Quiz Questions - Please Help!
Please can you help me get some quiz questions together for a friend of mine? She's having a rotten time of it at the moment, and as she's in Kenya there's pretty much nothing I can do to help.
It is her turn to provide questions for the weekly quiz (next week) and if I can email her some good ones she won't have to trawl the internet from a Kenyan internet cafe. I will be looking myself, but at least I know any I get here will be quality assured :)
Thanks in advance.
Godamnit, Godamnit, Godamnit, I had about 20 questions listed and lost the post. :mad:
OK, here's some off the wall stuff.
Who's the leader of the club, that's made for you and me? [COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Mickey Mouse[/COLOR]
What is the hottest place on Earth? [COLOR="royalblue"]El Azizia, Libya - 136F (57.8 C) Sept. 13, 1922[/COLOR]
What is the coldest place on Earth? [COLOR="royalblue"]Vostok, Antarctica, -129 F (-89 C) July 21, 1983. [/COLOR]
Where is the worlds highest waterfall? [COLOR="royalblue"]Angel Falls in Venezuela - 3,212 feet (979 meters).[/COLOR]
What is the largest volcano? [COLOR="royalblue"]Mauna Loa, Hawaii rises more than 50,000 feet (9.5 miles or 15.2 kilometers) above its base, in the ocean[/COLOR]
What is the highest mountain? [COLOR="royalblue"]Mt. Everest - 29,035 feet (nearly 9 kilometers) above sea level.[/COLOR]
Where is the lowest dry point on Earth? [COLOR="royalblue"]The shore of the Dead Sea is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) below sea level.[/COLOR]
What is the longest river? [COLOR="royalblue"]Nile River - 4,160 miles (6,695 kilometers) long.[/COLOR]
What's the driest place on Earth? [COLOR="royalblue"]Arica, Chile - 0.03 inches (0.76 millimeters) of rain per year. It would take a century to fill a coffee cup.[/COLOR]
What is the wettest place on Earth? [COLOR="royalblue"] Lloro, Colombia averages 523.6 inches/year, or more than 40 feet (13 meters).[/COLOR]
What percentage of the world’s water is in the oceans? [COLOR="royalblue"]About 97 percent.[/COLOR]
Which Earth ocean, is the largest? [COLOR="royalblue"]Pacific - 64 million square miles (165 million square kilometers). Average depth of 2.4 miles (3.9 kilometers). [/COLOR]
How much surface area does Earth contain? [COLOR="royalblue"]196,950,711 square miles (510,100,000 square kilometers).[/COLOR]
What is the largest lake in the world? [COLOR="royalblue"]By size and volume, the Caspian Sea.[/COLOR]
What's the deepest place in the ocean? [COLOR="royalblue"]Greatest known depth is 36,198 feet (6.9 miles or 11 kilometers) at the Mariana Trench.[/COLOR]
What is the fastest surface wind ever recorded? [COLOR="royalblue"]"Regular" wind, 231 mph (372 kph), A tornado in Oklahoma, clocked at 318 mph (513 kph).[/COLOR]
What is the world’s largest desert? [COLOR="royalblue"]Sahara. Antarctica technically tops this category.[/COLOR]
What is the world’s deepest lake? [COLOR="royalblue"]Lake Baikal, Siberia is 5,712 feet (1.7 kilometers) deep. [/COLOR]
What is the world’s largest island? [COLOR="royalblue"]Greenland covers 840,000 square miles (2,176,000 square kilometers). [/COLOR]
How much would seas rise if the Antarctic Ice Sheet melted? [COLOR="royalblue"]220 feet, or the height of a 20-story building. UN worst-case scenario -- seas could jump 3 feet (1 meter) by 2100.[/COLOR]
Where are the highest tides? [COLOR="royalblue"]Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia, tides can range 38.4 feet (11.7 meters). [/COLOR]
How much gold has been discovered worldwide to date? [COLOR="royalblue"]193,000 metric tons (425 million pounds).[/COLOR]
What North American plant can live for thousands of years? [COLOR="royalblue"]The creosote bush, has been shown by radiocarbon dating to have lived since the birth of Christ. Some of these plants may endure 10,000 years, scientists say[/COLOR]
What % of the world’s fresh water is stored as glacial ice? [COLOR="royalblue"]About 70 percent or 60 years of the entire globe's rainfall.[/COLOR]
What's the most common mineral in Earth's crust. [COLOR="royalblue"] Feldspar.[/COLOR]
What's the best cure for everything? [COLOR="royalblue"]Chocolate[/COLOR] :rolleyes:
Check out some of the quiz threads around here. The music trivia thread comes to mind.
