What is Vondervotteimittiss? - Page 2© Sandra Linville
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Mar 15, 2002
If you don't read this book, you might not discover such things as the answer to: "From what animal's milk is genuine mozzarella cheese produced?" The answer: water buffalo.
The following excerpts from the book are a mere handful of the multitude of facts in the book. Among the many facts are also definitions of words and since that’s our focus here, the following cited book examples will include these definitions:
- 2 - Agent number of Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) in the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- 12 - Number of astronauts (all Americans) who have walked on the moon.
- The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death - Alternate title of the Kurt Vonnegut novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
- ferrule - Technical term for the metal band that attaches an eraser to a pencil.
- Funk, Casimir - Polish biochemist who coined the word “vitamin” in 1911.
- Mind Over Matrimony - Working title of the latest book of Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) in the film Arsenic and Old Lace.
- “Mind Your Business” - Motto on the first officially sanctioned U.S. coins, pennies that were mined in 1787.
- pourvoir hydrogene - French term, meaning “power of hydrogen,” from which “pH” is derived; pH measures the concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution, on a 0-14 scale.
- Shazam - Magic word that changes Billy Batson into Captain Marvel. The letters in “Shazam” stand for: The wisdom of Solomon; The strength of Hercules; The stamina of Atlas; The power of Zeus; The courage of Achilles; The speed of Mercury
- Vondervotteimittiss - Dutch borough that is the setting of the Edgar Allan Poe short story “The Peril in the Belfry.”
- Z.O.W.I.E. - Acronym for Zonal Organization World Intelligence Espionage, employer of secret agent Derek Flint (James Coburn) in the film Our Man Flint.
10,000 Answers: The Ultimate Trivia Encyclopedia
by Stanley Newman and Hal Fittipaldi
Random House Reference
New York
2001
ISBN: 0-375-71944-X
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