Text 1969, 172 rader
Skriven 2005-05-04 22:57:45 av Bruno Barbiere (4:801/161.0)
Ärende: Did You Know? (10/10)
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·   Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

·   Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

·   Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven:
$6,400

·   Average number of people airborne over the US any given
hour: 61,000.

·   Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their
hair.

·   The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in
China in 1910.

·   The youngest pope was 11 years old.

·   First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

·   The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile
National Monuments

·   Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great
king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the
Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

·   If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both
front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the
horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a
result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all
four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

·   Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence
on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the
rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added
until 5 years later.

·   Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine
that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

·   No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed
stadium has ever won a Superbowl. (Guess that explains the
Saints!)

·   The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about
the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red
circular sores ("Ring around the rosey..."), these sores
would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on
their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would
cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of
posies..."), People who died from the plague would be burned
so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease
("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")

·    Now the Test

     Write down your answers to check them at the end.

1.  On a standard traffic light, is the green on the top or
bottom?

2.  How many states are there?

3.  In which hand is the Statue of Liberty's torch?

4.  What 6 colors are on the classic Campbell's soup label?

5.  What 2 letters don't appear on the telephone dial?

6.  What 2 #'s on the telephone dial don't have letters by
them?

7.  When you walk does your left arm swing w/ your right or
left leg?

8.  How many matches are in a standard pack?

9.  On our flag, is the top stripe red or white?

10. What is the lowest # on the FM dial?

11. Which way does water go down the drain, clockwise or
counter-clockwise?

12. Which way does a "no smoking" sign's slash run?

13. How many channels on a VHF TV dial?

14. Which side of a woman's blouse are the buttons on?

15. On a NY license plate, is New York on the top or bottom?

16. Which way do fans rotate?

17. Whose face is on a dime?

18. How many sides does a stop sign have?

19. Do books have even # pages on the right or left side?

20. How many lug nuts are on a standard car wheel?

21. How many sides are there on a standard pencil?

22. Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc. Who's
missing?

23. How many hot dog buns are in a standard package?

24. On which card in a deck, is the cardmaker's trademark?

25. On which side of a venetian blind is the cord that
adjusts the opening between the slats?

26. On the back of a $1 bill, what is in the center?

27. There are 12 buttons on a touch tone phone. What 2
symbols bear no digits?

28. How many curves are in a standard paper clip?

29. Does a merry-go-round turn clockwise or counter-
clockwise?

     Answers:
30. Bottom
31. 50
32. Right
33. Blue, red, white, yellow, black, and gold
34. Q, Z
35. 1, 0
36. Left
37. 20
38. Red
39. 88
40. Counter-clockwise (unless you happen to be south of the equator)
41. Towards the bottom right
42. 12 (no #1)
43. Left
44. Top
45. Clockwise as you look at it
46. Roosevelt
47. 8
48. Left
49. 5
50. 6
51. Bashful
52. 8
53. Ace of spades
54. Left
55. ONE
56. *, #
57. 3
58. Counter-clockwise

     Scoring:
          30-28 Genius...Mensa is calling!
          25-27 Not too shabby!
          20-24 You could do better!
          16-19 McDonald's is calling!
          15 or below.. Being blind wouldn't affect you one bit!
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