Questions & Answers: Volume 8

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Gary Arndt

History, Education

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🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0	3,110,110,400 seconds ago, you, the listeners of this podcast, asked me questions,
0:06.0	and I in turn provided you with answers.
0:09.0	Now 3,110,400 seconds later, we find ourselves again in a similar place.
0:15.4	You have questions and I too have answers.
0:18.5	And once again, the endless stance of questions and answers continues. Stay tuned for Questions and Answers Volume 8 on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Let's jump right in with the very first question. The first question comes from Bob Green who asks,
1:07.0	which meaning of Grand Slam came first, baseball, or winning a series of tournaments.
1:11.5	Clearly not the breakfast at Denny's.
1:14.2	Bob, this is a great question, and before diving in to find the answer, my instinct said that
1:19.2	the baseball reference must have come first.
1:22.0	However, I was wrong. It took me a good two hours to
1:25.9	get an answer to my satisfaction. The origin of Grand Slam actually comes from
1:30.5	card games. In the early 19th century the first use of Grand Slam was used in
1:35.6	conjunction with the game of Wist in July of 1800. A Grand Slam was if someone were
1:41.2	to take every trick in a single hand.
1:44.0	The game of Bridge then adopted the use of Grand Slam in the late 19th century for a similar
1:48.1	use.
1:49.6	The definition at this point was simply to convey that something was a complete success.
1:54.0	The first use outside the world of card games was in 1930,
1:57.5	when golfer Bobby Jones won the American Amateur,
2:00.0	the British Amateur, the US Open,
2:02.0	and the British Open in a single year.
2:04.0	At the time, those four were considered to be the major tournaments.
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