FACTUAL RIDDLES XLIII

1. Excluding Thanksgiving, a turkey usually denotes a failure. When is a turkey something to be proud of?

2. What is the best-selling single record of all time?

3. What do baseball scouts and CHP officers have in common?

4. What is the world's most widely spoken language and one of the most difficult to learn?

5. What do U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Monroe have in common?

Answers:

1. In bowling - a turkey is three strikes in a row. 

2. "White Christmas" sung by Bing Crosby 

3. They both use radar guns. 

4.  Mandarin Chinese

5. They all died on July 4th. Jefferson and Adams on the same day, just hours apart, on July 4, 1826 - the 50 anniversary of Independence Day. James Monroe died July 4, 1831.