David Denney's World of Trivia
(Well, okay... Maybe it's not a world of trivia, but there's quite a bit of stuff here!)
(Last updated May 9, 2007)



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This page contains various trivia that I've collected (and am still collecting) over the past several years.  It may be in the form of lists, tables, etc.  In general, it follows no theme, topic, and/or category (it's farraginous!).  I plan to add to this page as time permits.  I've tried to attribute each "factoid" to a reliable source, but there are a few that I can't be positive about.  If you see anything that you could give a more reliable source to, please e-mail me at ddenney@gmail.com.  It will be highly appreciated.  Hope you enjoy!

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From this point on, I haven't "HTML-ized" the remaining text yet, nor have I proofread it or given sources to all, but please be patient. I'm working on it!
 


Chris Evert is the only American women's tennis champion to have
won at least one Grand Slam singles title each year for thirteen
consecutive years.
--Source unknown

There are approximately 17,000 commercial flights per day in the US.
At any given time, there are more than 60,000 people flying over
the United States. (prior to September 11, 2001)
--Source unknown

The buffalo -- largest mammal in the state of Missouri -- 30 to 60
million once roamed North America. Also, they're very unpredictable
in behavior.
--Source unknown

D-Day, Normandy, 6/5/44.
--PBS

Virginia Beach, VA EMS squad - largest in US with 635 volunteer
rescue people.
--Rescue 911, TV Show

--The following list of facts (in green) is from the 1993 PBS Nova quiz.
Rockets were invented in China.
The largest reflecting telescope in the world is the Keck
  telescope, with a diameter of 396" (that's 33 feet!).
Vision requires more brain power than the other four senses.
There are 108 known elements.
The Xerox copier was commercially open to the public in 1959.
The opossum is the only marsupial native to North America.
A gill equals 4 ounces (1/2 cup).
The world's tallest waterfall is Angel Falls in Venezuela --
  3,212 feet high.
DDT was stopped being used in the late 1960's because it almost
  caused extinction of the peregrine falcon.
The only even prime number is 2.
Vanilla is a member of the orchid family.
--End of info from Nova quiz

Walla Walla, Washington state prison is the toughest in the US.
--"Hillside Stranglers", Movie

Every 22 minutes a person is killed by an alcohol related auto
accident.
--State Farm

One out of thirty children in the US are abused.
--Unsolved Mysteries, NBC series

Every 27 seconds a divorce takes place in the US.
--CBN

One billion trees are used per year just for disposable diapers.
If all the disposable diapers used in the US were stacked up, in
18 months it would reach the moon! (And it would stink to "high
heaven"!)
--Source unknown

Peanut butter was invented in 1890 by a St. Louis physician for a
protein substitute for old folks. Americans consume 800 lbs. per
year! (The "as of" date is unknown.)
--Source unknown

In 1862, the confederate congress passed a bill exempting anyone
owning 20 (or more) slaves from military service.
--Jeopardy!

Though it originated in South America, the potato came to North
America from Ireland.
--Jeopardy!

There are 332 different species of parrots, including parakeets,
cockatoos, and macaws.
--Source unknown

The German dirigible, "Hindenburg" was almost 3 football fields
long and weighed over 200 tons, the largest rigid airship ever
constructed. It was an 804 feet long (245 meters) airship of
conventional Zeppelin design that was first launched at
Friedrichshafen, Germany, in April 1936. It had a maximum speed
of 84 mph (135 kph) and a cruising speed of 78 mph (126 kph). In
1936, the Hindenburg inaugurated commercial air service across the
North Atlantic by carrying 1,002 passengers on ten scheduled round
trips between Germany and the US. On May 6, 1937, while landing
at Lakehurst, NJ, on the first of its scheduled 1937
transatlantic crossings, the hydrogen-inflated Hindenburg burst
into flames and was completely destroyed. Thirty six of the 97
persons aboard were killed. The fire was generally attributed to
a discharge of atmospheric electricity in the vicinity of a
hydrogen gas leak from the airship, though it has also been
speculated that the dirigible was the victim of an anti-Nazi act
of sabotage. The Hindenburg disaster marked the end of the use of
rigid airships in commercial air transportation. It contained 7
million cubic feet of hydrogen.
--Encyclopaedia Britannica & World Almanac

US infant mortality rate per 1,000 births: nine white, 18 black.
--NBC news

Willis Carrier invented air conditioning in 1902.
--Jeopardy! (World Almanac says 1911)

IBM invented the floppy disk in 1970.
--World Almanac

The USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan Jan. 23,
1968 by North Koreans; 82 men released Dec. 22, 1968.
--World Almanac

An estimated 100 trillion cells in the human body.
--Jeopardy!

