| Q: The Free Masons essentially built which historic DC building? | A: the Washington Monument | |
| Q: In LA there are fewer people than? A) mountain lions B) cars C) open marriages | A: B) cars | |
| Q: Who was caught on live mic, saying to to Obama while signing the Heal care bill: "This is a big fucking deal." | A: Joe Biden | |
| Q: What is Pogonophobia? | A: the fear of beards. | |
| Q: In which US state did Cattle branding originate? | A: Connecticut in the mid-nineteenth century, when farmers were required by law to mark all their pigs. | |
| Q: What Bruce Campbell movie series somehow became a musical? | A: Evil Dead | |
| Q: In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of ___times around the equator. | A: 5 | |
| Q: There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every ___inhabitants! | A: 8 | |
| Q: What percent of words spoken by John B each day are movie lines, name dropping, catch all phrases or "that's what she said"? | A: 100 | |
| Q: On our staff webpage, Paxton and Peanut are before which staff member? | A: Anupama | |
| Q: Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages. What does each represent? | A: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class. | |
| Q: ___has now replaced google as the most visited site on the internet | A: Facebook | |
| Q: What is the most common first name in the world? | A: Mohammed. | |
| Q: This real headline was found in a newspaper printed where? headline: "Sex workers refusing to take legal brothel plan lying down" A) New Zeland B) France C) USA D) Japan | A: A | |
| Q: In 1763 the British gained control of Florida by exchanging with, the Spanish, a city for the peninsula. What city did the British swap for Florida?A) Kingston, Jamaica D) Caracas, Venezuela C) Galveston, Texas D) Havana, Cuba | A: D) Havana, Cuba | |
| Q: In 2004 what percent of US households owned a dog, and what percent a cat? | A: 63, 34 | |
| Q: Which was the first state to abolish the death penalty and in what year? | A: Minnesota (1911) | |
| Q: Who was the only US president to be granted a patten? What was it for? | A: Abraham Lincoln, hydraulic device for lifting ships over shoals | |
| Q: The bra Marilyn Monroe wore in "Some Like It Hot" was sold for how much money? | A: $14,000 | |
| Q: Donald Duck comics were banned from which country because he doesn't wear pants? | A: Finland | |
| Q: Who died, as he predicted, during the appearance of a comet. | A: Mark Twain | |
| Q: Number of Fund-raisers Obama has attended since taking office as compared to Bush during his first year? Give your answer in a ratio. | A: 26:6 | |
| Q: Who is the only person to date to have graduated from West Point military academy without a single demerit? | A: Robert E. Lee | |
| Q: It is illegal to hunt ___ in the state of Arizona. | A: camels | |
| Q: Who is a foreseeable replacement for Oprah? | A: Rossie O Donnell | |
| Q: What is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard? | A: typewriter | |
| Q: Who on the DIA/WFC team considers herself addicted to TV? | A: Marakie | |
| Q: What is the lifespan of a taste bud? | A: 10 days | |
| Q: what is the only bird that can fly backwards? | A: Hummingbird | |
| Q: ____ vice president under Calvin Coolidge, the only vice president to have written a number-one hit song. | A: Charles G. Dawes, "Melody in A Major" 1912 | |
| Q: What is the canopy used in a Jewish wedding called? | A: chuppah | |
| Q: Members of the Nazi SS had ____ tattooed on their armpits. | A: thier blood type | |
| Q: Match the statement to the politician: "I stand by all the misstatements." "Things are more like they are now than they have ever been" "Outside of the killings, Washington D.C. has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." with Preside | A: Quayle, Ford, Barry | |
| Q: The only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution is what? | A: treason - Article III, Section 3. | |
| Q: Which celebrity recently claimed she saved 40 kids' lives in a single day during a raid on a sweatshop in India? | A: Lindsay Lohan | |
| Q: Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language. What is this language (not English)? | A: German but more recently Hungarian. | |
| Q: ____is the only state in the US that allows its residents to vote from space | A: Texas | |
| Q: What is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand? | A: Stewardesses | |
| Q: Which US college has educated the most Nobel prize winners? | A: City College of New York CCNY | |
