The Ultimate Trivia Thread

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

In addition to playing Lurch in the TV series The Addams Family, he also played Thing.

Who is Ted Cassidy.

This is now the Jeopardy thread?

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

Who is Ted Cassidy.

This is now the Jeopardy thread?

He also played an android in an episode of Original Star Trek & did the voice for the alien that threatened the Enterprise in another episode in which Clint Howard played the actual alien.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

In addition to playing Lurch in the TV series The Addams Family, he also played Thing.

Actually I don't think Ted Cassidy did play Thing. As I understand it they had a number of stage hands on the show and whichever of them wasn't busy with their normal duties would 'lend a hand' so to speak.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by crich70

Actually I don't think Ted Cassidy did play Thing. As I understand it they had a number of stage hands on the show and whichever of them wasn't busy with their normal duties would 'lend a hand' so to speak.

If Lurch and Thing were in a scene together, someone else would play Thing, otherwise it was Ted Cassidy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cassidy

[Solitaire1]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

Somehow I think part of your post went missing

You are correct. I forgot to include Ted Cassidy's name in the post. He played both Lurch and Thing. According to "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tunes In To TV" he signed a separate contract for each character.

Per Wikipedia, Ted Cassidy also did some voice work for Hanna-Barbera. I remember his appearances in the live-action/animated series The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huckleberry Finn were live action, everyone and everything else in the series was animated).

New trivia item: In the "The Wizard Of Oz" book series, the Tin Woodsman was originally human.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

You are correct. I forgot to include Ted Cassidy's name in the post. He played both Lurch and Thing. According to "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tunes In To TV" he signed a separate contract for each character.

Per Wikipedia, Ted Cassidy also did some voice work for Hanna-Barbera. I remember his appearances in the live-action/animated series The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huckleberry Finn were live action, everyone and everything else in the series was animated).

New trivia item: In the "The Wizard Of Oz" book series, the Tin Woodsman was originally human.

And Dorothy's slippers were silver not ruby. MGM made them Ruby Red because silver was the color of the screen (the silver screen) and so it would have looked like Dorothy had no feet.

[cromag]

Originally Posted by crich70

Actually I don't think Ted Cassidy did play Thing. As I understand it they had a number of stage hands on the show and whichever of them wasn't busy with their normal duties would 'lend a hand' so to speak.

Well, duh! Hands were all they needed!

[Luffy]

Mike the Headless Chicken (April 1945 – March 1947), also known as Miracle Mike, was a Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off. Although the story was thought by many to be a hoax, the bird's owner took him to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to establish the facts of the story. He was fed with an eye dropper.

[trichobezoar]

I'm using the Kindle Cloud Reader to access The Word Museum this time. It's very convenient as I don't have my Kindle or Windows laptop on me.

According to The Word Museum, to cabobble means to "mystify, puzzle, confuse."

I know I'm feeling a bit cabobbled now, especially when thinking of The 2015 Reading Challenge List I have to type up soon... within two days?

[Luffy]

There are no offences for which you can be put to death in the United Kingdom. The last capital punishments were outlawed in 1999 by Jack Straw.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Luffy

There are no offences for which you can be put to death in the United Kingdom. The last capital punishments were outlawed in 1999 by Jack Straw.

And the last executions in the UK were 35 years earlier, on 13 August, 1964, although the last execution under British jurisdiction was in Bermuda in 1977.

The death penalty was completely abolished in all British overseas territories in 2002.

[pdurrant]

Since the Celsius temperature scale was defined in terms of absolute zero and the triple point of water, the melting point of ice is no longer 0°C but just a little lower, at just above -0.0001°C, and the boiling point of water is about 99.974°C.

Of course, the boiling point is very sensitive to atmospheric pressure. Measuring the boiling point at a pressure equivalent to being in a basement 5 metres below sea level will return it to 100°C.

[doubleshuffle]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Of course, the boiling point is very sensitive to atmospheric pressure. Measuring the boiling point at a pressure equivalent to being in a basement 5 metres below sea level will return it to 100°C.

And I've been told that if you try to boil potatoes up in the Himalayas you must be veeeery patient

[Luffy]

The word cookie is derived from the Dutch word Koekje, meaning a cake.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by doubleshuffle

And I've been told that if you try to boil potatoes up in the Himalayas you must be veeeery patient

I lived in Denver for a short while. Denver is the 'mile-high city'. I did indeed find that my spaghetti took an unexpectedly long time to cook. Then I looked it up - in Denver water boils at about 94.4°C (202°F)!