The Khmer Rouge killed an estimated 1 million fellow Cambodians--
possibly 2 million.
--Source unknown

1935--the year of the dust bowl--effected Kansas, Oklahoma, and
Colorado.
--Source unknown

The Sahara, the largest desert in the world, is 3,500,000 square
miles, just under the gross area of the US including land and
water (3,618,770).
--World Almanac

Cost of flying the space shuttle back to Cape Canaveral from
Edwards Air Force Base mounted on top of a 747 jet-- $1,000,000.
--Source unknown

The Great Pyramid of Giza covers 13 acres, the equivalent of 7
blocks of Manhattan. It contains well over 2 million blocks of
stone, some weighing as much as 15 tons. It stretches 755 feet
along each of its four sides. It is so close to geometric
perfection that the difference between the longest and shortest
sides is only 7 inches. Each side is aligned with one of the true
directions of the compass. As a matter of fact, it is within a
few arc-seconds of being perfect. It rises at an angle of 52
degrees to a height of 481 feet, about the size of a 40 story
office building.
--Nova, PBS, "Pyramid"

A grizzly bear can run as fast as a horse.
--Beakman's World

There are over 2 million cases of child abuse reported every year in US.
--PBS as of 1994

23% of US children live in poverty.
--PBS, 1994

Since 1980, divorce has torn 18 million families apart.
--PBS, 1994

The following paragraphs are from "Nova--Aircraft Carrier"
     The USS Independence has 80 planes-- a combination of fighters,
bombers, and reconnaissance aircraft-- the equivalent of a small air
force. It was commissioned in 1959. There are four catapults, steam
powered by the engine's boilers, that launch planes into the air
reaching 150 mph in just under three seconds! A plane can be launched
every 45 seconds. The ship picks up speed to create a 20-knot wind
over the flight deck, giving the heavy planes the best possible wind
speed for takeoff. A 20-ton plane landing at 120 mph is brought to a
halt in 200 feet. The "wire" that catches the hook on the plane to
stop it is used exactly 100 times at which time it is replaced. If
that wire breaks, it can easily cut through flesh, even steel, like
butter. Every landing is actually a "controlled crash". It costs 5
million dollars to train a pilot, and he/she is required to have at
least 500 flying hours before landing on a carrier.
     It's one of the largest warships afloat. 5,000 men live beneath
the flight deck in 8 cramped and artificially lit decks. They are
mostly teenagers around 19 years old, maybe 20 years old that work
16-17 hours per day. The men sleep and work around the clock (in
shifts). There are three TV channels that show news, sports, and
movies. There are 3 miles of corridors and over 2,000 separate
compartments. The kitchen bakes between 1200 and 1600 loaves of bread
per day, and 800 sandwiches last only about three to four hours.
     At least two carriers in our navy are deployed 365 days a year,
and another three or four are in home waters constantly practicing.
During the Gulf War, 36 planes were shot down by Iraqi missiles. The
USS Independence was deployed to govern and maintain the "no-fly"
zone over Iraq for 23 days. During that time, pilots would strap a
gun to their side, as well as a radio beacon, and a leaflet in Arabic
in case of being shot down. In the 6 months they were at sea, the
crew conducted 8,752 launches and arrested landings. In the 23 days
that the Independence operated in support of operations over Iraq,
there were 1,349 missions, an average of 58 a day.
--"Aircraft Carrier", Nova, PBS Series

Alexander Joy Cartwright, Jr., the "father of modern baseball".
...set bases 90 feet apart.
...established nine innings as game and nine players as team.
...organized the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of NY in 1845
...carried baseball to the Pacific coast and Hawaii in pioneer days.
First game was June 19, 1846, 1st match of baseball was played on the
Elysian Fields... Knickerbockers vs. the New Yorks.
--Source unknown

In 1881, there were three US presidents: R.B. Hayes, Garfield, and
Chester A. Arthur.
--Jeopardy!