| Q: Complete this sentence: If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person _____ | A: died in battle. | |
| Q: Last year, ___(number) women received Nobel prizes in the sciences, a record for any year. | A: 3 | |
| Q: Ghosts appear in how many Shakespearian plays? | A: 4, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth. | |
| Q: Irish writer Bram Stoker (1847-1912) invented which horror movie icon? | A: Dracula | |
| Q: Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was ____ | A: Willy | |
| Q: Who said both: Clothes make the man; naked people have little or no influence in society. and: Don’t go to sleep; so many people die there. | A: Mark Twain | |
| Q: Where was a bone from a child estimated aged 5-7 from over 44,000 years ago found? Scientists think that this a link to a human lineage descended from Africa. | A: Denisova cave, mountains of Siberia | |
| Q: What is the case study featured currently on salsa commons? | A: Faithful America | |
| Q: Which of the following does Johanna have difficulty doing? A) reading upside down B) folding maps C) approximating measurements D) getting places on time without James to slow her down :) | A: B) folding maps | |
| Q: Human fingernails grow nearly __ times faster than toenails | A: 4 | |
| Q: There is a 6 foot high stone monument dedicated to which comic-strip character in Crystal City, Texas? | A: Popeye | |
| Q: ____was the first US state to allow women to vote. | A: Wyoming | |
| Q: What does Karoke mean in Japanese? | A: "empty orchestra" | |
| Q: How many ridges does a dime have around its edge? | A: 118 | |
| Q: The the oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called _____ in the Mojave Desert. | A: creosote bushes | |
| Q: "Diamonds & Rust" singer? | A: Joan Baez | |
| Q: ___percent of Americans have had sex on the first date. | A: 29, Langer, Gary. “Poll: American Sex Survey.” ABCNews.com. October 21, 2004. Accessed: December 29, 2009. | |
| Q: what is cinnabar? | A: poisonous mercury | |
| Q: How many teeth does a mosquito have? | A: 47 | |
| Q: On average, how many people choke to death on ball point pens each year? | A: 100 | |
| Q: The Hundred Year War actually lasted ___ years | A: 116, (1337 to 1453). | |
| Q: What is the median income of DC residents (within the district)? | A: in 2007 it was 54,812 | |
| Q: More than __% of the world''s salt is used to de-ice American roads. | A: A) 10 B) 20 C) 30 D) 50 | |
| Q: Is lsd a phenethylamine, a tryptamine, or both? | A: both! | |
| Q: Where is that famous red phone that’s depicted in many movies? | A: the Pentagon (not the Oval Office as many belive) | |
| Q: There are more pyramids in __(country) than in Egypt | A: Peru | |
| Q: Average number of minutes unemployed Americans spend looking for a job each day? | A: 18 | |
| Q: Name two of Sarah Palin's children. | A: Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, Trig | |
| Q: On average, adult men think about sex every ___ seconds. A) 2 B) 5 C) 7 D) 60 | A: C) 7 Bogaert, Anthony F. 2004. “Asexuality: Prevalence and Associated Factors in a National Probability Sample.” The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 41. | |
| Q: The system of democracy was introduced 2,500 years ago in Athens, Greece. The oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in ___ AD. | A: 930 | |
| Q: the dot over a lowercase i is called ____ | A: tittle | |
| Q: Al Capone's business card said he was a____ | A: used furniture dealer | |
| Q: What are the he plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called? | A: aglets | |
| Q: The following are real names of real people. Guess their occupation: Dick Butkus Potter Stewart Dick Trickle | A: pro football player, Supreme Court Justice, NASCAR driver and winner of Winston Cup | |
| Q: The Nobel Prize resulted form a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence. What was his invention? | A: dynamite | |
| Q: What is the oddest thing that George Bush has been arrested for stealing? | A: a Christmas wreath | |
| Q: Who did John B refer to as "the Benedict Arnold" of our office? | A: Trina | |
| Q: What was NOT one of the jobs Thomas Jefferson held? A) Secretary of State B) President of the United States C) Attorney General D) Vice President of the United States | A: Attorney General | |
| Q: There are approximately ___ Bibles sold each minute across the world | A: 50 | |
| Q: Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Name each one. | A: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar. | |
