The new trivia thread.

[bobistheowl]

What is an Arkansas Credit Card?

 

[canbreathethroughearsmale]

What cast member from a critically acclaimed family drama tv show ended up posing for PlayBoy years later?

That's pretty nodescriptive

 

[jost]

What cast member from a critically acclaimed family drama tv show ended up posing for PlayBoy years later?

one of the daughters on The Waltons?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

What does it mean when you are giving someone the whole 9 yards?

 

[John Galt 2012]

What does it mean when you are giving someone the whole 9 yards?

Is that the length of the belt for wing guns in WW2 fighters.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

How much per acre did the US pay Russia when it bought Alaska?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

What is the life span of a tarantula?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

What does it mean when you are giving someone the whole 9 yards?

Answer :

The whole nine yards is the length of the tail gunners machine gun magazine belt. Giving someone the whole nine yards means you will blow him to smithereens.

BTW - Smithereens is from the Irish Gaelic smidir ( small fragments )

 

[bobistheowl]

What former Toronto Raptor played for the Harlem Globetrotters?

Jamario Moon.

 

[bobistheowl]

Which retired porn actress is a member of MENSA?

Asia Carrera.

 

[bobistheowl]

What was the cover price of the first issue of Playboy, (December, 1953)?

Fifty cents.

 

[bobistheowl]

Which three countries/ independent states are both landlocked and share a border with only one other country?

Vatican, Lesotho and......

and San Marino.

 

[bobistheowl]

Which New York Yankees pitchers swapped wives, kids and dogs in 1972?

Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich.

 

[bobistheowl]

What's his name?

 

[bobistheowl]

What's her name?

 

[shack]

It contains every letter in the alphabet.

Actually, it is the "shortest sentence" that contains every.......

 

[shack]

Which head coach of the New York Jets did I see in the airport today at Newark while I was waiting for a shuttle bus?

 

[bobistheowl]

Actually, it is the "shortest sentence" that contains every.......

Not true. there are shorter panagrams such as "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz". These two sentences are used for the text display at different point sizes in a .ttf or .otf font file. The sentence displayed will vary, depending on which font making software is used.

The most commonly used French panagram is "Portez ce vieux whiskey au juge blond qui fume".

 

[nondescriptive]

one of the daughters on The Waltons?

Yes, which one?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

How many coins does the U.S. Mint manufacture each day?

Answer :

The US mint makes 80,000,000 coins daily.