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Trivia #768068
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Try your hand at these brain-busting trivia questions. Remember, please, that you may not google or use any reference sources for the first 24 hours of this thread.

-1. What does the mole unit measure?
-2. What family originally owns Wuthering Heights?
-3. Which ancient Greek is known as The Father of Numbers?
-4. How do White-handed gibbons in Thailand's forests communicate threats from predators?
-5. Who was the son of Laius and Jocasta?
-6. What did Momofuku Ando invent?
-7. Who was the first U.S. President to be inaugurated in Washington DC?
-8. In what special way do male sea horses, sea dragons, and pipe fish contribute to the continuation of their species?
-9. If Lisa Gherardini was Leonardo's model for the Mona Lisa, then were is Mona Lisa buried?
-10. What do prokaryotes lack?


The moon is actually more useful than the sun since the moon gives us light at night when it's dark. The sun only gives us light during the day when it's already bright out.
Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #768070
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3. Pythagoras? wave


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #768078
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1. Probably somewhere between 1/8 and 1/4 of an inch.


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #768088
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1. molecular weight smile


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #768090
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9. Sounds like a joke. Is the answer in the ground?


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Re: Trivia [Re: manxman] #768091
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8. Are they the ones who carry the eggs until birth? wink


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8. I'm guessing because the male carries the eggs and delivers them when they've hatched. At least I know that this is true for seahorses. smile


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #768102
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Jema, manxman, Sherlock, Chris, and Haroula thumbsup

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No joke, curly. The answer is a kind of place, not a specific one. smile


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Re: Trivia [Re: Haroula] #768223
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10. a nucleus maybe?
edit: no, I think it was something else headscratch

Last edited by HandsFree; 11/17/11 06:43 AM.

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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #768261
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6. Ramen Noodles


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2. If I Googled this right it was Earnshaw. Pretty interesting.


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #768370
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Great answers! bravo

Yours too, HandsFree. They lack cell nuclei. smile


The moon is actually more useful than the sun since the moon gives us light at night when it's dark. The sun only gives us light during the day when it's already bright out.
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4. By singing
7. Thomas Jefferson

smile


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You got them both, Koala! smile smile smile


The moon is actually more useful than the sun since the moon gives us light at night when it's dark. The sun only gives us light during the day when it's already bright out.
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