| Q: What (programming) language is Facebook written in? | A: PHP-MySQL | |
| Q: Bear wrestling matches are prohibited in in which US state? | A: Alabama | |
| Q: What are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters? | A: "Bookkeeper" and "bookkeeping" | |
| Q: Which person that we all know recently broke her arm while crowd surfing? | A: Kimberly | |
| Q: The state capitol building in which US state is powered by geothermal heat? | A: Idaho | |
| Q: Which famous leader said: "We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm." | A: Winston Churchill | |
| Q: Who was the first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year? | A: Charles Lindbergh in 1927 | |
| Q: If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a length of ___feet | A: 22 | |
| Q: Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every __ residents | A: 19 | |
| Q: Name at least 3 of the cities James R has lived in? | A: Cambridge, DC, Florinopolis, Belem, Just Redwood Valley and Tujunga | |
| Q: Babies are born with __bones, but by adulthood we have__ | A: 300, 206 | |
| Q: How much money did John D. Rockefeller give away during his lifetime? A) 200,000,000 B) 500,000,000 C) 700,000,000 D) 4,000,000 | A: US$ 500,000,000 | |
| Q: What is depicted on the Mozambique flag? | A: AK-47 assault rifle | |
| Q: Which Memphis musician who was part of the Box Tops and Big Star died on March 17, 2010? | A: Alex Chilton | |
| Q: True or False. Early plastic billiard balls would sometimes explode. | A: True | |
| Q: A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a ___ distance away. A) 15 ft B) 1/2 mile C) 1mile D) 10 miles | A: C) 1 mile | |
| Q: Name 2 movies that were filmed in DC? | A: A Few Good Men, An American President, Forrest Gump, Contact, Wag the Dog and Thirteen Days | |
| Q: Today, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo products are sold in every country in the world, except ____ | A: North Korea | |
| Q: The original title for the 1984 movie Ghostbusters was what? | A: Ghost Smashers. | |
| Q: Which city has the most Rolls Royces per capita? | A: Hong Kong | |
| Q: From what tradition is the modern term 'testimony' is derived from? | A: It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. | |
| Q: Put the following people in order by height (tallest to shortest) Jim Tyler G Tyler M Alec James D | A: duke it out | |
| Q: The longest word in the English language is the name of a lung disease called what: | A: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano-coniosis. | |
| Q: What are the names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library? They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. | A: Patience and Fortitude. | |
| Q: In the 1985 horror film Day of the Dead, zombies are actually feasting on ____ that were barbecued in a special way to look like human flesh. | A: turkey legs | |
| Q: All of the following are true nicknames for DC except for? A) Capital Of Miserable Huts B) Metropolis Of The Country C) Wilderness City D) City In A Forest with a River near by | A: D) City In A Forest with a River near by | |
| Q: John B. has not been drunk in which one of these states? A) Virginia B) Indiana C) Rhode Island D) New Jersey | A: C) Rhode Island | |
| Q: Percent of all US 401(k) accounts that are worth less than $10,000? | A: 46 | |
| Q: To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk A) the length of 10 cars B) the full length of a football field C) 1/2 the length of a football field D)25 steps | A: B) the full length of a football field.' | |
| Q: between 1-100 how many multiples of 9 are there? A) 5 B) 6 C) 9 D) 10 | A: B) 6 | |
| Q: Best Mike Miller away message of all times? (will accept any real answer to this question) | A: Home sick making briskit | |
| Q: Mattel marketed a doll called "Growing Up Skipper." Her breasts grew when her arm was turned. This doll was on the market for __years? | A: For two years, during the 1970s | |
| Q: Fill in the blanks: In the online dating world, women are afraid of meeting a ___ while men are afraid of meeting someone who is __. | A: serial killer, “fat. Mapes, Diane. 2006. How to Date in a Post-Dating World. Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Books. | |
| Q: What does "getting a Valentine" mean in criminal jargon? | A: Receiving a one-year jail sentence. | |
| Q: In 2001, Ken Edwards set the worlds' record for the most cockroaches eaten in one minute. How many did he eat? | A: 36 cockroaches | |
