Missing trivia - 07/22/2013

What are the two official languages of Israel?

• Hebrew and Arabic. Under the Israeli constitution, all ordinances and official government forms and documents must be available in both languages.

  

In the world of computer programs, what is a CAPTCHA?

• A program used to verify that data is being entered by a human, not a computer robot or another automated program. Generally seen at the end of a fill-in online form, it typically asks the user to decipher a series of visually distorted numbers and letters. CAPTCHA is an acronym forcompletely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humansapart. The Turing test, named for British scientist Alan Turing, is used to evaluate the intelligence level of machines.

What tiny town in the Australian outback was home to Mick Dundee, the title character of the 1986 film comedy Crocodile Dundee?

• Walkabout Creek. The film, featuring Paul Hogan as Dundee, had two sequels, Crocodile Dundee II (1988) and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001).

What well-known drug was called Oculinum when it was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1989?

• Botox. At the time, the drug was being used to treat crossed eyes and uncontrollable blinking. The name was changed in 1991.

What international airport has a wedding planner available for travelers who want to get hitched in a hangar or some other aviation-related venue?

• Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

What highly regarded 1962 film—the winner of seven Oscars—has no female speaking parts?

• Lawrence of Arabia.

What city was the first in the U.S. to have a subway?

• Boston, in 1897. Its subway was 1½ miles long and initially transported passengers on trolley cars.