Bruce, as suspected you are a bearded angel - thank you
Spexx, I checked the music quiz, but I think the questions are pretty specialist for a local pub quiz. I might send some of them & let her decide...
Thousands of questions
hereWhat are the rules for this quiz? Can the quiz takers use the internet? If so, they will find the answers in this thread.
I used to stick a trivia question at the bottom of calendars I would send out to my department. Unfortunately, I would keep the answers in a separate location, and I don't have them any longer. If a particular question seems intriguing to you, then you can always Google the answer. Sorry.
July is Cell Phone Courtesy Month. Roughly how many wireless handsets are sold annually worldwide?
According to this year’s state of marshmallow Peeps survey, what male celebrity most resembles marshmallow Peeps? (I think this one was Drew Carey)
What non-word, supposedly meaning “density,” was inadvertently included in Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition? (answer: "Dord" which was short for "D" or "d" as an editor's note for where to include the word "density")
May is National Egg Month. According to the American Egg Board, how many eggs are produced in the US each year?
Who is the only U.S. President to be issued a patent?
Which of the following is not an actual name of a crayon color: Red, Granny Smith Apple, Tickle Me Pink, Periwinkle, Tumbleweed, Macaroni and Cheese, Purple Mountain’s Majesty, Cinnamon Bun?
How many drops are in a gallon? (I was amazed that a drop is an actual defined unit of measurement)
What was the subject of the 1957 BBC April fools prank?
What significant technological event happened a century ago on Independence Day 1903?
What did Herb Peterson invent in 1971?
Which “Lucy” is the famous caveman, Australopithecus afarensis, named after?
Who placed the aluminum cap at the apex of the Washington Monument on December 6, 1884?
According to legend, what will a girl, sitting before a mirror at midnight on Halloween, eating an apple and brushing her hair, see?
What feature of the Sunday paper made its first appearance on November 18, 1894?
According to Victorian British tradition, what will your future hold if you find a button in your Christmas pudding?
The quiz is a low tech pub quiz of mostly ex-pats in a Kenyan bar. So Googleable questions are more than welcome.
for brits in kenya:
1. Do cocnuts migrate?
2. What is the airspeed velocity of an African Swallow?
3. What do you do with a witch?(this should have them all shouting, but you need the first two questions to put them in the right frame of mind)
4. what is your quest?
LJ this isn't a newbie quiz.
Tougher when you have to come up with a name to match the deed or deed to match the name? :confused:
Ivan IV (the Terrible) [COLOR="Blue"]1547 --- 1st Tsar of Russia[/COLOR].