| Q: In the Constitution, how long must you have lived in the United States to become president? | A: 14 years | |
| Q: Number of registered drug-company lobbyists in DC for every member of Congress? | A: 2 | |
| Q: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter, Suri Cruise, carries a purse designed by ___worth___. | A: $850 Ferragamo purse! | |
| Q: How many gamers are there in China? | A: 37.5 million | |
| Q: What sorority was Kimberly in during college? | A: Pi Beta Phai | |
| Q: Grit, Noodle, Cut and Shoot and all town names in which US state? | A: Texas | |
| Q: How many sides does a heptagon have? A) 4 B) 6 C) 7 D) 9 | A: C) 7 | |
| Q: The Eiffel Tower has ___steps A)4001 B)1638 C)1792 D)1500 | A: 1792 | |
| Q: One can cut a cake into 8 pieces with minimum of __movements. | A: 3, All you need is two vertical and one horizontal cuts | |
| Q: Within ten years of arrival, more than __% of immigrants speak English A) 25 B) 60 C) 75 D) 90 | A: C) 75 | |
| Q: One in __ male motorists picks their nose while driving. A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 4) 4 | A: C) 3 | |
| Q: Which celeb sometimes sleeps in the walk-in closet of his LA mansion because, he says, "all the bedrooms are too light". | A: George Clooney | |
| Q: What is Barbie's (as in the doll) full name? | A: Barbie Millicent Roberts | |
| Q: What is the most deadly animal in the world (non human)? | A: mosquito | |
| Q: Who wrote the popular Twilight book series? | A: Stephanie Meyer | |
| Q: The plantings of cherry trees in Washington DC originated in which year as gift of friendship to the United States from the people of Japan. In Japan, the flowering cherry tree is called"Sakura" | A: 1912 | |
| Q: Galileo discovered which of the following? A) the planet Neptune B) the phases of Venus C) the moon D) the moons of Jupiter | A: A and D | |
| Q: When was diet Coke invented? A) 1976 B) 1982 C) 1990 D) 1992 | A: 1982 | |
| Q: What is the 12 letter word that is a fruit? | A: passionfruit | |
| Q: ___ is the only continent without deserts | A: Europe | |
| Q: What percent of the dust in your home consists of shed human skin? | A: 70 | |
| Q: The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is what? | A: and the rest of the day to yourself." | |
| Q: ___is a problem that many people in the world suffer from and it can resolved with something as small and light as a piece of paper. | A: static | |
| Q: According to People Magazine which are the 2 hot colors of Spring 2010 clothing? | A: yellow and cobalt | |
| Q: "When rats are drinking________ at levels well below those in soda pop, they’re becoming obese—every single one, across the board.” (Princeton University) | A: high-fructose corn syrup | |
| Q: When ____ graduated from Harvard, he did think it was worth it to pay the $5 fee to receive his diploma. He left without a diploma. | A: Thoreau | |
| Q: Which state raises the most turkeys out of all of the states? | A: California | |
| Q: Southern CA's Menifee Union School District pulled dictionaries form classrooms because a parent complained when his student came across what term? | A: oral-sex | |
| Q: What region of the world are the Maldives located in? | A: The Indian Ocean | |
| Q: Watch this video: http://www.amazon.com/review/R29Z83O4AK10UD/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm Which coworkers said that it is important to watch this? | A: Dan the man seals the deal arf is the sound a seal makes | |
| Q: What state is Pueblo de Taos located in? | A: New Mexico | |
| Q: Who invented the parachute in 1515? | A: DiVinci | |
| Q: American car horns beep in the tone of ? A) B B) G C) D D) F | A: D) F | |
| Q: Which famous designer has finally revealed his architectural plans for the Dwight D Eisenhower memorial? | A: Frank Gehry | |
| Q: Most alcoholic beverages contain all __ minerals necessary to sustain human life. A)5 B)10 C)13 D)20 | A: C) 13 | |
| Q: Who said this:My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. | A: Socrates | |
| Q: The biggest beer fest is Octoberfest. It started out as what kind of ceremony? wedding ceremony | A: a wedding ceremony | |
| Q: Complete this sentence: There are more collect calls on ____ than any other day of the year | A: Father's Day | |
| Q: Where (in which room) was Winston Churchill born? | A: In a Women's restoom | |
| Q: Who said the following during a sales pitch: "I will feel up the numbers" "just for you, I will massage the price" | A: John B | |
