Hey! It's time to put your brains to work on some random trivia. We had four winners last week who all managed to guess 4 out of 5. You could be a winner this week!
Winners receive a fabulous prize as well as the love and respect of their peers! So let's get on with the questions...
The oldest continuously living on earth (at 4,644 years) is a
1. Tree 2. Coral Reef 3. Flowering Bush
In 1992 there were 55,142 people injured by their own:
1. Exercise Equipment 2. Jewelry 3. Toilets
It's "Riddle Time" for all you math-minded people. How much dirt is in a hole 4 feet deep by two feet wide?
The most popular jukebox song of all time is:
1. Hound Dog (Elvis) 2. Hey Jude (Beatles) 3. Crazy (Patsy Cline)
The average person spends this many minutes in a store before buying something. 1. 10 2. 15 3. 20
Comments
Jordan & David - April 10, 2006 3:55 pm
Tree
jewelry
theres no dirt in the hole
hound dog
15
Jamie Myers - April 11, 2006 8:34 am
Coral Reef
Excercise Equipment
It's a hole!!!
Crazy
15
Sara MacLean - April 11, 2006 4:01 pm
coral reef
excercise equipment
theres no dirt its a hole
hound dog
15
Emma S - April 11, 2006 4:27 pm
1)Coral Reef
2)Jewlery
3)no dirt because of the fact that it is a hole
4)Crazy
5)15
kristyn mackenzie - April 11, 2006 4:47 pm
coral reef
exercise equipment
there is no dirt it is a hole
kristyn mackenzie - April 11, 2006 4:47 pm
oops i didnt finish....
hound dog
15
melanie johnston - April 11, 2006 9:52 pm
coral reef
exercise equipment
none its empty
hound dog
20
Lindsay Lynch - April 12, 2006 4:52 pm
1. Coral Reef
2. Exercise Equipment
3. No dirt; it's a hole, therefore it is empty
4. Hey Jude, The Beatles
5. 15
Connor - April 12, 2006 5:01 pm
1. Coral Reef
2. Exercise Equipment
3. There is no dirt in a hole after it is dug.
4. Hound Dog (Elvis)
5. 20
JOE - April 12, 2006 5:06 pm
1) koral reif
2) joolery
3) it's a gawsh darn hole, aergo it tis vacant
4) Pirate's Prayer by Zao, lolz,jk, it's hey jude by the funky 4 the beatles
5) fitteen
Caleb - April 12, 2006 5:08 pm
1. Tree
2. Toilets
3. No dirt it's a hole!
4. Hound Dog
5. 15
Chris - April 12, 2006 11:20 pm
This week's winners were team Jordan/David and Emma Stewart who both guessed four out of five.
The answers were: Tree, Jewelry, No dirt it's a hole, Crazy, and 15 minutes.
Stay tuned next Monday for our next five questions...and yes...you too could be a winner!
Jeff McGuigan - April 13, 2006 8:26 am
According to sources, there is a ring of bushes that are over 12,000 years old located in the Mojave Desert
Chris - April 13, 2006 1:27 pm
It's true Jeff there are bushes that are that old but they aren't "continuously living" like the tree that is over 4,000 yrs old.
I googled around to make sure knowing that there are youth out there always trying to catch me with my "trivia pants" down.
Jeff McGuigan - April 13, 2006 5:10 pm
This bush remains the same bush over years and years(in this 12000), as it spreads out ward. It's the same bush, it's just grossly expanding over the hundreds of years, so many infact that the center part has rotted away, hence the ring shape.
Jeff McGuigan - April 13, 2006 5:19 pm
To further the point;
"There's a popular myth that redwood trees are 3,000 or 4,000 years old and bristle cone pines perhaps even older. The fact of the matter is that those trees are not as old as we have been taught to believe they are. Those trees are no older than 30 or 40 years. The bark of course is dead and the next layers that you penetrate are the living cambium layers, but as you penetrate further into the trunk that tissue is dead too. <b>The oldest <i>living</i> cells in a redwood tree or a bristle cone pine are found in the needles, and they're no older than about 30 years</b>, so that all viewers who are older than 30 years are older than the oldest redwood tree!"
-Prof. Leonard Haflick (University of California San Francisco)
This information can be applied to the bristlecone pine in which you believe was the oldest continuously living plant on earth, we can easily see that the tree is long dead.
the cat - April 15, 2006 9:41 pm
all I have to say is I get stuck up in those trees sometimes. and then I meow!
Chris - April 15, 2006 10:11 pm
Thank...you... Jeff...your insight and research is always greatly appreciated...
And thank-you to the cat for your...insight as well...