Queen Mary I (Bloody Mary) [COLOR="blue"]1553 --- 1st reigning queen of England.[/COLOR]
Sofinisba Anguissola [COLOR="blue"]1559 --- 1st woman artist to gain prominence as a painter. [/COLOR]
Virginia Dare [COLOR="blue"]1587 --- 1st child born in the American colonies, on August 18th, on what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina.[/COLOR]
James Cook [COLOR="blue"]1773 --- 1st person to cross Antarctic Circle.[/COLOR]
Marquis d'Arlandes & Pilatre de Rozier [COLOR="blue"] 1783 --- 1st humans to fly. They were airborne in a hot-air balloon for 20 minutes, in Paris, on Nov. 21.[/COLOR]
André-Jacques Garnerin [COLOR="blue"]1797 --- 1st parachute jump. Dropped from about 6,500 ft. over Monceau Park in Paris in a 23-ft.-diameter parachute made of white canvas with a basket attached (Oct. 22).[/COLOR]
Count de Grisley [COLOR="blue"]1799 --- 1st magician to perform the trick of sawing a woman in half .[/COLOR]
Sam Patch [COLOR="blue"]1829 --- 1st first known person to survive the jump off of Niagara Falls.[/COLOR]
Queen Victoria [COLOR="blue"]1837 --- 1st English monarch to live in Buckingham Palace.[/COLOR]
Tim Hyer [COLOR="blue"]1841 --- 1st recognized boxing (fisticuffs) champion.[/COLOR]
Antoinette de Correvont [COLOR="blue"]1843 --- 1st professional woman photographer. In 1843 she opened a Daguerreotype studio in Munich. [/COLOR]
Jean François "Blondin" Gravelet [COLOR="blue"] 1859 --- 1st person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope.[/COLOR]
Jules Leotard [COLOR="blue"]1859 --- world's 1st flying trapeze circus act. Performed at the Cirque Napoleon in Paris, without safety nets.[/COLOR]
Sir John Alexander McDonald [COLOR="blue"] 1867 --- 1st Prime Minister of Canada.[/COLOR]
Louis De Geer [COLOR="blue"]1874 --- 1st US Prime Minister of Sweden[/COLOR]
Wilhelm Steinitz [COLOR="blue"]1886 --- world's 1st chess champion.[/COLOR]
William Kemmler [COLOR="blue"]1890 --- 1st criminal to be executed by electrocution (in Auburn Prison, Auburn, N.Y., Aug. 6)[/COLOR]
Queen Isabella of Spain [COLOR="blue"]1893 --- 1st woman to appear on a US postage stamp.[/COLOR]
Edmund Barton [COLOR="blue"]1900 --- 1st Prime Minister of Australia.[/COLOR]
Charlotte Cooper [COLOR="blue"] 1900 --- 1st woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal (for tennis).[/COLOR]
Annie Taylor [COLOR="blue"]1901 --- 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She was aged 64 years at the time. [/COLOR]
Vida Goldstein [COLOR="blue"]1902 --- 1st woman in the British Empire to run for a national office. She ran for the Australian Senate when women there got the right to vote in all federal elections.[/COLOR]
Maurice Garin [COLOR="blue"]1903 --- 1st Tour de France winner.[/COLOR]
Alexander Winton [COLOR="blue"]1903 --- set the 1st land speed record in car racing. Set at Daytona Beach, his speed was 68.18 mph.[/COLOR]
May Sutton Brandy [COLOR="blue"]1904 --- 1st American woman to win the ladies singles tennis championship at Wimbledon. [/COLOR]
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman [COLOR="blue"]1905 --- 1st "actual" British prime minister. Until the 18th century, the monarch's most senior minister could hold any of a number of titles; usually either First Lord, Lord Chancellor, Lord Privy Seal, or one of the Secretaries of State. During the late 18th Century, the term "prime minister" came to be used. In 1905, the title was officially recognized by King Edward VII.[/COLOR]
Theodore Roosevelt [COLOR="blue"]1906 --- 1st American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It was for helping mediate an end the Russo-Japanese War.[/COLOR]
Ferenc Szisz [COLOR="blue"] 1906 --- Winner of the 1st Grand Prix held at Le Mans, France. The Romanian driver drove a Renault.[/COLOR]
