177 Sunny Trivia

Marcia Smith 0:00
What is the rarest shot in golf?

Bob Smith 0:02
The rarest shot in golf, and what vegetable is actually an immature flower harvested on purpose prematurely?

Marcia Smith 0:13
Have I called you that?

Bob Smith 0:15
Answers to those and other questions coming up on this episode of the off ramp with Bob

Marcia Smith 0:20
and Marcia Smith.

Bob Smith 0:37
Welcome to the off ramp. A chance to slow down, steer clear of crazy and take a side road to sanity. Now, I don’t think you ever did call me an immature flower. Marsha, did I ever call you that an immature flower? A snowflake, maybe, but not an immature flower, correct? That’s correct. So what vegetable is actually an immature flower that’s harvested prematurely, on purpose, I’ll give you a clue. This is not one of your favorite foods.

Marcia Smith 1:05
Oh, is it broccoli?

Bob Smith 1:07
That’s what it is. I just saw this the other day on britannica.com broccoli is an immature flower that is harvested before it blooms. Now, if you leave it unharvested, each green bud typically produces four yellow petals. How about that? But for eating purposes, it’s harvested before it gets to the flower stage. Okay,

Marcia Smith 1:28
I didn’t know that. I would have guessed cauliflower, because it’s little flower. It

Bob Smith 1:34
looks like a flower a little bit, yeah,

Marcia Smith 1:35
but no, it’s it’s broccoli. It’s

Bob Smith 1:38
actually an immature flower. So you could call somebody that you immature flower you’re talking about, you’re calling them a broccoli.

Unknown Speaker 1:44
Who is it? George Bush, yes,

Bob Smith 1:47
did like broccoli? Not gonna eat it. No way.

Marcia Smith 1:49
No way. That’s it. Very good. Bobby, all right, so what do you think is the rarest shot in golf?

Bob Smith 1:56
The rarest shot in golf? I always assumed it was, well, a hole in one,

Marcia Smith 2:02
that’s true in a matter of speaking, it is. But this shot is called the Condor, also known as a triple Eagle. That

Bob Smith 2:10
sounds dangerous, threatening,

Marcia Smith 2:12
and it means getting your ball in the hole on a very, very long fairway in one or two strokes. Okay, for perspective, Bob, the odds of getting a hole in one usually on a par three are 12,000 to one. Yeah, so you’re right. It’s rare. So what’s the chance of this 6 million to one? Oh,

Bob Smith 2:31
my goodness, that is difficult. Yeah, it’s

Marcia Smith 2:34
usually on a par five or more. Anyway, you notice how the birds get bigger the harder the shot? Birdie, Eagle, Albatross, that’s a double eagle, and then the condor is a triple Eagle.

Bob Smith 2:45
Speaking of Albatross, I have a question on that coming. Okay, I

Unknown Speaker 2:50
can’t wait. Hey, Marcia, we

Bob Smith 2:52
know that redwood trees can reach towering heights. Yes. How tall is the world’s tallest pine tree? And where is it?

Marcia Smith 3:00
I’ll say Montana, and then I’ll say 200 feet. Well,

Bob Smith 3:04
it’s more than that, actually, and it’s in the state of Oregon. It’s a ponderosa pine that’s the most common pine species in North America. They’re easy to spot in the wild because they have orange colored bark. It makes them stand out. Oh, really. But one really stands out in the Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon. It’s a nickname phalanx, spelled P, H, A, l, a, n, x. That’s the term used for strength, as in bone or finger phalanx. Okay, and it is this tall as a 30 story building. It is 298 feet tall. Isn’t that amazing? Yes. Now that’s in good company because it’s surrounded by other ponderosa pines that are also over 250, feet tall. Ponderosa Pine, a ponderosa pine the phalanx is the name of it, and it’s the tallest pine in the world,

Marcia Smith 3:53
Bob. How do dolphins protect themselves while asleep? How do

Bob Smith 3:57
they protect themselves while asleep? Uh huh, they have alarm systems. Let’s see little

Marcia Smith 4:03
time. They have their phone.

