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    Clean up:

    1) Kind O A Lot O Comics

    3) 50%

    4) Munny

    6) 2.5 seconds

    9) Special (as coolotter said)

    Question Set #25:

    1) What company in part of the 1990's advertised during children's programming with the slogan "Hey, It can happen"?

    2) What is Ohm's Law?

    3) Who performed for the super bowl halftime show in 2005?

    4) What is the former identity of Simtropolis member s.i.X.?

    5) What does "LQTM" stand for?

    6) What is a kip?

    7) What is the more common name for samnambulism?

    8) In Simcity 3000, there was an unused filler tile called "Salt of the Earth". What was on it?

    9) What Playstation game featured a character called "Nitrous Oxide" as the final boss?

    10) In pickpocket slang, what is a "beefer"?


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    2) relationship between voltage and current

    5) Laughing Quietly To Myself

    6) 1000 lbs

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    Answered Correctly so far:

    1) thundercrack83

    3) skyliner22

    5) sarjm

    6) sarjm

    7) thundercrack83

    On the unanswered:

    2) hamish and sarjm both almost have it, but it's three things. sarjm is missing one, hamish has one too many. Also, I need to see what the relation is (i.e. the equation).

    4) His former account was banned, but had achieved a custom label

    8) If you own the game, you can use the building plop trick to see for yourself. Open/close the power plants menu, open/close the rewards menu, open/close the garbage menu, then open the landmarks menu.

    9) It was in the Crash Bandicoot series, but it was not the original Crash Bandicoot game.

    10) It's a type of person.


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    9) Crash Bandicoot -Crash Team Racing

    10) Decoy?

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    Answered Correctly:

    1) thundercrack83

    2) coolotter88

    3) skyliner22

    5) sarjm

    6) sarjm

    7) thundercrack83

    9) sarjm

    Answers to the unanswered:

    4) vidioman

    8) grass

    10) A person who reports a theft to the police.

    Question Set #26:

    1) What is "the quilted quicker picker-upper"?

    2) What US President had the shortest tenure in office?

    3) What Disney movie contains a character singing part of a Monty Python song, and what is the song?

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    5) How many known types of quarks are there and what are they called?

    6) What do Max Payne and Duke Nukem (the games, not the characters) have in common?

    7) What is the origin of the word "byte"?

    8) What is the FHWA standard maximum grade for interstate highways?

    9) In three dimensions, how many force components are there at any point on a structure?

    10) What household product has the following active ingredients: Eucalyptol (0.092%), Menthol (0.042%), Methyl salycilate (0.060%), Thymol (0.064%)?


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    1) Bounty

    5) 6 - up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom

    8) 6%

    7) BinarY TuplE

    10) Toothpaste

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    Nobody else? Alright...

    Answered correctly so far:

    1) sarjm

    5) sarjm

    Not anwsered (correctly or at all):

    2) 19th century

    3) It's a movie from the 90's.

    4) Oooh math! Scary? Well it's a very simple answer. Just a number.

    6) ....I can't think of a hint that won't give away the answer.

    7) sarjm has what IBM was teaching in the 60's, but that's not the actual origin of the word. That's a backronym of sorts.

    8) 6% is too much

    9) Well, it's not three (that would be too easy3.gif)

    10) Well, it's not toothpaste, but it is a hygiene product.


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    2) William Henry Harrison

    7) Derived from "bite" - the smallest "bite" of data a computer could handle. Changed to "byte" to avoid confusion with "bit"

    10) Mouthwash

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    Answered correctly:

    1) sarjm

    2) sarjm

    5) sarjm

    7) sarjm

    10) sarjm

    Answers for the unanwsered:

    3) The Lion King, "Coconuts"

    4) 0

    6) Both were made by 3D Realms

    8) 5%

    9) Six (three translational and three rotational)

    Question Set #27:

    1) What J-Pop band performs the theme song to Teen Titans?

    2) What NES game came packaged in the same cartridge as Duck Hunt?

    3) Which of Manhattan's numbered streets have an intersection with the avenue of the same number?

    4) How many tunnels will one go through if one drives I-80 all 411 miles through the state of Nevada?

    5) Exactly how many centimeters are in an inch?

    6) What is the average density of standard concrete?

    7) In Marble Drop, how many points are awarded for a marble making it to a proper destination at the bottom of the puzzle?

    8) What do "AM" and "PM" stand for?

    9) How many digits is a standard credit card number?

    10) What element, other than mercury, is a liquid at room temperature (298 K) and sea level (101.3 KPa)?


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    3) 10th

    5) 2.54

    8) ante meridiem/ post meridiem - before and after midday.

    10) bromine

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    The Correct:

    1) skyliner22

    2) Dave The Hokie

    5) sarjm

    8) sarjm

    9) thundercrack83

    10) sarjm

    The unanswered:

    3) Why guess when you can consult a map?

    4) It's more than none.

    6) This is a statistical figure. You can probably look it up somewhere.

    7) It's on the order of hundreds.


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    Clean up:

    3) Just 1st and 2nd. E 3rd St intersects the Bowery, which, geographically is sort of an extension south of 3rd or 4th Av, but is not 3rd Av.

    4) One (Carlin Tunnel)

    6) 150 pounds per cubic foot

    7) 500

    Question Set #28:

    1) What band in the late 1960's released a hit album that triggered the newspaper headline "Beatles Beaten!"?

    2) Where was Schick's original factory, where the first safety electric razors were made?

    3) Chocolate chip cookies were invented by accident when the woman making them was attempting a new way to make something else. What was she trying to make?

    4) How many volts is the power coming out of a typical North American outlet?

    5) What company makes the popular "Razor" cell phone?

    6) What chain of stores runs advertisements featuring an "easy button"?

    7) How many megabytes is the capacity of a standard Playstation (1) memory card?

    8) In what Italian region was the original mafia formed?

    9) Where in New York can one find an actual ancient Egyptian temple?

    10) What is the origin of the name "Sierra Nevada"?


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    2) Jersey City   Stamford, Connecticut

    3) Chocolate flavoured cookies

    4) 100 - 127

    5) Motorola

    6) Staples

    7) 0.128

    10) Snowy Hills or Range

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    7) It wasn't in MB it was in blocks, 15 blocks

    8) Sicily?

    9) Natural Science and History Museum?

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