Trivial Knowledge Quiz thread!?

[Kent]

Ok, this is gonna be the official trivial knowledge quiz thread.

I got the ok from a mod. (mitch) But this can not turn into spamming grounds. If it does, warn me, and I will delete it instantly. (thats for mods.) and if I notice spam... boom the thread is gone.

So, Basically I want this to run like the quiz in the dbz forum.

rule 1: If you answer a question, you must ask one.

rule 2: No replying with the "wow! thats a hard one." that would be spam and will get this closed, please dont do that.

(also, if a question goes unanswered too long, you may wanna rethink what your asking and ask something else.)

Now for a question. something I learned just recently.

What did G.I. originally stand for?

Hint, its not government issue. It just might suprise you.

[PiroMunkie]

[color=indigo]... G.I.? As in [i]G.I. Joe[/i]? If so, I believed it stood for Ground Infantry. I am not quite sure...

What is the difference between weather and climate?[/color]

[conpiracymonki]

[b][size=1]
Uh... weather is daily and climate is more of a monthly thing?
*shrugs*

How many teeth does a mosquito have? :D
[/b]*looks at piro*[/size]

[Juu]

[color=deeppink] [size=1]Mosquitoes don't have teeth... do they? oO

Er.. What's the layer between the stratosphere and the troposphere? (sp?)[/color] [/size]

[Genkai]

the mesosphere!!! no, the thrmosphere.......... yah, the thermosphere!

what part of the brain stores memory?

[Delian]

The part of the brain that stores memory is called the cortex (pretty sure)

What is a Supernova?

[Corey]

A Supernova is the energy released when a star explodes.

What three-word headline appeared on the April 13, 1945 edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune?
A Cyber cookie to anyone that can figure this out. ;)

[Mitch]

[color=red] Eh, isn't it an exploding star? Not certain. Eh.

What's a nematacyst?[/color]

[Kent]

nematocyst- a type of stinging cell used to catch prey.

The answer to the g.i. question was wrong. This one is a shocker, nobody ever guesses it. It makes almost no sense, but its the real thing.

Originally gi stood for Galvanized Iron. (no joke)

three word head line, maybe "FD Rosevelt Dies" or "truman becomes president"

Question,

Who was father to king author?

[Guest cloricus]

Gokents no offence but I have had many mil lessons by very experienced Army personal. (*Go Wo1 Gilbo!! for the last hardcore lesson*)
G.I. Stands for General Issue.

[wrist cutter]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by DarkOrderKnight [/i]
[B]
What three-word headline appeared on the April 13, 1945 edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune?
A Cyber cookie to anyone that can figure this out. ;) [/B][/QUOTE]

Wasn't it "Dewey Defeats Truman"?

[Delian]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by gokents [/i]
Question,
Who was father to king author? [/B][/QUOTE]

Do you mean King Arthur? If so, then I think his father was Uther Pendragon....am I right?

[Kent]

Yes delian, you are right, Its your turn to ask a question.

I also wanna mention that I had dewey defeats truman, but I thought about how the elections are in novemeber. It still could be dewey defeats truman, but I didnt put my money on it.

Any way, good job delian its your go.

And no offense cloricus, but I asked what gi ORIGINALLY stood for, not what it ended up standing for. I know your charactor so I dont expect you to accept that, but its true. Although it is important to know that gi came to stand for gov. issue. But ORIGINALLY it stood for galvanized iron.

[Guest cloricus]

Sorry, I wasn't aware that the abbreviation G.I. was used anywhere else but the American army but then again I don't live over there. :P

You really should have made it a bit clearer what area the abbreviation was from.
[Quote] What did G.I. originally stand for? [/quote]

And for any one who wants to know the story for the Army abbreviation of G.I. it is sort of interesting, I can give you a link if you want.


I have a question for you guys; at its thickest point how many light years thick is the milky-way galaxy?
(I know the answer so I'll be able to tell you right or wrong. HINT: Think Monty Python.)

[Mnemolth]

Here's something to think about.

If you take the distance between two different points in space, you can always break it down to smaller distances right? Let's say the distance to the shops from your house is 10 kilometers. Let's say point C is right in the middle. So from your house to C is 5 km. Of course there's a point D, 2.5km from your house between your house and C. You can keep on breaking the distance to smaller and smaller distances, but whatever the distance, it MUST take some time to travel that distance right? Whether its a second or a nanosecond.

But if every distance can be broken down to smaller and smaller distances, AND every distance takes SOME time to travel, then how will you EVER reach the shops?

Hopefully, someone OTHER than MathGuy can answer this, but if not, I guess its all up to you dude? ;)

[Dan L]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Mnemolth [/i]
[B]But if every distance can be broken down to smaller and smaller distances, AND every distance takes SOME time to travel, then how will you EVER reach the shops?[/B][/QUOTE]

Not really: there's a distinct limit to how far you can break a distance down, according to quantum physics. It's all based on the fact that there are distinct energy levels, and every particle in the universe has to exist in either one or another; not in between. Hence, once you break the distance down to the limit (which is incredibly small, hence we never notice it in our everyday lives) you can't break the distance down any more, because there's no energy level for the distance to fall into.

