Duke87's Random Trivia

[Duke87 1,070]

Questions whcih have been answered correctly so far:

3) moganite

4) zelgadis. And it's "Gay Related Immune Defficiency"

5) SkiGeek

9) moganite. I was just looking for Soidum Chloride and Potassium Iodide, though.

10) Energy Monkey

11) sim1234

13) sim1234

15) sim1234

Comments on the Unanswered:

1) Think east coast

2) Think parties

6) She was from New York, and it was before women had the right to vote

7) Okay, this one was unfair. I'll tell you this, though: It was a SNES (Super Nintendo) game.

It's not in Duke Nukem 3D, and it isn't expicit in any way

12) You've got one of them right. It is xx-xx-33.

14) On phones it's the "pound key" or "gate key", but that's the name of the button, not the symbol on it. The name of the symbol has nothing to do with either of those or "hash".

[Tarkus 6,932]

1) Niagara Falls

2) Blue

7) As far as I remember, the only Megaman games that came out on the SNES were Megaman 7, Megaman X, Megaman X2, and Megaman X3.  (Correct me if I'm wrong, Duke87.)  Well, I have Megaman X, and I have gotten through almost the entire game (never beat the final form of Sigma)--the word doesn't appear.

I've played X2 before . . . rented it probably 9-10 years ago.  I don't think I saw the word there either.  That rules it down to Megaman 7 and Megaman X3, neither of which I've played.  MM7 is kind of an anomaly, since it's the only SNES MM game that's not part of the X series.  So I'd guess Megaman 7.

14)  Well, the musical term is "sharp". 

[sim1234 62]

14) The Number Sign

[cityhawk 12]

6) Victoria Woodhull, 1872

[twistie 3]

6) George W Bush!

12) I believe its 36-18-33

16) Octothorpe or Octothorn

[Duke87 1,070]

Okay, enough of this round:

1) The answer is Acadia National Park.

2) Green!!!!

6) As cityhawk said, it was victoria Woodhull

7) Tarkus: well, those are the only main storyline games for the SNES. There was also Megaman's Soccer....

The answer is Megaman 7, though. Bass says it when you meet him in Shade Man's Stage. In the Anniversary collection, however, they changed it to "Darn"

It also makes an appearance in X3 (In the ending, X says "Damn! It's a dead end!"), but that game came out a year after Megaman 7 did. The reason I said "In the english version" is that in the Japanese Version of X1, at the end of the Intro Stage, X says "Damn! I guess I'm not powerful enough to defeat him..." In the English release, he says just that, only without the "Damn!" In the Recent X collection, however, they revised the script and put it back in. His line makes more sense with it than without it, really. As far as I know, the only other game that's had the word make it into the english version is X4, where Zero says it quite frequently. In every game since then, the translation has changed all the "Damn"s to "Darn"s, and all the "Hell"s to "Heck"s. Hey, "E for everyone..."

In the intro to Duke Nukem II (DOS, 1993) Duke Nukem says "I'm Back". However, he sounds noticably different from how he does in al later games, and he should, as it wasn't John St Jon doing the voice.

12) 39-23-33

14) It's called an "Octothorpe"

now that we've got that out of the way....

Question Set #3:

1) What is the number on the trash compactor in Star Wars (A New Hope)?

2) What was Wilma Flinstone's maiden name?

3) How many grooves are there around the edge of a Quarter (the US coin)?

4) What to the A and W in "A&W" stand for?

5) What was the first US football team to put emblems on their helmets?

6) How many dimples are there on a standard golf ball?

7) You may know that the original latin alphabet didn't have the letter "W". What is the 'supposed' origin of the letter?

During conscription for world war II, how many documented cases of men with three testicles were there?

9) What was the first product to ever have a bar code?

10) Who invented scissors?

11) What state has the highest percentage of people that walk to work?

12) What was the first novel ever written on a typewriter?

13) What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windsheild wipers, and laser printers all have in common?

14) What did King George III of England write in his journal on July 4th, 1776?

15) What was the first magazine to sell 1 billion copies?

[beebs 129]

4. Albert & Wilbur?

15. Time Magazine?

[Tarkus 6,932]

2) There's actually conflicting answers on that one . . . I believe one of the ones they've used was Pebble.

11) New York

[moganite 4]

4) Its abusiness shortenting? in particlular rail lines? the Atlanta Washington rail line?

6) 180 no I didn't count them

7) normams the runic system ?

3

11) NY

13 all inventied in the 20th century

[callagrafx 3]

1) 3263827

6) African or European golfball?

7) Arabic

9) Wrigleys Chewing Gum

11) Americans can walk? never knew that

12) Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

13) There is no inventor identified for these

14) "Nothing important happened today" (how right he was)

15) Playboy

[twistie 3]

4) .... & Wagon?

7) Hebrew

9) Which Type of Barcode? The Concentric Circles or the UPC type?

13) They were thought of over a hundred years before they were made?

15) National Geographic

[sim1234 62]

2) Slaghoople

3) 119

9

[justanothersim86 83]

4) Albert and Walter

11) New York?

[cityhawk 12]

5) St. Louis Rams

[Duke87 1,070]

Answered correctly so far:

1) callagrafx

2) sim1234

3) sim1234

5) cityhawk

sim1234

9) callagrafx

12) callagrafx

14) callagrafx

Comments on the unanswered:

4) nobody's guessed either the A or the W yet

6) there are more than 180

7) Think northern europe

10) He invented lots of other things, too. But he never actually built any of them, he just came up with the design.

11) No, it's not New York! Remember, we're talking the entire state here. There's a lot to the state of New York beyond the city of New York.

13) It's something the inventors all had in common

15) The magazine in question used to be a lot more popular, but has become rather useless iin recent years because it's been replaced by technology.

