2,914 athletes are competing, with 1,672 men and 1,242 women qualified. It’s the first of three consecutive Olympics that will be held in Asia, with the 2020 Summer games scheduled for Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Olympics set for Beijing, which will become the first city to host the Summer and Winter Olympics. It’s the second time South Korea has hosted an Olympics, the first was the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul. Japan hosted the 1972 Winter Games in Sapporo and the 1998 games in Nagano. This is the third time the Winter Olympics have been held in East Asia, and the first of those to be held outside of Japan. The two countries combined to field a unified women’s ice hockey team, but otherwise participated separately. The host South Koreans marched with their counterparts from North Korea under a unified Korean flag during the opening ceremony. Ninety-two nations are competing in 102 events in 15 sports during the 19-day competition. Here are a few things you might not have known about these Olympics and the Olympic Winter Games in general. Today is the 14th day of competition at the 23rd Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Please rate the show on iTunes by clicking here. Thanks for listening to the Trivia Minute, please rate the show on iTunes, or support it at /support. We'll have the correct answer on next week’s episode. Submit your answer at /test and we’ll add the name of the person with the first correct answer to our winner’s wall … at. This week’s question: What company manufactures Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing? The first person to submit a correct answer was Doug Button. The answer is figure skating and ice hockey. Now for the answer to last week’s question, which was: Which two Winter Olympic events debuted at the Summer Olympics?
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1 movie of 1967 was “The Graduate,” while the novel “The Secret of Santa Vittoria” by Robert Crichton topped the New York Times Bestsellers list.īefore the break we asked: What is the total number of islands in The Thousand Islands? This week in 1967, the top song in the U.S. Now, we’ll spin the wheel to pick a year at random. Seuss, who was born in 1904 and Sunday is the 56th birthday of athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee. It’s the birthday of architect Frank Gehry, who turns 89 Thursday is the 91st birthday of entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.
Saturday is National Mulled Wine Day, and Sunday is National Grammar Day. Thursday is National Wedding Planning Day. Today is National Science Day in the United States. Our question, how many islands make up the Thousand Islands? Green goddess dressing, was likely created in San Francisco in the 1920s as a tribute to a play of the same name. Italian dressing, which doesn’t feature ketchup, is an American version of the classic vinaigrette.
Same thing, ketchup and all, goes for Russian dressing.
The ketchup, probably should have given that one away. Speaking of French dressing, it’s not French. Another story says it was simply based on the already existing French dressing. Another says it was created at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York and named after the region where the hotel’s owner spent his summers. One story says the dressing was invented by a fisherman’s wife. Thousand Island dressing’s origin story is not as clear, although it’s name refers to the Thousand Island region of New York and Ontario in the St. Bottled, prepared ranch dressing was introduced in 1983. His customers liked the dressing so much that Henson started selling packets of dried mix so they could have it at home. Ranch dressing was first created in 1954 by Steve Henson, who owned a dude ranch called Hidden Valley Ranch, near Santa Barbara, California. We’ll start with the king of salad dressings in the United States: ranch. Let’s start with salad, specifically salad dressing, even more specifically salad dressing names.
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