Trivia test
1. How many times does the average person laugh in a day? (Just think how much you laugh an hour and you??ll be around the right number)
2. What is a Rocky Mountain oyster?
3. How long is New Zealand??s Ninety Mile Beach?
4. What is the Italian word for pie?
5. How many months have 28 days in them?
6. What is the main ingredient of Bombay Duck?
7. What is the correct term for a question mark immediately followed by an exclamation mark?
8. In which month does the German festival of Oktoberfest mostly take place?
9. Which movie star enter a look-a-like content about himself only to come 3rd in it?
10. What is the collective noun for a group of pandas?
11. Who composed the music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3?
12. Which country do kiwifruit originate from?
13. In Georgia (the state), it??s illegal to eat what with a
14. Which part of his body did musician Gene Simmons from Kiss insure for one million dollars?
15. Who were the first television couple to be shown in bed together on prime-time television?
16. What Benedictine monk invented champagne?
17. In which country are Panama hats made?
18. Which European country has 158 verses to its national anthem?
19. From which country do French fries originate?
20. If you dug a hole through the centre of the earth starting from Spain, which country would you end up in?
21. Which sea creature has three hearts?
22. True or false: You can sneeze in your sleep?
23. The first hockey pucks used in early outdoor hockey games were made of what? (It??s a bit disgusting)
24. Which European country eats the most chocolate per capita?
25. Who famously (and drunkenly) once said: ??My dear, you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still be ugly.?
26. Which world city has the slogan: ??What Happens Here, Stays Here?
27. Only two mammals like spicy food ?? what are they? (one point for each one)
28. What do the ??M??s? in M&Ms stand for? (one point for each one)
Answers
1. How many times does the average person laugh in a day? (Just think how much you laugh an hour and you??ll be around the right number). It??s 13! I actually thought it??d be more than that ?? hopefully some of these funny quiz questions and answers will add to that number!
2. What is a Rocky Mountain oyster? Rocky Mountain oysters (also known as prairie oysters) are a delicacy made from bull testicles. And yes, they are as disgusting as they sound.
3. How long is New Zealand??s Ninety Mile Beach? It??s only 88km, so 55 miles long. Found on the northern tip of the North Island, Ninety Mile Beach is one of the most beautiful beaches in New Zealand ?? even if you only get to enjoy it for 55 miles.
4. What is the Italian word for pie? Any of you get this one? It??s pizza! That??s why it??s funny when in the United States you see pizza pie, because really it??s pie pie.
5. How many months have 28 days in them? All of them! Trick question that one??
6. What is the main ingredient of Bombay Duck? A Bombay duck is a particularly pungent fish from India.
7. What is the correct term for a question mark immediately followed by an exclamation mark? I love this one ?? it??s an interrobang. I also use it far too much!?
8. In which month does the German festival of Oktoberfest mostly take place? I would expect every backpacker to get this right ?? it??s September.
9. Which movie star enter a look-a-like content about himself only to come 3rd in it? Charlie Chaplin. The irony, right?
10. What is the collective noun for a group of pandas? An embarrassment of pandas. How amazing is that one? You??re welcome.
11. Who composed the music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3? Michael Jackson. One of the more random trivia questions here.
12. Which country do kiwifruit originate from? Even though New Zealand are associated with kiwifruit, it was originally called the Chinese gooseberry, so it originated from China.
13. In Georgia (the state), it??s illegal to eat what with a fork? That would be fried chicken. You have been warned.
14. Which part of his body did musician Gene Simmons from Kiss insure for one million dollars? It was his infamous tongue. I have no idea why??
15. Who were the first television couple to be shown in bed together on prime-time television? Fred and Wilma Flintstone, that naughty duo
16. What Benedictine monk invented champagne? Dom Pierre P??rignon. This is one of my favourite trivia questions ever.
17. In which country are Panama hats made? Panama hats are hand-woven in Ecuador by craftsmen hailing from the cities of Cuenca and Montecristi.
18. Which European country has 158 verses to its national anthem? Greece
19. From which country do French fries originate? Even though this is disputed by France and the Netherlands, it??s Belgium who have the biggest claim on the humble French fry.
20. If you dug a hole through the centre of the earth starting from Spain, which country would you end up in? New Zealand. It might take you a bit of time though.
