Test Your Common Knowledge

Here's a new game we can try.

If any of you have seen the Howard Stern show on E!, then you may be familiar with the game he plays with porn stars, penthouse pets, strippers etc. He asks them common knowledge questions and it's funny to see how stupid they are. For example, he'll ask, "Who invented the telephone?" "Who wrote Huckleberry Finn?" "How many feet in a yard?" or "How many years in a decade?"

Here's how our game will play. Without the help of the internet, answer the question from the person posting above, and then post your own question. Try to make these common knowledge questions. It should be easy. Let's see how it goes.

I'll start with a grammar question:

Which of the following sentences is correct?

A. I don't know whose shoes are under the bed.
B. I don't know who's shoes are under the bed.

Answer the question and pose your own.

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I shall dive upon this grenade to save the rest of MoFo. That would be "whose", because "who's" is a contraction of the words "who is" and "who was". If you're ever in doubt, just substitute "who is" for "who's". If it don't make sense, then don't be usin' the contraction. Dig?

And a bit of grammar learning for the lot of you.

My question:

Who was the youngest person ever to be elected President of these United States?

Go!

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You were a demon and a lawyer? Wow. Insert joke here."

JFK

Name the planets in our solar system, starting with the closest to the sun.

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. On a sesame seed bun.

In honor of the fact that I'm getting ready to head out to the teletrack:

What was the name of the first horse to win the Kentucky Derby?

The jockey or the horse?

The horse was Aristides; the jockey was Lewis. Is knowledge of the past Kentucky Derby winners really "common knowledge" though?

P.S. You got the order of the planets wrong. Jupiter is closer to the sun than Saturn.



When is the moon a "blue moon"?

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A blue moon is the third full moon in a season that has four full moons… or... the second full moon in a calendar month…



What color is a crab’s blood?

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Blue.


LXV is the roman numeral for what number?

65




How many colors are in a rainbow?

Hm. I'm gonna say seven, though I might be one off.

Anyhoo: who is the only President to be elected twice without being elected to consecutive terms?

Grover Cleveland



Which US President served in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812?

Once again, Cait hits me with a question I think I know the answer to, but am not sure of. James Madison, I believe?

Quasi-keeping with the theme (though this one should be easy): who's on the $100 bill?

Andy Jackson.... he was a pretty big hero around here because of the Battle of New Orleans...

Benjamin Franklin if memory serves... (I don't get to see too many of those anymore... )


Easy one... what is the hardest rock in the world?

Diamond


What do you use to measure atmospheric pressure?

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A barometer

What is Pluto made of?

and the answer isn't ink

Ah now... there might be a little ink on there somewhere...
Ice and rock?


How much is a baker's dozen?

13

What is the most common name in the world?

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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.

Mohammed.

I'll go with Hawaii.

What does GIF stand for?

Actually, I think it is Chiang (spel.).

GIF - "Graphic Interchange Format"


As I was going to Saint Ives, I met.....

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.... a man with seven wives.
Every wife had seven sacks,
Every sack had seven cats,
Every cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks, wives;
How many were going to Saint Ives?



What is the answer to the above riddle?