The new trivia thread.

[Ceiling Cat]

What product found in a supermarket is one of the ingredients in dynamite.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

What common everyday occurrence is composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen and 9% dioxide?

 

[shack]

What common everyday occurrence is composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen and 9% dioxide?

A fart?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

A fart?

Yes, you are right!

 

[Ceiling Cat]

How long has the longest continuously burning fire been burning.

Answer :

There is an underground coal fire in Australia that has been estimated to have been burning for 5000 years.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

The name of the Bic pen was changed to accommodate Americans, why?

 

[MissCroft]

What product found in a supermarket is one of the ingredients in dynamite.

Peanuts

 

[Viggo Rasmussen]

The name of the Bic pen was changed to accommodate Americans, why?

Not true, it was changed from "Bich" several years before the French pen was introduced in the US. I think it was just to make it shorter and snappier.

 

[nondescriptive]

What is notable about american football from 1906 to 1911?

 

[anon1]

What is notable about american football from 1906 to 1911?

3 downs and 110 yd field, like Canadian football.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Not true, it was changed from "Bich" several years before the French pen was introduced in the US. I think it was just to make it shorter and snappier.

The name Bich was changed in anticipation of going global with their product. Bich was afraid that American ( and English speaking ) people would call their product Bitch pens.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

What does the G in g-string string stand for?

Answer :

The G in G-string stands for Groin.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Who is Thelma Pickles.

 

[buttercup]

Answer :
The G in G-string stands for Groin.

If you google "what does the g in g-string stand for?" you get lotsa different answers. groin is one of many.

 

[buttercup]

How many words can you come up with that contain the letter combination xyg?

The letters must be together, and in that order. English words only, and no proper nouns.

 

[shack]

oxygen
oxygenation
oxygenated

 

[Ceiling Cat]

If I called you a twit, what am I actually calling you?

 

[MissCroft]

If I called you a twit, what am I actually calling you?

I think a twit is a pregnant goldfish?

 

[MissCroft]

Who is Thelma Pickles.

John Lennon's first wife.

 

[Viggo Rasmussen]

What was the first American single to sell at least a million copies during the British Invasion?