trivia 4/14
DID YOU KNOW...
Modern plastic surgeons are exploring the potential of cloning technology as
a method of body rejuvenation and are looking into the secrets of the growth
within the womb where scar-less growth and healing take place.
1. Which Greek god had the horns and legs of a goat?
2. The Devil is sometimes referred to as Beelzebub. What is the literal
translation of Beelzebub ?
(Hint; Four Words)
3. Who was the police officer that was allegedly killed by Oswald shortly
after the Kennedy assassination ?
4. After whom is the word volcano named?
5. How many countries are there on the South American continent ?
a.- 10
b. - 15
c. - 20
d. - 25
6. Which of the following fish have teeth?
a. - Large-Mouth Bass
b. - Bullhead Catfish
c. - Muskie
d. - Carp
7. What is the first word in the New International Version of the Bible?
8. In 1991, who became the first democratically elected leader of Russia?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
If a coin is dropped from the top of the Empire State Building and it hits a
person on the head, it could kill them.
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1. Pan
2. Lord of the Flies
3. JD Tippitt
4. The Roman God Vulcan
5. - b
6. - c
7. In
8. Boris Yeltsin
CRAP !!
There's a tale we've all heard: A penny dropped from the top of the Empire
State Building would fall at such a rate it would impale and kill anyone it
hit down below.
about a decade ago, University of Virginia physics professor Louis
Bloomfield put those fears to rest by happily getting pelted with pennies
from high above. He answered the question and lived to tell about it.
Bloomfield hosted his experiment in a park in Charlottesville, Va. There he
launched a helium balloon carrying coins hundreds of feet in the air and,
using radio-control airplane parts, devised a way to drop them to the
ground.
"The coins didn't hurt," he said. "They bounced off me and it felt like
getting hit by bugs, big raindrops, or little hail pellets. No bruises, no
injuries. I was laughing the whole time."
He found pennies fell less like bullets and more like leaves, fluttering to
the ground at a measly 25 mph. The reason: They're aerodynamically unstable,
the air pushes up on them, halting their acceleration. It's something called
relative wind, similar to that experienced by skydivers.
"The air exerts upward forces on fallen objects and it prevents them from
falling faster and faster," he said. "Not because they're moving, but
because they're moving through the air."
For a coin to plummet at a lethal rate, it would need to fall in an airless
environment. Bloomfield said a coin, or anything else, would hit the ground
at a speed of about 210 mph if it were tossed from the Empire State Building
in an airless environment. At that speed, Bloomfield said, anything, even a
piece of paper, is dangerous.
DID YOU KNOW...
Modern plastic surgeons are exploring the potential of cloning technology as
a method of body rejuvenation and are looking into the secrets of the growth
within the womb where scar-less growth and healing take place.
1. Which Greek god had the horns and legs of a goat?
2. The Devil is sometimes referred to as Beelzebub. What is the literal
translation of Beelzebub ?
(Hint; Four Words)
3. Who was the police officer that was allegedly killed by Oswald shortly
after the Kennedy assassination ?
4. After whom is the word volcano named?
5. How many countries are there on the South American continent ?
a.- 10
b. - 15
c. - 20
d. - 25
6. Which of the following fish have teeth?
a. - Large-Mouth Bass
b. - Bullhead Catfish
c. - Muskie
d. - Carp
7. What is the first word in the New International Version of the Bible?
8. In 1991, who became the first democratically elected leader of Russia?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
If a coin is dropped from the top of the Empire State Building and it hits a
person on the head, it could kill them.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1. Pan
2. Lord of the Flies
3. JD Tippitt
4. The Roman God Vulcan
5. - b
6. - c
7. In
8. Boris Yeltsin
CRAP !!
There's a tale we've all heard: A penny dropped from the top of the Empire
State Building would fall at such a rate it would impale and kill anyone it
hit down below.
about a decade ago, University of Virginia physics professor Louis
Bloomfield put those fears to rest by happily getting pelted with pennies
from high above. He answered the question and lived to tell about it.
Bloomfield hosted his experiment in a park in Charlottesville, Va. There he
launched a helium balloon carrying coins hundreds of feet in the air and,
using radio-control airplane parts, devised a way to drop them to the
ground.
"The coins didn't hurt," he said. "They bounced off me and it felt like
getting hit by bugs, big raindrops, or little hail pellets. No bruises, no
injuries. I was laughing the whole time."
He found pennies fell less like bullets and more like leaves, fluttering to
the ground at a measly 25 mph. The reason: They're aerodynamically unstable,
the air pushes up on them, halting their acceleration. It's something called
relative wind, similar to that experienced by skydivers.
"The air exerts upward forces on fallen objects and it prevents them from
falling faster and faster," he said. "Not because they're moving, but
because they're moving through the air."
For a coin to plummet at a lethal rate, it would need to fall in an airless
environment. Bloomfield said a coin, or anything else, would hit the ground
at a speed of about 210 mph if it were tossed from the Empire State Building
in an airless environment. At that speed, Bloomfield said, anything, even a
piece of paper, is dangerous.