You Could Have Fueled Me Trivia Quiz

Answer: Tag, checkers, pin the tail on the donkey...

The letters ME combined with the fuel "GAS", is rearranged to spell GAMES. So, the choice "tag, checkers, pin the tail on the donkey..." is the correct answer because these are all games.
In 1887, there was a game called "Donkey party" sweeping the nation which later became known as "Pin the Tail on the Donkey." The 1998 American Game Collectors Association catalog of American games cites he earliest version of the game dates to 1899.

Answer: Shakespeare's "disasters in the sun" or "moist star"; or the King's ghost

The letters ME combined with the fuel "METHANOL", is rearranged to spell HAMLET OMEN. Solar flares ("disasters in the sun") and moon eclipses (the "moist star") were seen as bad omens in Elizabethan times. In William Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet", Horatio likens the The King's ghost a being a bad omen for Denmark in the same way that Julius Caesar's ghost was a bad omen for Rome.

Answer: How Marcel Marceau cries

The letters ME fueled with the letters in BIOMASS gives us the letters MEBIOMASS. And that's an anagram for "MIMES A SOB". Marcel Marceau is perhaps the world's most famous mime, latching onto the idea of becoming one at age five when his mother took him to see a Charlie Chaplin movie. Young Marcel was enchanted.

He studied "the art of silence" as he called it for years; he gave his first big public performance to 3000 soldiers after liberation of Paris in August of 1944. He created classic mime routines such as The Cage, Walking Against the Wind, In The Park, etc., which have been described as genius.

Answer: oar's purpose

The letters ME fueled with the letters in WOOD TAR gives us the letters MEWOODTAR. And that's an anagram for "MADE TO ROW" which is indeed the purpose of oars. Wood tar is a liquid product formed by the carbonization of wood. It can be fractionated to yield oil, pitch, and creosote. There are two type of wood tars: hardwood tars that come from oak and beech woods, and resinous tars that made from the barks, roots and stumps of pine trees.

Answer: The London Underground

The letters ME fueled with the letters in BUTANE gives us the letters MEBUTANE. And that's an anagram for "TUBE NAME" which is what the London Underground is known as, "The Tube". According to the Encyclopedia Britannica: "London Underground, also called the Tube,[is an] underground railway system that services the London metropolitan area." The Tube, or London Underground was nationalized in 1948, and new lines and stations began to be constructed. Electric locomotives replaced the steam ones, and new safety measures were introduced, such as the now-famous automated "mind the gap" announcement warning passengers about the distance between the train and the platform.

Answer: Slashdot.com poll revealed Ozone (O3) won, beating Ecstasy (C©û©ûH©û₅NO©ü), Sulfuric acid (H©üSO4), etc. making Ozone this.

The letters ME fueled with the letters in LUMP CHARCOAL gives us the letters MELUMPCHARCOAL. And that's an anagram for "MOLECULAR CHAMP." Firstly, Lump Charcoal is made by burning pieces of wood slowly in an airtight area until all the natural chemicals, sap, and moisture are gone from the wood. Pure lump charcoal is what is left.

It's the most natural fuel for your grill. Slashdot.com is a social news website nicknamed "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" featuring news stories on science and technology.

They asked readers, "What is your favorite molecule?" Ozone won with 23% of the over 40,000 votes cast. So, Ozone was the MOLECULAR CHAMP.

Answer: Take another look at the atlas

The letters ME fueled with the letters in PROPANE gives us the letters MEPROPANE. And that's an anagram for "REOPEN MAP." To "take another look at the atlas" would be akin to taking out that folded up road map we remember from our childhoods before cell phones entered our lives.
The geographical usage of the word "atlas" originates in 1595 AD 1595. German-Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator (yes, the inventor of the cylindrical map projection) published "Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura."
The first published atlas in the sense of a collection of maps was the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" by cartographer Abraham Ortelius. It came out in 1570 AD.

Answer: Mickey, Minnie, and Stuart Little at the top of their lungs

The letters ME fueled with the letters in CRUDE OIL gives us the letters MECRUDEOIL. And that's an anagram for "LOUDER MICE." Mickey, Minnie and Stuart Little are all mice; Mickey Mouse and his best gal Minnie Mouse are from the wonderful would of Disney. Stuart Little is the title character mouse from an E. B. White book written in 1945. It was adapted into a film in 1999 and Michael J. Fox gave voice to Stuart. Speaking of voices, those three mice at their top of the their lungs would mean they were shouting LOUDER than normal.

Answer: celestial contrail

The letters ME fueled with the letters in PETROLEUM gives us the letters MEPETROLEUM. And that's an anagram for "METEOR PLUME." A meteor streaking through the sky often has a contrail behind it; contrails by the way are vapor trails, like you'd see a jet airplane leaving behind it as it moved up in the sky.

There are meteors called fireballs that leave behind them two types of contrails: trains and smoke trails. Trains are ionized air molecules, but smoke trails are plumes of non-luminous particulates (aerosol particles), stripped away from the meteor, eroding from it as the fireball zooms through the atmosphere.

Answer: newbie, or noob

The letters ME fueled with the letters in NATURAL GAS gives us the letters MENATURALGAS. And that's an anagram for "AMATEUR SLANG." Newbie and noob are both slang words for an amateur. Newbie and noob have derogatory connotations, especially when used in the video gaming world for players new to a game. The etymology is a bit uncertain; it might've come from the British slang "new boy" or "new blood" describing new students in the public schools.