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janiedriver

janiedriver

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Quiz about things that might be in an Easter Basket

Question 1:

GRASS. What member of the grass family can be used as construction material?
Answer: (One Word)

Question 2:

BUNNIES. What is the chief wild rabbit of North America?
Jack rabbit
Lop
Snowshoe
Cottontail

Question 3:

JELLYBEANS. Which song was a hit for Jellybean Benitez in 1984?
Holiday
Sweet Sensation
Sidewalk Talk
Body Work

Question 4:

CHOCOLATE. In what state would you find the Chocolate Mountains?
New York
California
Pennsylvania
Texas

Question 5:

EGGS. What's unusual about the order of mammals called monotremes?
The males carry the eggs
Their eggs are deposited outside of the body
Their eggs glow in the dark
Their eggs are transparent

Question 6:

VIDEO. (Okay, it's a modern Easter basket)Who co-starred with Fred Astaire in 'Easter Parade' in 1948?
Leslie Caron
Ginger Rogers
Judy Garland
Audrey Hepburn

Question 7:

EASTER BUNNY. What country introduced the Easter Bunny to America?
Germany
France
England
Denmark

Question 8:

MARSHMALLOW PEEPS. What shapes are the basic structure of sugar molecules?
Squares
Triangles
Helixes
Rings

Question 9:

NUTS. Botanically, which of these is not a true nut?
Acorn
Peanut
Beechnut
Hazelnut

Question 10:

CANDY. In 1981, what candy was chosen by the first space shuttle astronauts for part of their space menu?
M and Ms
Reese's cups
Jellybeans
Hershey kisses
 
banzibaby

banzibaby

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janiedriver said:
Snake venom is ninety percent protein.
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Hmmmmm...sounds familiar somehow. :rolleyes:
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Hehehehehehehehe, good one Janie lol :p:D:p

Cant do the quiz as i am allergic to one of the questions about nuts, they have a nasty affect on me :(

BaNzI :D
 
banzibaby

banzibaby

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Hehehe, i know i a nut, but i a friendly nut lol :p:D:p

I just gotta make sure i dont eat any nuts or anythin with nut traces as they can be fatal to me :(:(:(

So no offering me a snickers bar or a topic bar :)

BaNzI :D
 
janiedriver

janiedriver

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Are you learning anything yet?


If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

The Bible is the most shoplifted book in America.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Hair grows at a rate of .00000001 miles per hour, that's .000000022 kilometers per hour.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

DNA stands for DioxyriboNucleic Acid. 75% of the O.J. Simpson jury did not know that.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Polar bears are left handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

The longest English word that can be typed using only the top row of a typewriter is "typewriter."

The flea can jump 350 times its body length, It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

A ****roach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

The record for the longest continuous disko-dancing marathon by a single person is 213 hours.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Starfishes haven't got brains.
 
janiedriver

janiedriver

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Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms.
(Source: Verified)

Cimetière du Père Lachaise located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim Morrison.
(Source: Verified)

Every year, an igloo hotel is built in Sweden that has the capacity to sleep 100 people.
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Frank Wathernam was the last prisoner to leave Alcatraz prison on March 21, 1963.
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From 1939 to 1942, there was a undersea post office in the Bahamas.
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Hawaii's Mount Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains throughout the year and about 460 inches per annum.
(Source: Verified)

Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey, is the only town in the United States of America that has two dashes in its name.
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In 1785, the city of Paris removed bones from cemeteries to ease the overflow of dead people. They took these bones and stacked them in tunnels now known as the Catacombs. You can visit these tunnel attractions and work your way along long corridors, which are stacked with skulls and bones.
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In Czechoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made out of human bones.
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In Las Vegas, the busiest and two most popular days chosen for couples to get married are St. Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve.
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VIPER_1069

VIPER_1069

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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm but now they have more bones than ever in 1805 than in 1785 would they not have to move some more by now !? maby jim's a bit cramped by now you think !?


lol igloo hotel is REAL its been on tv loads of times :)

underwater post office ?! hmmmmmmm letters /packages etc will get wet going to post them duh how would that work !?

chandelier made out of human bones thats been on tv also :)

more facts ...

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

February 1865 and February 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Which weighs more a pound of gold or a pound of feathers? Feathers weigh more, gold is measured in troyweight which contains less ounces than regular weight measurement .


The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only 13 feet for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

No new animals have been domesticated in the last 4000 years.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."


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Disney`s Donald Duck was originally called Donald Drake.

Most people blink about 25 times a minute.

A single sheep?s fleece might well contain as many as 26 million fibers.


According to National Geographic, scientists have settled the old dispute over which came first -- the chicken or the egg. They say that reptiles were laying eggs thousands of years before chickens appeared, and the first chicken came from an egg laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken. That seems to answer the question. The egg came first.


Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.

Pepsi originally contained pepsin, therefore the name.

Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular rays.

The longest word in the English language that has only one vowel is "strengths" (nine letters).

Stewardesses is the longest word that can be typed using only the left hand.

The word TYPEWRITER can be written using only the top letters line of keys on any standard typewriter/keybaord thats QWERTY layout.

0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose.

The one-hundred eleventh element is known as "Unnilenilenium"

Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the pointof total tetonic destruction. 2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.

Through a system of canals, the inland city of Moscow is a port for five seas: the White, the Baltic, the Azov, the Black, and the Caspian.

A companion tomb was originally to have been built facing the Taj Mahal. The companion would have been identical to the Taj Mahal in every way but its black color.

If electrodes are inserted at opposite ends of a pickle, and electricity is passed through, the pickle will glow.

Mozart's real name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart .
It has been proven that when a salesperson wears a tie, there is a great statistical difference between making a sale and not making a sale.

In Turkey the color of mourning is violet. In most Moslem countries and in China it is white.

In 1897 the federal government of the U.S. recalled $26 million dollars worth of one hundred-dollar bills when a counterfeit bill appeared that was so accurate it almost couldn't be distinguished from the real thing. This was the only time in history that fake money was so well designed that legitimate currency had to be withdrawn.


A full moon always rises at sunset.
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:)

enjoy :)
 
janiedriver

janiedriver

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Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
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Also, when you are born your eyes are the same size they will stay for life.

Love your quote, Viper. Hisssssssssss ;)
 
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