Thomas E. Selfridge [COLOR="blue"]1908 --- 1st airplane fatality. Selfridge, a Lt.in the US Army Signal Corps, was in a group evaluating the Wright plane at Fort Myer, Va. He was up 75 ft. with Orville Wright when the propeller hit a bracing wire and was broken, throwing the plane out of control, killing Selfridge and seriously injuring Wright (Sept. 17).[/COLOR]
Baroness Raymonde de la Roche [COLOR="blue"]1910 --- 1st licensed woman pilot. (of France, who learned to fly in 1909, received ticket No. 36 on March 8.) [/COLOR]
Roald Amundsen - Norwegian explorer [COLOR="blue"] 1911 --- 1st man to reach the South Pole, beating out an expedition led by Robert F. Scott.[/COLOR]
Marie Sklodowska Curie [COLOR="blue"] 1911 --- 1st person ever to win two Nobel Prizes. Her first was in Physics (1903) and the second in Chemistry (1911.)[/COLOR]
Alice Hyde [COLOR="blue"]1911 --- 1st winner of the "Miss World" beauty pageant. She was 17.[/COLOR]
Harriet Quimby [COLOR="blue"]1911 --- 1st US woman pilot. (A magazine writer, got ticket No. 37, making her the second licensed female pilot in the world. She was also the 1st woman to fly across the English Channel. She flew from Dover, England and landed at Hardelot, France, in a Blériot monoplane(April 16). She was later killed in a flying accident over Dorchester Bay during a Harvard-Boston aviation meet on July 1, 1912. ) [/COLOR]
Arthur R. Eldred [COLOR="blue"]1912 --- 1st boy to reach the rank of Eagle Scout -- the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America program. He was of Oceanside, NY.[/COLOR]
Jeannette Rankin [COLOR="blue"]1916 --- 1st woman elected to US congress. (Montana) Only legislator to vote against both WW I and WW II.[/COLOR]
Rosika Schwimmer [COLOR="blue"]1918 --- the world's 1st woman ambassador. She was appointed the Hungarian ambassador to Switzerland. [/COLOR]
Margaret Gorman [COLOR="blue"]1921 --- 1st Miss America. She was 16 and 30-25-32.[/COLOR]
Henry Sullivan [COLOR="blue"]1923 --- 1st American to swim across the English Channel.[/COLOR]
Gertrude Ederle [COLOR="blue"]1926 --- 1st American woman to swim the English Channel. It took her 14 hours and 39 minutes. (She broke the existing men's record.)[/COLOR]
Al Jolson [COLOR="blue"]1927 --- lead role in the 1st talking motion picture, "The Jazz Singer."[/COLOR]
Charles Lindbergh [COLOR="blue"]1927 --- 1st man to fly solo across the Atlantic.[/COLOR]
Norma Talmadge [COLOR="blue"]1927 --- 1st footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater (now Mann's Chinese Theater.)[/COLOR]
Ellen Church [COLOR="blue"]1930 --- 1st airline hostess. She served passengers flying between San Francisco, California and Cheyenne, Wyoming on United Airlines. [/COLOR]
Jackie Mitchell - baseball pitcher [COLOR="blue"]1931 --- 1st woman in organized baseball. She was signed by the Chattanooga Baseball Club at the age of 19.[/COLOR]
Amelia Earhart [COLOR="blue"]1932 --- 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman. (traveling from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Ireland in approximately 15 hours)[/COLOR]
Marie, Cecile, Yvonne, Emilie and Annette Dionne [COLOR="blue"]1934 --- 1st quintuplets to survive infancy. They were born near Callender, Ontario to Oliva and Elzire Dionne.[/COLOR]
Horton Smith [COLOR="blue"] 1934 --- won the 1st Masters Golf Tournament under the magnolia trees of Augusta National in Georgia.[/COLOR]
Lettie Pate Whitehead [COLOR="blue"] 1934 --- 1st American woman to serve as a director of a major corporation, The Coca-Cola Company. [/COLOR]
Franklin D. Roosevelt [COLOR="blue"]1939 --- 1st US president to speak on television. (Spoke at the opening session of the New York World's Fair on April 30, 1939.)[/COLOR]
Glenn Miller [COLOR="blue"]1941 --- Received the 1st gold record ever awarded to a recording artist.[/COLOR]
Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini [COLOR="blue"]1946 --- 1st canonized American saint.[/COLOR]
