Trivia: 09/04/2012

What color are an emu’s eggs?

• Very dark green.

What Basketball Hall of Famer won a record 11 championship rings?

• Bill Russell, with the Boston Celtics.

Who introduced french fries to the U.S., calling them “potatoes fried in the French manner”?

• President Thomas Jefferson, who was criticized by John Adams for “putting on airs by serving such novelties” at an 1802 White House dinner.

What city was the first in the U.S. to hire a policewoman with arrest powers?

• Los Angeles, in 1910. The police department let her design her own uniform.