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Episode 178 - Trivia Question
Name the author, pamphleteer,
radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary and one of
the founding fathers of the United States who has been
called a “corset maker by trade”, a journalist by
profession, and a protagonist by inclination.
Episode 177 - Trivia Question
Name the
prolific 19th-century American author, many of who’s
literay works have been described as rags to riches stories,
illustrating how down-and-out boys might be able to achieve the
American Dream of wealth and success through hard wor, courage,
determination, and concern for others.
Horatio Alger
Episode 176 - Trivia Question
Name the
substances a protein (or protein based molecule) that speeds up
a chemical reaction in a living organism. These substances act
as catalyst for specific chemical reactions, converting a
specific set of reactants called substrates into specific
products. Without these substances, life as we know it would not
exist.
Enzymes
Episode 175 - Trivia Question
Care Label Symbols are required by
law for your information to help you make informed garment and
furniture decisions. Which federal agency requires manufacturers
to attach a permanent label on textiles that provides directions
for their care?
FTC
Episode 174 - Trivia Question
Name the Farmers Insurance Policyholder who received $32
million dollar jury award in Travis County Texas over water
leaks in her home.
Melinda Ballard
Episode 173 - Trivia Question
Name the two fungi responsible for the
most prevalent fungal infections in hospitals. (Candida and
Aspergillus)
Episode 172 - Trivia Question
Name the scientist who
in 1801 discovered ultraviolet light?
Name the physicist and
inventor who is best known for giving birth to the “black light
effect”?
Posted on July 7th, 2010
Episode 171 - Trivia Question
There are two homes in Western Pennsylvania designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright name them?
Answered by: Andrew Krowsoski
answer: Fallingwater and Kentucky Knob
Posted on June 19th, 2010
Episode 170 - Trivia Question
Who was Charles Joseph Whitman and what event was he infamous
for?
Answer: John Lapotaire answered: The shooter in The University
of Texas at Austin Shooting
Posted on June 12th, 2010
Episode 169 - Trivia Question
According to the US Army Corps of Engineers,
on what date did the Cumberland River in Nashville, TN reach 56.2 at
the Nashville gauge; the highest recorded flood in the city?
Answer: John Lapotaire answered: January 1,
1927
Posted on June 5th, 2010
Episode 168 - Trivia Question
In 1824 the US Congress created an agency within the Treasury
Department to establish and promote the consistent use of uniform
weights and measures. Name the agency?
Posted on May 24, 2010
Episode 167 - Trivia Question
In what city was the first Carnegie Library built?
What city is home to the first Carnegie Library built in the US?
Answers: Dunfermline, Scotland and Carnegie, Pennsylvania
(respectively)
Answered by: Andrew Krowsoski of Concast Metal Products Company
Bonus Question:
What amendment to
the Occupational Safety and Health Act referenced the FAA?
Posted on May 15, 2010
Episode 166 - Trivia Question
In 1979, an accidental leak from a laboratory in the former USSR is
believed to have been the cause of hundreds of civilian deaths.
Name the substance that leaked.
Posted on May 8, 2010
Episode 165 - Trivia Question
Who was the architect of the White House?
Answer: James Hoban
Answered by Andy Krowsoski of Concast Metal Products Company
Posted on May 8, 2010
Episode 164 - Trivia Question
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was one of the most honored generals of
the American Civil War, the Confederate general died as a casualty
of the war. What was the manner and cause of his death?
Posted on April 24, 2010
Episode 163 - Trivia Question
The members of this phylum, include all the
fungi with gills or pores, including the familiar mushrooms and
bracket fungi. Name it?
Posted on April 17, 2010
Episode 162 - Trivia Question
The
subject is the
field of medicine.
The administration of antigenic material to produce immunity to a
disease. What is it?
Answer:
Vaccination
Answered by
Cassidy Kuchenbecker
Episode 161 - Trivia Question
Subject was smart women.
