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#213815 - Wed Feb 25 2004 08:07 AM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q45: Which organ in the human body secretes the hormone 'insulin'?

pancreas

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#213816 - Wed Feb 25 2004 10:02 AM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q30: Which stuntman/magician became famous with his act "Above the Below" in September 2003?

DAVID BLAINE

David Blaine spent 44 days and 44 nights entering September 5, 2003 and emerging October 19, 2003 inside a clear plastic 7ft x 7ft x 3ft box hanging by a crane 450 feet (135 meters) above the Thames River in London near Tower Bridge. He only had diapers, a journal, some pens, lip balm, a pillow and a pad to lie on with him- no food just a tube for water and a tube for urinating.

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#213817 - Wed Feb 25 2004 10:05 AM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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All answers are correct, including ASA's, which I thought people would have to deeply ponder over before figuring it out.

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#213818 - Wed Feb 25 2004 10:15 AM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q36: Which two elements make up the common salt (table salt) which is consumed by most of us as an indispensable component of our food?



Sodium and chlorine
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#213819 - Wed Feb 25 2004 10:26 AM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q58: Which town was the home-town of Saddam Hussein, as well as that of several other leaders of his Ba'ath Party?

I believe the Big Fella is from Tikrit originally. [This question contains a huge hint for number 17!]

Great quiz, Harish. It's a tough discipline to ration myself to one answer at a time.

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#213820 - Wed Feb 25 2004 09:39 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q61: Jupiter
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#213821 - Thu Feb 26 2004 11:13 AM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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q17 umm... the Ba'ath Party???
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#213822 - Thu Feb 26 2004 11:56 AM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q20: Which word, an amalgamation of the Latin words for 'false' and 'feet', describes the locomotory and food-catching organelles of amoebae and certain other protozoa?

Pseudopod
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#213823 - Thu Feb 26 2004 12:14 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q19: The most common isotope of which element does not have any neutrons in its atom?

A. Protrium (isotope of Hydrogen)
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#213824 - Thu Feb 26 2004 01:20 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q29: If 25 men take a 100 days to do a certain amount of work, how many days will 20 men take to do the same? (Not a trick question!)



125 days


Edited by TabbyTom (Thu Feb 26 2004 01:21 PM)
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#213825 - Thu Feb 26 2004 06:20 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q19: The most common isotope of which element does not have any neutrons in its atom?
Hydrogen
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#213826 - Thu Feb 26 2004 09:28 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q24: Which Greek letter is used to denote the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter?

pi (= 3.14159265...)

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#213827 - Thu Feb 26 2004 11:07 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q50: What is the '&' character called?

Ampersand

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#213828 - Fri Feb 27 2004 02:57 AM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q43 - The Beatles are from Liverpool

EJ
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#213829 - Fri Feb 27 2004 01:56 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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>>>Q86: Give one word that describes "the biochemical process by which the energy of light is converted into chemical energy in most plants and certain other organisms". <<<


Photosynthesis
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#213830 - Fri Feb 27 2004 02:39 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q57: Which 2,400 km long mountain range separates European Russia from Asian Russia?



The Urals
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#213831 - Fri Feb 27 2004 03:32 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q34: Which African dictator bought a 7.5% share of Juventus, an Italian football (soccer) club, for US$ 21 million in January 2002?

Gaddafi (sp?)
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#213832 - Fri Feb 27 2004 08:35 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q54 - Rowan Atkinson!

EJ
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#213833 - Fri Feb 27 2004 10:57 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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All correct.

(Leau, acceptable spellings of his surname include 'Gadhafi', 'Gadaffi', 'Gaddafi', 'Gadhdhafi', 'Ghaddafi', 'Kaddafi', 'Kadhdhafi', 'Khadafy, 'Qadaffi', 'Qaddafi', 'Qadhafi', 'Qadhdhafi' and Qathafi'!)

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#213834 - Fri Feb 27 2004 11:29 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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q22 Mars and Venus
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#213835 - Fri Feb 27 2004 11:41 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q41: Which lake, 3,821 metres above sea level and having a maximum depth of 280 metres, is the world's highest commercially navigable lake?

Lake Titicaca

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#213836 - Sat Feb 28 2004 08:52 AM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q28: Which cricket batsman currently holds the record for the fastest ODI half-century?

Sanath Jayasuriya (?)
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#213837 - Sat Feb 28 2004 09:22 AM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q89: Which famous Russian mystic is often called the 'Mad Monk'?



Rasputin.
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#213838 - Sat Feb 28 2004 12:32 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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>>>Q52: The shape of which south-east Asian country, also known as 'Siam', is roughly like an elephant's head? <<<

Thailand
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#213839 - Sat Feb 28 2004 01:32 PM Re: 90 Trivia Questions
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Q49: Who played Mahatma Gandhi in the 1982 film "Gandhi", directed by Richard Attenborough?




Ben Kingsley
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