The new trivia thread.

[Ceiling Cat]

What is the scientific name for insect poop?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Pretzel that have no salt on them are called "(_______)."

 

[Ceiling Cat]

 

[shack]

Pretzel that have no salt on them are called "(_______)."

Bland.

 

[anon1]

Correct.

pepper was so valuable a spice that it was sold individually.

I was fortuitous, just saw a great three part PBS series called "The Spice Trail"
It said that pepper was more valuable than gold at the time.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

I was fortuitous, just saw a great three part PBS series called "The Spice Trail"
It said that pepper was more valuable than gold at the time.

All spices were valuable back then. If you could go back in time with two suit cases full of spices, you would be so rich Liz ( Elizabethan Liz )would BJ you herself. That is why the Portugese blinded the map maker after he made the map for the orient. Fucking bunch of Chupa-rolas!

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Who used this slogan before Maxwell House Coffee?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

At the turn of the century American tourists that visited Spain were surprised to see that ( common drink in America ) was three times as expensive as a glass of brandy.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

In WWII, if you were in charge of the bar what would you be doing?

 

[buttercup]

In WWII, if you were in charge of the bar what would you be doing?

Carrying the Browning automatic rifle?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

In WWII, if you were in charge of the bar what would you be doing?

Carrying the Browning automatic rifle?

Correct.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

The first domain name ever registered was (_______).com on March 15, 1985.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Where is the land of rabbits?

Answer :

The name Spain means the land of rabbits.

 

[jost]

what gameshow host was signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as a teen?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

In this scene in the movie The Untouchables, there is a blooper ( an error not consistent with reality ) What is it?

 

[bobistheowl]

There are more (_______) than people in Denmark.
Answer :

There are more pigs in Denmark than there are people, evidently it is a big pork producer.

So the problem was with the grammatical structure of the question. If should have been phased as: "In Denmark, there are more _______ than people", as it is a comparison of quantitative totals within Denmark, as opposed to a comparison of anything versus the human population in Denmark.

 

[shack]

In this scene in the movie The Untouchables, there is a blooper ( an error not consistent with reality ) What is it?

The maple leaf on each crate would not have been used.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

The maple leaf on each crate would not have been used.

Why?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

So the problem was with the grammatical structure of the question. If should have been phased as: "In Denmark, there are more _______ than people", as it is a comparison of quantitative totals within Denmark, as opposed to a comparison of anything versus the human population in Denmark.

Bob-o,

I am cranking a lot of questions out here to keep this thread interesting. I am not a high school grammar teacher like you. Sometimes I take factual sentences and turn it into a fill in the blank question. If it not grammatically correct, please excuse me.

 

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what gameshow host was signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as a teen?

Wink?