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by **Thunderbird4!** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:09 am UTC

Would that be St Pierre et Miquelon?

by **chrispy1** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:16 am UTC

Thunderbird4! wrote:Would that be St Pierre et Miquelon?

100 points for the two islands, plus another 10 for using "et"...and if you're not Canadian or French, add another 5!!

by **Thunderbird4!** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:19 am UTC

Q29: Name the top three countries based on reserves of foreign exchange and gold. (Sugar cookie if you can give them in order)

Q30: Name the top two countries based on military expenditure measured as a percentage of the GDP.

I'm going to cut both of those down to the top one to give you all more of a chance.

Sweet I have 115 points but I should lose 10 of them for my next guess being greenland.

by **lominsky** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:23 am UTC

bbctol wrote:
lominsky wrote:Q37: What is the longest English word that can be written using only the top row of letters on a standard QWERTY keyboard?

I'ma going to go with "teetertotter".

Balthamos was right with Typewriter

by **evilbeanfiend** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:38 am UTC

gmalivuk wrote:A31: They were all named Rebecca.
A32: "Can you hear me now?"
A33: ants (this is the only one I'm sure about. if you hadn't guessed, the above two are just WAG's)

a33 is correct the others are not

edit: though a31 is interesting as they claimed to be "rebecca and her daughters"

by **Alcari** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:07 am UTC

A32:
I believe it is "Ahoy Ahoy"....

by **evilbeanfiend** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:08 am UTC

Alcari wrote:A32:
I believe it is "Ahoy Ahoy"....

just ahoy is sufficient i believe. mr burns of course uses "ahoy hoy"

but close enough

by **Klye** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:33 pm UTC

This should be easy, but i can't think of anything better right now.

q39: What is the only mammal that cannot jump?

by **Tartarus** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:05 pm UTC

Klye wrote:q39: What is the only mammal that cannot jump?

A39: I have heard Elephants (Is this true? Why/why not?)

by **MFHodge** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:12 pm UTC

Tartarus wrote:
Klye wrote:q39: What is the only mammal that cannot jump?

A39: I have heard Elephants (Is this true? Why/why not?)

I believe it is because of the way their knees are designed. But I think I got that from a book that has many things I have found to be wrong.

by **Alcari** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:23 pm UTC

VTHodge wrote:
Tartarus wrote:
Klye wrote:q39: What is the only mammal that cannot jump?

A39: I have heard Elephants (Is this true? Why/why not?)

I believe it is because of the way their knees are designed. But I think I got that from a book that has many things I have found to be wrong.

That's true (speaks the biology student to my right)
He want to add that Rhino's, sloths and hippo's can't jump either, same goes for moles and dolphins. While we're at it, nor can Whales, seals or manatees jump.

by **ZeroSum** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:38 pm UTC

Q40: As a child Linus Torvalds was bitten by which species of penguin?

by **Thunderbird4!** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:44 pm UTC

lominsky wrote:
bbctol wrote:
lominsky wrote:Q37: What is the longest English word that can be written using only the top row of letters on a standard QWERTY keyboard?

I'ma going to go with "teetertotter".

Balthamos was right with Typewriter

Teetertotter has twelve letters whereas typewriter has only ten letters, therefore Balthamos was not right with typewriter and bbctol is right with teetertotter.

by **hermaj** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:15 am UTC

I was under the impression that teeter-totter (come on, guys, it's called a seesaw) was hyphenated? I am from a country that does not use that word, but that is how I remember seeing it in literature.

Click link. Receive my face. · by **bbctol** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:41 am UTC

DICTIONARY.COM SAYS NO
Or, well, maybe. It lists it as another spelling.

by **gmalivuk** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:15 am UTC

Alcari wrote:He want to add that Rhino's, sloths and hippo's can't jump either, same goes for moles and dolphins. While we're at it, nor can Whales, seals or manatees jump.

Dolphins and whales can't jump? Don't tell the ones at Sea World...

by **Alcari** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:35 am UTC

Put one on a beach and ask it to jump that hoop again.
guess it all depends on your definition of jump.

EDIT: Whales really can't jump though, by any definition.

wiki wrote:Whales are those cetaceans which are neither dolphins (i.e. members of the families Delphinidae or Platanistoidea) nor porpoises. This can lead to some confusion because Orcas ("Killer Whales") and Pilot whales have "whale" in their name, but they are dolphins for the purpose of classification.

dictionary wrote:Jump=to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap:

I have yet to see a whale clearing the water.

by **hermaj** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:02 pm UTC

That would be a humpback whale right there.

by **Alcari** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:16 pm UTC

and notice how it's not clearing the water? It's tail is still in there. (yes, I really want to be right)

by **hermaj** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:23 pm UTC

It's on the way out of the water, you can see that based on the trajectory or whatever (I've said a million times I'm no physics student) it's going to come fully out of the water.

