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Post by Wolfgang on Mar 11, 2020 13:30:54 GMT -5
Virus trivia #1
In The Walking Dead TV series, how did the "zombie" virus start?
a. secret government lab conducted experiments on rabies that somehow got out, b. Act of God, it just happened, c. virus in bats spread to a pig and then to humans, d. contaminated drinking water from infected rats, e. Ebola-like strain spread from Africa to the world, including the USA, f. no explanation was given.
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Post by yoda on Mar 11, 2020 16:45:31 GMT -5
Virus trivia #1 In The Walking Dead TV series, how did the "zombie" virus start? a. secret government lab conducted experiments on rabies that somehow got out, b. Act of God, it just happened, c. virus in bats spread to a pig and then to humans, d. contaminated drinking water from infected rats, e. Ebola-like strain spread from Africa to the world, including the USA, f. no explanation was given. f
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Post by Wolfgang on Mar 11, 2020 16:48:07 GMT -5
Virus trivia #1 In The Walking Dead TV series, how did the "zombie" virus start? a. secret government lab conducted experiments on rabies that somehow got out, b. Act of God, it just happened, c. virus in bats spread to a pig and then to humans, d. contaminated drinking water from infected rats, e. Ebola-like strain spread from Africa to the world, including the USA, f. no explanation was given. f At first, I thought you were giving me the "f" word because it seemed insensitive of me to put out a virus trivia at a sensitive time like now. But then, I realized you were saying your choice was "f," one of the selections in my trivia. LOL! And "f" is the correct answer.
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Post by Wolfgang on Mar 23, 2020 19:20:05 GMT -5
ANSWERSCelebrities and Education 1. Of the following six actors from the TV show The Office, only one did not attend an Ivy League school. Name this actor. Steve Carrell, Rashida Jones, Mindy Kaling, Ellie Kemper, John Krasinski, B.J. Novak 2. Of the following five actors, only one did not attend Stanford University. Name this actor. Jennifer Connelly, Ted Danson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sigourney Weaver, Reese Witherspoon 3. Of the following three Ivy League-graduated actors, two of them studied Asian-related majors (and learned Chinese). Name the two actors. Connie Britton, Natalie Portman, Mira Sorvino4. Match the celebrity with their advanced degree: Mayim Bialik (actor, Big Bang Theory) | | Ph.D, Neuroscience | Ken Jeong (actor, The Hangover) | | M.D. | Brian May (guitarist, Queen) | | Ph.D, Astrophysics | Peter Weller (actor, Robocop) | | Ph.D, Art History | Steve Young (football player, SF 49ers) | | JD, Law |
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Post by vup on Mar 23, 2020 21:47:53 GMT -5
1. What is the name given to the heart-shaped, nitrogen ice plane on the surface of Pluto?
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Post by vbprisoner on Mar 24, 2020 12:35:48 GMT -5
1. What is the name given to the heart-shaped, nitrogen ice plane on the surface of Pluto? Tombaugh Regio - it was named after Clyde Tombaugh who was credited with the discovery of Pluto in 1930. (Regio is latin for region so Tombaugh Region is the icy heart shaped plane on Pluto) Pluto got hosed by being demoted to a dwarf planet!! lol
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Post by vup on Mar 24, 2020 13:06:27 GMT -5
1. What is the name given to the heart-shaped, nitrogen ice plane on the surface of Pluto? Tombaugh Regio - it was named after Clyde Tombaugh who was credited with the discovery of Pluto in 1930. (Regio is latin for region so Tombaugh Region is the icy heart shaped plane on Pluto) Pluto got hosed by being demoted to a dwarf planet!! lol I was looking for Sputnik Planitia actually.
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Post by vup on Mar 24, 2020 13:20:18 GMT -5
1. What is the name given to the heart-shaped, nitrogen ice plane on the surface of Pluto? Tombaugh Regio - it was named after Clyde Tombaugh who was credited with the discovery of Pluto in 1930. (Regio is latin for region so Tombaugh Region is the icy heart shaped plane on Pluto) Pluto got hosed by being demoted to a dwarf planet!! lol The discoveries made by New Horizons were nothing short of incredible. Pluto is not a dead world at all, but rather alive with its own thin atmosphere, renewed nitrogen ice planes, cryovolcanism, and even a possibility for liquid water to exist. However, Pluto is still a dwarf planet, nonetheless. Nothing wrong with that. It just shows how fascinating some of the smallest objects in the solar system turn out to be.
