Trivia Thread!

[LordMaul]

OK, I think it is time we have a trivia thread. I'll give the first one, and when that is answered, the winner gets to ask the next question and so on. I believe LOB has done this before, but it's been awhile...I'll start with an easy one:

The Constitution lists 3 "rights" that are never to be alienated(sp?). List them.

 

[Helpless]

...right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

 

[Nevo]

Actually, it's the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, in which the founders proposed that all men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable (sp) rights, and that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

 

[snakesnfrogs]

too slow

 

[kbm5]

Actually, it's the Declaration of Independence, you nitwit.

Life
Liberty
The Pursuit of Happiness.


Learn your history, then come back and play.

 

[LordMaul]

Nevo gets the Baton!

Helpless answered, but didn't list it as from the Declaration.

Go!

 

[LordMaul]

<< Actually, it's the Declaration of Independence, you nitwit.

Life
Liberty
The Pursuit of Happiness.


Learn your history, then come back and play. >>







It...it....was on perpose to confuse you all!

 

[Helpless]

I just answered the question, hotrod


Where did George Washington go to college?

 

[Nevo]

Okay, uh... trivia... uh....

Can't think right now... easy one...

What did the &quot;A&quot; stand for in &quot;The Scarlet Letter&quot;?

 

[VRoOMdesigns]

Adultery

 

[Helpless]

&quot;You're f'king up the rotation, Nevo...puff, puff, give!

 

[LordMaul]

<< I just answered the question, hotrod


Where did George Washington go to college? >>



Nope, nope, nope...The other guy gets it because I made a mistake and you didn't corret me, so you answer was incomplete.

 

[Nevo]

Adultery, adultress, close enough.

Vroom gets to ask the next question.

 

[Helpless]

You just didn't find the answer to my question on your google search

 

[VRoOMdesigns]

What is the 14th Dalai Lama's real name?

 

[Helpless]

Tenzin Gyatso

 

[kbm5]

Lhamo Thondup

 

[VRoOMdesigns]

Helpless is in control..

 

[kbm5]

<< Helpless is in control.. >>



Wait a second... link

 

[Helpless]

Where did the expression &quot;The whole nine yards&quot; come from....


[edit] btw, GW went to my alma mater--William and Mary

 

[Nevo]

Several theories on the whole nine yards.

One is that in urban Chicago, exterminators would spread rat poison across an entire alleyway, which measured nine yards across. When they properly spread the rodent control measures, they spread it across &quot;the whole nine yards.&quot;

 

[snakesnfrogs]

The &quot;nine yards&quot; refers to the maximum capacity a cement-mixer truck can carry

 

[Helpless]

Nope word/phrase orgins found the real orgin of the whole nine yards...early in history...hint, hint

 

[VRoOMdesigns]

In answer to the Dalai Lama controversy:

<<

Lhamo Dhondrub was, as Dalai Lama, renamed Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso - Holy Lord, Gentle Glory, Compassionate, Defender of the Faith, Ocean of Wisdom. Tibetans normally refer to His Holiness as Yeshe Norbu, the Wishfulfilling Gem or simply Kundun - The Presence.


>>

article here

 

[CinderElmo]

Nine yards is the length of Machine Gun ammo in WW2 US bomber. They used the &quot;whole nine yards&quot; on them nazi bastards!