Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, has the longest title.
U-BETCHA! The Oscar-winning Best Picture has a nine-word title has three words more than the seven six-word runners-up.
After Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the moon, what did his fellow astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell threw a javelin.
Yup. A makeshift javelin, fashioned from the pole of a solar wind experiment. Both ball and javelin landed in the same crater. Shepard commanded the 1971 Apollo 14 lunar mission; Mitchell was the lunar module pilot.
In days of yore, a henchman was a term for 'best friend'.
Un-uh. A horseman, or groom. The word, derived from Old English, is a combination of
hengest (horse) and man.
A vision led Pope Pius XII to designate Clare of Assisi, a cloistered 13th-century nun, the patron saint of television.
You bet! Saint Clare, ailing and unable to leave her convent cell one Christmas Eve, reported seeing on her cell wall the midnight mass that was being held in a nearby chapel.
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