Hence, if you can only break distances down to a certain point, then you can never actually get anywhere near the point where you may have to worry about an infinite number of little distances which take some time.

Hence, the question makes a wrong assumption and is, in fact, invalid :p


I'll post up a question when I think of one..

[Desbreko]

[color=indigo]Here's an interesting question: Why do holes appear in the ozone layer at the north and south poles, during winter?[/color]

[conpiracymonki]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by cloricus [/i]
[B]have a question for you guys; at its thickest point how many light years thick is the milky-way galaxy?
(I know the answer so I'll be able to tell you right or wrong. HINT: Think Monty Python.) [/B][/QUOTE]

[b][size=1]Uh...Ni?

Sorry, but what I posted for was to say that it is not a trick question. Mosquitos really do have teeth. Piro knows, and I've even looked it up.[/b][/size]

[PiroMunkie]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by AJeh[/i]
[B][size=1]Sorry, but what I posted for was to say that it is not a trick question. Mosquitos really do have teeth. Piro knows, and I've even looked it up.[/b][/size][/QUOTE][color=indigo]Forty-seven. :p I love useless information, lol.

There are still a few questions up for grabs, so I shall leave other people to get those instead of clogging this topic with a million different questions.[/color]

[Mnemolth]

Deus; Not according to my understanding of quantum physics. In fact, as I understand it, particles can exist in different states at the same time. But I'm not about to get into a debate about quantum physics here since I'll be the first to admit my knowledge is pretty limited in that area, but mainly because an understanding of quantum physics is not necessary to solve this apparent paradox.

So the problem still stands. :D

[Mnemolth]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Desbreko [/i]
[B][color=indigo]Here's an interesting question: Why do holes appear in the ozone layer at the north and south poles, during winter?[/color] [/B][/QUOTE]

I assume you're not asking [i]why[/i] there are holes in the first place, but actually you're asking why they appear only during winter? Reason is a little complicated, but it has to do with the fact that the north and south poles don't get any sunlight during winter, this creates conditions that are very cold, isolating the air and creating strong winds and making it even colder. Special clouds are then able to form that increase the rate of destruction of ozone. So the holes appear.

I guess you just wanted a general reason? You didn't want any specifics right, cos if you do, I'm afraid my common knowledge doesn't extend that far,. ;)

I'd have to search the web or something. I'm sure someone will do that and get back to you, but I can't cos one of my rules for answering 'quiz' questions is that if you need to look it up, it doesn't count. Yes, I'm strange like that. :D

[Sara]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Mnemolth [/i]
[B]Hopefully, someone OTHER than MathGuy can answer this, but if not, I guess its all up to you dude? ;) [/B][/QUOTE] [SIZE=1]Isn't that one of Xeno's paradoxes?

Either you would eventually reach some point that can no longer be halved--meaning that distance or reality has a 'smallest unit,' or just just take a big jump and go over a bunch at once.

Er...if the distances become infinitely smaller...em...

Okay, what about this? First you travel half, then one fourth the total, then one eighth, and so on...so..if you keep doing all that, so on into infinite, it comes out to '2,' right? You can add the smaller parts infinitely, but it won't come out to infinite....or...eh..

No, I'm not actually going anywhere with this.

Er...okay, Mathguy, your turn.[/SIZE]

[Semjaza]

Well I won't claim to know... Hopefully, I won't be totally wrong and look too stupid heh.

But if you keep dividing a number by 2 (or whatever other normal number), you're never going to wind up with zero (unless the original number was zero). So how would that ever work? There would always be a remainder of some sort, which in terms of this problem would still be an amount of distance.

[conpiracymonki]

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If you keep making the distance smaller, then the time it takes to make the distance will get shorter. So shouldn't it not really make a difference at all in the first place?
Like if you take the distance you can travel and split it into millionths, then each millionths of that distnce will still take only a millionth of a second to travel anyway. Or..
*scratches head*[/b]

It'll take me infinity to walk to shops that're 10km away, anyway[/size]

[Yoshi]

Mnemolth

Thats an old paradox that was asked by the Greek Philosopher Zeno and Aristotle. Zeno answered by arguing that it doesn't make sense to add infinitely many numbers together, but if you actually think about alot of solid number values (like 1/3 which is 3/10+3/100+3/1000+/10000...=.3333333333333--->>(continuing forever)) are just that. That is to say that the reason it is a paradox is because the logic is faulty. It assumes that an infinite number of points added together equal infinity, but as I just showed, this isn't always true. So while the distance intervals are infinite, the distance itself is not and can be measured.

hmmm...
Message has no n, so why does messenger (one who delivers messages) have an N? (help shyguy out, the question is driving him nuts) Oh, and he says that he looked it up and something said it came from a french word, which also doesn't have an n.