TRIVIA
I love trivia and the MGM helped fuel by passion for trivia by sending me what they accumulated, so here you are trivia buffs:
MGM GRAND
- MGM has 18,000 doors, enough to fit more than 1,600 three-bedroom homes.
- MGM used 2,300 miles of electrical wire (practically enough to erach from Las Vegas to New York).
- MGM has 7,778 beds. If these beds were stacked on top of one another, the pile would stand 12,963 feet tall, more than 10 times as tall as the 1,250 foot Empire State Building and extend more than two miles into the air.
- The MGM contains 100,000 square feet of marble.
- MGM has 93 elevators. The 30 story central elevator core is similar in size to a major downtown skyscraper.
- 18,000 tons of air conditioning equipment is used, enough to cool off a small town of almost 5,500 homes.
- The casino is approximately 171,500 square feet, the size of 4.5 football fields.
- It would take 13 years and eight months for one person to sleep in every room in the MGM.
- MGM launders more than 29 million pounds of sheets annually for its guests in the largest privately owned laundry in Nevada. It takes an average of 22 miles of sheets each day to freshen the beds.
- MGM chefs crack open more than 18 million eggs, pour 292,000 pounds of coffee, and serve nearly 4.4 million donuts to breakfast patrons each year.
- MGM prepares approximately 30,000 meals per day.
- Up to 160,000 feet tread across the carpets each day.
- On average, MGM hosts 50,00 to 80,000 visitors per day in addition to regular guests staying at the hotel.
- There are approximately 771,700 gambling chips in the casino. If you stacked up every chip, they would stretch over 1.5 miles into the sky.
- There are more than 800 decks of cards being shuffled at any given moment through the casinos areas.
LION TRIVIA
- A large male lion measures from 9 to 10 feet.
- An adult male lion can weigh up to 450-500 pounds.
- A lion can open its mouth 11 inches and kill a zebra or medium-sized antelope with one bite.
- A lion's upper canine teeth measure between two and two and one-half inches.
- A lion can span nearly 30 feet at one bound.
- A lion can run in speeds up to 50 mph.
- A lion sleeps up to 20 hours a day.
- Group hunting is a rule for lions.
- Although the male is dominant, it is usually the lioness who does the actual killing.
- Lions usually have from one to five in each litter
- At five months, a lion cub can weight up to 50 pounds.
- Male lion cubs are born with spots, which usually disappear by two years.
- Lions reach their primate at age 7.
- An average life span of a lion is 15-20 years.
TOMMY TUNE AND EFX
Tommy Tune Trivia
- Las Vegas Mayor Jan Laverty Jones officially proclaimed Friday, January 15, 1999 as "Tommy Tune Day".
- He is the only person in theatrical history to win Tony Awards in four different categories: Best Featured Actor in a Musical; Best Choreography; Best Direction of a Musical; Best Actor in a Musical.
- He is is 6'6 tall.
- At age of five he began tap, acrobatics and ballet lessons.
- His Broadway hits include The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Seesaw, Nine, My One and Only, Grand Hotel and The Will Rogers Folies.
- At one time, producers for a show starring Tune insured his feet for $6 million - the highest amount on record to insure a part of a human body.
- In 1994, he was honored with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame between his two heros - John Houston and Texas Guinan.
- Andy Warhol once called him "A human exclamation point."
- A drama critic described him as "long on talent as on legs."
- He appeared as Ambrose Kemper in the movie Hello Dolly! starring Barbra Streisand
EFX Trivia
- EFX is one of the largest production shows in terms of cost with a price tag of $45 million, plus an additional $30 million invested in the reconstruction of the Grand Theatre where EFX plays.
- Originally designed for headliner acts including Frank Sinatra and Jay Leno, the Grand Theatre was gutted and reconstructed specifically for the March 1995 opening.
- The Grand Theatre was originally christened by the Frank Sinatra in December of 1993.
- EFX has more than 70 dancers, singers, aerialists, and acrobats.
- EFX has 6,000 lights, NASA computer technology, and 85,000 watts of stereo sound.
- EFX features one of the largest 3-D films every produced.
- Twice nightly, EFX attracts 3,400 guests. Since its opening, more than 1 million people have experienced the show.
- Each show uses about 15,000 cubic feet of liquid nitrogen to create its fog wall.
- Approximately 10 pounds of pyrotechnic materials are used during each performance.
- Flames are created in several of the show's scenes by using natural gas or CNG. Each show produced a total of 475,000 BTSs or the equivalent of 31 full-length barbecues.
- The dragons in the Merlin scene cost more than $1 million each.
- The dragons were made from the same company that created the Jurassic park dinosaurs who also created Morgana, the smaller more technologically advanced dragon.
- Merlin Mountain weighs 130,000 pounds.
- Set designer David Mitchell won two Tony Awards and has been nominated seven more times.
- EFX has 85 tons of flying scenery and lighting effect.
- If EFX wanted to take the show on the road, it would take four jet aircraft tow motors with 30,000 pounds of towing capacity to move the scenery alone.
- EFX has the biggest sets in Las Vegas weighing approximately 23,000 pounds. The stage scenery alone weighs over two tons.
- The Alien theme costumes from Intergalactic Circus of Wonders in the P.T. barnum scene cost between $15,000 to $25,000 each.
- More than 450 costumes appear in the show comprising of over 2,000 pieces.
- The EFX costume collection for the cast of 70 is valued at over $30 million.
- It takes a wardrobe cast of 24, including dressers, costumers, seamers and wig stylists to maintain he costumes and wigs for the cast.
- There are 35 various styles of shows in the show.
- The show's female performers have up to five wig changes with a total of over 120 wigs and hairpieces.