Bang 7: Bonus Puzzle

ORD is a contraction of the word "Orchard."

Margaret Dumont had the nickname "Daisy."

The Leaning Tower of Pisa leaned north during its first five years of construction.

William Faulkner was actually board with the name "Falkner."

Ketchup can dissolve aluminum foil.

The first pinball machine to have flippers had six of them.

The solution to this puzzle involves Morse code.

San Francisco, CA and Santa Fe, NM are named after the same Catholic saint.

The lyrics to the song "Louie Louie" were deliberately written to be meaningless.

The astronomer Tycho Brahe wore an artificial nose.

"CGMBPY FKWVXJ QZ" are the next three columns on the linotype machines used to typeset text, after "ETAOIN SHRDLU."

The Coriolis effect causes water to drain clockwise in the Northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

The "G"s in "G-spot" and "G-string" stand for the same word.

Exactly half the statements in each category are fake.

On a per-acre basis, the Louisiana Purchase was cheaper than Alaska.

The purpose of clapping the clapboard used during filming a movie is so that the cast and crew can be alerted to the scene starting.

Queen Elizabeth II and her son Prince Charles share the same surname.

Although reviews of the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring were bad, the audience was reasonably well-behaved.

The world's largest rodent species averages 100 pounds in weight and can weigh as much as 175 pounds.

All major league ballparks have home plate in the southwest corner.

These categories should be taken in order, from top to bottom.

Kaskaskia, IL, is on the east bank of the Mississippi River.

The "Scooby-Doo" characters were inspired by the sitcom "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis."

The tune for "The Star-Spangled Banner" was taken from an 18th century drinking song.

The word "tycoon" is one of the few English words to come directly from Chinese.

Most American homes do not have the wiring infrastructure to support 240-volt appliances.

Fig Newtons were named after Sir Isaac Newton.

Each category encodes at least two letters in the message.

The verb "to orient" has its origins in the fact that in medieval times it was common to have east pointing upwards on maps.

A large proportion of the cast and crew of the 1950s film "The Conqueror" contracted cancer, suspected to be from nuclear fallout from the filming location.

Chinese water torture was used by the ancient Chinese.

There is a notational system for human movement that is used by choreographers to record modern dance.

In the 1970s, most TV remote controls worked by ultrasound.

The name "pigskin" for a football originated as a euphemism for "pig's bladder skin."

All trivia on these cards can be verified within one WWW domain.

Delaware has more miles of U.S. Interstate than Hawaii.

Bulldogs are so named because they were bred to look like a bull.

Julius Caesar was born by cesarean section.

"The Hound of the Baskervilles" was written after the story in which Sherlock Holmes dies but before the story in which he is resurrected.

Women have fewer ribs than men.

The phrase "ain't over until the fat lady sings" was coined in the 1970s by an American sportswriter.

A fake statement corresponds to the presence of a dot in the code.