The new trivia thread.

[papasmerf]

This very large bird is a pest, how does this 19 - 24 inch tall bird annoy people?

eats nothing but prunes and lives in parking ramps

 

[dirkd101]

What was the name of the miniature hockey card giveaways with a fill up at Esso stations during the 1970-71 NHL season?

I still have those, I'll have to dig them up and to find out.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

@Blue-Spheroid: Yes, Earth is not a sphere, but it's close enough for the purposes of these questions.

Question :

Yes, the Earth is s spheroid, ...................................................

The world is an (_______) spheroid, flattened at the poles, and bulging at the equator.

 

[nondescriptive]

What was the name of the miniature hockey card giveaways with a fill up at Esso stations during the 1970-71 NHL season?

lol, I remember those, can't recall name though.

 

[bobistheowl]

Question :

Yes, the Earth is s spheroid, ...................................................

The world is an (elliptical) spheroid, flattened at the poles, and bulging at the equator.

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[Ceiling Cat]

R.M.S. Titanic, what does R.M.S stand for?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

(_______) is the only city in the world located on two continents.

Istanbul.

Correct.

 

[nondescriptive]

R.M.S. Titanic, what does R.M.S stand for?

Royal Majesty's Services

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Royal Majesty's Services

The Titanic was a private ship, not in His/Her Majesties service.

 

[dirkd101]

The Titanic was a private ship, not in His/Her Majesties service.

Royal Mail Ship

 

[Ceiling Cat]

R.M.S. Titanic, what does R.M.S stand for?

Royal Mail Ship

Correct.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

What (____)% of a beef steer will be steaks?

Answer :

40% of a cow is used for steaks, the rest is used for hamburger or is rendered for hides and other industrial and commercial uses.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

The antipodal point for any place on Earth, (or any spherical object), is the spot diametrically opposite. In cartoons and folk lore, you end up in China if you dig through to the other side of the world by way of the center of the Earth.

1) Where would you be living, if your antipodal point was in China?
Somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean near the tropic of Capricorn. Some parts hitting land in Chile at the latitude of Santiago, and Argentina at the latitude of Buenos Ares

2) What is the antipodal point of Toronto? (relative to a city or land mass, if it's in a body of water). Within 500 miles is good enough to get this right.
Somewhere south of the Indian Ocean at the approx. latitude of Tasmania. East of Australia.

@Blue-Spheroid: Yes, Earth is not a sphere, but it's close enough for the purposes of these questions.

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[bobistheowl]

Originally Posted by bobistheowl

The antipodal point for any place on Earth, (or any spherical object), is the spot diametrically opposite. In cartoons and folk lore, you end up in China if you dig through to the other side of the world by way of the center of the Earth.

1) Where would you be living, if your antipodal point was in China?
Somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean near the tropic of Capricorn. Some parts hitting land in Chile at the latitude of Santiago, and Argentina at the latitude of Buenos Ares

Chile and Argentina are correct, but further south than Santiago and Buenos Aires.

2) What is the antipodal point of Toronto? (relative to a city or land mass, if it's in a body of water). Within 500 miles is good enough to get this right.
Somewhere south of the Indian Ocean at the approx. latitude of Tasmania. East of Australia.

Way off.

@Blue-Spheroid: Yes, Earth is not a sphere, but it's close enough for the purposes of these questions.......

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[Ceiling Cat]

Reverse longitude and latitude. South is north and east is west.

 

[bobistheowl]

Reverse longitude and latitude. South is north and east is west.

I don't know what you're trying to say here. North, South, East and West don't change below the equator. Southern Africa is west of Australia, for example, whether you're in Colombo, Sri Lanka or Kotzebue, Alaska.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

If you are in Toronto, you are in the Northern and Western hemispheres. Your antipodal point then must be opposite and be in the Southern and Eastern hemisphere at the furthest point. Just as the the antipodal point of the North pole must be the South pole.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

(_______) is the most common atom in the universe.

 

[papasmerf]

(__CARBON_____) is the most common atom in the universe.

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[Ceiling Cat]

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Not Carbon.