1. Who was Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" in 2009?
2. Cinco de Mayo is the biggest day for Americans to eat avocados. What is the second largest avocado eating occasion?
3. Second to the Nile (4,145 miles), which is the world's next longest river?
4. The Eiffel Tower, 984 feet tall, was the world's tallest building in 1900. What was the second?
5. What was America's first fast food place?
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It's not that I'm so
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~ Albert Einstein
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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ESSENTIAL TRIVIAAnswers
1. Who was Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" in 2009? Tiger Woods
2. Cinco de Mayo is the biggest day for Americans to eat avocados. What is the second largest avocado eating occasion? Super Bowl Sunday
3. Second to the Nile (4,145 miles), which is the world's next longest river? The Amazon at 4007 miles.
4. The Eiffel Tower, 984 feet tall, was the world's tallest building in 1900. What was the second? The Washington Monument at 555 feet.
5. What was America's first fast food place? White Castle, in Wichita, Kansas in 1921
