Lets Play A Little Game: 20 Questions!

[emprworm]

Ok, without checking the internet (no Googling or web cheating please!)

see how many of the following questions you can answer. No cheating!!!

1. Do peanuts grow above ground or underground?

2. Does popcorn actually come from corn-on-the-cob?

3. In basketball, how high is the basket rim from the ground?

4. What kills more people annually: lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding

5. What is commonly added to salt before it is sold as table salt?

6. If you drilled a tunnel straight through the earth, so that it passes directly through the center and out to the other side, and then fell in, what would happen? (assume you are shielded from any heat/gasses outside the tunnel and can breathe normally)

7. If you were suddenly teleported into space without a suit, what would happen, and would you explode?

8. Why does Australia have summer in December and the US have summer in July?

9. If a flatbed semi was moving 60 KPH down the freeway with his ramp down, and you drove up behind him at 65 KPH in a BMW, and drove up his ramp, what would happen?

10. What word or expression is represented below:

GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GET, GET, GET, GET

11. Translate the following into a meaningful phrase :

If a large solid-hoofed mammal becomes available to you without compensation, refrain from casting your faculty for seeing into the oral cavity of such a creature.

12. Some months have 30 days, some have 31; how many months have 28 days?

13. I have as many brothers as sisters. My brothers have twice as many sisters as brothers. How many of us are there?

14. What is the 6th planet from the sun?

15. Name any popular prepared single-serving non-meat food, that if eaten exactly how it is served, could make you sick and cause harm.

16. Where does silk come from?

17. Why does a rubber ball bounce higher than a steel ball?

18. What makes cheddar cheese orange?

19. Does the cocoa bean grow on the same plant that produces cocaine?

20. When you eat a piece of orange candy, and read that it is artifically flavored, even though it taste like orange, what is making it have the orange flavor?

please post your answers, dont worry about hiding them. Also, dont edit your answers once posted...no edits! Dont cheat and read other people's answers, and dont cheat by looking on the internet. If you dont know...then guess!!

GOOD LUCK ::)

[emprworm]

please note if you dont feel like answering all of them...just answer whichever ones you want. dont hide your answers. have fun! :D

[Vanguard3000]

1. Underground

2. Yes

6. I'm guessing you'd kind of "hover" in the centre. I've never taken physics, though.

7. You wouldn't really explode. You'd freeze on one side, while burning on the other. Also, you're blood/brain matter would suck out from behind your eyes.

8. Because of the 23 degree tilt in the earth's axis of rotation.

11. "Don't stick your head into a lion's mouth [if you see a lion]."

12. 2, I think, in a regular year.

13. Five

14. Saturn

16. Worms

[Vanguard3000]

Hmm... I'm reconsidering my answer to #6. If I'm proven wrong, can I take another stab at it?

[emprworm]

sure, just dont edit.

[Anathema]

1. above

2. no

3. 3 metres

4. flooding

5. jodine

6. you "fly" through the centre, stop before reaching the crust, fall back. You "fly" less high everytime until you hold completely inside the centre

7. you wouldn't explode, though you'd suffocate (duh) and you'd freeze quickly

8. Duh! Southern himosphere.

9. He'd continue the same speed when it's on the ramp, because of frontal wheel drive

10. What word or expression is represented below:

GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GET, GET, GET, GET

11. Don't look a given horse into the mouth (or at least, that's how the dutch saying goes)

12. Everyone of them

13. 3, provided that you are a girl

(otherwise I have no idea, unless half brothers and half sisters count)

14. Err....Uranus?

15. Clams

16. The cocoons of certain butterflies

17. Because the rubber ball will be "pressed" into itself, then it "expands" again, so it "pushes" itself from the floor

18. Err...paint? lol

19. No

20. Dehydrated orange juice ???

[Khan]

1. Underground

2. No

4. tornadoes,

7. All the oxygen in you would get sucked out, Even through skin

8. Because the earth is tilted

11. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

12. 1

14. Saturn

16. Silk worms (some kind of grub, silk- cocoon)

17. Its molecules are more flexible

19. No

[Terror]