[cityhawk 12]

4) Amburgers & Wootbeer

6) anywhere from 336 to 500

11) Alaska

[Duke87 1,070]

Okay, enough of that.

4) "Allen & Wright"

6) 336

7) Okay, this one was tough. Lemme quote my source verbatim: "The letter 'W' started as a joke between two German poets who proposed the then-ludicrous idea of having a letter equivalent to a 'double-U.' They used it in a few poems and before they could stop it, the new letter caught on!"

Since I question the accuracy of this story, I said "supposed".

10) Leonardo Da Vinci

11) cityhawk got it. It's Alaska

13) All of them were invented by women

15) TV Guide.

Question Set #4:

1) what is the typical terminal velocity of a raindrop?

2) What was the world's first public limited access highway?

3) Worldwide, what percent of married couples are first cousins?

4) Who is the only American praised by Hitler in Mein Kampf?

5) The George Washington Bridge in New York is longer on the hottest days of summer than on the coldest days of winter. By how much?

6) On average, how many boxes of Jello are sold every second?

7) How tall was the tallest tower ever made out of Legos?

What did former Sony Chairman Matikaya Yohama originaly want to call the Compact Disc?

9) George Bush wasn't the first to call his oponent a "flip-flopper". Who was?

10) What country has the world's highest daily circulation of Newspapers?

11) In Visual Basic, what does the command Range("A1").Value = "text" do?

12) The modern frisbee was "invented" at an american university in the 1940's by college students playing with Frisbie brand pie tins. Which university was it?

13) Where is the NBA hall of fame?

14) What was the first album ever to be released exclusively on CD?

15) Who said "Whoa, whoa! I didn't know Dan Aykroyd was in this picture!" and in what movie?

[Tarkus 6,932]

These are total guesses . . . I feel that looking them up takes the fun out of them.

2) New Jersey Turnpike

3) 10%

5) 100 feet

6) 1,000 boxes

9) Henry Clay

10) Well, it's probably not the US . . . that would be too obvious.  I'd say China.

11)  Puts text on the screen.

I'm guessing #8 is probably something totally odd . . .

[sim1234 62]

1) 25 ft/s

4) Henry Ford

6) 13

13) Springfield, Massachusetts.

[cityhawk 12]

2) Pennsylvania Turnpike

3) 20% (Whoa!)

4) Henry Ford

Don't have time to do more.

[Diamond Dave66 1]

12) U of Buffalo

[mambomumba 8]

7) 24.91 meters

[justanothersim86 83]

10) Japan

14) I think it was Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. I'm not 100% sure.

[callagrafx 3]

3) 14% (Mostly in Louisiana, Georgia and a couple of the other southern states) - is that a banjo I hear playing?

15) John Belushi in the Blues Brothers

[Duke87 1,070]

Answered correcctly so far:

3) cityhawk

4) sim1234

6) sim1234

7) mambomumba (you made me convert to check, though, I knew it as 82 feet...)

10) justanothersim86

13) sim1234

Comments on the unanswered:

1) It's more than 25 ft/s. Also, an answer in miles per hour would save me the effort of having to convert to check.

2) It's in New York

5) 100 feet is way too high. Again, though, an answer in feet is preferable since it saves me the convert to check effort.

It's four words. "Music" is one of them.

9) The person being called it was William Jennings Bryan.

11) Tarkus is on the right track, but I need a more specific answere.

12) It's an Ivy league school

14) It came out in 1988. The artist of it has also written music for a Disney movie.

15) It was a Warner Brothers movie from the 90's.

Hmm... are my questions getting harder?

[mightygoose 92]

15) swackhammer in space jam, yeah i know random trivia w00t

[MC6Ash 4]

12. Harvard(, though Yale hosted the first national competition)

[callagrafx 3]

Hmm... are my questions getting harder? quote>

No, just too trivial and too biased to the US

[moganite 4]

7) in your previous set check wikipediea it has norman origins in the 7th century so unless it was earlier than that you awnser was wrong.

now the current set

1) 25 m/s well i know SI far better than i know Imperial/US so i am sticking withn it

3) 2.5 percent

5) 30 mm Again SI units i know them alot better

7) 10 m

10) India

this seems to be US trivial mostly

[Duke87 1,070]

^^^that's because I'm not looking things up, I'm just going with random stuff I already know. Since I'm from the US, that's naturally what I know the most about.

Anyway:

1) 22 mph. That's about 9.83 m/s or 35.4 kph for you metric types.

2) the Bronx River Parkway

5) 3 feet, or a little less than a meter.

"Shiny Fun Music Circle" is the literal English translation of the Japanese name he came up with.

9) William McKinley, in 1896!

11) It makes Cell A1 in Excel tead "text"

12) MC6Ash is quite close. It originated at Yale. Dunno about where the first national competition was, though.

14) Reg Strikes Back, by Elton John.

15) mightygoose pinned it.

Question Set #5:

1) There are 10 "roundabaouts" in the city of New York. Name them all.

2) There are only two animals on earth that have hymens. Humans are one of them. What's the other?

3) What does Italy call it's motorway system?

4) Name all seven wonders of the Ancient world.

5) What is the longest word in the english language that contains only one vowel?

6) What is the only word in the english language that contains no vowels?

7) What was the first site ever on the World Wide Web?

What is the limit as b goes to infinity of the integral from -b to b of 1/x+7 dx?

9) What was the first song ever to be both parodied and covered by popular artists?

10) What were Charles de Gaulle's last words?

11) In what year did earth's population first exceed 1 billion?

12) What is the largest number you can write using only three digits?

13) What is the most commonly available substance that will sublime at room temperature (25 °C)and 1 atm?

14) Where was the first Burger King ever?

15) What was the first artificially made preservative ever used in food?