Carson City, Nevada is actually west of Los Angeles, California (by
about 100 miles or so).
--Jeopardy!

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died of cancer May 19, 1994 at age 64. She
suffered from a non-- Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph
system that eventually spread to her liver. She was only 31 years old
when JFK became president.
--Associated Press and CBS News

The average elevation of New Orleans, LA is 2 ft. below sea level.
--Nova (Jeopardy! says 4 ft.)

May 21st in history:
1506 Christopher Columbus dies in poverty in Spain.
1845 First legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii.
1861 NC secedes, Confederacy capital moves from Montgomery to Richmond
1874 Levi Strauss markets his blue jeans with copper rivets, priced at
     $13.50 A DOZEN.
1902 The United States ends its occupation of Cuba
1926 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies.
1927 At 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic.
1932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland, first woman fly solo across
     the Atlantic.
1939 Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger and air mail service.
1956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane -
     on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1961 White mob attacks `Freedom Riders' in Montgomery, Alabama
1974 Russians' Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
1985 FBI arrests John A. Walker Jr, convicted of spying for the USSR.
1985 The US begins broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti.
--KCYFC BBS

May 21, 1956 (my birthday), the United States exploded the first
airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
--Source unknown

On May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis
near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the
Atlantic Ocean.
--AP News

May 21, 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
--AP News

Every day, 20,000 letters pour into Bill Clinton's White House --
three times the mail that arrived during George Bush's term.
--US News & World Report, May 30, 1994

Only 4 nucleotides exist in DNA, and every living thing is created
out of these 4 building blocks.
--"X-Files", TV series, pending a more reliable source

MAY 21 in History
1761 First life insurance policy in the US, issued in Philadelphia
1807 Townsend Speakman begins making and selling fruit-flavored
     carbonated drinks - in Philadelphia.
1846 First steamer arrives in Hawaii
1856 Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks uses a cane on Mass Sen Sumner.
1868 Great Train Robbery. Seven men make off with $98,000 in cash.
1939 Hitler and Mussolini sign `Pact of Steel.'
1947 First ballistic missile fired.
1947 The "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect aiding Turkey & Greece.
1963 Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade
1967 Egyptian president Nassar closes the Straits of Tiran to Israel.
1970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children and 3 adults on a school bus.
1972 Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka.
1981 Russians' Soyuz 40 returns to Earth
--Source unknown

The Douglas Fir isn't a fir, but actually a member of the pine family.
--Jeopardy!

Glass is an amorphous substance made by heating a mixture of such
materials as sand, soda (sodium carbonate), and limestone to a
temperature of about 1,300 deg C (2,400 deg F). Temperatures only
slightly lower than this can be achieved with a wood fire, which was
the traditional fuel for glass melting. Today glass is made
continuously in large tanks. Powdered raw materials are fed in at one
end, and a molten strip or plate of glass emerges at the other end.
The glass is heated by oil or gas flames over the melt, but since
these fuels are becoming more expensive, the electrical glass-melting
process, which employs metal electrodes in the melt to generate heat,
is becoming more widely used. Windows, containers, light bulbs,
optical instruments, and many specialty items of glass are an
essential part of modern life.
--Grolier's Academic American Encyclopedia

1742 First indoor swimming pool opens at Goodman's Fields, London.
1774 First Continental Congress convenes in Virginia.
1926 United States Customs Court created by Congress.
1929 First all color talking picture "On With The Show" exhibited, NYC
1946 First night game at Yankee stadium.
1953 Premier of first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor - "Melody."
1959 First animals fired into space and rescued, Cape Canaveral.
--YFC BBS

Born May 29, 1826, Ebenezer Butterick invented the tissue paper
dress pattern.
--YFC BBS

Born May 29,1903 Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, famous profile.
--YFC BBS

June 1, 1971 Ed Sullivan's final show.
--YFC BBS

June 2, 1835 P.T. Barnum and his circus begin their first tour
             of the U.S.
June 2, 1886 First president to wed during presidency- Grover
             Cleveland.
June 2, 1910 Pygmies are discovered in Dutch New Guinea.
--YFC BBS

Americans open the refrigerator an average of 22 times per day.
--Fox Television

June 4, 1896 -- Road test of the first Ford car is delayed an hour
                because the car is wider than the door of the shed in
                which it is built.
June 5, 1933 -- The United States leaves the gold standard.
--YFC BBS