Trygve Lie - Norwegian socialist [COLOR="blue"]1946 --- 1st Secretary General of United Nations.[/COLOR]
Chuck Yeager [COLOR="blue"]1947 --- 1st person to break the sound barrier by flying faster than the speed of sound. (On October 14, 1947, he flew a Bell X-1 rocket at 670 mph in level flight.)[/COLOR]
Florence Chadwick [COLOR="blue"]1951 --- 1st woman to have swum across the English Channel in each direction.[/COLOR]
George (Christine) Jorgenson [COLOR="blue"]1952 --- recipient of the world's 1st sex-change operation. Danish artist Einar Wegener underwent a sex change operation in Berlin March 5, 1930. He assumed the identity of Lili Elbe, and had ovaries implanted. It is speculated that Wegener was actually a hermaphrodite, and the credit for first sex change usually is given to Christine. [/COLOR]
Patricia McCormick [COLOR="blue"]1952 --- 1st professional woman bullfighter. She got herself two bulls in the contest held in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.[/COLOR]
Jacqueline Cochrane [COLOR="blue"]1953 --- 1st woman to fly faster than speed of sound. (She piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour.)[/COLOR]
Elizabeth II [COLOR="blue"]1953 --- 1st monarch to have a televised coronation.[/COLOR]
Sir Edmund Hillary [COLOR="blue"] 1953 --- 1st recorded climb of Mt. Everest.[/COLOR]
Sir Roger Bannister [COLOR="blue"]1954 --- 1st person recorded to run a mile race in under four minutes. He broke the four minute barrier at Imey Road, Oxford on the 6 May. His time was 3 minutes 59.4 seconds.[/COLOR]
Laika, the dog [COLOR="blue"]1957 --- 1st living creature to orbit the earth. Aboard the Soviet satellite, Sputnik 2.[/COLOR]
Julia Child [COLOR="blue"]1958 --- 1st woman designated a full-fledged "Chef."[/COLOR]
Sirimavo Bandaraneike [COLOR="blue"]1960 --- 1st woman to be elected the head of state. She became the president of Sri Lanka. (Following her were Indira Gandhi of India in 1966 and Golda Meir of Israel in 1969.)[/COLOR]
Antonio Abertondo [COLOR="blue"] 1961 --- 1st person to swim the English Channel non-stop in both directions. [/COLOR]
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin [COLOR="blue"]1961 --- 1st human in space, 1st human to orbit Earth.[/COLOR]
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova - Russian cosmonaut [COLOR="blue"]1963 --- 1st woman in space.[/COLOR]
Golda Meir [COLOR="blue"]1964 --- 1st Jewish female prime minister, and 1st female prime minister of Israel.[/COLOR]
Jerrie Mock [COLOR="blue"]1964 --- 1st around-the-world solo flight by a woman.[/COLOR]
Peter Sellers [COLOR="blue"]1964 --- 1st male to appear on the cover of "Playboy" magazine.[/COLOR]
Alexei Arkhovich Leonov [COLOR="blue"]1965 --- 1st human to walk in space.[/COLOR]
Amber Dean Smith [COLOR="blue"]1965---1st ever nude centrefold girl when in 1965 at the age of 19 years she was crowned 'Pet Of The Year' by Penthouse magazine.[/COLOR]
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi [COLOR="blue"]1966 --- 1st woman prime minister of India.[/COLOR]
Christiaan Barnard - heart surgeon [COLOR="blue"] 1967 --- performed the 1st human heart transplant.[/COLOR]
Louis Washkansky [COLOR="blue"]1967 --- 1st human heart transplant recipient. He lived 18 days with the new heart.[/COLOR]
Ruth Eisemann-Schier [COLOR="blue"]1968 --- 1st woman placed on the FBI's Most Wanted List (for kidnaping, extortion, and other crimes.)[/COLOR]
Neil Armstrong [COLOR="blue"]1969 --- 1st man to walk on the moon.[/COLOR]
Barbara Jo Rubin [COLOR="blue"] 1969 --- 1st woman jockey to win a race in North America. She was riding Cohesian, at Charlestown Race Course in West Virginia. [/COLOR]
Elizabeth P. Hoisington [COLOR="blue"] 1970 --- 1st female general in the US armed forces. She was appointed to the post of director of the Women's Army Corps.[/COLOR]
Fran Phillips [COLOR="blue"]1971 --- 1st woman to set foot on the North Pole, on April 5th[/COLOR].