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Post by vbprisoner on Mar 24, 2020 13:34:05 GMT -5
Tombaugh Regio - it was named after Clyde Tombaugh who was credited with the discovery of Pluto in 1930. (Regio is latin for region so Tombaugh Region is the icy heart shaped plane on Pluto) Pluto got hosed by being demoted to a dwarf planet!! lol I was looking for Sputnik Planitia actually. Sputnik Planitia is actually just the left side, or left lobe of the heart shaped ice plane. That along with the right side, or right lobe makes up the heart shaped ice plane referred to as Tombaugh Regio.
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Post by vup on Mar 24, 2020 13:38:40 GMT -5
I was looking for Sputnik Planitia actually. Sputnik Planitia is actually just the left side, or left lobe of the heart shaped ice plane. That along with the right side, or right lobe makes up the heart shaped ice plane referred to as Tombaugh Regio. Well shoot. Guess I got my own question wrong. 🙃
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Post by mikegarrison on Mar 24, 2020 17:41:42 GMT -5
When Europeans first came to where I live now, they named all sorts of things like islands and mountains and rivers and such. (Of course, the people living there already had names for them, but so what?)
#moderncolonialism #pluto
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Post by vup on Mar 24, 2020 23:47:26 GMT -5
1. This potential dwarf planet resides beyond the Kuiper Belt and has an estimated orbital period of over 11,000 years. It’s peculiar orbit has even sparked curiosity for a potential ninth planet.
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Post by vup on Mar 27, 2020 22:37:47 GMT -5
1. This potential dwarf planet resides beyond the Kuiper Belt and has an estimated orbital period of over 11,000 years. It’s peculiar orbit has even sparked curiosity for a potential ninth planet. A: One of the furthest objects discovered in the solar system, Sedna is large enough to be considered a dwarf planet (in the same class as Pluto, the largest dwarf planet in the Solar System). Sedna has an unusually elongated orbit, stretching from 937 AU down to 76 AU (for reference, Neptune orbits at about 30 AU). This extremely elliptical orbit has been thought to possibly explain the existence of a massive ninth planet that orbits beyond the Kuiper Belt.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 14:32:44 GMT -5
Kathy Griffin was the other cheerleader, for anyone who cared.
Easier:
1. The interrobang is a little-used punctuation mark that is actually a combination of what two other punctuation marks?
2. The phrase “No Taxation without Representation” started as a slogan against the 1765 Duties in American Colonies Act. Today that law is better remembered by its shorter name, which is… what?
3. What viral disease was originally called “hydrophobia,” because one of its later symptoms is excessive drooling and aversion to water?
4. What small group of islands has been covered in land mines for almost 40 years, leading to an explosion in its penguin population, since they’re too light to trigger the mines? 5. The quaffle, bludger, and snitch are balls that are used in the fictional game of Quidditch. Which one gets thrown through a hoop for a point?
Harder, but still fairly easy:
1. Pull Out Before You Blow It: There are four chemical elements with five-letter names. Name as many of them as you can for 1 point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
2. “Parker” and “Barrow” were the last names of what famous Depression-era duo?
3. To make an “Elvis Sandwich,” you need two slices of bread plus what three crucial ingredients?
4. Which former U.S. Secretary of State is an accomplished concert pianist who once performed for Queen Elizabeth II with the London Symphony?
5. Which is largest: A megabyte, a petabyte, or a terabyte?
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Post by mln59 on Apr 13, 2020 14:40:00 GMT -5
1. ? ! 2. stamp act? 3. rabies 4. penguinmine island 5. quaffle
1. xenon, helium, boron, [edit: i cannot count. going to leave "helium" as i deserve to be shamed for that] 2. ? 3. ? 4. rice? 5. petabyte
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