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Jan-4-2005 18:37

See if there is interest for this.

1. Each day I will post 10 questions, at random times of the day.
2. Each Quiz runs exactly 24 hours.
3. The first person that has all 10 questions right, wins. Or if no one has all questions right, the best one wins.
4. You can only post answers ONCE for the same quiz.
5. No cash involved. Just glory. :)

Jan-19-2007 07:43

Typo or otherwise, I said the same answer because I knew there was no president chester. I didnt even read far enough to get to Aaron Burr :)

FREEBIE QUESTION! :D

Jan-19-2007 11:02

1. Woody Allen's films:
a) Wall Street (Oliver Stone's film)

2. English kings:
c) Charles the Bald (king of France)

3. Agatha Christie's novels:
d) Book of the Dead (Patricia Cornwell)

4.Birds:
c) Black Hairstreak (butterfly)

5. American presidents:
d) Aaron Burr (Jefferson's vice-president)
You're quite right about Arthur, Breit, I apologize for the mistake. It sometimes happens with copying and pasting.

6. African countries:
b) Yemen (on Arabian peninsula)

7. Australian tennis players:
d) Tim Henman (British tennis player)

8. Italian composers:
b) Umberto Eco (writer,"The Name of the Rose")

9. French painters:
c) Auguste Rodin (sculptor)

10. Asian cities:
a) Kampala (African city, the capital of Uganda)

Squirrel has 10/10, but as Breitkat managed to give 11 correct answers to 10 questions, the laurel wreath goes to her.

Jan-19-2007 12:22

No need to apologize, Rosamund. You did a fantastic job!! ;-D

Give me a bit, and I'll have something up.

Jan-19-2007 12:25

Incidentally, most of my kids don't even know there WAS a President Chester Arthur (or Arthur Chester, for that matter *wink*). They tend to think I'm talking about someone's Great-Uncle or another... *sigh*

Sophomores....

Jan-19-2007 12:47

Okay, since we're off to a new year, let's see what you guys know about new things, and the people who came up with them. You might be surprised at how much you do (or don't) know....

Who in the World Made That (And When)??

See if you can give the inventor's (or inventors') name(s) to the following creations, and the year they came up with them (decade and/or century will do for the older ones).

The Freebies
1. Airplane
2. Sandwich
3. Printing Press

The Fairly Easy Ones
4. Radio
5. Machine Gun
6. Cotton Gin

The Slightly Harder Ones
7. Toothpaste
8. Mercury Thermometer
9. Frozen Food

The Not-Who-You-Think-It-Is Ones
10. Blue Jeans
11. Zipper
12. Teddy Bear

The Gimme-An-Encyclopedia Ones
13. Scrabble
14. Computer Mouse
15. Spinning Jenny

Now that your head's spinning, here's the bonus stuff:
BONUS:
1. What exactly IS a spinning Jenny? (and no, it's not your cousin Jenny after one too many margaritas. try again. ;-)
2. We all know that Leonardo da Vinci came up with the concept for the Submarine. (Well, some of us do, if we didn't sleep through history class. *wink*) But who was the first person to actually BUILD and OPERATE one?
3. Why, one day, will we all be thanking James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau the next time we step into a restaurant, movie theater, or dentist's office (or, perhaps not)?

Jan-19-2007 13:00

1. The Wright Brothers (1920s?)
2. Joey from Friends
3. Franklin? (these are the FREEBIES?)
4. ? (i cant even come up with something funny for this)
5. RAMBO!
6. Eli Whitney (1800s i think)
7. Mr. Crest? maybe Mr. Colgate :)
8. Freddie Mercury of Queen (little known fact)
9. My mom probably (if she didnt invent it, she certainly owns stock)
10. Dont know but I'd like to know who invented the jean tuxedo...and then shoot them.
11. the YK people?
12. I thought I heard this was Teddy Roosevelt...
13. someone who hates me, cuz I suck at it
14. Bill Gates?
15. I dont even know what the heck this is

Bonus: 1. see above
2. 42?
3. soundproofing?

Thanks Breit for making me feel stupid ;) LOL

Jan-19-2007 13:56

1. The Wright Brothers (1900ish)
2. Earl of Sandwich?
3. Gutenberg? (1880's?)
4. I'll say Mr Marconi or Mr Hertz
5. Samuel Colt (One I think I might know!)
6. Eli Whitney (1794)
7. Mr Aquafresh. (Yesterday)
8. Mr Fahrenheit or Mr Celsius
9. Mr Zanussi
10. Some Kansas Farmers in the fifties
11. Isn't it YKK?
12. Teddy Sheringham
13. Mr Scrabble
14. It was that Englebart fella wasnt it?
15. Ha Ha, I know this! James Hargreaves (1764) Hooray for history class!

Bonuses:
1. Its like a sewing machine thing, that one with the flying shuttle.
2. Mr Submarine (or maybe The Beatles)
3. That those tooth implant blokes isn't it? I recognise the name.

Jan-19-2007 14:17

1. Orville and Wilbur Wright, 1906
2. Earl of sandwich
3. Gutenberg
4. Tesla? no Marconi
5. Gatling 1860's
6. Eli Whitney
7. ?
8. ?
9. ?
10. ?
11. ?
12. ?
13. ?
14. The blokes at Xerox. Management burnt the idea. 1970s
15. ?
BONUS:
1. ?
2. Confederate Navy I Know. Wasn't the Hunley the first one?
3. ?

Jan-22-2007 00:11

I'm gonna leave this up through the night, so that the weekend crew gets a chance if they want. ;-)

Jan-22-2007 21:22

Who in the World Made That (And When)?

The Freebies
1. Airplane
The airplane was built by Orville and Wilbur Wright and flew for 120 feet at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.
2. Sandwich
The Sandwich was named for John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich, who lived in the 1700’s in England.
3. Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg created the first movable-type printing press in Germany in the 1400’s.

The Fairly Easy Ones
4. Radio
The radio was invented by Guglielmo Marconi in Italy in 1895.
5. Machine Gun
Richard J. Gatling designed and built the prototype that bears his name in 1861. The Gatling Gun, in various forms, has been used up until the present day. Noir fiction refers to guns as ‘gats’ in his honor.
6. Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was invented in 1794 by Eli Whitney. Its special purpose was to remove the seeds from cotton pods and therefore make cotton easier to harvest and process. The gin, and another invention mentioned here, are two of the harbingers of the Industrial Revolution.

The Slightly Harder Ones
7. Toothpaste
In 1873, Samuel Colgate, head of Colgate & Company, manufactured the first toothpaste and sold it in jars.
8. Mercury Thermometer
The mercury thermometer was invented by Daniel Farenheit, who also created the temperature scale that bears his name, in the 1720’s.
9. Frozen Food
Clarence Birdseye turned the culinary world on its ear when he discovered the process of flash-freezing vegetables, circa 1920.

The Not-Who-You-Think-It-Is Ones
10. Blue Jeans
Contrary to popular opinion, Levi Strauss didn’t invent blue jeans. He innovated them by putting rivets in them in strategic places to make them stronger, so they wouldn’t fall apart so quickly. Jacob Davis, a Nevada tailor, originally came up with the apparel for California miners. Together, Davis and Strauss patented their ideas in 1873.
11. Zipper
Many people believe that B.F. Goodrich invented zippers. (Wrong.) He DID popularize the name for the device, but an engineer from Chicago, Whitcomb Hudson, invented his ‘hookless fastener’ in 1893,