TRIVIA - STREAKS

1. Originally estimated that this Vietnam War movie would take a year to make, but it took about four. Director Francis Ford Coppola said “We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane.”

2. This illuminating collection of poems by Shel Silverstein spent three-anda-half years on the New York Times bestseller’s list, despite some parents’ idea to ban it from libraries for the poem “How Not to Dry the Dishes.”

3. This book by John Berendt, later a film by Clint Eastwood, blends fact and fiction in Savannah, Georgia, and saw the clock strike 12a.m.

1,512 times to become the longest New York Times bestseller.

4. For 555 consecutive victories, Pakistani Jahangir Khan quashed competitors and owned the former half of the

1980s, when he enjoyed a five-year winning streak in this enclosed racket sport.

5. Over 11years, this Pasadena college basketball team lost 207consecutive games. Maybe they haven’t produced any star ballplayers, but have produced 32 Nobel Prize winners.

6. It’s uncertain why, but after a farming accident injured his torso, Iowan Charles Osborne started doing this about 400 times a day for the next

68years.

Courtesy of The Democratic Republic of Trivia