1. Do peanuts grow above ground or underground? Above ground

2. Does popcorn actually come from corn-on-the-cob? I don't exactly understand what this says.

3. In basketball, how high is the basket rim from the ground? 4 meters? (approx. 13 feet)

4. What kills more people annually: lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding? Flooding

5. What is commonly added to salt before it is sold as table salt? dunno

6. If you drilled a tunnel straight through the earth, so that it passes directly through the center and out to the other side, and then fell in, what would happen? (assume you are shielded from any heat/gasses outside the tunnel and can breathe normally)you would hang in the middle of the earth (cuz otherwise you would fall up)

7. If you were suddenly teleported into space without a suit, what would happen, and would you explode? you would freeze and explode (cuz your bloodpressure is so high, and there is no air to counter the pressure)

8. Why does Australia have summer in December and the US have summer in July? the earth circles the sun, and since north to souuth is not a vertical line (you get what i mean) at one time northern earth is closer to the sun, the other time southern earth is

9. If a flatbed semi was moving 60 KPH down the freeway with his ramp down, and you drove up behind him at 65 KPH in a BMW, and drove up his ramp, what would happen? what's a flatbed semi?

10. What word or expression is represented below: eeeuh, don't know what ya mean

GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GET, GET, GET, GET

11. Translate the following into a meaningful phrase :

If a large solid-hoofed mammal becomes available to you without compensation, refrain from casting your faculty for seeing into the oral cavity of such a creature.i'm not english, so you expect me to do this trick?

12. Some months have 30 days, some have 31; how many months have 28 days? 1

13. I have as many brothers as sisters. My brothers have twice as many sisters as brothers. How many of us are there? 2 females 1 male

14. What is the 6th planet from the sun? saturn

15. Name any popular prepared single-serving non-meat food, that if eaten exactly how it is served, could make you sick and cause harm. beats me

16. Where does silk come from? rups (that's dutch :) in english it's a butterfly larva)

17. Why does a rubber ball bounce higher than a steel ball? cuz rubber is more elastic

18. What makes cheddar cheese orange? eeeuh? i don't know

19. Does the cocoa bean grow on the same plant that produces cocaine? no, (you'd wish that don't you?)

20. When you eat a piece of orange candy, and read that it is artifically flavored, even though it taste like orange, what is making it have the orange flavor? ? don't exactly understand

EDIT: I removed the quotes

[VigilVirus]

1. Underground

2. Yes

3. 10 ft

4. Tornadoes

5. Iodine

6. You would be stuck in the center

7. Yes, because pressure outside is a lot less than your personal pressure

8. Because it is in the southern hemisphere

9. It would turn over

10.

11. Don't stick your head into an animal's throat

12. 1 (only 3 times in 4 years)

13. 7

14. Saturn

15. Potato

16. Silkworms

17. Density

18. Spices

19. No

20. Forgot the exact name, but it's something like anamyil alcohol or something, chemical that gives fruits taste

[sneezer3]

1: underground

2: No. i'm not sure exactly where it comes from but not there.

3: I have no clue. around 10 feet?

4: lightning defently

5: some kind of flavoring maybe?

6:you'd be stuck in the center cause of Gravedy pushing you both ways i guess.

7: No. you'd be freezeing to death and whats that word. :- have no air.

8: the way the sun is and goes around the earth. and time zones.

9: If he din't reck you'd go up it.

10:Give and take.

11: don't stick your head in a cretures mouth?

12: One.

13:Depends on how many brothers you got. ;)

16: Spiders. or maybe geting silver somehow and cuting it real real thin?

17: Rubber is more bouncey like.

20:Something they put in it. artifically flavored means man made. so they must have put something in it.

Some of these might have sounded dumb. but there right off the top of my head. and i'm not sure about some of them. :-

[Mahdi]

1. Do peanuts grow above ground or underground?

Underground.

2. Does popcorn actually come from corn-on-the-cob?

No.

3. In basketball, how high is the basket rim from the ground?

10 feet.

4. What kills more people annually: lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding

flooding

5. What is commonly added to salt before it is sold as table salt?

6. If you drilled a tunnel straight through the earth, so that it passes directly through the center and out to the other side, and then fell in, what would happen? (assume you are shielded from any heat/gasses outside the tunnel and can breathe normally)

You'd hover in the middle.

7. If you were suddenly teleported into space without a suit, what would happen, and would you explode?

You would die (you would not explode).

