How about we start a Useless Trivia thread???

[Brutuskend]

Timothy Leary?

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Cannabis seeds believe it or not!

<thread hijack>Very true. Hemp is one of the most valuable crops on earth, and one of the most easily grown. I consider it a terrible shame that idiots keep it illegal (and no, I don't smoke it

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[Vic]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Timothy Leary?

Nope, but close

 

[Vic]

Ok, it was a lame question I know. Answer is Albert Hofman, the discoverer of LSD, who the Birds referred to as "my white-haired uncle Albert"

Got another one, switching topics, not so obscure and an easier to find specific answer. In 1975, what was the only model car sold in America by GM with a gasoline engine that both (1) did not have pushrods and (2) had electronic fuel injection?

edit: and please include the GM division that sold it

 

[Brutuskend]

I know GM made a Rotory Vette, not sure what year it was though or how many were produced.

EDIT: Looks like it was before 75 though.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
I know GM made a Rotory Vette, not sure what year it was though or how many were produced.

They did I never knew that.
Whoa! They did. Looks like it never went into production though. Damn, a 4 rotor wankel... that would have had the equivalent smoothness as a 24 cylinder reciprocating piston engine :Q

Anyway, that's not the answer, this vehicle was in production and sold in America. That's right, folks, GM actually sold a car in 1975 that didn't have pushrods and had EFI... who would've thought?

 

[Brutuskend]

I might have to Google that one..........

The four rotor Vette!!

 

[kherman]

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop? Because i'm bored and want to ask something easy.

 

[Brutuskend]

That would depend on WHO is doing the licking.

Jean Simmons I'm sure would get there quicker than say a avaravge four year old.

 

[Brutuskend]

How many caterpillars does it take to make enough silk for one silk parachute, and how LONG does it take them to make the silk?

 

[Stifko]

Jean Simmons was an actress from the 50s, Gene Simmons is the guy w/the big tongue.

 

[BennyD]

Originally posted by: datalink7

At the end of last year, according to the company's most recent filing, its cash (and short term investments that can be converted to cash in less than a year) totaled a whopping $38.2 BILLION dollars. The Microsoft juggernaut continues to generate another $1 BILLION a month, putting the total cash today worth well above $40 BILLION dollars.

you can borrow my useless stats about $40,000,000,000:

40 billion cash?
thats 800000000 (800 mil) $50 bills
lets say that a small stack of $50 bills is about $5000 and about 1 inch high
thats 8000000 (8 million) stacks of cash 1 inch high
that would make one stack of cash 126.26 miles high

if it was split into 12000 piles, each would be 55 feet high

if each bill was sewn together end to end, it would almost stretch 2 times to the moon and back
or 134 times round the earth

that amount of money could buy 40 million tonnes of cheese!!!
or 66 billion tins of pedigree chum!!!

 

[Vic]

Wow, no one knows the answer?

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: Stifko
Jean Simmons was an actress from the 50s, Gene Simmons is the guy w/the big tongue.

I knew that.

You got HALF the answer! GOOD JOB!

 

[Stifko]

You got HALF the answer! GOOD JOB!

whats the other half? the tootsie roll pop thing?

 

[Vic]

Hmmm... clearly I ask the tough ones

Ok, the answer is the 1975 Opel Manta sold in America under the Buick nameplate. pic (very hard to find)
It had a 1.9L I-4 "cam-in-head" engine with Bosch EFI producing ~102bhp. It was the only car sold by GM that year that both had no pushrods and had EFI. pic from a German magazine
Opel, despite still being popular in Europe, never caught on in America and 1975 was the last year they were ever sold over here.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: datalink7

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".

Sure there is, what about fronzltonth?

 

[cyberhh]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Still looking for a answer to the LSD question!

No google - but my understanding is that it was part of a gov project during (pre?) Vietnam to develop a perfect truth seryum. Interesting note was that MJ was also tried with varying results -sometimes it would work, sometimes you just got the munchies.