Elephants mine salt in Kenya

Questions

1. Rounded to the nearest 50 miles, what is the diagonal distance from the northwest corner of Wyoming to the southeast corner?

2. The border between which two countries forms the longest international border on Earth?

3. What do these early computer abbreviations stand for: AOL, DOS and CD-ROM?

4. Why did Disney change the title of its 1994 animated film from “King of the Jungle” to “The Lion King?”

5. According to Revelation 4:4, how many thrones were surrounding the one central throne?

Fun Facts

Each year, the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulip bulbs to Canada’s capital as a continuing symbol of gratitude for Canada’s role in World War II and the liberation of the Netherlands. Half come from the Dutch Royal Family and half from the people of the Netherlands.

If you were literally worth your weight in gold, at today’s gold price a 150-pound person would be worth about $9.5 million, while a 200-pound person would be worth about $12.7 million.

At the 1904 Olympics, Americans won the gold, silver and bronze medals in tug of war. The competitors represented athletic clubs rather than national teams, allowing three different American clubs to sweep the podium in the same event.

Some caves on Kenya’s Mount Elgon contain salt deposits that attract elephants, which use their tusks to break salt-rich rock from the walls. Over generations, this “mining” has helped enlarge the caves. Kitum Cave extends nearly 700 feet into the mountain.

In 1929, Filipino conjoined (Siamese) twins Lucio and Simplicio Godino were involved in a car crash while Lucio was driving. Lucio was sentenced to five days in jail, but Simplicio appealed, arguing that he shouldn’t be imprisoned for his brother’s actions. The appeal succeeded, and the twins were released.

At the 1948 Olympics, 30-year-old Dutch mother of two Fanny Blankers-Koen won four track-and-field gold medals despite critics saying she was “too old” and should stay home with her children. She returned home a national hero nicknamed “The Flying Housewife.” She remains the only woman to win four athletics gold medals at a single Olympic Games. Only two other people have done that since 1936: Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis. 

Answers

1. 450 miles (The actual straight-line distance is approximately 449 miles.)

2. Canada and the United States at 5,525 miles (The second longest is the Russia–Kazakhstan border at 4,750 miles.)

3. AOL: America Online; DOS: Disk Operating System; CD-ROM: Compact Disc Read-Only Memory

4. Because lions don’t actually live in jungles. They primarily inhabit savannas, grasslands and open woodland.

5. 24 — “Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders.”