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The BipaPedia Challenge
It's time to stump Bipa. She's always finds an answer. Let's come with something legit that she can't answer.
I'll start out: Who came up with Mountain Dew and why?
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here's a stumper: why are political and religious debates useless (and boring) and never get resolved?
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What rhymes with the square root of orange?
Ron.
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What was the first American Auto company? Name the man, and the second car line he started that eventually turned to heavy trucks before being bought up by White-Autocar? Requires 3 answers.
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A pretty good history can be found here. Quote:
Another page has Jones as the inventor, but he actually only arrived later on the scene, when the flavour was changed. Source: http://members.aol.com/seanborg/mtdew/trivia.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read about the confusion of who invented Mountain Dew here Quote:
One last source, then I need a refill (looking into empty coffee mug) http://www.sodamuseum.bigstep.com/generic.jhtml?pid=6 Quote:
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Useless
Fellows, haven't you already figured out that Bipa has nothing better to do than research the net? It is useless to try to stump her on any question that can be found on the net.
Lee
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To put it in context, most North Americans spend anywhere from one to four hours daily watching television. So instead of watching soap operas or game shows, I read newspapers and articles online which I later use in my job. |
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that shows that you are actually USING your brain then ~
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Answer mine Bipa.
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Hmmm....Montian dew...Good one.
...Who wrote / drew the Where's Waldo books? Nevermind..I found that. too easy. Okay...um... Might just be an America thing...but where did the term "The whole nine yards" come from? I mean..a first down is 10 yards in football...And thats the only close to making sence thing I could think of
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Comparison?
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There are many good informative and educational TV channels that I watch such as the Discovery, Biography, History, NASA, Military and even government channels in addition to news channels. The ONLY game show that I ever watch is Jeopardy and it obviously has some educational value. As you know by my comments in this forum, I do get on the net daily for a while. I might spend a bit more time on the net, but I only have dialup service and accessing everything is very slow. I live in the mountains and DSL service is not available. I never get to look at most of the videos posted in this forum because download times are excessive. I might add that it seems quite a few people on here are either jobless, retired, self employed or cheating their employer by spending so much time on the internet surfing or posting. Lee
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[QUOTE=It's Just Eric]but where did the term "The whole nine yards" come from? I mean..a first down is 10 yards in football...And thats the only close to making sence thing I could think of
I thought I knew that and it was about how much cement came in a load (approx. 9 cubic yds) and then I read this... http://www.yaelf.com/nineyards.shtml ...now I am just really confused |
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First, a few assumptions I’m making: American = USA Company = licensed, commercial, registered enterprise expressly set up to manufacture gasoline powered vehicles. I believe you are thinking of the Pittsburgh Motor Vehicle Company, est. 1897, its president, Louis S. Clark, and his business partner William Morgan. The patent for their first vehicle has Morgan as the inventor. In 1899 the firm changed its name to Autocar Company and started also producing trucks in 1907. It stopped making cars in 1911, concentrating only on trucks. White Motorcar Company bought controlling interest in 1953, but declared bankrupcy in 1980 and sold the name to Volvo in 1981. In July, 2001, it was again sold to Grand Vehicle Works Holdings LLC. There’s a problem here, though. That answer is incorrect. Charles Duryea, along with his brother Frank, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company in September, 1895. In 1896 they built 13 nearly identical cars – the first commercial production run of a model in the US. In 1898 they sold their interest to their business partner, Munroe Seiberling, who in turn sold out to National Motor Carriage Company in 1901. Charles Duryea had gone to work for Canda Company, but was shortly fired so he tried again with the incorporation of the Duryea Manufacturing Company in 1898. Lacking money, he contracted with the Peoria Rubber and Manufacturing Company. The Duryea Motor Trap was his second production car, but only about 15 were produced in 1899 because Peoria Rubber’s attention was diverted by the Great Bicycle Trust (1899 – 1903). He kept trying with various enterprises, but was never successful at getting any major production going. Frank Duryea went on to collaberate with J. Stevens Arms and Tool Company. Together they formed the Stevens-Duryea Company in 1904. By 1915 they had manufactured about 14,000 cars. In 1915 it was sold to Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. Exhibit in the Henry Ford Museum. Of the 13 automobiles made in 1896 by Duryea, this is the only known survivor. |
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