RobbieB
Rodentus scientificus
Engineers Quiz:
It’s late, I’m waiting for a computer to defrag, and I’m bored. So, here is a guaranteed 100% geek test. Most of these are probably Googleable, but not all. Enjoy.
1: Which of the naturally occurring chemical elements has the distinction of being both the cheapest and most expensive?
2: What is the third most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
3: Genetically speaking, which did come first, the chicken or the egg?
4: How many odd numbered leap years have there been?
5: Before Pluto was discovered, which planet was furthest from the Sun?
6: Without adding anything to either the ice cube or the water, how can you make a pure water ice cube sink in a glass of water? (there are at least two correct answers to this).
7: If you hang a weight from a rubber band, then heat the band, does the weight rise or lower?
8: If a butcher is 190 cm tall, blond, and male, what does he weigh?
9: What is worth more, a box full of $1 coins or the same box half full of $2 coins?
10: How many people do you need to have in the same room to have a 50% chance that at least two them share a birthday?
11: Starting at zero and spelling out the numbers, how far do you have to count before you use the letter ‘a’?
And finally, one for the Mushtare fans:
12: What does your strike percentage have to be to have a one-in-a-thousand chance of throwing a 900 series? What about one-in-a-million?
Cheers, Robbie.
It’s late, I’m waiting for a computer to defrag, and I’m bored. So, here is a guaranteed 100% geek test. Most of these are probably Googleable, but not all. Enjoy.
1: Which of the naturally occurring chemical elements has the distinction of being both the cheapest and most expensive?
2: What is the third most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
3: Genetically speaking, which did come first, the chicken or the egg?
4: How many odd numbered leap years have there been?
5: Before Pluto was discovered, which planet was furthest from the Sun?
6: Without adding anything to either the ice cube or the water, how can you make a pure water ice cube sink in a glass of water? (there are at least two correct answers to this).
7: If you hang a weight from a rubber band, then heat the band, does the weight rise or lower?
8: If a butcher is 190 cm tall, blond, and male, what does he weigh?
9: What is worth more, a box full of $1 coins or the same box half full of $2 coins?
10: How many people do you need to have in the same room to have a 50% chance that at least two them share a birthday?
11: Starting at zero and spelling out the numbers, how far do you have to count before you use the letter ‘a’?
And finally, one for the Mushtare fans:
12: What does your strike percentage have to be to have a one-in-a-thousand chance of throwing a 900 series? What about one-in-a-million?
Cheers, Robbie.