21. Which sea creature has three hearts? Octopus.
22. True or false: You can sneeze in your sleep? That one is false I??m afraid!
23. The first hockey pucks used in early outdoor hockey games were made of what? Frozen cow dung. It kinda makes sense, doesn??t it?
24. Which European country eats the most chocolate per capita? Switzerland
25. Who famously (and drunkenly) once said: ??My dear, you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still be ugly.? That was Winston Churchill with that wicked quip.
26. Which world city has the slogan: ??What Happens Here, Stays Here?. Sin City itself, Las Vegas.
27. Only two mammals like spicy food ?? what are they? (one point for each one) Humans and the legendary tree shrew. If I??m ever reincarnated, I want to come back as the tree shrew.
28. What do the ??M??s? in M&Ms stand for? (one point for each one) Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie, the two businessmen who created the candy-coated chocolates.
@dougie NO CHEATEN' ?????ÿ
I knew the Flintstones were the first.?ÿ Gawd, I'm gettin' old.
Gawd, I'm gettin' old
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/7899360256/h1B48A598/this-one-wasnt-so-lucky
@dougie?ÿ
Well, will you lookie there.?ÿ That boy lived in a house that had their elektrickle wires INSIDE their walls.?ÿ Lucky kid. ??? ??? ????ÿ
From the look of the receptacle and the walls, I wouldn't be surprised if it was knob and tube wiring in hollow walls. That stuff took a lot of work to install, but was quite good if done well and nobody tried adding insulation later.
Own a stucco house built about 1930 which was more than 15 years before a power company strung the first electric lines in that area.?ÿ In the upstairs bedrooms the only electrical service was a ceiling light in each room.?ÿ The last owners had installed those screw in outlets that add a couple of 110 plug in spots between the fixture and the light bulb.?ÿ Thus, a radio or a bed lamp could be added by stringing an extension cord over and down to the point of need.
Since you??re so ??old?, ever seen this thing AND do you know how to crawl under your car/truck to ??un-stick? the linkage when it gets stuck at a most inopportune time? Say, like right after a bank robbery or something. ?????ÿ
We had a '58 Chevy that tended to get stuck. With the straight-6 engine I could get to the linkage from under the hood, so much easier than crawling under.
@flga-2-2?ÿ
Yup, been there done that.
But mine was a '72 Holden (GM product out of Australia)
@flga-2-2?ÿ
1961 Chevy BelAir and 1961 Chevy pickup.?ÿ Discovered what can happen if you are slowly rolling forward but downhill, push in the clutch, put it in reverse, pop the clutch and CRUNCH.?ÿ Suddenly, there is no reverse or first, only second and third.?ÿ Getting back up the slope and onto the road took five guys plus the skinniest one steering.?ÿ Then, taking off in second took the same five guys plus me in the driver's seat.?ÿ Explaining why Dad's number one pickup only had second and third gears was MUCH tougher than that.?ÿ He took it surprisingly well, all things considered.?ÿ I wondered later if maybe something very similar had happened to him about 30 years earlier.
Speaking of being old...................?ÿ Had a call from the last wife (thus widow) of one of the regulars on Hee Haw to check out what it might cost to have her city lots surveyed.?ÿ She is being careful with how she spends her money now that he is gone.
@dougie?ÿ
FWIW, when I was at high school in northern NZ, we had a foreign student, from Tahiti I think, because he was fluent in French. His English he picked up from the boys he hung out with, so it was pretty colourful. One of his party tricks in the science room, when the teacher was out, was to stick the prongs of an electrical capacitor into a wall socket then carefully squeeze the switch until the capacitor blew. If he got the timing correct, he was able to get an arc from the socket to flash across to another socket on the other side of the room. Vive la France.
?ÿ110 plug in spots?ÿ
It may have been 110 volts at the time of installation, but the US standard has been raised to 112, 115, 117, and now 120. There is a tolerance around the standard voltage, so it is not uncommon to find 122 volts on your receptacles when the air conditioners aren't in use, and it may be acceptable to see 125, although that isn't common.
@bill93?ÿ
Much like referring to a board as a 2x4.?ÿ Customary descriptors which may or may not be technically correct.?ÿ Does a 100 watt bulb provide a standard amount of light?
@flga-2-2?ÿ
Had a work truck at one time with a three on the tree shifter. Had to crawl under that thing a couple times a day to unbind the shift linkage.?ÿ?ÿ
@dougie?ÿ
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