8. Why does Australia have summer in December and the US have summer in July?

earth's tilt.

9. If a flatbed semi was moving 60 KPH down the freeway with his ramp down, and you drove up behind him at 65 KPH in a BMW, and drove up his ramp, what would happen?

I'd kick myself for risking a BMW like that.

10. What word or expression is represented below:

GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GET, GET, GET, GET

Forgive and forget.

11. Translate the following into a meaningful phrase :

If a large solid-hoofed mammal becomes available to you without compensation, refrain from casting your faculty for seeing into the oral cavity of such a creature.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

12. Some months have 30 days, some have 31; how many months have 28 days?

12.

13. I have as many brothers as sisters. My brothers have twice as many sisters as brothers. How many of us are there?

3.

14. What is the 6th planet from the sun?

Jupiter.

15. Name any popular prepared single-serving non-meat food, that if eaten exactly how it is served, could make you sick and cause harm.

16. Where does silk come from?

Worms.

17. Why does a rubber ball bounce higher than a steel ball?

18. What makes cheddar cheese orange?

19. Does the cocoa bean grow on the same plant that produces cocaine?

Yes.

20. When you eat a piece of orange candy, and read that it is artifically flavored, even though it taste like orange, what is making it have the orange flavor?

The artificial flavour.

please post your answers, dont worry about hiding them. Also, dont edit your answers once posted...no edits! Dont cheat and read other people's answers, and dont cheat by looking on the internet. If you dont know...then guess!!

GOOD LUCK ::)

Edit: Typo which changed my answer.

[nemafakei]

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1. Do peanuts grow above ground or underground?

Below

2. Does popcorn actually come from corn-on-the-cob?

It should do.

3. In basketball, how high is the basket rim from the ground?

9'?

4. What kills more people annually: lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding?

Flooding, easily.

5. What is commonly added to salt before it is sold as table salt?

?

6. If you drilled a tunnel straight through the earth, so that it passes directly through the center and out to the other side, and then fell in, what would happen? (assume you are shielded from any heat/gasses outside the tunnel and can breathe normally)

You would oscillate in ever-decreasing amplitude, starting from the diameter of the earth. (position/time graph like sine graph)

7. If you were suddenly teleported into space without a suit, what would happen, and would you explode?

You would suffocate, and your internal organs would be dragged out your orifices, at least. Your blood pressure will probably also cause hufe nosebleeds etc.

8. Why does Australia have summer in December and the US have summer in July?

Because they're on different hemispheres.

9. If a flatbed semi was moving 60 KPH down the freeway with his ramp down, and you drove up behind him at 65 KPH in a BMW, and drove up his ramp, what would happen?

I would try and work out what a flatbed semi was, and hope it had a ramp.

10. What word or expression is represented below:

GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GET, GET, GET, GET

forgive and forget?

11. Translate the following into a meaningful phrase :

If a large solid-hoofed mammal becomes available to you without compensation, refrain from casting your faculty for seeing into the oral cavity of such a creature.

Gon't look a gift-horse in the mouth.

12. Some months have 30 days, some have 31; how many months have 28 days?

1, or 0 in a leap year.

13. I have as many brothers as sisters. My brothers have twice as many sisters as brothers. How many of us are there?

3- you (female), a sister, and a brother, assuming you are loosely using the plural.

14. What is the 6th planet from the sun?

Saturn

15. Name any popular prepared single-serving non-meat food, that if eaten exactly how it is served, could make you sick and cause harm.

Anything with nuts in, if you have such an allergy?

16. Where does silk come from?

Silkworms

17. Why does a rubber ball bounce higher than a steel ball?

Because rubber is elastic - it has long carbon-chains with crosslinks. Steel is crystalline.

18. What makes cheddar cheese orange?

Mould, I should expect. It's supposed to be pale yellow

19. Does the cocoa bean grow on the same plant that produces cocaine?

No.

20. When you eat a piece of orange candy, and read that it is artifically flavored, even though it taste like orange, what is making it have the orange flavor?

An E-number, andor citric acid.

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[Apollyon]

1. Do peanuts grow above ground or underground? -under

2. Does popcorn actually come from corn-on-the-cob? -no

3. In basketball, how high is the basket rim from the ground? -10 feet?

4. What kills more people annually: lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding -flooding

5. What is commonly added to salt before it is sold as table salt? -dont know

6. - you would come to rest in the centre of the earth, ie no gravity altho the pressure would crush you.