Bob Smith 4:04
They have phones. I don’t know. What do they do?

Marcia Smith 4:08
They have something known as uni hemispheric, slow wave sleep, wow, in which only half their brain sleeps at a time while the other half remains awake at a low level of alertness. Oh, no kidding, yeah, dolphins typically float motionless or swim near the water’s surface when in this state, and while people and dolphins have very different slumbering habits, this is interesting, dolphins get four hours of sleep from each side of their brain in a 24 hour period. So they get the typical eight hours of shut eye that human beings sketch. Okay? They do it twice. They

Bob Smith 4:44
do it in two different shifts. Yeah, half

Marcia Smith 4:46
their brain at one time, and the other half later today. I think I’ll start with this part of the brain. That’s weird, isn’t it

Bob Smith 4:53
interesting? Okay, Marcia, I’ve got a nature question. How old is the oldest wild. Bird in the world.

Marcia Smith 5:01
How old is the oldest? They

Bob Smith 5:03
even have a name for this bird,

Marcia Smith 5:05
the old bird. She’s

Bob Smith 5:06
an old bird, yes, the oldest wild bird in the world. How old you think it is? It’s still alive, still alive. And they know this because it’s been banded. Oh, okay, I

Marcia Smith 5:16
was gonna say, I was gonna ask, here’s her name. Her

Bob Smith 5:18
name is wisdom. She just became a grandmother again. Is it an owl? No, not an owl.

Marcia Smith 5:24
Is it a Eagle? No, it’s

Bob Smith 5:26
not an eagle.

Marcia Smith 5:27
I don’t know. Okay, it’s

Bob Smith 5:29
an albatross. Oh, really, yeah, an albatross. And she’s been coming to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge near the Battle of Midway, national memorial in the Pacific Ocean, since the Eisenhower administration. Oh, my God. 71 years old. She still flies. She still looks amazingly beautiful from the pictures I’ve seen. Doesn’t look like an old bird, so to speak. She was first banded in 1956 when she laid an egg at Midway. And because female license albatrosses don’t generally breed before the age of five, that’s when they determined, well, she must have been born about 1951 at least five. Now the albatross has returned to Midway every year to lay eggs, and wisdom has been coming back again and again and again over the decades. This year, scientists knew that she’d become a grandmother again because they discovered a grand chick under another banded offspring, one of wisdom’s children that was born in 2011 so they have banded birds. Three generations are alive and well in the spring of 2023 on Midway, with wisdom being 71 the oldest known wild bird in the world, alright?

Marcia Smith 6:36
And one more on dolphins, okay. How many stomachs do they have?

Bob Smith 6:40
Wow, I never thought of that. Yeah. So they must have at least two. I’ll say two. Marsh, yeah.

Marcia Smith 6:45
No. Three. Three stomachs. Why

Bob Smith 6:47
do they need three?

Marcia Smith 6:48
Well, the stomach in front is primarily used to store the food. The main stomach is where the majority of digestion takes place, and the pyloric chamber completes digestion and regulates passage into the small intestine. Each one has a function. This streamlined process supports the bottle nose. Dolphins Average Daily Intake of 25 to 50 pounds of fish, squid and crustaceans. Wow.

Bob Smith 7:13
25 to 50 pounds a dolphin eats every day. Yeah. Holy cow. Of fish. And I thought dogs were expensive to keep.

Marcia Smith 7:24
We’re not getting one Bob.

Bob Smith 7:25
I want a dolphin. Yeah, wow. All right, Marcia, it’s baseball season, and back in 1910 President William Howard Taft became the first US president to throw the first pitch on opening day of Major League Baseball. Since 1910 all but three US presidents have thrown out the first ball to start the season. What presidents have not thrown a ball out to start the baseball season? The three presidents that did not, they’re all within your lifespan. Really, they’re all within the last 50 years.

Marcia Smith 7:55
Okay? I’ll say Donald Trump didn’t.

