Stuff Girls Usually Know
Average number of yards of thread on a typical spool of thread
What is 200 yards?
Found the One Ring of Power in the book, The Hobbit
Who is Bilbo?
A lightweight narrow vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel and using a single-bladed paddle
What is a canoe?
Name for the five nuts that fasten a standard wheel onto a car
What is a lug nut?
A type of audience-participatory joke cycle, typically ending with a pun, based on a hypothetical knock on a hypothetical door
What is a knock-knock joke?
The number of ounces in a gallon of milk
What is 128 ounces?
Elite warfare unit of US military that stands for Sea, Air, and Land
What are Navy SEALS?
The type of spin seen on a properly thrown football
What is a spiral?
Tool used to sharpen a pocketknife
What is a whetstone (or sharpening) stone?
Also, known as "Igpay Atinlay", a language game in which English words are altered, usually by adding a fabricated suffix to the end of a word or by moving the initial consonant or consonant cluster of a word to the end of the word
What is Pig Latin?
Number of words an average woman speaks in one day
Technique named after firemen that is used to carry an injured colleague off the battlefield
What is Fireman's Carry?
Direction in which a properly calibrated compass always points?
What is North?
Most popular type of handgun ammunition in the world
What is 9mm (Lugar)?
Slowly cool the affected area with cool water, clean and apply an antibiotic ointment, and don’t pop the blisters
What are the steps to treating a burn?
Average number of gallons of water a washing machine uses per load
What is 19 gallons?
Main fictional character in "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark?"
Who is Indiana Jones?
A weightlifting exercise in which a loaded barbell is lifted off the floor to waist height.
What is a dead-lift?
A metal tool used to split firewood by wedging the tool's point into a crack in the wood and striking the wedge head with a hammer
What is a wedge?
The method of parking an automobile in which the car is parked parallel to the curb, rather than perpendicular
What is Parrallel Parking?
A light spray fragrance with five to 15 percent pure perfume essence dissolved in alcohol; usually lasts for about three hours
What is eau de toilette?
(pronounced oh-duh-twa-lett)
Luke Skywalker's father
Who is Darth Vader (or Anakin Skywalker)
A large asterism consisting of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major; four define a "bowl" or "body" and three define a "handle" or "head"; related to the Little Dipper
What is the Big Dipper?
A life-saving medical intervention in which the provider pushes rhythmically on a victim's chest to the tune of the Bee Gee's "Staying Alive"
What is CPR?
Animal deterrent designed to help in the event of a bear attack
What is Bear Spray?