7. If you were suddenly teleported into space without a suit, what would happen, and would you explode? - you blood would boil and your lungs probably burst (get badly damaged).

8. Why does Australia have summer in December and the US have summer in July? - different hemisphere

9. If a flatbed semi was moving 60 KPH down the freeway with his ramp down, and you drove up behind him at 65 KPH in a BMW, and drove up his ramp, what would happen? - it would not be able to go up due to the extra force required to go against gravity.

10. What word or expression is represented below:

GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GET, GET, GET, GET - you get what you give?

11. Translate the following into a meaningful phrase :

If a large solid-hoofed mammal becomes available to you without compensation, refrain from casting your faculty for seeing into the oral cavity of such a creature. - dont look a gift-horse in thge mouth ;D

12. Some months have 30 days, some have 31; how many months have 28 days? - 1, february

13. I have as many brothers as sisters. My brothers have twice as many sisters as brothers. How many of us are there?- 5?

14. What is the 6th planet from the sun? -saturn

15. Name any popular prepared single-serving non-meat food, that if eaten exactly how it is served, could make you sick and cause harm. - an egg

16. Where does silk come from?- silk moth larvae/worms

17. Why does a rubber ball bounce higher than a steel ball?- more elasticity

18. What makes cheddar cheese orange? -preservatives

19. Does the cocoa bean grow on the same plant that produces cocaine? -no

20. When you eat a piece of orange candy, and read that it is artifically flavored, even though it taste like orange, what is making it have the orange flavor? -orange flavours?

[Timenn]

1. Do peanuts grow above ground or underground?

Above ground

2. Does popcorn actually come from corn-on-the-cob?

From corn, you know those famous fields those aliens ruined :)

3. In basketball, how high is the basket rim from the ground?

2.80 m

4. What kills more people annually: lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding

flooding

5. What is commonly added to salt before it is sold as table salt?

You mean NaCl? I think it was Magnesium-salt or something

6. If you drilled a tunnel straight through the earth, so that it passes directly through the center and out to the other side, and then fell in, what would happen? (assume you are shielded from any heat/gasses outside the tunnel and can breathe normally)

You get stuck in the core

7. If you were suddenly teleported into space without a suit, what would happen, and would you explode?

I believe your blood would boil

8. Why does Australia have summer in December and the US have summer in July?

Earth is flipped some degrees. etc.

9. If a flatbed semi was moving 60 KPH down the freeway with his ramp down, and you drove up behind him at 65 KPH in a BMW, and drove up his ramp, what would happen?

You would drive on it with a shock

10. What word or expression is represented below:

GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GET, GET, GET, GET

?

11. Translate the following into a meaningful phrase :

If a large solid-hoofed mammal becomes available to you without compensation, refrain from casting your faculty for seeing into the oral cavity of such a creature.

?

12. Some months have 30 days, some have 31; how many months have 28 days?

Every month, old joke O0

13. I have as many brothers as sisters. My brothers have twice as many sisters as brothers. How many of us are there?

7

14. What is the 6th planet from the sun?

Saturn. And it would be Jupiter if Jupiter didn't ruined it's neighboor planet (asteroids)

15. Name any popular prepared single-serving non-meat food, that if eaten exactly how it is served, could make you sick and cause harm.?

16. Where does silk come from?

Caterpillars

17. Why does a rubber ball bounce higher than a steel ball?

action=reaction. Because the steel ball doesn't dent, it absorbes all the kinetic energy. The rubber ball won't

18. What makes cheddar cheese orange?

Blegh, ;D

19. Does the cocoa bean grow on the same plant that produces cocaine?

Come on Timenn, as Dutch I should know... I think so

20. When you eat a piece of orange candy, and read that it is artifically flavored, even though it taste like orange, what is making it have the orange flavor?

Esters

[Acriku]

yeesh ok.

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1. Above.

2. Looks like it so yes.

3. 10 feet.

4. Lightning.

5. Iodine, otherwise it's nasty.

6. Fall to the center.

7. Instant frozen human pinata. No kablooie, sorry.

8. Opposite equinoxes?

9. You would need to go faster to get up there, so nothing.

10. Alliteration.

11.