Mark Spitz - US swimmer [COLOR="blue"]1972 --- 1st athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals.[/COLOR]
Junko Tabei [COLOR="blue"]1975 --- 1st woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.[/COLOR]
Louise Brown [COLOR="blue"]1978 --- 1st test tube baby. (Lancastershire, England)[/COLOR]
John Paul the Second (Karol Wojtyla) [COLOR="blue"]1978 --- 1st Pole to become pope. 1998 --- 1st pope to visit Cuba. (Jan. 21-25)[/COLOR]
Diana Nyad [COLOR="blue"]1979 --- 1st person to swim from the Bahamas to Florida.[/COLOR]
Margaret Thatcher [COLOR="blue"] 1979 --- Britain's 1st female prime minister.[/COLOR]
Sandra Day O'Connor [COLOR="blue"]1981 -- 1st female US Supreme Court justice.[/COLOR]
Barney Clark [COLOR="blue"]1982 -- 1st recipient of a permanent artificial heart, on Dec. 2. He lived until March 23, 1983.[/COLOR]
Bruce Springsteen [COLOR="blue"]1983 --- 1st US music CD artist - "Born in the USA" released March 1983 [/COLOR]
Joan Benoit [COLOR="blue"]1984 --- winner of the 1st women's Olympic marathon at the Summer Games, held in Los Angeles.[/COLOR]
Libby Riddles [COLOR="blue"]1985 --- 1st woman to win the Iditarod, Alaska's 1,135-mile Anchorage-to-Nome dog sled race. She completed the course in 18 days, twenty minutes and seventeen seconds.[/COLOR]
Wilma Mankiller [COLOR="blue"]1985 --- 1st woman to lead a major American Indian tribe. She was elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.[/COLOR]
Corazon Aquino [COLOR="blue"]1986 --- 1st woman President of the Philippines. She was later the 1st Philippine president not to seek a second term.[/COLOR]
Mary Lund [COLOR="blue"]1986 --- 1st female recipient of an artificial heart.[/COLOR]
Kofi Annan [COLOR="blue"]1987 --- 1st black Secretary General of the United Nations. [/COLOR]
Kurt Browning [COLOR="blue"]1988 --- 1st figure skater to land a quadruple jump in competition.[/COLOR]
Justin Fashanu [COLOR="blue"]1988 --- a top soccer player in Britain, reveals that he is gay. He is the 1st athlete in a team sport to come out during his athletic career.[/COLOR]
Aileen Wuornos [COLOR="blue"]1992 --- 1st female serial killer in America. In 1992 she was charged with the shooting of five middle-aged men she met on highways by hitch hiking. She confessed to shooting seven men in self-defence and was eventually executed on 9th October 2002. Lethal Intent, the Aileen 'Lee' Wuornos story [/COLOR]
Akebono (Chadwick Haheo Rowan) [COLOR="blue"]1993 --- 1st non-Japanese yokozuna (sumo wrestler.)[/COLOR]
Kim Campbell [COLOR="blue"]1993 --- 1st female Prime Minister of Canada.[/COLOR]
Barbara Harmer [COLOR="blue"]1993 --- 1st woman to pilot the Concorde (March 25th.)[/COLOR]
Dolly, the lamb [COLOR="blue"]1996 --- 1st cloned mammal.[/COLOR]
McCaughey septuplets, Kenneth Robert, Alexis May, Natalie Sue, Kelsey Ann, Nathan Roy, Brandon James, and Joel Steven
[COLOR="blue"]1997 --- 1st surviving set of septuplets. Conceived as the result of fertility drugs, they were born in Des Moines, Iowa on November 19, 1997.[/COLOR]
Craig Breedlove [COLOR="blue"]1998 --- 1st person to break the sound barrier in a car, at Lake Bonneville, UT, with a trap speed of over 760 MPH.[/COLOR]
Elizabeth Ann Oliver [COLOR="blue"]1998 --- 1st woman to have her baby's birth broadcast live over the Internet. (June 16)[/COLOR]
Abdurrahman Wahid [COLOR="blue"]1999 --- 1st elected president of Indonesia (on October 20, 1999).[/COLOR]
Vonetta Flowers [COLOR="blue"]2002 --- 1st black female US athlete to win a gold medal in a Winter Olympics. She wins in the women's bobsleigh event on February 19th.[/COLOR]
Steve Fossett [COLOR="blue"]2002 --- 1st balloonist to fly solo around the world when he landed in Australia on 4th July 2002.[/COLOR]
Anousheh Ansari [COLOR="blue"]2006 --- 1st female "space tourist," on September 18, 2006, she paid $20 million to ride on the Russian Soyuz TMA-9 capsule. also: 1st Iranian in space and 1st Muslim woman in space.[/COLOR]
.....to name a few. :blush:
I'm pretty sure xoB is ready to propose. DAYm!
Ok, hot stuff (meaning, of course, oxB), what is the % difference between 35% and 83%?
(sorry, SG, don't mean to hijack the thread but I think xoB has it all wrapped up!)
