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Anon22
03-08-2006, 08:25 PM
How much do we know about everything? well... we'll see in this fun game of trivia :) basically you ask a question about facts (like how high is mt. Everest? what's the biggest flower? etc.) and the next person has to answer the question and put up a question for the next person to do the same. The questions have to be able to be answered (no "how am I feeling today?"), it can't be riddles or anything like that either... alright... I'll start:

What is the name of the phobia in which you fear big words?

Research is allowed by the way.
RobinHood3000
03-08-2006, 08:28 PM
Darn it, I used to know this one...Hippopatomonstruo--something or other...

I'VE GOT IT!!! "Hippopotomonstruosesquippedaliophobia!!"

The scary thing is, that was off the top of my head...


What do you call a martini with a pearl onion instead of an olive?
Anon22
03-08-2006, 08:42 PM
A Gibson? had to do research... but bleh...

Which animal is sometimes called the huo hu (which translates to firefox)?
RobinHood3000
03-08-2006, 08:44 PM
I wonder...Red Panda?
Anon22
03-08-2006, 08:45 PM
yup... wow... that was fast
RobinHood3000
03-08-2006, 08:47 PM
Whoo!

Okay...where did Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao train together as children?
chmpman
03-08-2006, 08:48 PM
do we need the name, wasn't it some sort of gymnastic school?
Anon22
03-08-2006, 08:49 PM
Peking Opera School?
RobinHood3000
03-08-2006, 08:51 PM
Bingo! So, what's the next question?
Anon22
03-08-2006, 08:52 PM
Yippee :D

When Jackie Chan was born... he was a 12 lb baby... what did his mother nickname him? (name in chinese and what it means)
RobinHood3000
03-08-2006, 08:53 PM
Aww, nuts, I should remember this--I've read his biography...
Anon22
03-08-2006, 09:05 PM
hehe, you can do research if you want... it's allowed...
Anon22
03-09-2006, 06:00 PM
Aww... no one's able to answer it? well... I'll give a hint, it starts with a P
Pendragon
03-09-2006, 06:15 PM
Pao Pao "Cannonball" You should not allow research sometimes, DC, my man. You had us all! :nod:
Pendragon
03-09-2006, 06:17 PM
What was Michael Landon's first film credit?
RobinHood3000
03-09-2006, 06:18 PM
Well? Next question?
Pendragon
03-09-2006, 06:24 PM
What was Michael Landon's first film credit?
I asked this one, did you not see it? ;)
Anon22
03-09-2006, 07:56 PM
Pao Pao "Cannonball" You should not allow research sometimes, DC, my man. You had us all! :nod:


Well, if I didn't... then the game would pretty much die. Besides, this more of a game to learn about things and stuff, not really to test to see what you know(which totally contradicts my first post, but... whaaaaatever)
Chava
03-12-2006, 12:28 PM
Originally Posted by Pendragon
What was Michael Landon's first film credit?

1956 - These Wilder years

Who is the infamous Dizzy Mizz Lizzy?
Pendragon
03-13-2006, 06:38 PM
1956 - These Wilder years

Who is the infamous Dizzy Mizz Lizzy?
Really? I always thought it was I Was a Teenage Werewolf

Learned something! :D

(Boy was that werewolf thing cheesy!) :lol: :lol:
papayahed
03-13-2006, 07:10 PM
Who is the infamous Dizzy Mizz Lizzy?

A group composed of:
- Tim Christensen
- Martin Nielsen
- Søren Friis
papayahed
03-13-2006, 07:12 PM
Where was the first street lights used?
Mililalil XXIV
03-15-2006, 05:20 PM
Which kind, Groverina? Electric?
Pendragon
03-16-2006, 09:10 AM
Where was the first street lights used?
London? The gaslights?
papayahed
03-16-2006, 06:32 PM
London? The gaslights?

The first electric street lighting employed arc lamps, initially the 'Electric candle', 'Jablochoff candle' or 'Yablochkov candle' developed by the Russian Pavel Yablochkov in 1875. This was a carbon arc lamp employing alternating current, which ensured that the electrodes burnt down at the same rate. Yablochkov candles were first used to light the Grand Magasins de Louvre, Paris where 80 were deployed. Soon after, experimental arrays of arc lamps were used to light Holborn Viaduct and the Thames Embankment in London - the first electric street lighting in Britain. More than 4,000 were in use by 1881, though by then an improved differential arc lamp had been developed by Friederich von Hefner‑Alteneck of Siemens & Halske. The United States was swift in adopting arc lighting, and by 1890 over 130,000 were in operation in the US, commonly installed in exceptionally tall moonlight towers.
kilted exile
03-18-2006, 11:13 AM
I dont see any question, so I will ask one.

What are the 2 things that are special about the word "galore"?
Mililalil XXIV
03-20-2006, 11:55 PM
It comes from Irish "go leór", corresponding to Gaelic "gu leóir" (which means "sufficiently, enough").
kilted exile
03-21-2006, 06:14 PM
Not quite, it is related to the gaelic. However it is in fact

1) The only pictish word surviving in the enlish language
&
2) The only adjective which comes after the noun.