Luckytrim
Grill Master
Trivia 11/8
DID YOU KNOW ...
You can yo-yo in space. In 2012, NASA astronaut Don Pettit took a yo-yo on board the International Space Station and demonstrated several tricks. It works because a yo-yo mainly relies on the laws of conservation of angular momentum to perform tricks, which, provided you keep the string taut, apply in microgravity too.
1. What year marked the beginning of the First World War?
2. During 1899-1902 Britain fought the Boer War in South Africa. Who were the Boers?
3. The inaugural Time Magazine "Person of the Year" award was presented in 1927 to whom ?
4. You are listening to your local paramedics on your police scanner and they are asked to respond to a home where someone has had a syncopal episode. What has happened?
a. - The person has cut themself.
b. - The person has fainted.
c. - The person has gone mad.
d. - The person has gone into labor.
5. Who was elected POTUS in 1940 ?
6. Who is the first person widely accepted to have died from an illness caused by exposure to radiation poisoning?
7. Which organ of the body is affected by Huntington's disease?
a. - Heart
b. - Lungs
c. - Muscles
d. - Brain
8. What term can be used to describe winning all major tournaments in a calendar year in golf or tennis ?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
The Swedish word for pace, pep, zip, snap, velocity ... is Fart !
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1. - 1914
2. Farmers of Dutch descent (The word 'Boer' means farmer in Dutch)
3. Charles Lindbergh
4. - b
5. FDR
6. Marie Curie
7. - d
8. Grand Slam
TRUTH !!
'Nuff Said !
DID YOU KNOW ...
You can yo-yo in space. In 2012, NASA astronaut Don Pettit took a yo-yo on board the International Space Station and demonstrated several tricks. It works because a yo-yo mainly relies on the laws of conservation of angular momentum to perform tricks, which, provided you keep the string taut, apply in microgravity too.
1. What year marked the beginning of the First World War?
2. During 1899-1902 Britain fought the Boer War in South Africa. Who were the Boers?
3. The inaugural Time Magazine "Person of the Year" award was presented in 1927 to whom ?
4. You are listening to your local paramedics on your police scanner and they are asked to respond to a home where someone has had a syncopal episode. What has happened?
a. - The person has cut themself.
b. - The person has fainted.
c. - The person has gone mad.
d. - The person has gone into labor.
5. Who was elected POTUS in 1940 ?
6. Who is the first person widely accepted to have died from an illness caused by exposure to radiation poisoning?
7. Which organ of the body is affected by Huntington's disease?
a. - Heart
b. - Lungs
c. - Muscles
d. - Brain
8. What term can be used to describe winning all major tournaments in a calendar year in golf or tennis ?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
The Swedish word for pace, pep, zip, snap, velocity ... is Fart !
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1. - 1914
2. Farmers of Dutch descent (The word 'Boer' means farmer in Dutch)
3. Charles Lindbergh
4. - b
5. FDR
6. Marie Curie
7. - d
8. Grand Slam
TRUTH !!
'Nuff Said !