% difference of what? :cool:
The percent difference between 35% and 83%.
Here's the deal: (stats question, not my question) In 1965 35% of those polled thought cohabitation was NOT a sin. In 2000 83% of those polled thought cohabitation was NOT a sin. So. Sum up? What is the significance beyond 'more people today are tolerant of cohabitation'---?????
Is there really that little surface area on the earth? Are we talking land only or land and water?
Is there really that little surface area on the earth? Are we talking land only or land and water?
I
knew I would be mocked!
(runs away to cry)
oh. Perhaps F3 wasn't meaning me? :blush:
The percent difference between 35% and 83%.
Here's the deal: (stats question, not my question) In 1965 35% of those polled thought cohabitation was NOT a sin. In 2000 83% of those polled thought cohabitation was NOT a sin. So. Sum up? What is the significance beyond 'more people today are tolerant of cohabitation'---?????
Maybe they polled more people who were actually cohabitating in 2000 because those who believed in cohabitation in 1965 might have kept it hidden whereas now it's not taboo. Those who do cohabitate would be more tolerant of it. Not trying to be facetious, it just sounds that way.
Maybe they polled more people who were actually cohabitating in 2000 because those who believed in cohabitation in 1965 might have kept it hidden whereas now it's not taboo. Those who do cohabitate would be more tolerant of it. Not trying to be facetious, it just sounds that way.
Chick, I TOTALLY tried that tact. I was told that this is a PURE stats course and NOT a course on Research Methods. We are supposed to pretend that the sample is legit.
Oh, then I don't know. :blush: :p
The percent difference between 35% and 83%.
Here's the deal: (stats question, not my question) In 1965 35% of those polled thought cohabitation was NOT a sin. In 2000 83% of those polled thought cohabitation was NOT a sin. So. Sum up? What is the significance beyond 'more people today are tolerant of cohabitation'---?????
Are they asking for the percent
increase? If so, you're looking at:
83-35 = 48
48/35 = 1.37, or a 137% increase in the number of people who found cohabitation to be acceptable.
I knew I would be mocked!
(runs away to cry)
How much surface area does Earth contain? [COLOR=royalblue]196,950,711 square miles (510,100,000 square kilometers).
Seems like there is more surface than that.
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I assume they are talking dry land but I didn't measure it.
#41
35% of the 1965 population to 83% of the 2000 population would be more than 137%, wouldn't it? :confused:
Thanks, Clobfobble! totally the right answer!
35% of the 1965 population to 83% of the 2000 population would be more than 137%, wouldn't it?
Nah, because remember a "100%
increase" would be
doubling your number, and then this is just a little more than that..
Seems like there is more surface than that.
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Surface area of a sphere: 4 * pi * r * r
r = 3978
3978 * 3978 * 3.1416 * 4 = SA of Earth
198,856,795 approx surface area of Earth.
r = radius = diameter / 2
c = circumference = 25,000 miles
circumference of Earth approx 25,000 miles
radius of Earth approx 3978 miles
c / d = pi
25000 / d = 3.1416
25000 = 3.1416 * d
25000 / 3.1416 = d
7958 miles = d
d = 2r
7958 = 2r
7958 / 2 = r
3978 = r
The distance around a circle is called the circumference. The distance across a circle through the center is called the diameter. Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter. Thus, for any circle, if you divide the circumference by the diameter, you get a value close to Pi. This relationship is expressed in the following formula:
C over d equals Pi
Well, BigV, the good news is that Earth isn't as superficial as I thought.
hehe.... I have to keep my algebra muscles limber for middle school math homework. That's why I tried to show my work. I treated it like a homework problem SonofV might have. You see the first draft, not the polished final product. But that's where the work is, the rest is finish carpentry, something neither of us is passionate about. I leave that to artisans like Griff and Happy Monkey.
You not got a game of Triv you can raid there, Brianna? The perfect source for pub quiz questions.
35% of the 1965 population to 83% of the 2000 population would be more than 137%, wouldn't it? :confused:
Nah, because remember a "100% increase" would be doubling your number, and then this is just a little more than that..
