FACTUAL RIDDLES LXIV

1. Who is Jim Delligatti? 

2. What color is a blind person's cane?

3. What is the busiest shipping area in the world?

4. What does KLM stand for in the name of the Dutch airline? 

5. What do the Eiffel Tower, The Space Needle, and the Ferris Wheel have in common?

Answers:

 

1. Jim Delligatti was a McDonald's franchisee who created the Big Mac. It was first sold on April 22, 1967 for 49 cents at Delligatti's McDonald's restaurant in Uniontown, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh). The Big Mac's 540 calories have dimmed its popularity, but in its heyday it was so wildly popular around the world that economists used it to compare the buying power of currencies.

 

2. White with a red tip

3. The English Channel

4. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij

5. Each was built as the main attraction at a World' Fair: Eiffel Tower - 1889 in Paris, The Ferris Wheel - 1893 in Chicago, The Space Needle - 1962 in Seattle.