[bonanova]

Trivia quiz.

Try these without using computer aid.

On a standard typewriter keyboard, what is the longest English word in common use that can be typed using keys

1. on the left side [q w e r t a s d f g z x c v b] * answered
   
2. on the right side [y u i o p h j k l n m] * answered
   
3. on one row [q w e r t y u i o p], [a s d f g h j k l], or [z x c v b n m] * answered
   
   
   
4. What English word in common use ends with the letters 'mt'?* answered
   
   
   
5. What one-syllable English word in common use that is not the name of a color [e.g. orange, purple, silver] has no rhyming word?* answered
   
   
   
6. What four English words in common use end in 'dous'? Do not count various forms.* answered
   
   
   
7. What animal's brain is smaller than its eye? [be nice] <_< * answered
   
   
   
8. For a month not to have a full moon, it must be shorter than 30 days, and therefore be February. This has happened only once in recorded history. To within 100 years, what year? * disputed but answered
   
   
   
9. Name an animal that has become domesticated in the last 4,000 years. [be nice].* answered
   
   
   
10. If the population of China were to walk past you 8 abreast, what time interval to within a factor of 10 would elapse, before the trek would be completed?* answered
    
    
    
11. In this age of fuel economy, to within a factor of 100 how many miles per gallon [diesel] at cruising speed does the cruise liner QE2 get? * answered
    
    
    
    
12. Does the world's population [of living people] exceed the number of living chickens? * answered
    
    
    
13. Who blink more frequently, men or women? * answered
    

Edited January 17, 2009 by bonanova
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[Guest]

Actually i hinted at that answer for QE2 - did not bother to look up details tough