1965 population was 194 million x 35% = 68 million
2000 population was 281 million x 83% = 233 million
243% increase in sinners? :D
If 137% is correct as Brianna said, I guess we were supposed to be looking for the % increase of the % approving sin, rather than the % increase in people approving sin. Nevermind.
You not got a game of Triv you can raid there, Brianna? The perfect source for pub quiz questions.
I think you mean me, Monster - it's my request.
I don't personally have a game of Triv (my family have one of course, just not me) and my friend doesn't either, at least not in Kenya.
If anyone else is willing to type in a selection of questions and answers of course I'd appreciate it..... ;)
I think you mean me, Monster - it's my request.
I don't personally have a game of Triv (my family have one of course, just not me) and my friend doesn't either, at least not in Kenya.
If anyone else is willing to type in a selection of questions and answers of course I'd appreciate it..... ;)
I did, sorry, I just realized that but you'd already posted! It's because you're both such lovely people ;)
OK, I'll try to dig some out later (didn't want to do it if you'd already ruled it out)
OK, I'll try to dig some out later (didn't want to do it if you'd already ruled it out)
Thank you, thank you, thank you (also for the "lovely")
The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.
The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side
That's a right triangle, you idiot!
D'oh!
It would help to know the nationalities of those taking part in the quiz, but meanwhile, here are your starters for 10.......
(some from an English set, some from an American set)
[LIST=1]
[*]What was the name of the first bear in space?
[*]What kind of weedy leaves go in an Italian rugola salad?
[*]What did Samuel Pepys stop doing on 31st May 1669?
[*]Which African country boasts the source of the Nile?
[*]Who provided the voice for the cowboy in Toy Story?
[*]What is produced by mixing nitroglycerine with kieselguhr?
[*]Which of Victoria's sons was the first British Prince to tour the USA and Canada?
[*]What did Bechuanaland become in 1966?
[*]Which Shakespeare play was the basis for the musical The Boys From Syracuse?
[*]Which insects belong to the order Coleoptera?
[*]In which state would you find the rivers Porcupine and Copper?
[*]How many webbed feet does a beaver have?
[*]Which 17-year-old became the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon men's singles?
[*]Does the Nile flow north, south, east or west?
[*]Which movie was billed "The Man..The Music...The Madness...The Murder...The Motion Picture..."?
[*]Who was known as Ras Tafari, the Lion of Judah?
[*]How many years are there between the Oberammergau Passion Play cycles?
[*]What brand became the first sugar-free sugar substitute in 1957?
[*]What famous Swiss Citizen said of nuclear bombs: "If I had known, I would have become a watchmaker"?
[*]Who was the first person to play in both a World Series and a Superbowl?
[*]Which Italian astronomer invented the thermometer in 1592?
[*]Which Civil War general declared: "I will not move my army without onions"?
[*]How many years are indicated by five score?
[*]How many birthday candles were Cher, Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone each obliged to blow out in 1996?
[*]What's a LAN to computer users?
[*]Which country was disputed in the largest sea-air battle in history, from Octover 22-27, 1944?
[*]Which storied city on the Euphrates River was 55 miles south of Baghdad?
[*]Who was the first Pope?
[*]Which car rental outfit was named after the founder of Chicago's Yellow Cab Company?
[*]What type of light bulb had the longest life --a fluorescent, an incandescent or a halogen?
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What do you mean you want answers too? Spoil sport!
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[*]Mishka (1980 Olympic mascot)
[*]Dandelion
[*]Writing his diary
[*]Uganda
[*]Tom Hanks
[*]Dynamite
[*]Edward VII
[*]Botswana
[*]The Comedy of Errors
[*]Beetles
[*]Alaska
[*]Two
[*]Boris Becker
[*]North
[*]Amadeus
[*]Haile Selassie
[*]Ten
[*]Sweet 'n Low
[*]Albert Einstein
[*]Deion Sanders
[*]Galileo
[*]Ulysses S. Grant
[*]One hundred
[*]Fifty
[*]Local Area Network
[*]The Phillipines
[*]Babylon
[*]St. Peter
[*]Hertz
[*]A fluorescent tube
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I make no promises about the answers and questions matching up, but it's all there somewhere! :lol:
Thanks very much to Bruce, Monster & Shawnee.
I have sent a mammoth email to her today and hopefully it will cut down her preparation time!