Zazel, who was launched into ...
In Green Homekeeping, author and green pioneer Alice Alvrez details how to be both environmental and economical at home without going mad. Going green is more than a philosophy on a bumper sticker. It’s not only good for our planet, it’s good for your checkbook. Taking her experiences from living off the grid in the outskirts of Canada, this eco activist author breaks down all the simple and clean ways you can live an earth-conscious life. ...
