Chris's Quiz!Ver. 3.0  12-DEC-99
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      The Rules

      The following quiz was written by Chris for your and his amusement.  Some of the questions are hard, some easy.  Some might even be trick questions without an answer, in which case that would be the right answer.

      Chris is the final reference on all answers -- period -- and does not wish to engage in endless argument over answers.  You may write if you think I'm wrong, but don't expect a clever debate untill you are satisfied.

      The First Thirteen Questions

      1) The Earth has magnetic poles just as if there was a giant bar magnet buried inside the Earth.  Down at the South Pole in Antarctica, is which pole of the Earth's magnet?
      North
      South

      2) The official measurement system of the USA is the Metric System.
      True
      False
       

      3) In general, which colors of light do plants want and use, and which do they have little use for:
          Red: Uses  Little Use For
          Blue: Uses  Little Use For
          Green: Uses  Little Use For

      4) During nighttime, the earth is located between us and the sun.
      True
      False
       

      5) The Japanese never attacked the Continental United States during World War Two. True  False

      6) A sheep was recently the first animal to be successfully cloned from the single cell of another.
      What was the sheep's name: 
      Who was she named after: 
      Why: 

      7) List two words that rhyme with Orange: 

      List two words that rhyme with Blue: 

      List two words that rhyme with Silver: 

      8) About how many people have been killed in automobile accidents:

      200,000
      2,000,000
      20, 000,000
      200,000,000
       

      9) Let's suppose it is Winter, you have electric heat (resistance type) in your house, and your cost of electricity is 10 cents per Kilowatt-Hour.  You want to run a 100W light 10 hours a day.  What will be your energy cost to run the light -- your true actual cost, the amount higher your electric bill will be each month.  You may assume a month is exactly 30 days long for this question.  (Hint:  A 100W light is 1/10 of a Kilowatt, so it consumes 1 cent per hour of electricity.) :

      10) If you've ever watched a helicopter covering a news story, or watched a police chopper assisting officers on the ground you may have have noticed they don't stand still in the air, but instead "orbit" around in a small circle.  They are physically capable of standing still -- aren't they?  Why do they orbit?

      11) Speaking of orbits -- when people are orbiting the earth in a space craft, are they in "zero G",  unaffected by the Earth's gravity?
      Yes  No  Very minutely affected

      12) It's rare to see a Railroad Steam Locomotive these days, almost everything is now a Diesel.  Two questions.  First, are modern Diesel Locomotives:
      Far more powerful than the old Steam
      About the same
      Far less powerful than the old Steam

      13) Second, does the output shaft of a Diesel Locomotive's engine connect to the drive wheels of the Locomotive, like a Steam Engine does?
      Yes  No        If No, why not?:
       

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