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Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Trivia Prep time!

Okay, here are a few practice questions. NO GOOGLING! Play Fair. Honor system here.....if you know it, give your answer, if you dont, give your best guess.


1. What famous document begins: "When in the course of human events..."?


2. Who said: "I'm the president of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli"?


3. Will a diamond dissolve in acid?


4. The three most common elements in the universe are 1) hydrogen; 2) oxygen. and....


5. What's the third-largest continent in square miles?


6. What's the second most populous continent?

7. What David Lynch movie did a few filmgoers attend expecting to see Bobby Vinton's life story?


8. Whose guitar version of The Star-Spangled Banner was featured in a 1996 Aiwa TV ad?


9. What was the first man-made invention to break the sound barrier?

10. What milk product did the U.S. Agriculture Department propose as a substitute for meat in school lunches, in 1996?

posted by DeNirogator at 1:20 PM

14 Comments:

  • 1. The Watergate Tapes transcript
    2. Michael Douglas
    3. Since it's simply frozen carbon dioxide, yes.
    4. the Honda Element
    5. Your wife
    6. See #5
    7. Solarbabies
    8. Heino
    9. the Enterprise
    10. Chalk

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:06 PM  

  • hmmm, I wonder if there'll be any actual guesses?

    By Blogger DeNirogator, at 5:15 PM  

  • #1 is the Declaration of Independence
    #2 is George Bush Sr.
    #4 Carbon?
    #7 Blue Velvet
    #8 I would imagine is Jimi Hendrix

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:10 PM  

  • 1,2, 7 and 8 are correct.

    And I should have mentioned, you dont have to guess them all if you dont want. you can pick one if you choose.

    I'm hoping to get JBH to finally post and guess one.

    By Blogger DeNirogator, at 6:38 PM  

  • Ask some questions about 80's music, wonder woman, or toast, and I will have plenty of answers.

    But I will guess
    #3-no (50% chance there)
    #10- Tofu

    By Blogger Anna, at 6:54 PM  

  • 3 is correct (No, acid won't dissolve a diamond).

    By Blogger DeNirogator, at 7:11 PM  

  • 1) Declaration of Independence
    2) BushDaddy
    3) don't think so
    4) carbon
    5) my ass
    6) North America?
    7) Blue Velvet
    8) Jimi Hendrix
    9) the air horn used by my school-bus driver, circa 1985
    10) cheese

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:30 PM  

  • good job dotcom (i'm assuming you wrote your answers before reading any of the other comments)

    the ones that don't have a correct answer yet are....

    #4 (maybe I should give a hint?

    #5 not my wife, not dotcom's ass

    #6, 9, 10

    By Blogger DeNirogator, at 7:36 PM  

  • Should I give hints for the remaining ones or just blab the answers?

    By Blogger DeNirogator, at 7:39 PM  

  • I was worried if I did music or movie questions that my posters would scoff at how they weren't any kind of challenge to them.

    By Blogger DeNirogator, at 8:05 PM  

  • 4. Helium
    5. North America
    6. Europe

    9. The whip
    10. yogurt

    By Blogger DeNirogator, at 9:24 PM  

  • Damn I was gonna say yogurt!

    By Blogger Anna, at 10:10 PM  

  • Did I win?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:08 AM  

  • There is no winning or losing, this was just for fun.

    Though if it was a competition, no you didnt win, you got 4 right, dotcom got 5.

    By Blogger DeNirogator, at 8:13 AM  

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