Every weekday Jerry Morefield askes you to join him in the dark recesses of his mind. Here are the past few days trips and their answers.
Friday 01/15/10
About 1,500,000 people annually make a pilgrimage to see this object, made up of 70% copper and 25% tin with small amounts of lead, zinc, arsnic, gold and silver. The cost to create it, including insurance and shipping from the manufacturer in Londaon, was 265 U.S. dollars. What is it? The Liberty Bell
Thursday 01/14/10
NASA scientists working on several missions to send robotic probes to Mars have had to live and work for months on Mars time. Because of this, they were given custom made what? Watches...which run 2.7% slower than normal so that team members could keep track of the Martian day.
Wednesday 01/13/10
Because of his weight, historians say U.S. President William Howard Taft occasionally got stuck where? In the White House bath tube
Tuesday 01/12/10
In the last 500,000 years the earth has seen 74 billion what? Human births
Monday 01/11/10
Each year there is one ton of this poured for each man, woman and child in the world. Cement/concrete
Friday 01/08/10
Singer/songwriter Kenny Loggins was 62 yesterday... what was his biggest hit and only #1? Footloose
Thursday 01/07/10 No Question Today! To Busy With Weather Related Closings.
Wednesday 01/06/10
What was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space? Coca-Cola
Tuesday 01/05/10
In what musical instrument will you find "the action?" A piano, the working section of the piano is called the action
Monday 01/04/10
Sixteen Billion of these are made each year. Oreo Cookies
Friday 01/01/10 No trivia its a holiday.
Thursday 12/31/09
In Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie," who is the only person who has a speaking role? Mime Marcel Marceau
Wednesday 12/30/09
What Great Lake state has more shoreline than the entire U.S. Atlantic seaborad? Michigan
Tuesday 12/29/09
Which Ocean goes to the deepest depths? Pacific Ocean
Monday 12/28/09
What problem did Leonardo da Vinci, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and General George Patton have in common? All were dyslexic
Friday 12/25/09 It's Christmas so no question today.
Thursday 12/24/09
According to MSNBC this year it will cost you $87,403 to buy what? The 12 Days of Christmas
Wednesday 12/23/09
They lose more than 2 million documents every year. Who are they? The IRS
Tuesday 12/22/09
Every day, more than 46 million people experience what? A visit to McDonald's
Monday 12/21/09
An estimated 2.2 million computer keyboards are ruined each year by what? Coffee Spills
Friday 12/18/09
Do this for a minute and you'll burn 26 calories...what is it? Kiss
Thursday 12/17/09
Actor Barry Livingston is 56 today, what TV series was he on from 1960 to 1972? "My Three Sons" he was Ernie Douglas
Wednesday 12/16/09
In a recent survey, 85% of respondents said these have no place in a resaurant. Cell Phones
Tuesday 12/15/09
Today in 1939 the movie "Gone with the Wind" has its world premiere in what U.S. city? Atlanta
Monday 12/14/09
This year Americans will have spent $5 billion on what? Gift Cards
12/7 to 12/11 Jerry's on vacation back on the 14th.
Friday 12/04/09
Even though they're mostly useless, one in 300 of us save these. Old calendars
Thursday 12/03/09
Today in1818 something significant happened to Illinois...what was it? Illinois became the 21st U.S. state
Wednesday 12/02/09
Every 8 seconds in America someone is arrested for what? Shoplifting
Tuesday 12/01/09
In 2008, 1,979 people appeared in emergency rooms in the U.S. with injuries related to what? Bagles
Monday 11/30/09
During development, what well known piece of electronics went by the code name 'Revolution'? The Nintendo Wii
Thanksgiving and Black Friday off
Wednesday 11/25/09
Do this for an hour on Black Friday and you'll burn 148 calories. Shop!
Tuesday 11/24/09
Half of us live within 50 miles of what? Our birthplace
Monday 11/23/09
What do the ten least-visited national parks have in common? They are all in Alaska
Friday 11/20/09
TV personality Richard Dawson is 77 today, we all remember him as the host of "Family Feud" but what show was ho on set in WWII? Hogan's Heroes (And we searched the internet and all agree he is alive.)
Thursday 11/19/09
The average person will eat 11,113 of these in a lifetime. M&Ms (Really that seems very low to me.)
Wednesday 11/18/09
In a survey, our top pet peeves about other drivers are people talking on cell phones and slow drivers in the fast lane. What's third? Tailgaters
Tuesday 11/17/09
The average one of these contains 35 separate objects. A woman's purse
Monday 11/16/09
Book industry experts believe this will be the top selling book of 2009. The Bible. It's the best-selling book every year.
Friday 11/13/09
In every U.S. state men do this more than women... except in West Virginia. Smoke
Thursday 11/12/09
It is said that Paul Newman, Sylvester Stallone, Kate Winslet and former first lady Barbara Bush were or are regular players of what game? Badminton
Wednesday 11/11/09 Veterans' Day
Today in 1921 President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier... where is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier? Arlington National Cemetery
Tuesday 11/10/09
In a survey, 3 out of 4 of us said there are too many of these on TV. Reality shows
Monday 11/09/09
Harvard University is home to a 'bank' of more than 7,000 what? Human brains. It's the worlds largest human brain repository.
Friday 11/06/09
A new study finds men with this make almost 8% more per year than win without this. Facial hair
Thursday 11/05/09
A recent University of Arizona study concluded that there is virtually no correlation between the cost of this piece of sports equipment and the performance of the user. Golf clubs
Tuesday & Wednesday Off
Monday 11/02/09
Yale has more of these than any other university. Secret Societies