June 5th in history:
     In 1783, Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier publicly demonstrated
their hot-air balloon in a 10-minute flight over Annonay, France.
     In 1967, war erupted in the Middle East when Israel, convinced
an Arab attack was imminent, raided Egyptian military targets. Syria,
Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict.
     In 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded
just after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential
primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested.
--AP Online News

Born June 5, 1900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser
photography).
--YFC BBS

June 6 in history:
1946 Henry Morgan is first to take off his shirt on TV.
2012 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) will occur.
--YFC BBS

June 8 in history:
1786 First commercially-made ice cream sold in New York.
1869 IW McGaffey receives patent for vacuum cleaner.
1889 Cable Cars begin service in Los Angeles.  LOS ANGELES!
--YFC BBS

June 9, 1869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his first Root Beer, in
Philadelphia.
--YFC BBS

There's a pyramid in Rome! The pyramid of Gaius Cestius, the only
pyramid in Rome, has a burial chamber inside.
--Jeopardy!

Peppermint was the flavor of the first LifeSaver candy, introduced
in 1912.
--Jeopardy!

The word "Buccaneer", a 17th century pirate who raided Spanish ships,
derived from the French word for "barbecuer".
--Jeopardy!

To check the accuracy of an 18% photographic gray card, with the sun
out and the aperture on f/16, the shutter speed should equal the ASA
(speed) of the film.
--Source unknown

Harry Luce, president of Time (or LIFE), is the son of a presbyterian
minister.
--700 Club

The slang word "geek" derives back as far as 1611, referring to the
scorn of others' villainy.
The slang word "cool" derives back as far as 1825.
--Random House Dictionary of Slang

June 16, 1903, Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.
--AP News

June 17th in history:
1885 Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard the French ship `Isere.'
1953 Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas stays executions of
     spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day
     because it's their 14th anniversary.
1963 Supreme Court strikes down rule requiring recitation of the
     Lord's Prayer or reading of Biblical verses in public schools.
1987 NY Yankees and KC Royals Manager Dick Howser dies at 51 of
     brain cancer.
--YFC BBS

In 1979, President Carter apologized to Australia for pieces of
Skylab falling on their country.
--Jeopardy!

The human small intestine is approximately 21 feet long.
--Jeopardy!

In 1981, Pres. Reagan fired nearly 12,000 air traffic controllers of
the PATCO union after they called an illegal strike.
--Jeopardy!

In 1993, Pres. Clinton lifted the ban that Reagan put into effect
regarding the permanent freeze of hiring ex-PATCO union workers from
any aviation related jobs.
--Jeopardy!

June 18, 1812 -- War of 1812 begins - US vs. Great Britain
June 18, 1877 -- James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, is born. He's
best known for his "I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster.
--YFC BBS

The blink of an eye takes approximately one fourth of a second.
--Source unknown

According to GE, a twinkling of an eye is about 1/700th of a second.
--Brother Bob, pastor, Plaza Heights Baptist Church

Only 15% of people past age 18 get converted to Christianity.
--ibid.

There are over 500,000 hymns written. (as of the early 1990's)
--ibid.

June 23, 1868 The typewriter is patented.
--YFC BBS

June 25th in history:
1178 Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon
     (only known observation). These monks had NO winery of their own.
1630 The Fork is introduced to American dining by Gov. Winthrop.

1835 Pueblo founded with construction of first building (start of
     Yerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco).
1876 Lt. Col. Custer and 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and
     Cheyenne Indians.
1929 President Hoover authorizes construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam.
1950 El Al airlines begins air service.
1950 North Korea invades South Korea - Korean War begins.
1951 First color TV broadcast - CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC. Four
     cities see the show in color.
1962 Supreme Court rules use of unofficial non-denominational prayer
     in New York State public schools is unconstitutional.
--YFC BBS

July 4th in history:
In 1826, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson -- the second and third
   presidents of the United States -- both died, 50 years to the
   day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
In 1831, the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, died
   in New York City.
In 1862, English clergyman and mathematician Charles L. Dodgson,
   better known as Lewis Carroll, began inventing the story of
   "Alice in Wonderland" for his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell
   during a boating trip.
--YFC BBS

