| remnant_retrofitted: When two angles are combined to make a ninety degree angle (right angle), they are technically known as ________ angles.' Triviaballer: 'Complementary.' skep: 'My, what a lovely angle you are.' 'Thanks awfully, and you as well!' driving: 'No, the best pickup line for angles is 'What's your sine?' skep: 'I thought it was 'You're acute one.' skep: 'I secant the motion to abandon these puns.' peachie: 'Cosines that motion.' Jazz: 'In supermarkets you will typically see two choices in terms of beef grades. The superior grade is 'choice,' while the inferior, leaner grade is called what?' victort: 'Roadkill?' pusdoc: 'Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel collaborated on a short film in 1929. What is its name?' dshellpsu: 'Hello Dali?' Trina: 'What was Lady Godiva's horse named?' (answer was Aethenoth) BobC: 'Lucky.' victort: 'Excited.' bubba: 'Sneakapeek.' pusdoc: 'Nature lovers flock at dusk to watch thousands of these emerge from their roosts under the Congress Bridge in Austin, Texas.' Jazz: 'The rare Texas Democrat.' applet222: 'What ancient civilization flourished in Crete from approximately 2600 to 1450 BC?' Jazz: 'Minoan.' pusdoc: 'Cretans still flourish . . . in the White House.' Trina: 'A nuclear reactor that produces more fissionable material than it consumes is known as a _______ reactor.' skep: 'Over-reactor?' applet222: 'SPELLING: Spell the 'S' word for a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering a person of influence.' BobC: 'Suck up.' Trina: 'Which was the last European country to abolish serfdom?' Triviaballer: 'Russia.' bestiarii: 'Everybody's goin' serfin'.' maxbearjr: 'Wish they all could be vladivostok girls.' bestiarii: 'Help me Volga, help help me Volga!' psufreak: 'With what instrument was helium first detected on the sun?' victort: 'Violin?' applet222: 'Virginia's capital was moved to Richmond in 1780 to elude British capture. Where was it originally located?' LadyPenelope: 'Williamsburg.' Lilah: 'They didn't want the British getting all those amusement parks and souvenir shops . . .' bethfay: 'What are the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 miles per hour?' driving: 'F-150 Hornets.' applet222: 'What is the term for sentences and phrases such as 'He lived as a devil, eh?' (Answer is palindrome) erekose: 'Being Canadian.' Triviaballer: 'In Catholic doctrine, where does an individual enter after death if he/she is neither so sinful as to go to hell nor sufficiently free of sin to enter heaven?' Lilah: 'Limbo' applet222: 'Limbo has been abolished!' dshellpsu: 'Even in the Caribbean?' skep: 'Yes, they did away with limbo. All the parishioners were getting backaches.' sally: 'Mature sunflowers face this compass direction.' skep: 'Toward Mecca.' Trina: 'What French Dynasty ended with the guillotine of King Louis XVI in 1793, only to be restored after Napoleon's abdication in 1814?' erekose: 'Bourbon.' skep: 'The 'party down' dynasty.' maxbearjr: 'Restored by Janis Joplin.' Ingress: 'Thought Jack Daniels was the Bourbon King.' applet222: 'Male giraffes will often neck wrestle to establish dominance in their herds. This behavior is called _______.' bbbrtf: 'Necking.' pusdoc: 'Do they get hickeys?' bbbrtf: 'It's really just heavy petting.' maxbearjr: 'They gotta get a few beers in 'em first though to do any good.' pusdoc: 'Equine is to horse as murine is to _______.' (Answer is mouse) driving: 'Eyedrops.' applet222: 'Fruit growers give this term to ripened fruit knocked down by the wind.' (Answer is windfall) BobC: 'Easy pickin's.' Jsurber: 'Wasted.' bubba: 'Bruised.' Spammy: 'Umm insurance claim?' toejam: 'Act of God.' Triviaballer: 'What 'C' word names the largest rodent in the world, an animal typically weighing between 75 and 140 pounds?' duke_dorstfeld: 'Capybara.' Triviaballer: 'Did you all need the 'C' clue on that question?' Jazz: 'Otherwise I would have said 'George Bush.' applet222: 'What 'R' word is used to describe a wine with a high alcohol content?' (Answer is robust) bethfay: 'Really good.' toejam: 'Rolling on the floor drunk.' Triviaballer: 'Supposedly humans are only born with two fears. One is falling and the other is this, a fear explored by John B. Watson in the ‘Little Albert’ experiment.' (Answer is fear of loud noises) skep: 'Castration.' Bill2004: 'Scrimshaw porn.' mr_chairman: 'Fear of trivia.' mr_chairman: 'Fear of fear.' driving: 'Being on a plane next to Larry King.' Spammy: 'Melanie Griffith's voice.' applet222: ‘What British TV cook was deemed 'too sexy' for American audiences?’ Triviaballer: ‘Julia Child.’ jelly1000: 'The burghers of Nome, Alaska, unsuccessfully tried to change the name of the town to what in 1899?' skep: 'Baked.' pusdoc: 'Miller Brewing Company merged with another country’s major brewing company to become part of a huge multinational corporation with operations in over 60 countries. What country is the parent firm originally from?' skep: 'South Africa.' driving: 'Do they brew the dark beers separately from the light beers there?' ensiform: 'Adrian IV, the only English-born Pope, issued a bull called Laudabiliter. This granted the king of England dominion over what?' twentyone12: 'Darts and warm beer.' jedimaster: 'God.' Rowena: 'What is the “claim to fame” in 2007 of the ‘Woolly-Stemmed Begonia?' Rowena: '(Hint) It is the only thing in the world to do the 'thing.' Jazz: 'Do the hokey pokey.' victort: 'Be sheared?' Rowena: '(Hint) It was declared . . . ' jelly1000: 'Insane.' BobC: 'Sexless.' toejam: 'A midget.' skep: 'Mentally incapable to stand trial.' (Answer was 'It was the only species to be declared officially extinct so far this year.) jelly1000: 'Which two birds are able to produce milk?' skep: 'Lady Bird Johnson and Robin Givens.' (Answer is flamingos and pigeons) applet222: 'What name remained the most popular name for a baby girl in the United States for 80 years – until it was overtaken by ‘Lisa’ in the 1960s?' ezy2000: 'Tonisha.' x-PANDORA-x 'Consuella.' ZippyWendy: 'Piggy.' Mountainmage: 'Shaniqua.' BobC: 'Bertha.' skep: 'Lemonjello.' ensiform: 'LaTrina?' (Answer was Mary) pusdoc: 'Wealthy Venetians of the 16th century wore the first “platform” shoes, towering as high as 30 inches on platforms built of cork. What were these ridiculous shoes called?' victort: 'Silly.' Mountainmage: 'A bad idea.' Occams_Razor: 'Wobblies.' pusdoc: 'The answer is chopines.' Oddball: 'You know a lot about shoes. You are an 'e-feet' snob.' |