I do not know how big you guys are on whale watching over there but we are pretty massive on it here in Australia and they show footage of whales breaching practically every time the whales start coming in. So as much as you want to be right, I do not think you are going to find yourself to be right. I will try and find some more pictures to show you, anyway.

EDIT - as promised, more evidence.

From a whale watching website wrote:They seem to be curious by nature and will often pop their heads out of the water to have a look at the people watching them and then put on a display of enormous strength launching their bodies out of the water several times in succession to the delight of the crowds, female whales and seagulls that seem to always be around to collect the somewhat stunned fish. They will often approach the whale boats to within touching distance to have a good look and seem to have no fear at all.

[http://www.onthecliffs.co.za/Whale%20watching.htm]

by **Alcari** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:10 pm UTC

Curse you, universe, for making me be wrong again!
Still, it seems i was. Scratch whales from the list then.

by **spectacu-awesome** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:26 am UTC

It's been a while since these were posted, but i can't bear to leave things unresolved (unless they've already been resolved, and i'm just blind (probably true)).

A 26: i could have sworn it was "copyrighted" but, oh well...

A 27: surely its Australia (Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!)

Q 41: How many species of cephalopods are there which are known to be poisonous?

EDIT: yep, i can count, 36 comes right after 40, jeez

by **evilbeanfiend** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:36 am UTC

A36 im going to go with 0

by **gmalivuk** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:00 pm UTC

evilbeanfiend wrote:A36 im going to go with 0

Well the blue-ringed octopus is one, so that's wrong.

With 26, we've already had longer words than that with no repeated letters. You don't have an a or a u, which would add syllables and leave room for additional consonants.

by **spectacu-awesome** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:01 pm UTC

A 41: its more than one

by **hermaj** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:35 pm UTC

spectacu-awesome wrote:A 26: i could have sworn it was "copyrighted" but, oh well...

gmalivuk wrote:With 26, we've already had longer words than that with no repeated letters. You don't have an a or a u, which would add syllables and leave room for additional consonants.

Maybe it's uncopyrightable? Or have there been words still longer?

by **gmalivuk** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:04 pm UTC

hermaj wrote:
spectacu-awesome wrote:A 26: i could have sworn it was "copyrighted" but, oh well...

gmalivuk wrote:With 26, we've already had longer words than that with no repeated letters. You don't have an a or a u, which would add syllables and leave room for additional consonants.

Maybe it's uncopyrightable? Or have there been words still longer?

DINGDINGDING!!!

Yeah, uncopyrightable. Spectacu was close (and I'm guessing maybe heard the correct answer before but forgot it), but didn't add on enough affixes.

There are longer ones (which you can find by looking them up), but they're sciency-sounding words that most English speakers wouldn't understand upon first hearing.

by **Alcari** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:13 pm UTC

gmalivuk wrote:
hermaj wrote:
Maybe it's uncopyrightable? Or have there been words still longer?

DINGDINGDING!!!

There are longer ones (which you can find by looking them up), but they're sciency-sounding words that most English speakers wouldn't understand upon first hearing.

Actually, I can think of one, without looking it up.

uncopyrightables

by **chrispy1** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:36 pm UTC

as I can't seem to find any unanswered questions,

Q41.5- What is the only North American venue the Beatles played everytime they were on the continent? (Clue - it's not in the U.S.)

by **lanicita** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:59 am UTC

Because Q42: What is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? (This may be a trick question.)

by **gmalivuk** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:06 am UTC

Alcari wrote:Actually, I can think of one, without looking it up.

uncopyrightables

Except that uncopyrightable isn't a noun.

by **chrispy1** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:07 am UTC

lanicita wrote:Because Q42: What is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? (This may be a trick question.)

42. And yes, I have my towel with me at all times.

by **lanicita** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:18 am UTC

chrispy1 wrote:
lanicita wrote:Because Q42: What is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? (This may be a trick question.)

42. And yes, I have my towel with me at all times.

Wrong. The correct answer is the question. Which is 42.

by **chrispy1** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:29 am UTC

lanicita wrote:
chrispy1 wrote:
lanicita wrote:Because Q42: What is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? (This may be a trick question.)

42. And yes, I have my towel with me at all times.

Wrong. The correct answer is the question. Which is 42.

Obviously, I had my towel too tightly wrapped around my head. Thank you for clearing that up.

by **slimjim42** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:20 pm UTC

actually, if the scrable bag was right the question is what is 7 times 6.

by **Rodan** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:28 pm UTC

Just for the record, the proper terminology is "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything".

by **Maseiken** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:18 am UTC

Question 43:
What did Bilbo have in his pocket?

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