Test Your Common Knowledge

Mont Blanc was what I learned in school too… but I had remembered reading something about it in the fact book so I checked… Wikipedia also says it is Elbrus.... so apparently the teachers got this one wrong or else they didn't have all the facts at the time...

And my un-common knowledge comment wasn't directed at your question but at several of the questions in general (my own included)… and Sammy's post... and I was not complaining… I'm glad this thread got resurrected because I've always enjoyed it…

Anyway, no, it's not the Rocky's… I just visited this particular mountain range not long ago…

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Still don't have a clue. Black Hills?

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

Bingo… it is the Black Hills… the Sioux have believed the Black Hills are the sacred center (heart) of the world for hundreds of years… long before the age of satellites…

Aha... Imagine if the Black Hills had been shaped like boobs instead.

What year did the Berlin wall fall down?

'89
what is the biggest island in the world?

Australia, unless you would count the whole landmass of Eurasia and Africa as it's own island

what are the plastic things on the end of shoelaces called?

Aglets (sp?)



Where do most of the dust particles in a house come from?

human skin 70%

How far does a blood cell travel in the human blood stream per day?

i'm sorry, australia is not an island it's a continent, the biggest island is grenland

That's what I thought too, but I didn't want to get all technical about it again - Cait will slap me on the fingers with her CIA handbook.

Not too hard....

it's a continent, but by technical definition, it's still an island. Generally it is said that an island is smaller than a continent, but an island is still a water-locked landmass

Island, any comparatively small body of land completely surrounded by water. From the geographical point of view, the only difference between an island and a continent is size. - source - encarta

The United Kingdom is an Island. Surely it's the biggest?

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surely you must be joking

okay, it doesn't really matter, but i still have a question out there

One million light years.

Unfortunatly i am not, and we both know about your problems with understanding when a jokes a joke. This thread is called Common Knowledge and over here in the UK it's pretty common knowledge that England is in fact an island.

dude, i was reffering to the part of your post when you say that it has to be the biggest island, like i said the biggest island is greenland
Greenland - (840,004 sq miles) (2,175,600 sq km)
New Guinea - (303,381 sq miles) (785,753 sq km)
Borneo - (288,869 sq miles) (748,168 sq km)
Madagascar - (226,917 sq miles) (587,713 sq km)
Baffin - (194,574 sq miles) (503,944 sq km)
Sumatra - (171,069 sq miles) (443,066 sq km)
Great Britain - (88,787 sq miles) (229,957 sq km)
Honshu - (87,182 sq miles) (225,800 sq km)
Victoria - (85,154 sq miles) (220,548 sq km)
Ellesmere - (71,029 sq miles) (183,965 sq km)
source - worldatlas.com

Dude… there is a difference between a question and a statement… you need to reread Blib's original post…



Edited so I didn't double post...