Ian Babe Moderator/Advertiser
Number of posts : 525 Age : 33 Location : United Kingdom Points : 457 Reputation : 3 Registration date : 2009-01-15
| Subject: 1st Contest - True Or False (start date 25th) (closed) Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:59 am | |
| Start date: Today (25th June)
Duration: Till one person comes up with all correct answers
Info: Answer the following Questions true or false
Winner: The winner will be the person who answers all the following questions correctly....!
Prize: 100 point's donated by myself.
Okay so here's the questions:
1. A hamlet is a village without a church. TRUE 2. Disney World in Orlando, Florida covers 146 square miles, making it twice the size of the island of Washington DC. FALSE
3. French was the official language of England for over 600 years. TRUE
4. A shrimps heart is in its head. TRUE
5. In Indiana, it is illegal to ride public transportation and play chess. FALSE
6. The 'Happy Birthday' song is actually copyrighted. So legally and technically, if you somehow profit from the song you are entitled to pay royalities to the Time-Warner Corporation. TRUE
7. Penguins can jump as high as six feet in the air. TRUE
8. When the Apollo 12 astronauts landed on the moon, the impact caused the moon's surface to create a new crater thirteen feet across. FALSE
9. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't. TRUE
10. You cannot sell an ET doll in France. The nation has a law forbidding the sale of dolls that do not have human faces. TRUE
11. Mosquitoes have teeth. TRUE
12. The highest g-force ever endured was 82.6g for 0.04 seconds on a water-braked rocket sled. The rider was Eli L. Beeding, Jr., at Holloman Air Force Base on May 1958 and he was hospitalized for three days. TRUE
Last edited by Ian Babe on Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:01 am; edited 2 times in total (Reason for editing : Posted answers.) | |
|
Ian Babe Moderator/Advertiser
Number of posts : 525 Age : 33 Location : United Kingdom Points : 457 Reputation : 3 Registration date : 2009-01-15
| Subject: Re: 1st Contest - True Or False (start date 25th) (closed) Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:09 am | |
| Travlor has already PM'd me his answers & he got 9 out of 12.
I have donated him 50 points as it was a great try - anyone with all the answers correct will get 100 points. | |
|
marsbar co admin
Number of posts : 516 Age : 40 Location : Whitwell, Notts. ENGLAND Points : 1269 Reputation : 16 Registration date : 2009-05-21
| Subject: Re: 1st Contest - True Or False (start date 25th) (closed) Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:22 pm | |
| I've had a bash Ian, PM'ed you - sure I've got 6 right, all the others are guesses lol | |
|
Ian Babe Moderator/Advertiser
Number of posts : 525 Age : 33 Location : United Kingdom Points : 457 Reputation : 3 Registration date : 2009-01-15
| Subject: Re: 1st Contest - True Or False (start date 25th) (closed) Sat Jun 27, 2009 5:13 pm | |
| Marsbar you got 7 right... great try mate, 40 points donated by myself to you. I will post answers on the 30th.... some surprisin answers ! I will also post the one's people got right with who got them right - if you get me Keep trying. Cheers. | |
|
Ian Babe Moderator/Advertiser
Number of posts : 525 Age : 33 Location : United Kingdom Points : 457 Reputation : 3 Registration date : 2009-01-15
| Subject: Re: 1st Contest - True Or False (start date 25th) (closed) Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:00 am | |
| Contest is now closed.
No-one actually got all answers right so it ends with no winner.
But Travlor did manage to get 9 right so he recieved a donation of points from myself & also Marsbar who got 7 right who also recieved a donation of points from myself.
Thread Locked. | |
|
Sponsored content
| Subject: Re: 1st Contest - True Or False (start date 25th) (closed) | |
| |
|