| Q: What is the mission of the tea party (in 20 words or less)? | A: The Tea Party movement is a populist United States protest movement focused on fiscal conservatism. It emerged in early 2009 partially in response to the federal government's stimulus package, officially known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act | |
| Q: Studies by Dr. Karl F. Robinson of Northwestern University reportedly prove that men change their minds __times more often than do women. | A: 2 or 3 | |
| Q: The plantings of cherry trees in Washington DC originated in which year as gift of friendship to the United States from the people of Japan. In Japan, the flowering cherry tree is called"Sakura" | A: 1912 | |
| Q: What percent of people who use personal adds for dating are already married? | A: 35 | |
| Q: The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon where in the sixteenth century? | A: The Philippine Islands | |
| Q: The following where the top grossing NBA teams in 2008. How much money was each team valued at? New York Knicks Los Angeles Lakers Chicago Bulls | A: Knicks-613 mil, Lakers-584 mil, Bulls-504 mil | |
| Q: While at Havard University, _____Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam | A: Edward Kennedy | |
| Q: Who first coined the word "nerd"? | A: Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo." | |
| Q: The symbol for pi (π) has been used regularly in its mathematical sense only for the past ___ years. | A: 250 | |
| Q: Who recently said this: "I was doing a lot of things... that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization, you start coming to the truth of who you really are. And that can be very ugly." | A: Tiger Woods | |
| Q: Who in our office can speak Chinese (more than Johanna who after living there for 3 months is still miserable)? | A: James D | |
| Q: By June of 2002, 1 in __ US residents was in prison which accounts for about 2 million people total. | A: 142 | |
| Q: There are more English speaking people living in which country than there are in the USA? | A: China | |
| Q: Which well-known South African wrote the Covenant of the United Nations and helped found the League of Nations? A) Nelson Mandela B) Desmond Tutu C) Chris Barnard D) Jan Smuts | A: Jan Smuts | |
| Q: More than __% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. | A: 50 | |
| Q: The sun is ____ times larger than the earth | A: 330,330 | |
| Q: What is the city with the highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists? | A: Washington DC | |
| Q: How many people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. | A: 2, the 3rd was added 5 years later | |
| Q: How many men were killed in the Battle of Lexington? | A: 6 | |
| Q: When a woman is __cm dilated she is ready to give birth. A) 5 B) 8 C) 10 C) 12 | A: B) 8 | |
| Q: What is the only inanimate symbol in the zodiac? | A: Libra, the Scales, | |
| Q: Sputnik was launched on October 4, 1957, the same day that which famous TV sitcom debuted? | A: "Leave it to Beaver" | |
| Q: For Dan Savage, what does "GGG" mean? | A: Good, Giving and Game | |
| Q: Name 3 quintessential articles of hipster clothing | A: skinny jeans, aviators, neon coled anything, plaid shirts | |
| Q: Who was the only first lady to carry a loaded revolver? | A: Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| Q: Put the following hotels in order from most to least expensive A) For ___ per night, guests staying in the Bridge Suite at Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas occupy a ten-room chamber perched atop a bridge that connects the resort's two buildings. | A: *so D C A B-- A) 25,000 B) 20000 C) 34,000 D) 35,000 | |
| Q: On average women say ___words per day while men manage just over ____ | A: 7000, 2000 | |
| Q: In what year did Canada declared national beauty contests canceled claiming they were degrading to women? | A: 1992 | |
| Q: How many references are there to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible? | A: 1,700 | |
| Q: Who is the first person to become a billionaire (U.S. dollars) by writing books? | A: J.K. Rowling | |
| Q: _____in Indiana played "the Star Spangled Banner" for the first time this week, previously it had been against their pacifist tradition. | A: Goshen College | |
| Q: Ratio of the percentage of Africa that is wilderness to percentage of North America that is wilderness | A: 28:38 | |
| Q: Who is famous for this notable saying: it was a dark and stormy night.”? | A: Edward Bulwer-Lytton who is widely regard as the worst writer of the Victorians | |
