Nouns

Name ______

Date ______

Please underline the nouns in each sentence. (All sentences are true! They are taken from “The Book of Useless Information.”)

  1. Charlie Brown’s father is a barber.
  1. Tweety used to be a baby bird without feathers until the censors decided he looked naked.
  1. Mel Blanc, who voiced Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
  1. After the Popeye comic strip started in 10931, spinach consumption went up by 33% in the Unites States.
  1. Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time. Walt Disney originally supplied the voice for Mickey Mouse.
  1. Flamingo tongues were a common delicacy at Roman feasts.
  1. Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds, and the crossroads.
  1. The saying “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye” is from ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was no eye gouging. Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone’s eye out.
  1. Each anchor chain link on the Titanic was about 175 pounds.
  1. When John Wilkes Booth leaped on to the stage after shooting President Lincoln, he tripped on the American flag.
  1. During the American Revolution, many brides used to wear the color red instead of white as a symbol of rebellion.
  1. In 1801, 20 percent of the people in the United States were slaves.
  1. In 1900, the third leading cause of death was diahhrea.
  1. In 1917, Margaret Sanger was jailed for one month for establishing the first birth control clinic.
  1. It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have been only 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
  1. The Hundred Years’ War lasted 116 years.
  1. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
  1. Those condemned to death by the axe in medieval and Renaissance England were obliged to tip their executioner to ensure that he would complete the job in one blow. In some executions, notably that of Mary Queen of Scots, it took fifteen whacks of the blade before the head was severed.
  1. During the Middle Ages, few people were able to read or write. The clergy (priests, etc.) were virtually the only ones who could
  1. Moose have very poor vision. Some have even tried to mate with cars.
  1. Minnows have teeth in their throats.
  1. Sharks can travel up to forty miles per hour.
  1. The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.
  1. Influenza caused more than 20 million deaths in 1918.
  1. Hans Christian Anderson, author of many famous fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always found errors in his manuscripts.