Trivia

[glitter]

okarol is right- your up!

[okarol]

 
In the television version of The Grinch, who did the narration and the lead character's voice?

[tamara]

Boris Karloff ? this is a google guess I have no idea    

[goofynina]

Yep, Tamara, good guess girlfriend, your up, 

[okarol]

Boris Karloff ? this is a google guess I have no idea    

Tamara - it's you baby - your turn 

[okarol]

Not sure where Tamara is so.... in the mean time... here's a new question:

Who discovered America, before Columbus, in their longboats?

[Joe Paul]

Vikings?

[tamara]

Not sure where Tamara is so.... in the mean time... here's a new question:

Who discovered America, before Columbus, in their longboats?

Here I am ! Better late than never, hey I think I disqualified myself the next question well i better get the next one right then ! 

[glitter]

A Viking man called Bjarni Herjolfsson discovered America by accident in the year 985, when his ship was blown off course on the way to Greenland....



 just to add some interesting trivia..





Like Iceland before, around 930 Greenland was discovered by a viking who was blown off course, his name was Gunnbjorn. The first viking to colonize Greenland was Eric the Red. In 982, Eric was banned from Iceland because of manslaughter, and he decided to explore the country discovered by Gunnbjorn. After three years he returned, talking enthousiastically about the land, which he called Greenland, and in 986, he returned with several shiploads of colonists. Two colonies were started, the eastern and the western settlement, both on the west coast.

Bjarni Herjulfsson came back home to his father in Iceland in 986, only to hear that his father had joined Eric to Greenland. He decided to go there himself, but missed it, and reached America. He explored a large part of the American coast, but he did not land there. Around the year 1000, Eric's son Leif tried to establish a colony somewhere in America, in a land he called Vinland. A few more attempts were made in the following years, but all were abandoned after only one or two years. We do not know where exactly Vinland was. On Newfoundland, a viking settlement has been found in a place called L'Anse aux Meadows. Many historians believe that this was the settlement of Leif, but others think that Vinland was further south, perhaps in New England.

[okarol]

Vikings?

Yeah JP - you're up! 

[Joe Paul]

How long a wire can you stretch from an ounce of gold?

[oswald]

what size wire?  or how thick of a piece of wire?

[okarol]

Gold is a unique metal. It is valued not just for its rarity, but also for its range of lovely colors, the distinctive character of its soft metallic glow, its resistance to tarnish, and its easy workability. Gold is so soft and malleable that one-ounce can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long, or hammered into a sheet so thin it covers 100 square feet.

[Joe Paul]

Karol is right, your up 

[okarol]

   Where is the world's highest waterfall? How far does it drop?

[oswald]

angel (salto angel), canaima nat'l park venezuela, upper tributary of rio caroni, 3212 ft or 979 m.

[okarol]

correctomundo oswald - go for it! 

[oswald]

what body of water yields more oysters, clams, crab and fin fish per square mile than any other in the u.s.?

[boxman55]

Oswald that would be the Chesapeake Bay...Boxman

[oswald]

thats right, you got it.  you're up.       

[boxman55]

what was the name of the pilot who was part of the A-Team...Boxman

[oswald]

was his name AJ?

[boxman55]

no try again...Boxman

[oswald]

dwight shultz...... captain h.m. "howling mad" murdock.

[boxman55]

you got it your turn...Boxman