Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ was a hot album

By: 
John Bernhisel

Questions:

Name the six largest cities in the Big Horn Basin in 1920.

Since its first race in 1911, how many years has the Indianapolis 500 not been held?

One of the four Monopoly railroads is the B&O Railroad. What does B&O stand for?

Who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and where was he born?

Combining native and second-language speakers, what are the five most commonly spoken languages on Earth?

Fun Facts:

June 1 would have been Marilyn Monroe’s 100th birthday.

Because it was released before the era of music streaming and YouTube, Michael Jackson’s 1982 album Thriller holds a record that may never be broken. It has sold more than 70 million copies worldwide on vinyl records, cassettes and CDs. Rounding out the top five best-selling albums of all time are AC/DC’s Back in Black, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Whitney Houston’s The Bodyguard soundtrack and the Eagles’ Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975).

Every cardigan worn by Mister Rogers on his television show was knitted by his mother.

NBA playoff MVP trophies honor three basketball legends: the Western Conference Finals MVP receives the Magic Johnson Trophy, the Eastern Conference Finals MVP receives the Larry Bird Trophy, and the NBA Finals MVP receives the Bill Russell Trophy.

A Portuguese man o’ war can have tentacles extending more than 100 feet, making it one of the longest animals in the ocean.

Vincent van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties and sold only one painting during his lifetime.

Before the United States acquired Florida in 1821, more than a thousand escaped slaves from the American South found refuge in Spanish Florida. They became known as Black Seminoles, forming close alliances and communities with the Seminole people. Fearing capture and a return to slavery, more than 400 fled to the Bahamas. Others were forced west with the Seminoles during the Trail of Tears of the 1830s, while some were captured and sold back into slavery.

Answers:

#1 Greybull – 2,692 people, #2 Powell – 2,463, #3 Thermopolis – 2,095, #4 Lovell – 1,686, #5 Cody – 1,242, #6 Worland – 1,225

Six years (1917–1918 during World War I and 1942–1945 during World War II)

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. (The other railroads are Pennsylvania, Short Line and Reading.)

Sirhan Sirhan. He was born in Jerusalem in 1944, when the city was part of the British Mandate for Palestine.

#1 English (1.5 billion), #2 Mandarin Chinese (1.2 billion), #3 Hindi (600 million), #4 Spanish (560 million), #5 French (320 million)

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