In 1984, The Statue of Liberty's torch, symbol of freedom to tens of
millions of new Americans for almost a century, was removed from the
statue's outstretched hand to be replaced with a new one the
following year.
--Source unknown

July 14, 1916, Boeing Company, originally known as Pacific Aero
Products, was founded in Seattle by William Boeing.
--AP Online News

July 16, 1935 Oklahoma City becomes first in U.S. to use parking meters.
July 17, 1954 Construction begins on Disneyland ...
July 17, 1955 ... Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
July 18, 1940 First successful helicopter flight, Stratford, CT.
July 18, 1968 Intel Corporation is incorporated.
July 18, 1969 Mary Jo Kopechne and Sen Ted Kennedy plunge off bridge
     in a car.
--YFC BBS

July 19, 1969, Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin
"Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.
July 24, 1969, Apollo 11 returns to Earth.
--AP Online News

July 19, 1975, the Apollo and Soyuz space capsules that were linked
in orbit for two days separated.
--AP Online News

July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz"
Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. At 10:56 p.m. EDT,
Armstrong stepped onto the moon from Apollo's lunar module and
declared, "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for
mankind."
--AP Online News

July 20, 1976, America's Viking One robot spacecraft made a
successful, first-ever landing on Mars.
--AP Online News

July 19, 1961 First in-flight movie is shown (on TWA.)
--YFC BBS

July 21 in history:
1873 World's first train robbery, by Jesse James.
1925 John Scopes found guilty for teaching evolution.
1959 First atomic merchant ship, Savannah, christened, Camden, NJ.
1961 Gus Grissom aboard Liberty Bell 7 is launched .
1966 Gemini X returns to Earth.
1976 "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia, Pa.

July 25 in history:
1909 First airplane flight across the English Channel.
1946 First bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show.
1952 Puerto Rico becomes a commonwealth of the US.
--YFC BBS

The toucan is a relative of the woodpecker.
--Jeopardy!

July 27 in history:
1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long.)
1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts.
1953 Korean War ends.
--YFC BBS

Guyana--The Peoples' Temple--Nov. 1978--Led by Jim Jones. Ambush on
four journalists and a California congressman, plus mass suicide...
total 911 dead.
--World's Great News Photos

Three Mile Island--March of 1979
--World's Great News Photos

July 30, 1946 First rocket to attain 100-mile altitude, White Sands, NM.
--YFC BBS

Aug. 1, 1790, the first U.S. census was completed, showing a
population of nearly 4 million people.
--AP Online News
Aug. 1, 1936, the Olympic games opened in Berlin with a ceremony
presided over by Adolf Hitler.
--AP Online News
Aug. 1, 1981, the rock music video channel MTV made its debut.
--AP Online News

August 4th in history:
1693 Champagne is invented by Dom Perignon.
1777 Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes the
     first circus.
1790 United States Coast Guard founded.
--AP Online News

Aug. 12th in history:
1851 Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
1888 Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes the first motor tour.
     Without her husband's knowledge, she borrow one of his cars and
     travels 180km to visit relatives for 5 days.
1934 Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand.
1972 Last combat troops leave Vietnam.
1977 First test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
--AP Online News

March 1989 -- Exxon Valdez spills 11 million gallons of crude oil.
--AP Online News

By age 65, the human heart will have beat about 2 1/2 billion times.
--Source unknown

Rain forests get between 100 and 400 inches of rain per year, as
opposed to Missouri, which gets 33.91 yearly.
--1991 World Almanac

One US gallon of pure water is about 8.345 pounds. One inch of
rainfall over one acre of ground would equal 27,143 gallons of water.
--1991 World Almanac

Feb. 1, '68 -- famous Loan shooting of suspected Viet Cong soldier
photographed by Eddie Adams-- AP photographer.
--Source unknown

Aug. 31, 1895 John Brailier becomes the first "professional"
football player when he receives $10 for expenses in a game
at Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
--YFC BBS

The first commercial product to use transistors was the hearing aid
in 1952. The radio used transistors two years later.
--Jeopardy!

