Trivia
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Try your hand at these brain-busting trivia questions. Remember, please, that you may not google or use any reference sources for the first 24 hours of this thread.
-1. What does the mole unit measure? -2. What family originally owns Wuthering Heights? -3. Which ancient Greek is known as The Father of Numbers? -4. How do White-handed gibbons in Thailand's forests communicate threats from predators? -5. Who was the son of Laius and Jocasta? -6. What did Momofuku Ando invent? -7. Who was the first U.S. President to be inaugurated in Washington DC? -8. In what special way do male sea horses, sea dragons, and pipe fish contribute to the continuation of their species? -9. If Lisa Gherardini was Leonardo's model for the Mona Lisa, then were is Mona Lisa buried? -10. What do prokaryotes lack?
Beautiful young people are acts of nature but beautiful old people are works of art
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Re: Trivia
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1. Probably somewhere between 1/8 and 1/4 of an inch.
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Re: Trivia
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11/16/11 04:32 PM
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Jema, manxman, Sherlock, Chris, and Haroula  Cue  No joke, curly. The answer is a kind of place, not a specific one. 
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Re: Trivia
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11/17/11 06:42 AM
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10. a nucleus maybe? edit: no, I think it was something else 
Last edited by HandsFree; 11/17/11 06:43 AM.
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Re: Trivia
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11/17/11 04:37 PM
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2. If I Googled this right it was Earnshaw. Pretty interesting.
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