Bob Smith 7:57
That’s right, that’s one. I’ll say Joe Biden didn’t Joe Biden hasn’t either. That’s two and one more President did not throw a ball out to start any of the baseball games during his presidency.

Marcia Smith 8:09
Jimmy Carter,

Bob Smith 8:10
THAT’S RIGHT. Jimmy Carter, I’ve got time to throw out the ball. So Jimmy Carter didn’t do it. Donald Trump didn’t do it, and Joe Biden hasn’t done it. Okay, but every other president since 1910 has thrown out the ball, the first ball for Major League Baseball. Okay,

Marcia Smith 8:24
what animal has the largest eyes?

Bob Smith 8:29
The animal with the largest eyes, I would think it would be the blue whale. Ah, no, huge eyes. That animal has

Marcia Smith 8:36
huge eyes. But this one is colossal. Okay?

Bob Smith 8:39
Colossal animal with eyes.

Marcia Smith 8:42
It’s the colossal squid. Oh, the human eye. Our eyes Bob measure about two thirds of an inch across at birth before growing to full size of one inch by adulthood. That’s

Bob Smith 8:55
amazing. That’s all the bigger our eyes get. Yeah, one inch an inch, okay,

Marcia Smith 8:59
by comparison, the eye of the 45 foot long colossal squid has been measured at 11 inches in diameter. Whoa,

Bob Smith 9:07
that’s a big eye. That’s about the size of an LP record 11 inches in diameter. Yeah, wow.

Marcia Smith 9:14
It’s the largest such organ in the animal kingdom, and is possibly the largest in history of recorded life, geez,

Bob Smith 9:21
wow. 11 inches in diameter. That is a big eye. Your dad used to call you big eyes when you would order too much food in a restaurant and

Marcia Smith 9:29
couldn’t eat it. Yes,

Bob Smith 9:30
you still have big eyes, don’t you? Okay? Marcia, what is the defense of Fort McHenry, this is a work of art that was done back in 1814,

Marcia Smith 9:44
what is the question, the

Bob Smith 9:45
defense of Fort McHenry? Yeah, what? This is a poem you’ve recited your entire life. What is it also known as, oh, oh, the Star Spangled Banner. Oh, really, it was originally a poem called the defense of Fort McHenry. Now, who changed? Changed the name to The Star Spangled Banner. Who a music store? Somebody who had to advertise their wares a music store because Francis Scott Key published his poem the defense of Fort McHenry with instructions that be sung to the melody of an actreon in heaven. That’s the tune we sing to this day. It was a drinking song in England, okay, uh huh. The first public performance of the song was the holiday Street Theater in Baltimore, October 19, 1814, and a music store changed the title. They published the words in music under the title The Star Spangled Banner, taking the Lyric, Oh say, does that star spangled banner wave something in the lyrics here we can use better than defense of Fort McHenry, so they found it in the lyrics.

Marcia Smith 10:44
Well, that that is smart, because you’re right. Who’d buy that one

Bob Smith 10:47
isn’t that interesting, all right. Now I said an acre on I said it’s a drinking song, uh huh. It was a song from the British gentlemen’s club, the anacrionic society, and that was named after a Greek poet renowned for his drinking songs and odes to love. So that’s where that comes from. We always hear our drinking song. We think of kind of a lower class thing. All our Star Spangled Banner is just a drinking song. It was a drinking song of a high society class of gentlemen in England.

Marcia Smith 11:15
I remember that. Okay, all right. Bob, the human race once believed that giant human beings once roamed the earth instead of dinosaurs. Okay, when did that change?

Bob Smith 11:25
When did the dinosaurs roam the earth? No. Or When did people think it

Marcia Smith 11:31
was different? When they found bones, they thought, my God, these are that is only

Bob Smith 11:34
about 200 years ago, I think, wasn’t it? Ah,

Marcia Smith 11:38
you’re absolutely right. Yeah, 1820

Bob Smith 11:41
before that, nobody knew about dinosaurs. No,

Marcia Smith 11:44
no. The birth of the United States dates back a little more than 245, years, but a lot has happened since then. One of the big paleontological updates, for example, is the discovery of dinosaurs. The first Dino fossil was discovered in 1677 but they thought it was a really large human,

Bob Smith 12:03
a large human, yeah, oh, my goodness, he only found a portion of a Yeah. But

Marcia Smith 12:10
still, they thought that belonged to some ancient race of giant humans, no kidding, and certainly they had no concept of a dinosaur. And it wasn’t until the 1820s when geologists in England uncovered more Megalosaurus fossils as well as other fossils, they correctly identified the remains as belonging to some giant extinct animal. Yeah.

