Campus Trivia
Top 10 Mustard Seed Producers

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Dmitri O'Bannon

Nepal
Russian
Canada
Myanmar
Ukraine
United States
China
Kazakhstan
Ethiopia
Serbia

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Quote, Unquote

Posted on January 18, 2025 by Dmitri O'Bannon

A teacher should never do your thinking for you. She should give you texts to read and guide you along the path of making sense of them for yourself. She should introduce you to the books and essays of writers who disagree with one another and ask you to determine whose case is better.
~ Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic

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Which five countries are the world’s top Cranberry Producers

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Dmitri O'Bannon

Via FAO Stat

United States
Canada
Türkiye
Azerbaijan
Ukraine

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World’s Top 5 Banana Producers

Posted on December 30, 2024 by Louis Feuerbach

Via FAO Stat

India
China
Indonesia
Brazil
Ecuador

Louis Feuerbach here. Generating this list reminded me of a book about the United Fruit Company that I read over Christmas Break in 2022 titled Bananas.

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America’s 10 largest companies in 1985

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Dmitri O'Bannon

The 10 largest companies on the 1985 Fortune 500 list via CNN Money:

Exxon
General Motors
Mobile
Ford
Texaco
International Business Machines
DuPont
AT&T
General Electric
Amoco

Between 1975 and 1985, three companies dropped out of the Fortune 500 Top 10: Chevron; Gulf Oil;and ITT Industries.

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5 Longest passenger flights

Posted on December 28, 2024 by Dmitri O'Bannon

Via Wikipedia – the five longest passenger flights as measured by the great-circle distance circa June 2024 are:

Singapore Airlines flight SQ 23
New York (JFK) to Singapore (SIN)
Aircraft: A350-900ULR
Scheduled Duration: 18 hours 50 minutes
Distance: 15,349 km / 9,537 mi / 8,288 nmi
Singapore Airlines flight SQ 21
Newark (EWR) to Singapore (SIN)
Aircraft: A350-900ULR
Scheduled Duration: 18 hours 45 minutes
Distance: 15,344 km / 9,534 mi / 8,285 nmi
Qatar Airways flight QR 921
Auckland (AKL) to Doha (DOH)
Aircraft: A350-1000
Scheduled Duration: 17 hours 15 minutes
Distance: 14,535 km / 9,032 mi / 7,848 nmi
Qantas flight QF 9
Perth (PER) to London – Heathrow (LHR)
Aircraft: 787-9
Scheduled Duration: 17 hours 45 minutes
Distance: 14,499 km / 9,009 mi / 7,829 nmi
Qantas flight QF 22
Dallas – Fort Worth (DFW) to Melbourne (MEL)
Aircraft: 787-9
Scheduled Duration: 17 hours 35 minutes
Distance: 14,472 km / 8,992 mi / 7,814 nmi