Know It All [Rare books]

The Definitive Collection for Diehard Trivia Buffs, and the Rest of Us Who Think We Know a Thing or Two . Language * Art, Comics and Literature * Presidential Trivia * The World * Television and Radio * Sports and Games * War and the Military * America-Past and Present * Religion, The Bible and Mythology * music and Theater * Science, nature and medicine * The Cinema * Food * Business, Advertising and Inventions * miscellaneous What novel contains the longest sentence in literature? Les Miserable, by Victor Hugo. It contains 823 words. What presidential wife was the first to be referred to as the First Lady? Lucy Hayes, wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, in 1877. What are the only two words in the English language that contain all the vowels, including 'y', in alphabetical order? Facetiously and abstemiously. In 1925 what did con man Arthur Ferguson 'lease' to a wealthy cattle rancher for 99 years at $100,000 a year? The White House. He fled after collecting the first years rent but got caught a short time later trying to sell the Statue of Liberty to an Australian.