| Q: Who wrote "Don't Think of an Elephant"? | A: George Lakoff | |
| Q: What comic book journalist goes up against "the Smiler"? | A: Spider Jeruselem | |
| Q: What are the 3 longest rivers in the US (in order, longest to shortest)? | A: Missouri: 2,540 miles, Mississippi: 2,340 miles, Yukon: 1,980 miles | |
| Q: Who were the 2 thieves who crucified Jesus? | A: Dismas and Gestas | |
| Q: What is the favorite color of 80% of Americans? | A: Blue | |
| Q: In 2007 what were the most popula boy baby names in the following states? Alaska New York Virginia | A: Aiden, Michael, William | |
| Q: A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a _____ | A: tennis court | |
| Q: Some may think that gardening is for the outdoors, however, the the National Gardening Association concludes that, container gardening is ___dollar-a-year retail business. | A: 1 billion | |
| Q: People in the US has on average __credit cars each | A: 2 | |
| Q: The most popular museum in DC is the most visited museum in the world. What is it? | A: National Air and Space | |
| Q: How many pens did Obama use to sign the Health Care bill? | A: 22 | |
| Q: In 1770, a bill proposing that women using ___ should be punished for witchcraft was put forward to the British Parliament | A: makeup | |
| Q: Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. What was his original name? | A: Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali. | |
| Q: Who was the 1st US president to visit China? In what year? | A: Richard Nixon ,February, 1972. | |
| Q: the name "Pocahontas" means "bringer of peace". true or false? | A: false: it mean 'mischief' | |
| Q: Who said this: Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. | A: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) | |
| Q: Entomologists primarily study what? A) volcano B) energy sources C) skin D) insects | A: D) insects | |
| Q: Which coworkers went to GW? | A: Tyler M and Scott T | |
| Q: Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown where? | A: New Jersey | |
| Q: It's a 30-year tradition for sailors at the Eastport Yacht Club in Annapolis MD to burn their socks by the water. This year there were ___people tossing socks into a large tub to be burned. | A: 375 | |
| Q: What is the order of the planets, starting closest to the sun? | A: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune | |
| Q: Where is Henderson Island? | A: In the south pacific ocean | |
| Q: The____ is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. | A: bloodhound | |
| Q: Number of tickets that Dallas police officers have issued sine 2006 for "not speaking English"? | A: 39 | |
| Q: Name 2 animals (other than humans) who engage in anal sex | A: Rhesus Macaques and the Big Horn Sheep | |
| Q: The bands The Droogs, Moloko, Orange Mecanique, Malchicks and Heaven 17 all took their names from which film? | A: A Clockwork Orange’. | |
| Q: What programming language features the distinction between "and" and "and then"? | A: Ada | |
| Q: A ten-gallon hat actually holds ______ | A: three-quarters of a gallon | |
| Q: Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as _____? | A: oth parties are registered blood donors. | |
| Q: Eden and Hell are town just a few miles apart in which state? | A: Michigan | |
| Q: What was the first product to have a bar code scanned? | A: Wrigley's gum | |
| Q: ___percent of all American men are killed by either their wife or girlfriend — or wife who caught them with their girlfriend. | A: 6 | |
| Q: What did King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffer from? | A: ailurophobia--fear of cats | |
| Q: If done perfectly, any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in how many turns. | A: 17 | |
| Q: What Washington Wizards were previously know as? | A: The bullets | |
| Q: GAUHATI, India – The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism. What is it? | A: the world's hottest chili. | |
| Q: Ballistics is the science that deals with what? | A: the motion of projectiles. | |
| Q: What is the only rock that floats in water? | A: pumice | |
| Q: What did the English Parliament abolish in 1647? | A: Christmas | |
| Q: John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, had what odd feature in his mansion? | A: a payphone | |
| Q: This country invented golf but then banned the game in 1647. | A: Scotland | |
| Q: Worldwide, it is estimated that about ____people use marijuana daily. | A: 22.5 million | |
