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    Quick Quirk Quiz: Words & Phrases
    Quick Quirk Quiz: Words & Phrases
    Quick Quirk Quiz: Words & Phrases
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    Quick Quirk Quiz: Words & Phrases

    By Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen

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    Words are worth their weight in wonder, and the dictionary is full of discoveries. Can you guess these 28 common words and phrases after hearing their history? A “quirk” is defined as “an unexpected twist.” What could be more interesting than a twist in the plot of a story? Quick Quirks first tell a short story- a true tale- and then ask a question. The answer to the question is the quirk!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJanet Spencer - Trivia Queen
    Release dateNov 14, 2009
    ISBN9781310731136
    Quick Quirk Quiz: Words & Phrases
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    Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen

    Janet Spencer:Trivia Queen of the UniverseRoyal Ruler of Useless InformationMaster of Arcane Knowledge and Extraneous LoreKeeper of Forgotten Facts and Startling StatisticsFreelance Hysterics * Creative Profanities * Quantum PerplexitiesJanet Spencer was born in 1960 to a poor white sharecropper in Illinois. At 12, she slipped aboard a southbound freighter headed for Australia, where she was further raised by a pack of wild dingoes. Naturally curious and totally obsessed with the minor details of life, she traveled to London to join the Royal Astronomical Society to learn more of the world and the universe. However, the RAS had a long-standing ban against allowing in poor white sharecroppers half raised by wild dingoes, so she instead camped outside and counting the bricks making up the snobby institution. This was a pivotal experience for her. Finding there were exactly 17,431 bricks started her on her lifelong quest for small details, amazing truths, and petty coincidences. The Trivia Queen claimed her crown!Since then, she has been roaming the world from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, counting bricks, observing small insects, and measuring the average number of grains in a typical salt shaker. With such a vast storehouse of trivial knowledge, she now embarks on a new quest: to share this information with her fellow humans - stumping experts, amazing laymen, and bringing wide-eyed blank stares to all those around her. She is the author of several books including "Montana Trivia" and "Yellowstone Trivia" published by www.RiverbendPublishing.comJanet Spencer spends her spare time serving as chairwoman of the Associated Association of Associated Associations, playing with spatulas, and conversing with ducks.

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      Quick Quirk Quiz - Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen

      Words & Phrases

      The Quick Quirk Quiz

      The Surprising Stories, Hidden History,

      and Unusual Origins Behind Familiar Things

      By Janet Spencer, Trivia Queen of the Universe

      Royal Ruler of Useless Information

      Master of Arcane Knowledge & Extraneous Lore

      Keeper of Forgotten Facts & Startling Statistics

      Published by Janet Spencer at Smashwords.com

      Copyright 2009 Janet Spencer

      Discover other works by Janet Spencer at

      www.smashwords.com/profile/view/triviaqueen

      www.TriviaQueen.com

      www.RiverbendPublishing.com

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. Thank you for your support!

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      A Pair of Shoes

      A Feud Among Poets

      The Value of a Shadow

      A Bad Day

      Mercury Poisoning

      Goose Bumps

      A Wild One

      Turkey Talk

      Balderdash from Buncombe County

      The Hour of Prayer

      Hot Soup & Cold Hands

      Lessons from Hercules

      A British Blockade

      Wicked Whirlpools

      A Hatch and a Keg

      Without Wind

      Stuck at Sea

      A Troublesome Tailor

      A Thief

      A Street Punk

      A Violent Tribe

      Coining a New Word

      Transcendental Trances

      A Pious Person

      Greek Gobbledygook

      A Large Lizard

      A Big Wheel

      A Big Elephant

      A Pair of Shoes

      In 1765 the John Newbery Publishing Company of London produced a popular children’s book that had the ponderous sub-title of, ‘Margery and the means by which she acquired her learning and wisdom, and in consequence thereof her estate. Set forth at large for the benefit of those, who from a state of rags and care, and having shoes but half a pair, their fortune and their fame would fix, and gallop in a coach and six’. In the story, Margery Meanwell is an orphan who is so poor that she has only one shoe. But because of her virtuousness, a rich man rewards her with new shoes, which causes her to go throughout the town proclaiming to all she meets that she

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