The Eleventh List Super Spectacular!!!

Yes, folks, here it is, the eleventh editiopn of The Eleven! To celebrate our storied history, here are:

ELEVEN FAVORITE ITEMS FROM THE FIRST ELEVEN LISTS (INCLUDING THIS ONE!!!)

(presented in original order)

1. Eleven Reasons To Make A List Go To Eleven Instead Of Ten: Most lists go up to ten. That makes lists that go up to eleven one better.
2. Eleven Jokes By Mitch Hedberg: I haven't slept for ten days...because that would be too long.
3. Eleven Useless Facts: Most toilets flush in the key of E flat.
4. Eleven Romantic Comedies: Groundhog Day.
5. Eleven More Mitch Hedberg Jokes: An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. You would never see an "Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order" sign, just "Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience."
6. Eleven Movies That Didn't Win Best Picture, But Should Have: Fargo.
7. Eleven Podcasts I Listen To: Pardon The Interruption.
8. Eleven Classical Works I Enjoy: The Planets by Gustav Holst.
9. Eleven Random Wikipedia Factoids: Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers.
10. Eleven Homophones...You Figure Them Out!!!: What enchantress?=? (I'll even give you the answer...Which witch?)
11. Eleven Favorite Items From The First Eleven Lists (Including This One): I haven't slept for ten days...because that would be too long.

Congratulations to Mitch Hedberg his victorious joke! Thanks for joining me, and here's to the next eleven lists!

What do you call a stinky chicken?

For the first time, a quiz on The Eleven! Homophones are words that sound the same, but are not spelled the same. A stinky chicken, then, would be a FOUL FOWL. Get it? On with:

ELEVEN HOMOPHONES...YOU FIGURE THEM OUT!!!
(presented alphabetically)

1. Baby African antelope=?
2. Chokin' casket=?
3. Correct ritual=?
   
4. Equine with laryngitis=?
5. Forbidden musical group=?
6. Make fun of golf pegs=?
7. Naked grizzly=?
8. Narcissistic blood vessel=?
9. Runs from parasites=?
10. Spun globe=?
11. What sorceress=?

No, I'm not going to give you the answers! And no posting guesses in the comments...you'll ruin it for everyone else!

Random Wikipedia Knowledge

Here's the game. Go to Wikipedia, and click the link that says "Random article". Learn from your findings. Repeat. You'll find out some fascinating stuff, as you'll learn in:

ELEVEN RANDOM WIKIPEDIA FACTOIDS

(presented in the random order they came up)

1. Iocaste - Iocaste (Jupiter XXIV) is a retrograde irregular satellite that orbits Jupiter. It's about 5 kilometers in diameter, and takes over 609 days to orbit the planet.
2. Madelyne Pryor - Madelyne Pryor was a clone of one of the X-Men, Jean Grey, that was created by Mister Sinister. She first appeared in 1983, and has not been seen since 2000.
3. Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers - The Company was founded in 1629 and became a livery company in 1809 (meaning it regulated its profession in London). It surrendered its power to examine opticians before they could practice in 1979 to the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians.
4. Forgách utca - Forgách utca is a station on the M3 line of the Budapest Metro in Hungary.
5. Domestication of the horse - Horses appeared in Paleolithic cave art from about 30,000 BC, but no one knows when they were actually domesticated. The prevailing theory is that it was around the Ukraine in approximately 4000 BC.
6. Spectamen - A genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, also known as the top snails (meaning their shells kind of look like toy tops).
7. Aquaporin - Aquaporin are integral membrane proteins from a larger family of major intrinsic proteins that form pores in the membrane of biological cells. Get that? Basically, they help water move in and out of cells. Aquaporin. Now you get it?
8. Ryo Ishikawa - A Japanese professional golfer that became the youngest golfer ever to win a major tournament on the Japan Golf Tour in 2007 at the age of 15 years 8 months.
9. Commonwealth Hall - Commonwealth Hall was an Egyptian soap opera that isn't on the air anymore due to low ratings. Wikipedia doesn't tell me when it was on, however.
10. 1960 in Pakistan - Apparently, only four things happened in Pakistan in 1960. In January, they formed an Electoral Collegeto elect the members of the provincial and national assemblies. On February 14, Ayub Khan was elected president with 95.6% of the vote (he was the only candidate). On February 17, Khan was sworn in. On September 19, Pakistan and India signed the Indus Waters Treaty. An eventful year for Pakistan.
11. Austrovenus stutchburyi - Austrovenus stutchburyi, also known as the New Zealand cockie, or the New Zealand little neck clam, is a bivalve mollusc (meaning its shell has two parts) and is unique to New Zealand.

I guess molluscs win this round, with two out of eleven entries. Hope you feel enlightened now.