| Q: Name the 8 Ivy League schools | A: Harvard, Yale, U Pen. Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell | |
| Q: How many ways are there to make change for a dollar? Ex. 3 quarters, one nickle 2 dimes | A: 293 | |
| Q: Name 10 of the 35 states that uphold the Death Penality | A: Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Illinois Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania South | |
| Q: Why did over 1/2 of the regional trains and 1/3 of the high speed trains stop running and teachers stay home from work this week? | A: Because of protests over pensions and wages, with unions looking to capitalize on a hefty defeat for President Nicolas Sarkozy | |
| Q: Percent of Republicans who believe that Obama was 'legitimately' elected? | A: 27 | |
| Q: In what year did the last dodo bird die? A) 1920 B) 1681 C) 1505 D) 1774 | A: B) 1681 | |
| Q: Who was originally offered the role of Spock? | A: DeForest Kelley (Star Trek's Dr. McCoy) | |
| Q: Which of the following is not a name for a kind of hammerhead shark? Bonnethead, Mallethead, Whitehead, Great hammerhead, Winghead | A: Whitehead | |
| Q: Complete this sentence: If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person _____ | A: died in battle. | |
| Q: The white part of your fingernail is called the ___ | A: lunula | |
| Q: Who said this: Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. | A: Woody Allen | |
| Q: In India __% of girls will be married before they are 18 | A: 50 | |
| Q: What is America's #1 fruit? | A: banannas | |
| Q: The vibrator, a common sex toy, was originally designed in the nineteenth century as a medication to combat the anxiety-related symptoms of what? | A: hysteria | |
| Q: Who are Barack Obama children? | A: Malia Anne and Natasha | |
| Q: What is the surface area of an average-sized brick? | A: 79 cm^2 | |
| Q: The term "AC/DC" is a slang for ____--something that the Young brothers did not find out till later. | A: bisexuality | |
| Q: The only repealed amendment to the US Constitution deals with what? | A: he prohibition of alcoho | |
| Q: With 74 letters, ____is the world's largest alphabet | A: Cambodian | |
| Q: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anyone caught drinking ___in Turkey was put to death. | A: coffee | |
| Q: In 1221, Genghis Khan killed____ people at Nishapur in one hour. | A: 1,748,000 | |
| Q: By 2050 or so, the world population is expected to reach ___? | A: 9 billion | |
| Q: William F. Buckley Jr. and his wife, Pat, gave in their Park Avenue maisonette priced at 24.5mill a new selling price of what? A) 20 mill B) 12 mill C) 6 mill D) refused to lower price | A: B) 12 mill | |
| Q: Which is farther north, Rome or New York City | A: They are both at he same latitude with Rome just a bit further north | |
| Q: The longest sentence in the French language contains 823 words before the period. Where does it appear? | A: ictor Hugo's Les Miserables | |
| Q: How many documents will be lost by the IRS this year? A) 10,000 B)1/2 million C) 1 million D) 2 million | A: D) 2 million | |
| Q: Where is the Vallée de Mai? | A: On the island of on the island of Praslin, Seychelles. | |
| Q: Ratio of medical marijuana dispensaries in LA, California to the number of Starbucks? (give answer as a ratio) | A: 4:1 | |
| Q: The Hindu festival of Ram Navami celebrates what? | A: the birthday of Hindu god Rama | |
| Q: Comic actor____is the son of rocket scientists. His mother worked on the Hubble telescope, and his father worked on "some stuff that i can't tell you about," he says. | A: Jack Black | |
| Q: What were the final words of Julius Streicher before he was hanged at Nuremberg? | A: Heil Hitler | |
| Q: At DC's first scheduled mass gay marriage ceremony an estimated 400 couples were scheduled to wed, however ___couples showed up. A)15 B)24 C)300 D)460 | A: A) 15 | |
| Q: On any given day in the United States, over ___ convenience stores are robbed. A) 56 B) 100 C) 210 D) 300 | A: B) 100 | |
| Q: Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fl.) said "I think that she's an inspiration to quitters all over the country." about whom? | A: Sarah Palin | |
| Q: According to recent evidence, during the toddler years, infancy and even before birth, in the womb, young children are increasingly set on an ___ that impacts their lives later on. Your "chubby cherub-like baby" is at risk | A: obesity trajectory | |
| Q: Who said this: "Come November, we're going to print pink slips for Members of Congress as fast as they've been printing money, | A: Sarah Palin | |