12. 12.

13.

14. Saturn

15.

16. Silkworm.

17. Steel ball can absorb all the energy, rubber ball expels it. Steel - immediate loss of kinetic energy, rubber - gradual loss

18. The light frequency between red and yellow is reflected.

19. Maybe, dunno, I say no.

20. The artificial flavor.[/hide]

[Anathema]

Wait, my answer on number 9 didn't come out as I meant it. Here is the corrected version:

[hide]Seen from the flatbed, you'd continue the same speed because front wheel drive. From the road, however, the speed would be the 60mph of the flatbed + your 65mph = 125mph[/hide]

[emprworm]

isn't a clam considered "meat?"

[IxianMace]

1. Do peanuts grow above ground or underground?

Above ground

2. Does popcorn actually come from corn-on-the-cob?

Yes

3. In basketball, how high is the basket rim from the ground?

2.5 Metres ???

4. What kills more people annually: lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding

Lightning

5. What is commonly added to salt before it is sold as table salt?

No idea

6. If you drilled a tunnel straight through the earth, so that it passes directly through the center and out to the other side, and then fell in, what would happen? (assume you are shielded from any heat/gasses outside the tunnel and can breathe normally)

You would stay suspended at the centre of the Earth.

7. If you were suddenly teleported into space without a suit, what would happen, and would you explode?

You would die, and freeze instantaneously. I don't think you'd explode, no.

8. Why does Australia have summer in December and the US have summer in July?

This has to do with the Earth's tilt on its' axis as it orbits the Sun. In December, the Southern Hemisphere is getting more direct sunlight due to the Earth's tilt, and the Northern Hemisphere is getting less direct sunlight, and vice versa.

9. If a flatbed semi was moving 60 KPH down the freeway with his ramp down, and you drove up behind him at 65 KPH in a BMW, and drove up his ramp, what would happen?

You would slide up and down the ramp, but never be able to actually get inside the semi. (I've never heard of a 'flatbed' semi, but anyway). :P

10. What word or expression is represented below:

GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GIVE, GET, GET, GET, GET

You get what you give.

11. Translate the following into a meaningful phrase :

If a large solid-hoofed mammal becomes available to you without compensation, refrain from casting your faculty for seeing into the oral cavity of such a creature.

If you get an animal for free, do not prevent your fellow workmates from looking into its' mouth. ??? ???

12. Some months have 30 days, some have 31; how many months have 28 days?

All of them.

13. I have as many brothers as sisters. My brothers have twice as many sisters as brothers. How many of us are there?

Infinite possibilities

14. What is the 6th planet from the sun?

Saturn (My favourite!) :D

15. Name any popular prepared single-serving non-meat food, that if eaten exactly how it is served, could make you sick and cause harm.

Spent too long on this one. Couldn't think of anything. ???

16. Where does silk come from?

Silkworms. Silkworms spin the silk.

17. Why does a rubber ball bounce higher than a steel ball?

Rubber has more elastic capability than steel. Therefore it loses less kinetic energy than the steel ball when it hits the ground, while the steel ball converts the original kinetic energy into heat and sound energy, rather than preserving the kinetic. ???

18. What makes cheddar cheese orange?

Food colouring.

19. Does the cocoa bean grow on the same plant that produces cocaine?

Yes ???

20. When you eat a piece of orange candy, and read that it is artifically flavored, even though it taste like orange, what is making it have the orange flavor?

The artificial flavouring.

Note: I did not look at anyone else's post, only the first post in this thread to see what it was about, nor did I look up anything on any search engine.

[Acriku]

Well I can't edit, but I realize I missed some ;)

[Mahdi]

Arrgg, don't know if this still can count because I didn't post it wiht my original answers.

I was layin in my bed watching Gattaca eating pretzels, when it hit me: Sodium Chloride!

[Acriku]

I believe Iodine is the answer? That's what I learned in chemistry :D

[IxianMace]

Lol, that was what I was thinking. But isn't Sodium Chloride just salt, said differently?

[Acriku]

Sodium Chloride is NaCl.

[IxianMace]

I know the chemical formula for Sodium Chloride, I was just saying that wasn't it the same thing as salt? ::)

[Acriku]

Maybe :D