Bob Smith 12:34
See, that’s why dinosaurs was there was such fascination with them at the turn of the 20th century, because it was a relatively new concept. Yeah. And then Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, you know, his novel about the lost world. And then there was actually dinosaurs were in silent films and, you know, stop acts and stuff, yeah, it was

Marcia Smith 12:50
a revelation. There were huge animals, you know, roaming the earth. And put it in perspective, it means that George Washington and most of our founding fathers didn’t know anything about dinosaurs, and pretty much believed that in ancient race, human giants roam the earth. You know,

Bob Smith 13:08
it’s funny when you think about it, I bet, as there was in all kinds of nude scientific discoveries, there were religious controversies about, Oh, what’s this? This isn’t in the Bible. This can’t be true. You know, there’s all that kind of stuff. Very interesting. Okay, let’s take a break. We’ll be back in just a moment. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith, we’re back. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith, we do this show every week for the Cedarburg Public Library, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, which has one of the only internet radio stations in a library in the United States, and then after it goes out over the library on Monday nights, it goes on podcast platforms all over the world. So speaking of all over the world, this is a couple who’ve been all over the world because they’re both in the Air Force. The lady’s name is Major Lauren ohm, O, L, M, E. She’s an Air Force pilot and Assistant Director of Operations 77th weapons Squadron, a leader and a wife, and she’s making history. Do you have any idea how she’s making history?

Marcia Smith 14:11
She is making history now,

Unknown Speaker 14:13
yes.

Marcia Smith 14:14
Is she going to be the first woman to do one of those private astronaut things? No, I don’t know what she

Bob Smith 14:21
is making history as one of the first service members to fly a supersonic aircraft while pregnant. Oh, my

Marcia Smith 14:29
God.

Bob Smith 14:30
Can you imagine that? No, I cannot baby do this year to expect to be one of the first babies in the Department of Defense to clock 9.2 hours in a supersonic aircraft as she flies the supersonic b1 Lancer plane, she continued flying into her second trimester at 22 weeks, with support from her medical team and her husband. Major mark on who’s also in the Air Force. So they’re both majors. They’re both air force pilots, and she has been flying while pregnant.

Marcia Smith 14:56
Now that’s a major deal.

Bob Smith 14:58
That is a major deal by a. Major in the Air Force. That’s

Marcia Smith 15:01
right. Okay. Thought

Bob Smith 15:02
that was fun.

Marcia Smith 15:03
Now I have a question for you. Bob from a listener, Ginny OSS in Louisville, Kentucky.

Unknown Speaker 15:08
Oh, great. Okay, okay.

Marcia Smith 15:09
She wanted me to ask you. This

Bob Smith 15:11
came on our website, then, yeah, okay,

Marcia Smith 15:13
which group which wrote and performed songs from the 1950s on is tied with the Beatles for the most consecutive number one singles on the Billboard charts. Wow.

Speaker 1 15:26
That group from the late 1950s on, okay, tied with the Beatles. Wow, that’s a good question. Yeah, and they’re tied with the Beatles on the most consecutive number one hits. Is that what she said? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 15:37
yeah, yeah.

Bob Smith 15:38
Oh my goodness. Now that that’s a puzzle for me. Good.

Marcia Smith 15:41
Thank you. Ginny,

Bob Smith 15:43
well, wait a minute, what’s the answer? Don’t we want to know the answer? No, I’ve just another pop it’s another pop group. Yeah? Certainly

Marcia Smith 15:50
one. You know, we

Bob Smith 15:51
all know, are they? Were they a Motown group or something like that? Yeah, okay,

Marcia Smith 15:55
let’s see, far from Motown. They

Bob Smith 15:57
were not the Beach Boys.

