Thanks to intrepid Trivia Detective Sher Garfield of Bellevue, Wash., who passed along these additional common phrases, each of which has exactly one occurrence of each of the five vowels: house paint, peanut oil, freaking out, and milk moustache. While "milk mustache" gets more Google hits, that last phrase is correctly spelled with the "o." How do we know? See www.milkmoustache.com.
Emcee Squared: Three years after Art Fleming's last appearance as "Jeopardy!" host, and a year after Pat Sajak became the host of "Wheel of Fortune," they both appeared in the 1982 spoof film "Airplane II: The Sequel." Fleming can be seen in front of an in-flight Jeopardy board in the film, and Sajak portrays a TV newscaster.
Sorry, they don't appear on screen at the same time.
Appropriately, the state flower of Massachusetts is the:
A) Boston fern
B) Cape Cod carnation
C) Mayflower
D) Bay lilac
Previous answer: In the Jonathan Swift book "Gulliver's Travels," the ship on which the title character serves as a physician is wrecked near Van Diemen's Land, which is known today as Tasmania.
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