Trivia

[boxman55]

Grumpy, Sneezy, Doc, Bashful, Happy, Dopey and Sleepy.

Aren't all these guys in iowa tonight ?

I needed a good laugh today. Very very funny, Katonsdad...Boxman

[okarol]

So who's up? Traci or JBeany?? 

[jbeany]

traci

[okarol]

Ok it's still Traci's turn. In the meantime here's an easy one - but the winner doesn't get a turn - it's just for the practice... here goes:

How many pounds of peanut butter are consumed in the United States each year?

[joezee]

George W. Bush

[glitter]

George W. Bush

You think George W. Bush ate all the peanut butter in the United States- and your mad? 

[joezee]

  VERY perceptive, Glitter. I didn't mind losing the Jif Creamy, but when he glommed all the Smart Balance Chunky I shouldn't be eating and then started a war and a Pinocchio impersonation that's lasted seven years...... I can take dialysis and bad needle sticks, but an arrogant liar just rubs me the wrong way (as does every Democrat in Congress who sits there and not only lets him get away with murder but keeps on approving it). I feel better now and will celebrate with one teaspoon of Smart Balance Chunky and fantasize about 1/20/09.


EDITED: Fixed smiley icon - okarol/moderator

[boxman55]

Joezee, If you would like to discuss politics  open a new topic. I think we need to stay on the trivia topic here...Boxman


  Americans eat about 3 pounds of peanut butter per person each year, totaling about
       500 million pounds... enough to cover the floor of the Grand Canyon...Boxman

[okarol]

  Americans eat about 3 pounds of peanut butter per person each year, totaling about
       500 million pounds... enough to cover the floor of the Grand Canyon...Boxman

According to http://www.peanut-institute.org/PeanutFAQs.html Americans consume 2.4 billion pounds of peanuts! About 50% is consumed as peanut butter.

[boxman55]

Wow my info is way off...Boxman

[kitkatz]

500 million, 2.4 billion...who would have guessed?

[goofynina]

  Americans eat about 3 pounds of peanut butter per person each year, totaling about
       500 million pounds... enough to cover the floor of the Grand Canyon...Boxman

According to http://www.peanut-institute.org/PeanutFAQs.html Americans consume 2.4 billion pounds of peanuts! About 50% is consumed as peanut butter.

That is a helluvalot of phosphorus 

[okarol]

Well, I am tired of waiting, so here's another trivia question...

What year was the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday first observed?

[Wattle]

The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday was first observed on January 20, 1986.

Am I right???   

I am learning alot about American History!   

[okarol]

  You got it Wattle! Your turn!

[Wattle]

 


Where in the world is the longest fence? When and Why was it built?   

[thegrammalady]

The Western Australian No. 1 Rabbit Proof Fence was the longest unbroken line of fence in the world. When it was completed in 1907 it stretched 1833 kilometres from Starvation Boat Harbour on the south coast to a point near Cape Keraudren on the north west coast.

that supposedly translates to 3,437 miles, but what would i know 

[okarol]

As an attempt to exclude the dingo from eastern and southern grazing lands, the longest fence in the world was erected. In Queensland it is called the Barrier Fence, where it stretches for 2500km. It then joins the Border Fence in New South Wales, and travels another 584km. This is finally connected to the Dog Fence, 2225km of fence in South Australia. The whole structure is known as the Dingo Fence. It is a two-metre wire mesh fence that divides the eastern states from the deep outback. Built during the 1880s and finished in 1885, it was used to try to exclude widespread invasion by the introduced rabbit. This was quite unsuccessful, but it did prove useful in excluding emus, kangaroos, pigs and brumbies from the feedlots inside. Efforts later turned to excluding dingoes when sheep farmers became impressed with the ability of the fence to keep out hungry dingoes from their grazing properties.

[Wattle]

Grammalady - Sorry The Rabbit Proof Fence is related to, but separate from the longest fence in the world.

Okarol you win!  The longest Fence is The Dingo Fence.

You are all learning about Australian History now!!        


    Okarol you are up!!!!

[boxman55]

There sure is a lot of area on the other side of the fence is all that "the outback" where crocodile dundee lives???...Boxman 

[okarol]

Take a look at this bus. Is it traveling to the LEFT or the RIGHT?

What’s your answer?

[MyssAnne]

I'm gonna jump in...and say it's moving to the right.

[boxman55]

I will say it is going left because you can't see the door...Boxman

[Joe Paul]

AHHH, Box you beat me to it- but I agree

[okarol]

Righty-O Boxman.

The test was given to pre-schoolers—a test that 90% of them passed with no problem…

The door would only be visible if the bus were moving to the right.

Most pre-schoolers apparently knew that!

You're up!