Sep. 13, 1977-- First TV viewer discretion warning used-- "Soap"
--YFC BBS

Sep. 30, 1452-- First book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible.
--YFC BBS

Sep. 30, 1960 "The Flintstones" premieres. Yabba Dabba Doo!
--YFC BBS

ONE VOTE...
In 1649, one vote caused Charles I of England to be executed.
In 1776, one vote gave America the English language instead of
     German.
In 1836, one vote elected Marcus Morton governor of Massachusetts.
In 1845, one vote brought Texas into the Union.
In 1868, one vote saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment.
In 1875, one vote changed France from a monarchy to a republic.
In 1876, one vote gave Rutherford B. Hayes the United States
     presidency.
In 1923, one vote gave Adolf Hitler control of the Nazi party.
In 1941, one vote saved the selective service system just 12 weeks
before Pearl Harbor.
--Chuck Swindoll quoting from some book on his radio program

As of 3-7-95, there are 11,638 taxi drivers in New York, NY.
--NYC cab driver on David Letterman
Collateral Adjectives


COLLATERAL ADJECTIVES
Item
Adjective
dog
canine
cat
feline
cow
bovine
horse
equine
pig
porcine
sheep
ovine
donkey
asinine
goat
capric or hircine
deer
cervine
deer family (deer,elk,
moose, caribou, etc.)
cervid
wolf lupine
fox vulpine
bear ursine
lion leonine
rabbit and/or hare leporine
COLLATERAL ADJECTIVES
(Continued)
Item
Adjective
squirrel sciurine
ape or monkey simian
mouse or rat murine
shrew soricine
bat chiropteran
(Thanks Russell!),
vespertilian
(Thanks Martha!)
bird avian
duck anatine
(Thanks Darniece and Margot!)
goose anserine
peacock pavonine
eagle aquiline
hawk accipitrine
falcon falconine
crow or raven corvine
songbird, sparrow passerine
thrush (bird) turdoid
parrot psittacine
(Thanks Martha!)
pigeon peristeronic
(Thanks Martha!)
lizard lacertilian
snake serpentine, ophidian
and/or colubrine
turtle testudinal
bee apian
bees, care of bees apiarian
wasp or hornet vespine
COLLATERAL ADJECTIVES
(Continued)
Item
Adjective
whale, dolphin,
and/or porpoise		 cetacean
seal phocine
fish piscine
mackerel, tuna scombroid
starfish or sea urchin apodal
worm vermicular
slug limacine
butterfly, moth lepidopteran
(Thanks Martha!)
having the form
of an animal		 zoomorphic
egg ovoid
people and/or mankind human
wild feral
covered with fine
hairs or down		 puberulent
sharp, bitter, stinging,
irritating in taste or smell		 acrid
bitter or sarcastic
in speech		 acrid
shore littoral
bath balneal
rod (or beating with a rod) baculine
teeth dental
gums (in the mouth) gingival
lip or lips labial
cheek, mouth,
mouth cavity		 buccal
tongue tip apical
tongue blade laminal
tongue body dorsal
back (spine) dorsal
arm brachial
fore part of the head,
forehead		 procephalic
sneezing sternutatory
tears lacrimal
mint labiate
berry shaped bacciform
COLLATERAL ADJECTIVES
(Continued)
Item
Adjective
land (noun) predial
sandy, growing in sand arenaceous
sandy, living in sand arenicolous
root or roots radical
perpetually cold location hyperborean
brain cerebral
mind or intellect mental
lying flat on back supine
wife uxorial
excessively fond of
or submissive to a wife		 uxorious
husband marital
priest, priesthood,
priestly		 sacerdotal
alphabet abecedarian
dreams or dreamy oneiric
summer estival
rope or cord under tension funicular
marble marmoreal
lead plumbous
marriage, wedding
ceremony, mating season		 nuptial
(Thanks Bob!)
flashing or sudden fulgurant
swollen, bloated, puffed up;
bombastic, pompous		 turgid
drowsiness or sluggishness lethargic
liberality or generosity munificent
secret agent emissary
leap year bissextile
COLLATERAL ADJECTIVES
(Continued)
Item
Adjective
father paternal
mother maternal
uncle avuncular
aunt materteral
birth natal
hook, hooked uncinate
loud or loud voice stentorian,
stentorious
morning matutinal
evening vespertine
during the day diurnal
during the night nocturnal
sleepiness or lethargy soporific
period of drowsiness
preceding sleep		 hypnagogic
clear, see through transparent
partially transparent translucent
not letting light
pass through		 opaque
swimming natatorial