Marcia Smith 15:59
No, okay, who Bee Gees disco? Oh, no kidding, yep. And they had six songs. Can you name any of them? Oh, yeah, sure. That were consecutively number one. Well, they

Bob Smith 16:10
had all those hits during the disco era. That’s what they were, yeah. But these

Marcia Smith 16:14
were all in a row. Okay, what were they? How deep is your love? Oh, yeah. Night Fever, staying alive. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? Jive Talking and too much heaven.

Bob Smith 16:24
Those are all such great songs.

Marcia Smith 16:27
I don’t know the last two. Jive Talking.

What’s too much hell.

Bob Smith 16:34
You know it has a little thing in there, in the middle goes, All right. Okay, wow. So the question again, read the question again, okay,

Marcia Smith 16:44
which group which wrote and performed songs from the 1950s on is tied with the Beatles for the most consecutive number one singles on the Billboard charts?

Bob Smith 16:55
Well, that’s the Bee Gees. All right. You know, I miss the word consecutive, because that’s what the key is here. Remember the Beatles had the number one through five or one through six positions on the Billboard charts back in the mid 60s? Well, that same thing happened in the mid 70s. It was Bee Gees Bee Gees Bee Gees Bee Gees because all of those movies came out use their music. You know, that’s funny. You said from the 50s on, it. People say, I don’t remember them, but that’s because they were, like, from Australia at first, you know. And then they moved to England, and they were a little British pop duo, you know, first. Oh, really, yeah. I think it was only two of the brothers at first. And they did, there was, like, a mining disaster song that was big that they did in 1964 I remember that. And then they kind of disappeared to most people’s minds. And then boom, in the 70s, man, they were there with all those disco songs and and the late 60s, they had hits. Yeah, amazing. Yeah. Six in a row. Number one, the Gibb brothers. Barry Gibb and the Gibb brothers, well, that was good. Thanks, Jenny. That was a great question. And I love the way she couched that they’ve been performing since the late 50s on that’s what threw me off. I thought, well, who was you

Speaker 2 18:00
think of, like the four aces, yeah, but it was accurate, yeah. Okay, great, great

Bob Smith 18:06
question. All right, Marcia, who was the first woman elected to Congress? And when was that? What state did she represent?

Marcia Smith 18:16
First woman elected, first woman

Bob Smith 18:18
elected to Congress. When was that and what state? 1960 No, 50s, no, long time before that. Oh, 30s. Was

Marcia Smith 18:28
it like Mitchell, 1916

Bob Smith 18:30
Oh, wow, good. Where were some of the states that were the first to give women the vote? Because it was the frontier.

Marcia Smith 18:36
I don’t know. Wyoming was. Oh, yes, that one is, we know. Okay, so

Bob Smith 18:40
the first woman elected to Congress was from a nearby state, Montana. Her name was Jeanette Rankin. She became a member of the House of Representatives four years before women were given the right to vote. Isn’t that unusual. So four years before women were given the right to vote, a woman was elected in the House of Representatives 1916 I didn’t know much about her. I knew that she voted against going into World War Two. That was a very controversial vote. She was the only Congress person to vote against America entering the war. But she was a big suffragette. I had no idea before being elected to Congress, she was field secretary for the National Association of Women suffragettes, and traveled to 15 states organizing women, and in 1914 she helped women get the vote in Montana. Then she ran for Congress. They helped elect her, and her first day in office, she introduced the amendment that ultimately gave women the right to vote in 1920 so she is a giant, and was an early pioneer of women’s rights that people don’t know about. Jeanette Rankin thought that was fantastic. Okay,

Marcia Smith 19:41
yeah, I never even heard of her, which isn’t good, okay, yeah, not good. You’ve heard of the term Bob spooning. You know what that means? Never heard of it, yes. What is it?

