Thursday, February 16, 2006

Quick Trivia # 37

"A term often heard for high-quality coffee is degree coffee. Milk certified as pure with a lactometer was called degree milk owing to a mistaken association with the thermometer. Coffee prepared with degree milk became known as degree coffee."

Source: Wikipedia.

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Just One Question # 2

Which popular cleanser brand was originally named 'Liquor Cresolis Compositus'?

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Quick Trivia # 9

Herb Caen, a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist from San Fransisco, coined two words that defined a generation - 'Beatnik' and 'Hippie'.