Well -- I admit these questions aren't asked frequently, but I like the title.
JAA. Version of 7-24-05.

The Library of a Dilettante -- Vol. 1

Frequently Asked Questions



Are aircraft carriers obsolete in the 21st century?
Could the surrender of Japan have been achieved without the use of the second bomb at Nagasaki?
Does 'no' always mean 'no' in the context of Date Rape?
How and where did Moses commit genocide?
How did the Iroquois Indians torture their captives?
How do you magnetize water?
How do you make Haggis?
How do you shoot prayers at people?
How has the theory of Evolution been verified in the laboratory?
How many people were killed by their own governments in the 20th century?
How was the plane carrying Yamamoto, the head of the Japanese Navy in WW II, shot down?
In the nineteenth century, how long did U.S. slaves live?
How long did peasants in Ireland live in the nineteenth century?
Instead of Global Warming, is it possible that we are entering a period of Global Cooling?
Is God so tricky that He "salted the earth with false evidence"?
Is it certain that Thomas Jefferson had a child by the slave Sally Hemmings?
Is the Great Pyramid at Giza made of concrete?
Is there a Religion based on Science?
Once on an official visit, Winston Churchill's pocket was picked by his host. Who did it?
Was Ava Gardner a virgin on her wedding night with Mickey Rooney?
Was Pope John Paul I murdered?
Was the tune of "Yes We Have No Bananas" stolen from Hayden?
What concentrates the mind wonderfully?
What did Hiawatha use to bind the ends of his canoe together?
What did Plato say about the future of Democracy?
What did the constellation Leo look like as it rose in 10,450 B.C.?
What famous economist once read the wedding service over two dogs?
What famous poet continued to write until he died at age 83?
What goods were traded between Union and Rebel soldiers during the Civil War?
What happens to born-again Christians when they "fall away"?
What in the world is "The double response to life"?
What invention was considered an affront to the will of God?
What is a Upas tree?
What is Parkinson's Law?
What is Six Degrees of Separation?
What is the best way to recite Middle English?
What is the definition of Redemption in the Devil's Dictionary?
What is the Diet of Worms?
What is the Immaculate Conception?
What is the missing last line of the 1960s poster that begins "I do my thing, and you do your thing"?
What kind of phenomenon is inflation (always and everywhere)?
What was Pascal's Wager?
When did Fidel Castro visit the United States?
When did the Pope declare himself infallible?
Where and when did nine U.S. Navy destroyers follow one another to destruction on the rocks?
Where can you find unicorns in the King James Bible?
Where can you see a 100,000,000,000,000 (one hundred trillion) dollar bill?
Where did the idea that Masonic ritual originated in ancient Egypt come from?
Where did the phrase "When you call me that, smile" come from?
Where is the planet Vulcan?
Which "Christian" sect denies the crucifixion of Jesus?
Which Saint had his lost crucifix returned on the beach by a crab?
Which tribe used mastectomies to improve girls' archery?
Who are the two most famous people named Spock?
Who is the patron Saint of lost objects?
Who led student demonstrations at Stanford, shouting, "Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Western Civ has got to go"?
Who said about Lincoln's Gettysburg Address that it is "difficult to imagine anything more untrue"?
Who said Islam is a religion of Peace?
Who said that democracies were hectic interludes?
Who said that not one man in a million would know that someone was debauching the currency of a country?
Who tried to talk Ernest Hemingway out of committing suicide?
Who was Clever Hans?
Who was the Wandering Jew?
Who were the Chinese Gang of Four?
Why are people easily seduced by confident, charismatic leaders, especially males?
Why Are Some Countries So Rich and Others So Poor?
Why can't we see the movie of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess?
Why did Lord Byron swim the Hellespont?
Why did Puccini divorce his wife?
Why did Saint Augustine marry a 10-year-old girl?
Why didn't Darwin include man in Origin of the Species?
Why didn't Leland Stanford give money to the University of California, but instead started his own school?
Why didn't the American Indians own their own land?
Why don't you see bears at the hotel in Yellowstone any more?
Why is Freud's theory of psychoanalysis "mostly wrong"?