The Questions…
1. Sculptor Don Featherstone (1936-2015) is best known for creating in 1957 that icon of pop culture, the plastic pink flamingo lawn ornament. How did Featherstone subsequently celebrate the masterpiece he created?
2. In most parts of Alaska, the buildings are constructed on pilings instead of being in direct contact with the ground. Why?
3. What is the oldest continuously-run team in the National Football League?
4. Queen ants live considerably longer than the workers, soldiers, and drones that make up the rest of the colony. How much longer?
5. In 1952, chemist Julius Samann patented the first air freshener for cars. You know it as the stylized evergreen tree hanging from the rear-view mirror. On the original patent application, however, another image was proposed. What was it?
The Answers…
1. He displayed 57 pink flamingos in the front yard of his Massachusetts home.
2. Raising the structures prevents them from transferring heat to the ground and melting the permafrost. If the frozen ground thaws even slightly, buildings can tilt and sink. Permafrost covers about 85 percent of Alaska.
3. The Arizona Cardinals. The team was established in Chicago in 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club; joined the NFL in 1920 as the Chicago Cardinals; became the St. Louis Football Cardinals in 1960; and moved to Phoenix in 1988. The Cardinals last won an NFL championship in 1947.
4. Queens can live up to 30 years. Non-queens live from a few weeks to a year or two.
5. His first patent application envisioned a buxom woman in a swimsuit. Samann updated the patent in 1959 to the pine-scented evergreen.
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