Pollovivo's Super Quiz!

[pollovivo]

Just as a bit of a brain teaser, I've decided to begin a random trivia quiz! :D
I'll post a new question as soon as somebody gets my question right or after a week. Although you can just as easily search online for most of these, I urge you to try and answer each one without outside help. Most importantly, as usual, have fun with it! :D

Ooooooookay! Here we go!

A man is working on the 26th floor of an office building. Sick of his job he opens the soot-covered window and jumps through. Without anything to break his fall, he lands completely unscathed. How?

[Mick]

Is he a window cleaner working outside who jumps through the window and lands on the floor inside the building?:)

Tell me i'm right...please:D

Edit I'm sure that's it so here is another one.....

Have you heard of the saying what goes up must come down?
Well the question is ....What goes up and never comes down?

[Freakums]

inflation?
age?
a chicken/flying bird?
the amount of interest your bank charges for loans?
income taxes?

[Mick]

Age it is:).... though some of your other answers are probably right:D

Do you want to do the next one Freakums or should I post another one?

[Freakums]

hmmmm . . . . .
this isn't very good, but . . ..
two mothers and two daughters pay for three tickets and enter a cinema, without any free tickets, or the like, and without douing anyhting illegalk, or the like.
How?

[Mick]

I remember this one from a few years back so I won't spoil it yet:)

Anyone else want to guess it?

[pollovivo]

Oooh! I think I got this one! The two mothers are a grandmother and the mother, and the two daughters are the mother and the daughter. Oh, and Mick, you nailed my intro question! :D

Here's another one up for grabs! A man is found laying dead in the snow. Investigators find no tracks leading to him and come to the conclusion that his death is due to the contents of the backpack on his back (or lack thereof), and that he had died within the last hour. There are no buildings, rocks, or trees nearby. How did he die?

[Mick]

I'm guessing if there were no tracks the man came from something airborne.
Was the backpack a parachute that didn't open, or for lack of contents he forgot to pack the parachute?
Did he die from falling out of a plane?

[pollovivo]

Beautiful! :D Exactly the answer that I wanted! :D Hmm... looks like I have a pretty big challenge ahead of me to stump you Mick!:D Hmm...

A man was sitting in his cabin writing a letter, when lightning struck nearby, but didn't hit him. The man died a few moments later of unnatural causes, and although nobody was within thousands of feet of him, he had plenty of witnesses. What happened?

(there are probably a dozen or so answers that make sense, but there's one that I'm looking for.)

[Mick]

Hmmm... that is a tough one... it almost sounds like the scene out of the movie "The man who sued God", where the boat gets struck by lightning.
Is the man in a boat out at sea, it gets struck by lightning and blows up killing him and the people on the coastline saw it happen?

[pollovivo]

I was actually going for skywriter, but yeah, that definately works :D ... hmm this is getting a bit harder... I'll give an easy one while I dig around in pollo's box of brain teasers here...

I've got two U.S. coins totalling 75 cents, one of these coins is not a quarter. What two coins do I have...

*goes back to digging*

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[Freakums]

a 70 cent and a five cent, the sevenbty cent from any of a number of times. Ona guess from one of those times, one of the colonys, before the colonies joined topgether to fight for freedom vs Britain.
doesn;t seem like a brainteaser if thats the answer, so i highly doubt it . . .
course, it could also be "two bits" or so much of the old 8 piece dollar. (or silver dollar)
forgive if I am a bit confused here. I haven't do much lately with my coin collection, it's become too heavy!

[pollovivo]

Nope, but keep trying... although... was there actually a seventy cent coin?

[Freakums]

yeah . ., at one poitn before the states wree joined and amonjg them had about 6 or 7 different currencies. including the english pound. I am canadian, so I might be a biot confused about the time period or hostory. I just collect the coins, i don;t nesscessairly know the stories behind them.
alright, then, you didn;t answer if it was parts of a silver dollar. Two bits, meaning 25 cents, came from owning two oarts of a coin, that had 8 parts to it, makjing a dollar in total. the coins wre originally own, but often people cut them up . . . . II think. One of those coins could be two, three, 5, or however many bits.
or it could be two dimes , pennies, etc. that are old enough to eb worth 75 cents.
those ans=wers still aren;t right. are they? But I gfigure guessing is gbetter then nothing.

[pollovivo]

This was originally a trick question where even though one coin wasn't a quarter, the other was, and so it was a quarter and a fifty-cent piece.

I like the research that you got in on this though :D

I was getting to the point where I was going to look into the history of coins and other such stuff, but that was a long time ago, when I had the motivation to do anything :p

[Freakums]

ah. A play on words.I thiought of that, but I ddecided iot was too stupid an answer to deserve to be one!
look for the obious freak, look for the obviuous!
:re:

[pollovivo]

The only stupid answer is the one not given!:D

[supermario]

A quarter and a half-dollar... it says ONE of the coins is not a quarter... not neither... so one can be a quarter :p

What always weighs the same no matter how large it is?

[Mick]

Is it air?.....

[Freakums]

is it money?
a 100 bill is the same as a ten!

[supermario]

neither are the answer i'm looking for... although very good guesses!

[Freakums]

a pound? (or kilo, or gram, or other measurment of weight?)

