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1 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining At 29,029 feet Mount Everest is the highest mountain but the tallest from bottom to top is Mauna Kea rising from the sea, it is 33,465 feet, about three-quarters a mile taller than Everest. 15

2 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining What is the most dangerous animal? Half the human beings who have ever died, estimated at 45 billion people, have been killed by female mosquitos. Even today, they kill one person every twelve seconds. carrying more than one hundred potentially fatal diseases. 14

3 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining Chinese resourcefulness has given us the abacus, bells, brandy, the calendar, the compass, the crossbow, the decimal system, drilling for oil, fireworks, the fishing reel, the flamethrower, the flush toilet, gunpowder, the helicopter, the horse collar, the iron plow, the kite, laquer, matches... 13

4 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining 12... Chinese resourcefulness has given us the mechanical clock, negative numbers, paper, parachutes, porcelain, printmaking, rudders, seismographs, silk, stirrups, the suspension bridge, the umbrella, the water pump, and the wheelbarrow.

5 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining Alexander Graham Bell referred to himself first as a teacher of the deaf. His mother and wife were deaf and he taught the young Helen Keller. She dedicated her autobiography to him. 11

6 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane 10

7 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator. 9

8 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining The most expensive part of a medieval banquet was dessert. Spices and nuts were the most costly, edible imports. 8

9 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot. 7

10 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. 6

11 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight" 5

12 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in- law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon. 4

13 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice. 3

14 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. 2

15 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Minutes Remaining Houses had thatched roofs--thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm,so all the dogs, cats and other small animals (mice rats, and bugs lived in the roof). When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof-- hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs." 1

16 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Seconds Remaining The United States consumes one million dollars worth of energy every minute. 10

17 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Seconds Remaining 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 9

18 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Seconds Remaining The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that she burns. 8

19 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Seconds Remaining The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. 7

20 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Seconds Remaining There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun. 6

21 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Seconds Remaining When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year. 5

22 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Seconds Remaining Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. 4

23 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Seconds Remaining In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. 3

24 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Seconds Remaining Montpelier, Vermont is the only USA state capital without a McDonalds. 2

25 http://www.morganmadison.co m/ 15 Minute Timer © 2000 - 2007 Morgan Madison & Company / MG Rush Performance Learning http://www.mgrush.com / Break Timer --- Seconds Remaining Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. 1

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