What is the shorten version of the name INDIANAPOLIS 500?
Indy 500
What do bees make?
What was a derringer?
a small type of hand gun
What state is known as the Lone Star State?
Texas
How many feet in a yard?
3 feet
What breakfast food comes from a chicken?
eggs
Gomer Pyle _ _ _ _ (fill in the letters)
True or False.
All spider spin webs
No, not all spiders spin webs. In fact, only about half of the 37 spider families in Britain do. Other spiders, like wolf spiders, ground spiders, and crab spiders, don't make webs.
How long is the Indy race in miles?
Bonus: laps
Drivers race 200 laps, counter-clockwise around the circuit, for a distance of 500 miles (800 km).
Where do bees live?
in a bee hive
Richard Kiel was the towering sidekick of Dr. Miguelito Loveless. What was the name of his character?
Voltaire
Voltaire topped out at 7'2", compared to Loveless at 3'10".
Where is the Capitol of Texas?
Austin
How many inches in a foot?
12 inches
What breakfast foods comes from a pig back belly and sides?
Bacon
What is Gomer Pyle's rank in the Marines?
Private 1st class
True or False
Penguin's have knees.
Well in short – yes, penguins do have knees (well that was pretty anti-climactic). A penguin's legs are built up of a femur, knee, tibia and fibula, just like yours. Their legs may appear short and stubby, but don't be deceived, most of them are concealed by feathers.
3 hours or so give or take 30 minutes
What is this?
Honey Comb
The first episode of "Wild, Wild West" introduced the audience to what style of travel used by the secret agents?
private train
Where is George Stright going to be by morning?
Amarillo
How many feet in a mile?
5,280
Another name for this popular breakfast food is grilled bread. What is it?
toast
What was the name of Sergeant Carter's girlfriend?
Miss Bunny was played by Barbara Stuart. It seems whenever she and Sergeant Carter were getting intimate, Gomer would pop out of nowhere. 'Hey there!'
Most of 'Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.' takes place in which fictional camp?
Camp Henderson
When (what day) does the Indy 500 take place?
Since 1974, the race has been scheduled for the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, and has been held on a Sunday with only two exceptions due to rain delays.
What shape is honeycomb?
hexagonal shape
Another item that West used frequently was a lock pick. Where did West keep the lock pick?
in the lapel of his jacket
This may have been West's most used item. It opened anything from door locks, to jail cell doors, to handcuffs.
What country Bordering Texas to the South?
Mexico
How does one measure the volume of a standard concrete mixer truck?
(feet inches oz pounds ect)
in feet approximately 390 cubic feet
Muffins
What was the name of Gomer's Private buddy who in later epsiodes makes it to Corporal and becomes Carter's assistant?
Duke Slater did impressions of movie stars and one of Sergeant Carter. Duke was played by comic actor Ronnie Schell.
How good is a honey bees sense of smell compared to that of a dog?
Honey bees have 170 odorant receptors, which gives them a sense of smell that's 50 times better than a dog's.
What is the name of the Indy Trophy?
Borg-Warner Trophy
Who is this bear who's favorite snack is honey?
Winnie the Pooh
Agent James West was always getting something out of his sleeve at just the right moment. What did he never get out of his sleeve?
Ace of Spades
4 States border Texas, try to name 2.
Bordering States: New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
In the United States, we use Fahrenheit to measure temperature. What do they use in Canada?
and pretty much every place else
Canadians measure temperature using the Celsius scale. In fact, most of the world uses Celsius.
I am best known for the hole in my center. What am I?
a doughnut
Gomer Plyle had several catch phases try to name two
"Shazam!", "Golly", "Sur-prise, sur-prise, sur-prise!", and "shame, shame, shame!",
What was the original title of the show The Wild Wild West?
The show was originally titled "The Wild West", but was renamed when it was decided that "The Wild Wild West" sounded better.
What is the nickname of the Indy 500 Speedway?
Brickyard
What type of bees lays all the eggs?
Queen bee
The "Wild, Wild West" was canceled in 1969 because of network concerns about excessive what?
violence
After Alaska Texas is the ________largest State.
Do U.S. runways have a standard length?
Yes all US runways about 1 mile long
pancakes
Platoon Sergeant Vince Carters has many lines try to name one.
Platoon Sergeant Vince Carter's favorite lines were 'Move it! Move it! Move it!', 'Pyle, you knuckle head!', and 'I can't heeere you!'.
The Northern most area of Texas is often referred to as the what?
Pan handle
What is the OFFICAL name of the Indy 500 track?
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
How many eyes do a bee have?
A bee has 5 eyes: 3 simple eyes on top of its head, and 2 compound eyes, with numerous hexagonal facets.
What job did West and Gordon have?
Charming gunslinger James West and Artemus Gordon, an inventor and master of disguise, are the country's first Secret Service agents,
What is Texas's biggest city?
Huston
What can you use to measure one inch if you don't have a ruler?
you thumb form the tip of your thumb to your knuckle is about one inch
I represent what breakfast food?
oatmeal
What is "Sgt." Vincent Carter's official rank in the Marines?
Gurney Sargent
Black pudding is a common breakfast food in the UK. What is it?
Also called blood sausage, this sausage has been a British breakfast food since at least the 1400s
When was the Indy 500 track built?
August 12, 1909
How much honey can one bees make in its whole life?
About a twelfth of a teaspoon.
Which President did they work for?
traveling the Old West at the behest of President Ulysses S.
What is the largest body of water boarding Texas?
Golf of Mexico
What is the diameter of a quarter?
one inch
I am similar to pancakes but full of holes. What am I?
waffles
When Gomer first joins the Marines, he goes to which camp in North Carolina?
Camp Wilson
Approximately how many cm in an inch?
The relationship between inch and cm is that one inch is exactly equal to 2.54 cm in the metric system. In other words, the distance in centimetres is equal to the distance in inches times 2.54 cm.
Why do Indy 500 drivers drink milk?
Driver Louis Meyer, as he always did, asked for a drink of buttermilk to refresh himself after winning his third Indy 500 in 1936. An executive from the Milk Foundation caught the moment and vowed to have it repeated every year after.
Why do bees use Hexagons?
The hexagon uses the least amount of material to hold the most weight. Bees can use these hexagons to store things.
One of the weapons West used in many episodes was a derringer. He usually had it up his sleeve. On occasion, he carried it in two pieces. Where did he keep the pieces?
in his boot heels
West kept the two halves of the derringer in his boot heels. After he put the derringer together, he would get two bullets from his belt buckle.
What are the two longest rivers in Texas?
If you were an inchworm, how many inches would it take you to travel a mile?
63,360
I am a food that was formally known as Roman Bread
French toast was invented long before France even existed. The first known recorded recipe for French toast comes from Rome around 300 A.D. The Roman author Apicius included it in his cookbook titled "Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome". For centuries, the French themselves called this dish "Roman Bread".
What was the last name of the rival Sergeant who always had a bet going with Sergeant Carter and was always trying to cheat to win the bet and belittle Carter?
Seargent Charlie Hacker, who ran the mess tent, was played by Allen Melvin of 'The Brady Bunch'(Sam the Butcher) and All in The Family'.(Barney Hefner)
Who was the first woman to drive the Indy 500?
Janet Guthrie (born March 7, 1938, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.) is an American race-car driver who in 1977 became the first woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500. Guthrie earned a pilot's license at the age of 17