| Q: In his high school which person form this list was voted "least likely to succeed?" A) Bob Dole B) Robin Williams C) Carrot Top D) Shane Battier | A: B) Robin Williams | |
| Q: The sale of sex toys and vibrators is banned in which 2 US states? | A: Alabama and Mississippi. | |
| Q: In Washington on Saturday, opponents of the health care legislation spit on a black congressman and shouted racial slurs at two others, including ___, one of the great heroes of the civil rights movement. _____ a Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of | A: John Lewis, Barney Frank | |
| Q: A sneeze can travel up to ___miles per hour A) 30 B) 50 C) 100 D) 104 | A: C) 100 | |
| Q: The Japanese government pushed a record ____ budget through Parliament Wednesday aimed at stimulating growth in the long-stagnant economy — another round of spending that will add to Tokyo’s already burgeoning public debt. | A: ¥92.3 trillion or 1 trillion USD | |
| Q: Mexican authorities have turned to _____ as they attempt to win the violent war against the country’s ruthless drug gangs holding the country to ransom. A) voodoo B) hypnotizing C) education D) appeals to grandmothers | A: A) voodoo | |
| Q: In Germany who is being accused of sexual molesting of boys bringing the case to the attention of Pope Benedict XVI? | A: Father Peter Hullermann | |
| Q: In which city was the first zoo in the USA built? | A: Philadelphia | |
| Q: Fill in the blanks: Burger King’s Double Whopper with cheese contains ___calories. A man would need to walk for about ___ miles to burn it off. | A: 923, 9 | |
| Q: Although nearly any body part or item of clothing may be an object of sexual fetishism,what are the two most common fetishes in Western society? | A: the shoe and the foot | |
| Q: Name the seven wonders of the ancient world. | A: Egyptian Pyramids at Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Colossus of Rhodes - or huge bronze statue near the Harbor of Rhodes that honored the sun god Helios, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Lighthouse at | |
| Q: Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for __hours! | A: 3 | |
| Q: Put these names in the correct blanks: ___ got big laughs with a joke about ____the other day, but not from B____ A)Fidel Castro B) Madeleine Albright C) Barbara Walters Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/fidel_no_joke_n3PDDOqCZPO5ChBEXDZia | A: B A C | |
| Q: The city of Rome was built on seven hills. Name 3. | A: Palatine, Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, and Aventine. | |
| Q: 40 degrees Celsius is the same temperature as__degrees Fahrenheit | A: -40 | |
| Q: Percent of Americans under 35 who say that they tweet, text or check their Facebook page right after sex? | A: 36 | |
| Q: icosikaihena is what? A) a 21 sided polygon B) a language spoken in central America C) disease of the glands D) a unit of calibration | A: A) | |
| Q: What does this piglatin translate to: tway uysgay aidsay otay ayay irlgay eway ouldway ikelay otay eatyay iceyay eamcray inyay ethay oodsway ithway youyay | A: two guys said to a girl we would like to eat ice cream in the woods with you | |
| Q: Between the two World War's, France was controlled by how many different governments? | A: 40 | |
| Q: Matches these celebs to their jobs before they made it big Madonna Queen Latifah Julia Roberts Dunkin’ Donuts. ice cream parlor Burger King | A: Madonna worked at Dunkin’ Donuts. Julia Roberts worked in an ice cream parlor, Queen Latifah worked at Burger King | |
| Q: One in five of the world's 2.5 million medical doctors are ___(nationality) | A: Russian | |
| Q: Americans spent over ___ million in 1982 to avoid having bad breath. | A: 360 | |
| Q: Who works for Salsa and has producer credit for a comic book? | A: Brett S | |
| Q: Name at least 8 of our clients (DIA or WFC) | A: https://hq-salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/admin/ | |
| Q: In which year did Christmas become a national holiday in the US? | A: 1890 | |
| Q: The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of ____persons to appear on stamps. | A: living | |
| Q: McDonald's is largest employer in which country? | A: Brazil | |
| Q: The first woman to run for U.S. president was ____ who campaigned for the office in 1872 under the National Woman’s Suffrage Association. | A: Victoria Woodhull | |
| Q: Who appeared on at least one hit single every year between 1964 and 1996, an incredible 33 years? | A: Diana Ross | |