ONeill - The Big Fat Book of Juicy Trivia

The Big Fat Book

of Juicy Trivia

Mind-blowing Facts and True Stories About Anything!

BILL ONEILL

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Contents

Welcome to The Big Fat Book of Juicy Trivia ! In this book, youll be introduced to a whole slew of fascinating facts from five different themes. This book is quite flexible and can be read from cover to cover or you can read a single chapter or even a separate story from a chapter at a time. You see, this book is divided into five specifically themed chapters and within each chapter; there are 15 to 20 stories full of amazing facts. At the end of each story are 20 or more random facts that will help you keep your trivia skills sharp.

This book will bring you to some pretty amazing places in the world, including some of the greatest national parks and will additionally introduce you to some geography that you probably have never considered.

Youll read about different types and elements of pop culture from around the world. From Hollywood to Bollywood and from K-Pop to Top 40, the modern worlds obsession with film, fashion, television, and movies will be explored in an entertaining way which will keep you on track with the modern trends.

The wide world of sports is profiled in this trivia book as well. You will learn about the background of the worlds most popular sports and a few things about some sports that are no longer played. This chapter also covers some elements of drinking and leisure culture, so have your drink recipe cards ready!

Finally, youll read about some of the most fascinatingand some would say craziesthistorically-based trivia stories. Some of these stories include the German emperor who died because he wore too much armor, the background of duels to the death, and some pretty interesting early examples of early medicine.

As flexible as this book is, it is also quite useful. You can use this book to study for trivia tournaments at your favorite pub, or you could use it for compiling questions if you are the DJ conducting the contests. This book is also perfect for a night with your friends and family when youre all sitting around the kitchen table thinking of something to do. Its certainly an icebreaker and conversation starter.

So, keep reading and be prepared for hours of non-stop entertainment.

Chances are, wherever you currently live, you dont have to travel far to find a spiritual location. It may just be a church or a wooded area where you feel at peace with the world, or it could be a larger, more well-known location. Most believers will tell you that God, or the Gods, can be found nearly everywhere, but there are just some places that seem to bring out the spirituality in all of us.

Perhaps the most spiritual of all cities is Jerusalem, Israel. The location of Jerusalem served as the location for various settlements throughout the Bronze Age, but it was when King David and the Israelites used the location as their capital city in the 11th century BCE that it became a spiritual city as we know it today.

King Solomon built the first temple in Jerusalem. Although it was destroyed, rebuilt, and then destroyed again, the foundation walls remain and are spiritually important for Jews. Jerusalem is also spiritually important for Christians, as the location of Jesuss final sermons and death. Muslims also view the city as an important site in their religion.

For more than one billion Roman Catholics in the world, the Vatican City is the most important site. Located entirely within Rome, the Vatican City is an independent nation-state that serves as the capital for Roman Catholicism and the home of the Pope. St. Peters Basilica and the Sistine Chapel give the city a sense of awe and beauty, filling the hearts of all believers with the sense that they are in the presence of God.

In the middle of the desert in Saudi Arabia, youll find the holiest site to the worlds nearly two billion MuslimsMecca ( Makkah al-Mukarramah - commonly shortened to Makkah) . Mecca is both the birthplace of Islams founder, Muhammad and the location of Kaaba Stone. More than three million devout Muslims make the trip to Mecca every year to fulfill the religious requirementor pillarof visiting the holy site at least once in their lives.

In India, you can visit the Ganges River, which is sacred to Hindus, and check out the Bodh Gaya, which is the place where Buddhists believe Buddha received his enlightenment under what became known as the Bodh Tree.

Random Facts:

• The annual pilgrimageor Hajj to Mecca takes place during the final month of the Islamic calendar.

• Ayers Rock, now known by its indigenous name, Uluru, is a spiritual location for the Aboriginal people in Australia. It is a monolithic sandstone rock formation that towers 1,142 feet above the flat countryside around it.

• The Painted Desert of the American southwest covers more than 93,500 acres of land and is located in two national parks: Grand Canyon National Park and the Petrified Forest National Park.

• Mount Fuji is a snowcapped volcano in Japan that stands 12,389 feet above the forest. It last erupted in 1708.

• The Wailing Wall or Western Wall is perhaps the holiest site in the religion of Judaism and is located in Jerusalem City. The limestone walls are all that remains of the Second Temple that was begun in 516 BCE and destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. Religious observant Jews, as well as many non-Jews, who visit Israel make it a point to undertake a pilgrimage and pray at the Western Wall.

• Archaeologists believe that the spiritual site of Machu Picchu in Peru was built during the reign of the Inca King Pachacuti (1438-1471).

• The centerpiece of Bodh Gaya is the Bodhi Tree, which according to Buddhist tradition is where Buddha received his enlightenment. The Bodhi Tree has been destroyed numerous times throughout history but has miraculously grown back each time.

• The Shinto goddess Konohanasakuya-hime is the patroness of Mount Fuji.

• The residence of the Pope in Vatican City is known as the Apostolic Palace. In terms of the history of the Catholic Church, the Palace is relatively new, having been primarily built in the 16th century. The famous Sistine Chapel is within the Apostolic Palace.

• The Christ the Redeemer statue (Cristo Redenter) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, stands 98 feet tall and has an incredible 92-foot wingspan! The statue has been so spiritually inspiring that it has spawned many similar statues throughout the world, including the 66-foot tall Christ of the Ozarks in Arkansas.

• If you travel to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, you can visit Mount Sinai, the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Although not all people believe that the mountain that currently has the name is the actual Mount Sinai, those who ascend its 7,497 feet generally claim to have a spiritual experience.

• The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey is one of the most spiritual locations in Europe. Most of the cathedral was built as a Greek Orthodox church in the 6th century CE by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (ruled 527-565). When the Ottoman Turks conquered the Byzantine Empire and renamed Constantinople Istanbul in 1453 it became and has continued to be a mosque.