flood diluvial
touch, sense of touch tactile
zero zeroth
peace, moderation,
or conciliation		 irenic
calm, peaceful halcyon
an act of
bidding farewell		 valedictory
study of meaning and
changes of meaning in words		 semantic
earning a living banausic
flag vexillary
chin mental or genial
Middle Ages Gothic and/or
medieval
family entity ancestral
kiss and/or kissing osculatory
love amative
charity eleemosynary
dog days of summer canicular
barber, barbering tonsorial
thrush (bird) turdine
threshold liminal
color, coloring, dyeing tinctorial
zebra zebroid
drinking potatory
nose nasal, rhinal
ostriches, emus, rheas, etc. struthious
moon or planet gibbous
bloodshed, bloodthirsty,
or containing blood		 sanguineous
underground water
above the water table		 vadose
extremely cold, icy gelid
faithlessness,
disloyalty,
treachery		 perfidious
great in quantity
or amount		 beaucoup
dazzlingly bright,
radiant		 fulgent
third in place, order,
degree, or rank		 tertiary
clipping or trimming
of live shrubs or trees
into decorative shapes		 topiary
tree, trees arboreal
apathy, dullness,
lethargy		 torporific
promoting health
or well-being		 salubrious
laughable risible
partly in existence,
imperfectly formed,
formless		 inchoate
bizarre grotesque
burden onerous
abrupt or blunt in
manner or speech		 brusque
whim; impulsive,
unpredictable;
changeable		 capricious,
whimsical
Inclined to fight;
combative; quarrelsome		 pugnacious
medicinal;
cure disease;
relieve pain		 officinal
edible comestible
excessively
sentimental		 bathetic
of little value picayune
consisting of a
confused mixture		 farraginous
same or equal age,
antiquity, or duration		 coeval
a select group,
esoteric		 rarefied
abundant trees,
shrubs, woods		 bosky
next to the last penultimate
the time just
before dinner		 preprandial
faculty of divination,
prophecy		 mantic
acquired or occurring
in a hospital		 nosocomial
airtight,
recluse, solitary		 hermetic
stubbornly disobedient,
rebellious		 contumacious
genuine, authentic,
first-class		 pukka
full of whispering,
murmuring, rustling sounds		 susurrous
gushing, slobbering, sloppy
(as in enthusiasm)		 effusive
standing out conspicuously,
prominent,
of notable significance		 salient
celestial, heavenly ethereal
proud orgulous
greedy of gain,
greedy		 avaricious
handwriting, penmanship chirographic
hasty festinate
difficult to comprehend abstruse
comfortably or conveniently
spacious; roomy		 commodious
beginning to exist
or having recently
come into existence		 nascent
being with child;
heavy with young or eggs;
pregnant		 gravid
supple, marked by
effortless grace		 lithe
sound acoustic
existing outside of nature;
unnatural, nonnatural,
abnormal, unordinary		 preternatural
wordy, fluent
or excessive talk		 loquacious
wordy, fluent
or excessive talk		 garrulous
Capable of perceiving
by the senses; conscious		 sentient
indistinct, vague nebulous
bank of a natural
lake or tidewater		 riparian
pleasing to the ear;
agreeable, soothing		 dulcet
aristocratic quality
or flavor; stylish		 genteel
cowardly; despicable caitiff
overly optimistic;
viewed favorably		 roseate
arrogant self-assurance;
haughty		 peremptory
first created or developed;
beginning		 primordial
those who habitually
eat together		 commensal
guilty of a moral
offense;sinning		 peccant
diminutive,
short (human)		 homuncular
sickly sentimental mawkish
barely perceptible liminal
no sensibility;
unemotional		 stolid
flat, dull;
lacking liveliness		 vapid
lack of intelligence
stupid, inane		 vacuous
dancing terpsichorean
knowledge, knowing,
cognitive		 epistemic
stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing;
hardened in feelings;
resistant to persuasion or
softening influences		 obdurate
traveling from place to place itinerant
marked by fearless
resolution; valiant		 doughty
cooking; good eating gastronomic
difficult to understand recondite
abstruse
boiling, agitated;
enthusiastic, exuberant		 ebullient
vulgar; surly;
lack of civility
or graciousness		 churlish
living on the bank
of a river, lake, etc.		 riparian
unnecessarily long;
wordy; verbose		 prolix