[supermario]

nope, still not there...

[Freakums]

your ego?
or to go scientific,
any free-floating body in space, because it gives itslef weight?
(not that sucha thyign exists, but it si possible with our knowledge abotu astro-physics and . I think)

[supermario]

ego is a great answer, and would fit the question... but still not what i'm looking for... I think you're overthinking it... it is something found on Earth in the friendly confines of gravity... the deep dark black confines of gravity...

[Freakums]

a woman?
[/dangerousjokes]
hmmm . . . is it abstract or concrete, or terminology?
I woindre if the answer is anyhtign , so long as it keeps the same mass?
technically, take and object, say, water,
freeze it, and it grows, but it keeps its same weight, plus whatever gases got trapped ijnside it.
or take helium: the hotter the ermperatuirwe gets, the more space you need to store the smae amount of helium in it. but it keeps the smae weight.
is it somethign aslong those lines?

[supermario]

still close, but no cigar...

[pollovivo]

a hole!!! Am I right?

[supermario]

DING DING DING... That is correct! We Have a Winner!!!!

[pollovivo]

Okay next question... who was the only president of the USA to be pryed out of a bath tub?

[supermario]

Taft.......

[pollovivo]

Well you're up

[RalphHob]

Here's one...

It's a seven letter word.
It's more powerful than God.
It's more evil than the devil.
The poor have it.
The rich need it.
If you eat it, you'll die.
What is it?

more hints

you can find it in a vacuum (the empty kind, not the cleaner)
it's what goes on in an idiot's head

Almost no adults got this question right, but nearly all kindergardners did!

[HinesDaMan]

Nothing...that was easy

[yarnellcg17]

That is the one my daughter threw at me..I was stumped..


Here is 1 I have.. this looks like a name of a person or a mishap..

HAROLD FALL

But you can spell out a name of a piece of currency..

What would be the piece of currency?

[Freakums]

dollar? or do you ahve to use all the letters?

[yarnellcg17]

All of the letters

[Mick]

half dollar?.....all I can think of for now

[yarnellcg17]

Yeps..half dollar is the right word :D freakums..you were half right on it..so good job to you as well :D

[Freakums]

i just saw dollar and didn;t bother lokking any further because you said currency, not coin. Little difference, but wehen you say curreency you (usually) mean a form of money for a country. probably just ,my defenition.

[yarnellcg17]

It's ok.. I'm not sure if Canada has a half dollar coin..like we have here in the US..But you weren't far off at all in your answer.. Just had a few more letters to it.. I'm thinking of another quiz.. I'll have it up soon :D

[Mick]

Yeah sorry I can't think of any at the moment. If anyone else has one to post then please do :)

[yarnellcg17]

Aug. 21, 1911... Paris.. A famous art heist took place.. what famous piece of art was stolen?

[Arkacia]

Was that the Mona Lisa?.

I think it was stolen a couple of times but can't remember the years.

[yarnellcg17]

Yeps..The Mona Lisa is theeeeeeeeee correct answer.. yeah she has been stolen another time after that.. that poor girl..

[Freakums]

hiows this: what famous work of art was oatrtly destroyed when a 17th century restorer used the wrong cleanign fluid and erased soiemn of the fine details abotut eh forehead of the person represented in the work of art?

[yarnellcg17]

Ok..Freakums..after alot of brain damaging research..not to mention doing some of my own restoration on my poor noggin afterwards..But all the details of it are intact.. I wanna say Last Supper :D

[yarnellcg17]

I will assume that I answered correctly..but with all due respect and moving right along :) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
September 1, 1939

Germany Invades Poland

September 3, 1939

Britain and France respond by committing an act themselves against Germany.
Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa follow suit 1 week later..
The Soviet Union does not til June 1941..The United States does not.. as it remains Isolationist til December 11, 1941..

What is the name of the act committed against Germany?

[JsWoman]

Umm.. Declared war against Germany?? (If my memory serves me right)

[yarnellcg17]

Declared war.. Declaration of war very good :D

[JsWoman]

It was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and it took place during the latter part of the 1920's, and all the way through the 1930's, before it started to get better.

(Sorry if I didn't do this right. It's my first attempt at this one.)

[yarnellcg17]

The Great Depression

I liked how ya did it Js :D

claps hands too ..if only there was an emoticon for that :(

[JsWoman]

You are right, Yarnell. Your turn. Glad you liked how I did it. Will try to make it harder the next time I post in here.

[yarnellcg17]

January 24, 1978
I was spawned out of 2 Lows..an arctic low that came down thru North Dakota and a Deep low that moved from Mississippi to Lake Huron.

The 2 Lows collided and by January 26, I was reaping havoc thru Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois, western Pennsylvania and southeast Wisconsin.

A storm of unprecedented magnitude…that's what the National Weather Service called me..

What event was I in 1978?

[donkey720]

would it be the severe midwest blizzards


which volcano erupted on the 1st November 79 AD making a great archaelogical site

[yarnellcg17]

Yep..Blizzards
Called The Great Blizzard of 1978 :)
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The answer I have for your quiz would be
Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupted in 79 AD :D

[donkey720]

yh thats right sorry for not posting for ages now you're up