Bob Smith 19:50
It’s when you spooning is like a romancing. It’s cuddling, cuddling, okay, yeah, it’s

Marcia Smith 19:55
a cuddle. When you’re, you know, laying down, you

Bob Smith 19:58
cuddle together. Yes, a spoon. Spoon laying in a spoon. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 20:01
yeah. Where did the that term come from?

Bob Smith 20:04
The term came from silverware. The silverware company Rogers silverware came up with the spoon and then that, I don’t know the answer to that. Oh, this

Marcia Smith 20:13
is fun. The word originated in Wales where young suitors were required to carve a wooden spoon while courting dad’s daughter. Oh, really? You carve a wooden spoon? Yes, if you’re out with his daughter, the dad’s daughter, it was presumably to keep you busy, and you were too busy to cuddle. Are

Bob Smith 20:34
you coming on that spoon, young man? Oh, my God,

Marcia Smith 20:37
they had to carve a spoon.

Bob Smith 20:41
That’s in Wales, but I could see, you know, fixing a tire in the car or something, but you got to cuddle. Now, you want to cuddle? No, you got a spoon. Gotta fix it. When you’re done with a spoon, you can cuddle with my daughter,

Marcia Smith 20:53
and that’s with the term spoon. I had no idea the nearby Scots might have considered adopting this custom after an 1868 study revealed that 90% of Scottish brides were pregnant on the day of their weddings. Oh, they didn’t have spooning over. There something in

Bob Smith 21:12
the water there? Yeah, that’s that. Wow. That’s interesting. Yes, it is. Okay. Remember the slow dance of our era, Procol harems wider shade of pale. Remember that song? Interestingly, the man who wrote the lyrics for that recently died, Keith Reed. He was the lyricist for Procol harem now. He was 76 he was a founding member of the band. He never performed with the band. He wrote lyrics, only lyrics, not the music. So he always handed off the words to a musicians in the band, just like Bernie talpin has done for Elton John songs all these years. But he toured with the group. He was always with them, and they asked him once, well, why do you tour? Why do you go tour? He says, Can you imagine a playwright not being there the night his play opens? So he went on every tour they went, and he said, plus being in a hotel room helps me write. So he wrote songs, really, whenever he went on tour with them. And after that, after that group, he went on, and he wrote songs for amazing number of people. Annie Lennox, Willie Nelson and Hart. Now there’s a strange combination. I’ll say, Yeah. So. Keith Reed, whiter shade of pale. We skipped the light. Fandango turned cartwheels cross the floor. That was the first words to that.

Marcia Smith 22:26
That’s sort of like when you and I met. Okay, all right. All righty, how much sea water does it take to produce three and a half pounds of salt? You’re

Bob Smith 22:36
talking about sea salt. So this is salt that’s kind of run from the water of the sea,

Marcia Smith 22:42
and you want three and a half pounds of it. How much sea water do you go out and get? I bet

Bob Smith 22:46
it’s a lot. I’ll bet you have to go after hundreds and hundreds of gallons. Yeah. How many five gallons? Only five gallons it. Five gallons of water gives you how many pounds and a

Marcia Smith 22:58
half pounds of salt, my God, and since the Dead Sea produces 10 times the amount of salt, you’ll get over 30 pounds of salt in five gallons. I had

Bob Smith 23:08
no idea it was that much salt that salinity was. That’s extreme. Yeah, wow.

Marcia Smith 23:14
I found that amazing. That’s amazing. Yes, okay,

Bob Smith 23:17
ever since Woody Allen came on the scene, people have talked about going to analysts, being an analysis, talking to psychologists. How long are people typically in analysis in years?

Marcia Smith 23:29
In you in years? All right. Well, that takes away that first thought. What did you think it was? I thought less than a year one

Bob Smith 23:37
session, and that’s it. Yeah. All right,

Marcia Smith 23:39
I’ll say three years. According to a 2022

Bob Smith 23:42
paper in the International Journal of psychoanalysis, a typical analysis lasts three to seven years.

