2) You've
got a warm 6-pack you want to cool down ASAP. You've got two refrigerators
to pick from, the one in the kitchen almost full of food, and one in the
garage that is almost empty. If the refrigerators are the same model,
which one will cool your 6-pack faster?
The almost full
one in the kitchen
The almost empty one in the garage
All the cold food
in the one in the kitchen will act like a heat sink, sort of like big ice
cubes, and will help the 6 pack cool down faster. Remember, once
it has everything cooled down, a refrigerator does the same work empty
or full, it just removes heat seeping back into it from the room.
3)
Which city in the world has the least number of fires (structure, vehicle,
forest, etc.)?
Reykjavik, Iceland
La Pas, Bolivia
Tokyo, Japan
Montreal, Canada
Venice, Italy
.
That honor goes
to La
Pas, Bolivia. Since it is at a 12,000 ft elevation, there is
so
little oxygen in the air that fires have a hard time burning. (The Most
on The Discovery Channel)
4)
Which weighs more?
1 oz. Gold or 1
oz. Copper
They weigh the same
1 lb. Gold or
1 lb. Copper They weigh the same
From http://home.clara.net/brianp/weights.html
we can read:
The Avoirdupois pound is the pound
in general use today. As its name
implies, it was intended to be used for
weighing heavy goods. This pound is of 7000 grains, and is split into 16
ounces (each, therefore of 437.5 grains). Each ounce is divided into 16
drams .
The Troy pound was of 5760 grains,
and was divided into 12 ounces,
so a troy pound is lighter than an avoirdupois
pound, but a troy ounce (at 480 grains) weighs more than an avoirdupois
ounce. The troy pound was declared illegal in 1878, but the troy ounce
continues in use today for weighing gold.
Further proof can be found at http://www.webcom.com/legacysy/convert2/mass.html.
5a)
How many people were killed in China during the Great Famine of
1959 - 61?
30,000
300,000
3,000,000
30,000,000
Over 30,000,000 people
were killed in the 1959 famine.
5b)
How many people were affected by the flood of the Yang see
River in China in 1998?
600,000
6,000,000
60,000,000
600,000,000
600,000,000 -- over
twice the population of the USA. The Three Gorges Dam is being
built to control these floods. It will be as long as the Golden Gate
Bridge and twice as high. It can be seen from space.
6) Has
anyone ever been hit by a Meteorite?
As a point of interest,
one woman was actually hit by a meteor that came right through the
roof of her house. As far as the question about meteorites
goes, I was once hit by a small one thrown at me by a friend, rather painful
as they are almost solid iron. (A double-trick question)
7) The
MTA in Queens, NY is digging a new subway tunnel called The 63rd St.
Connector. It is about 1500 feet long, adds two tracks, and is
expected to be completed in 2002. What will it cost?
$8,760,000
$23,400,000
$123,400,000
$645,000,000
$645,000,000
The new tunnels are being built under 6 existing tracks, which must be
held up in the air on steel beams above the construction.
(Discovery Channel
3/15/00 -- Tunnels: Digging In)
8)
Who where sunglasses originally invented for?
Hollywood Movie
Stars
Pony Express Riders
Beach goer's at Coney Island
French Foreign Legionaries
Naval Aviators
They were invented
by Hollywood lighting technicians back in the 20's for actors to wear when
they were not on camera. The lights used for filming movies back
then were extremely bright. The stars stared wearing them in public,
which made them in-fashion.
Sunglasses became
popular in the 1930s. In 1929, Sam Foster sold the first pair of Foster
Grants (sunglasses) at the Woolworth on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.
BTW, tell Will Smith
they didn't have sunglasses yet when The Wild, Wild West is supposed
to take place.
9) What
is the hottest outdoor temperature ever recorded?
118 °F
125 °F
134 °F
149 °F
134 °F at Death
Valley, which has an average temperature of 90 °F. It is also
the lowest spot in Western Hemisphere. (The Most on The Discovery
Channel)
10) What
is the smallest country in the world and where is it?
The Solemn Military
Order of Malta
The Order is an internationally
recognized sovereign entity since the Verona
Convention of 1820,
although without territorial basis. Two of its possessions, the Palazzo
Malta, via Condotti, Rome and the Villa Malta, also in Rome, enjoy extra-territorial
status in Italy since 1869. It also owns The fortress Sant'Angelo in
Malta since 1991. It mints coins, which do not circulate, but it also prints
stamps accepted by 45 national post offices. The Order enjoys recognition
from and has diplomatic relations with 67 countries (including Spain,
Italy, Russia, Austria, Egypt, Brazil), has legations in 6 countries
(including France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland), and is a permanent
observer at the UN since 1994. In 1999 it had a total citizen count
of 80 people. For more information see The
Sovereign Military Order of Saint-John (a.k.a. Malta) (The
Most on The Discovery Channel)
11) How
many people were on Death Row in the United States as of September, 1999?
12) Which
are more dangerous to ride in the USA?
Elevators
Escalators
About 210 billion
times a year, people in the United States and Canada ride the estimated
660,000 elevators and 33,000 escalators that move 325 million elevator
passengers and 245 million escalators passengers daily. Excluding automobiles,
that's more than the total of riders of all other forms of transportation
combined.
About 10,000 people
end up in the emergency room because of elevator-related accidents.
While this is about the same percentage of riders as for escalators, their
injuries are most often minor, caused by tripping or being hit by closing
doors. In some cases, accidents have occurred when the doors opened onto
an empty shaft -- other than that, deaths are very rare.
Could the cables
snap and send an elevator plummeting down the shaft?
This is every rider's
worst fear, but experts say there's no need to worry. You're being supported
by four to eight cables, each of which could support the weight of the
car by itself. In fact, the only time an elevator has been known to go
into freefall -- with all of its cables cut -- was during World War II,
when an American bomber accidentally hit the Empire State Building. The
plane's crew died, but the lone elevator passenger survived.
About 7,300 escalator
accidents occur each year, according to a recent study by the Consumer
Product Safety Commission (CPSC). In escalator accidents, pinches
and scrapes are the most common injuries. But escalators can also
cause bone fractures as well as tendon and nerve lacerations. Each
year over a hundred people are killed by escalators, mostly children, many
more are injured. They get their clothing or hair snagged by it and
get dragged in at the end. Many suffocate when their clothing is
pulled tight.
For more information
visit THE ELEVATOR ESCALATOR
SAFETY FOUNDATION.
13)
What is the world speed record for a man pedaling a bicycle (flat surface)?
48 MPH
78 MPH
112 MPH
167 MPH
Extreme Machines
on TLC 3/29/00
14)
Who invented “spread spectrum” or “frequency hopping” radio communications,
which are used today for
high security
communications?
Thomas Edison (famous inventor)
Hedy Lamarr (Hollywood leading lady in the 30’s and 40’s)
Arthur C. Clarke (science fiction writer, inventor)
William Shockley (inventor of the transistor)
Fatty Arbuckle (actor, silent film star)
Adolph Hitler (bad guy)
Bill Gates (rich guy)
other
See http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/hedy_lamarr/lamarr.html
and http://www.ncafe.com/chris/pat2/index.html.
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