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100
What do the number of folds or pleats in a chef hat represent?
Their experience. (example: 100 folds signifies they know 100 ways to cook an egg)
100
Why was Google Images created?
a.) To serve as an additional resource for medication identification
b.) People hated Microsoft's default screensavers
c.) Jennifer Lopez wore a green dress that everyone wanted to see pictures of
d.) To keep scientists honest about new species discovery, and that if it existed in Google images it had already been discovered.
c.) Jennifer Lopez wore a green dress to the Grammys in 2000 that everyone went crazy over wanting to see and demanded to see and thus Google Images was created.
200
In 1990 Tom Stuker bought a lifetime first class airline ticket for $510,000 with United Airlines. How far has he traveled total?
a. 238,900 miles
b. 2,300,000 miles
c. 750,000 miles
d. 0, the ticket blew away in the wind
2,300,000 miles (the moon is 238,900 miles from earth for comparison)
He has been to Australia 400 times, Hawaii 200 times, Europe 100-something times, Asia 100-something times.
200
In Switzerland, it is illegal to:
a.) To not offer guests additional cheese to make up for the missing cheese due to the holes in Swiss cheese
b.) Wear a hat backwards
c.) Talk to someone new on Sundays
d.) Own only one guinea pig
d.) owning only one guinea pig due to the animal's social nature and susceptibility to loneliness.
300
What is Captain Crunch's real name?
a. Beauregard Mercutio
b. Horatio Magellan
c. Reginald Theodore
d. Wentworth Maximillian
BONUS: What is his actual rank?
b. Horatio Magellan
BONUS: Captain Crunch would actually be Commander Crunch because Captains wear 4 stripes on their uniform and he only has 3, which would make him a Commander.
300
What was Buzz Lightyear's original name?
a. Lunar Larry
b. Space man Sam
c. Joey Cosmos
d. Bruce Lightyears
e. They always knew it would be Buzz
a. Lunar Larry
400
Which country has invented a flying car that successfully has flown from one airport to another?
a. Slovakia
b. Germany
c. Japan
d. Sweeden
e. Trick question, none
400
How many times a minute does a baby blink per minute
a. 1-2 times
b. 60 times
c. they never blink until they are 1 month old
d. exactly once every 4 seconds due to development over their autonomous nervous system
a. 1-2 times
400
In entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy, who speaks the fewest words to Frodo?
a.) Gimli
b.) Mary
c.) Legolas
d.) They all actually spoke the exact same amount of words
c.) Legolas. "You have my bow" are the only words Legolas spoke to Frodo throughout the entire trilogy
It is also funny to note that Legolas one Frodo does not acknowledge at the end of the first movie
500
How did Frederick Smith, the owner of FedEx save his company when a business loan was denied in the company's early days?
a. He sold all of his family's jewelry
b. He gambled his remaining funds
c. He stole and sold scrap metal from construction sites
B. He gambled his remaining funds. He took the company's last $5,000 to Vegas and won $27,000 playing blackjack to cover the $24,000 fuel bill the company needed to stay open.
500
Which country has the most tornados?
The United States has 75% of all tornados in the world
500
Which of the following is the most effective at detecting bombs?
a.) dogs
b.) Hero rats
c.) bees
d.) ferrets
c.) bees have been trained to identify the chemical compounds in a huge variety of explosives and are able to be trained using sugar water as a reward, making them extremely cost effective as well.