Marcia Smith 23:50
That’s a lot, but, you know, but it’s very common now, much more than when we were young, yeah,

Bob Smith 23:56
although I went to three during my lifetime, that makes sense. Yeah, great, geez. But

Marcia Smith 24:01
none since you met me,

Bob Smith 24:03
right, that’s right, I’ve been very happy you’re right. Okay,

Marcia Smith 24:07
less than 10,000 years ago, Bob, all humans had the same color eyes, really? Yeah. How

Bob Smith 24:13
do they know this? I don’t know. Oh, okay, it’s kind of important to know, isn’t it? Okay? What color was it? Well, wasn’t blue? Was it? Were they brown? Yes.

Marcia Smith 24:24
No kidding, yeah. And that’s according to research published by the University of Copenhagen, all humans had brown eyes until someone between 6000 to 1000 years ago. That’s when a genetic mutation created the first blue eyed individual. Wow, so everybody was brown until then, that’s interesting. Yeah, I

Bob Smith 24:46
had no idea. What if it was meant to be everybody was supposed to have brown eyes. How

Marcia Smith 24:49
did they know that a mutation took place? They found

Bob Smith 24:52
it probably in some genetic material or something I

Marcia Smith 24:56
don’t know. Nowadays, 70 to 79% of the world. Population has brown eyes. I didn’t know that eight to 10% have baby blues. And approximately 5% this is us. 5% if you have Hazel or amber, wow. And just 2% we’ve had this question is green, so we’re in

Bob Smith 25:16
the 95th percentile in everything. Okay, all right. Marcia in 1812 what happened to a major river in the United States?

Marcia Smith 25:28
It changed course. What

Bob Smith 25:30
do you mean by that?

Marcia Smith 25:31
It went from south to north or west? It

Bob Smith 25:35
flowed backwards. And

Marcia Smith 25:36
what was that Mississippi? That

Bob Smith 25:38
was the Mississippi River. Yeah, it is on at least three occasions, in the winter of 1811 and 1812 to be exact, December 16, 1811 january 23 and February 7, 1812 for about two months, the United States experienced a series of the greatest earthquakes in history. And the quake had an intensity of 10 on the Richter scale, my top of the earthquake scale, and struck in the Midwest. It was year was that. It was a 1812 it was centered in New Madrid, Missouri. That’s where the New Madrid fault is now. Trees split into Lake bottoms raised 15 feet. Streams and rivers, both the Mississippi and the Ohio River, flowed backwards. Flowed backwards, that would

Marcia Smith 26:22
freak you out, huh? All right, I’m gonna finish up with a couple of quick quotes. This is from Bill Murray. Whatever you do, always give 100% unless you’re donating blood.

Bob Smith 26:35
That’s good advice. It

Marcia Smith 26:36
is simple, simple,

Bob Smith 26:37
but only true, precise and absolutely true, yes. And

Marcia Smith 26:41
here’s one we don’t know who said it first. Okay, if you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.

Bob Smith 26:50
That’s like the club you don’t want to belong to. That’s right, that’s so funny.

Marcia Smith 26:54
Someone said that was Confucius. But I don’t think no, smartest person the room is a phrase that was used. No,

Bob Smith 27:00
I don’t think so, but it’s funny. Yeah, you’re in the wrong room. Yeah, all right, well, you’re not in the wrong room, you’re in the off ramp room. And we hope you’ve enjoyed our show, and we’ll tune in again next time when we come back with more again, like Jenny ussel Did from Louisville, Kentucky, you can go to our website, the off ramp dot show, and give us a question to ask one another, and we will mention you on the air, and we’ll, we’ll try to answer it. We did that when that was a good one today. I

Marcia Smith 27:26
stumped him.

Bob Smith 27:27
Yes, you did.

Marcia Smith 27:28
Thank you. Thank you. Jen. I’m

Bob Smith 27:29
Bob Smith,

Marcia Smith 27:30
I’m Marcia Smith.

Bob Smith 27:31
Join us again next time when we return with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia here on the off ramp. The off rep is produced in association with CPL radio online and the Cedarburg Public Library. Cedarburg, Wisconsin, the.

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