Name the actress, mathematician, author and education advocate
best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show
The Wonder Years and now as author of the two NY Times
bestsellers Math Doesn’t Suck and Kiss My Math which encourage
middle-school girls to learn math.
Name the actress who received a US patent for a
frequency-hopping device designed to guide radio-controlled
torpedoes while making them more difficult to detect in water.
Posted on March 27, 2010
Episode 160 - Trivia Question
Canada is a
country proud and passionate about it's sports athletes. Name
the recipient that was named athlete of the decade by TSN, The
Sports Network in 1990.
Posted on
March 20, 2010
Episode 159 - Trivia Question
Name the north American international airport, that played an
integral role in world aviation in the immediate hours following the
September 11, 2001 attacks when due to the closure of North
America’s airspace 39 transatlantic flights bound for the US were
ordered to land there.
Posted on:
March 13, 2010
Answer:
Gander
Answered by
"The Answer Man" Paul Haas
Episode 158 - Trivia Question
Name the firm widely credited with introducing the forced air
furnace in 1935?
Posted on:
March 13, 2010
Episode 157 - Trivia Question
Name the allergist who in the 1940s developed the underlying concept
that people could become ill from exposures to substances at doses
far below the levels normally considered safe.
Theron G. Randolph, MD
Posted on:
February 27, 2010
Episode 156 - Trivia Question
Which type of matter has a definite volume but no definite shape?
Posted on:
February 20, 2010
Episode 152 - Trivia Question
Name
the scientific device that can measure lead levels in dust and
provide immediate results.
Posted on: January 22, 2010
Episode 151 - Trivia Question
How many
tablespoons of assorted particles do you think people breathe in
every day?
Posted on:
January 15, 2010
Episode 149 - Trivia Question
Name the
individual credited with making the following statement in the
American Journal of Diseases in Children in 1974:
“Until effective standards for the domestic environment are devised,
it is likely that children will continue to be employed as
biological indicators of substandard housing.”
Posted
on: December 12th, 2009
Episode 148 - Trivia Question
According to
an “Introduction to Indoor Air Quality” on the EPA’s website What
Causes Indoor Air Quality Problems (in homes)?
Posted on:
December 5th, 2009
Episode 147 - Trivia Question
The
following passage is known as what?
“Each employer shall furnish to each of his employees employment and
a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that
are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to
his employees?
Posted on: November 28th, 2009
Episode 146 - Trivia Question
What is the
ACGIH Threshold Limit Value for fluoride primarily intended to guard
against?
Posted on:
November 14th, 2009
Episode 145 - Trivia Question
What are the four shades of green in green building?
Posted on:
November 7th, 2009
Episode 144 - Trivia Question
In 1724 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit developed the temperature scale
used in the U.S.
and a few other countries today.
The scale in widest use throughout the world was invented in
1742 and is also named for its developer, what is his name?
Posted on:
October 31st, 2009
Episode 143 - Trivia Question
A human cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at
speeds up to 60 miles per hour. What is the speed of a sneeze?
Posted on:
October 24th, 2009
Episode 142 - Trivia Question
Name the drug, food additive, or other chemical that
interacts with another substance so that their combined
effect (known as synergy) is more than the sum of their
separate parts.
Posted on: October 17th, 2009
Episode 136 - Trivia Question
The
source for today’s Microban trivia question was Mosby’s
Medical Dictionary. We are looking for a mystery word. The
definition of the word includes “poison produced by and
derived from plants and animals. Examples of our mystery
word include abrin and ricin from beans and strychnine from
an evergreen tree.
Name the mystery word.
Posted on: August 17th, 2009
Episode 135 - Trivia Question
Name both the person and country of origin for the founder
of the Giordano clothing brand.
Posted on: August 3rd, 2009
Episode 134 - Trivia Question
The
Antoine equation is a vapor pressure equation and describes
the relation of the saturated vapor pressure and the
temperature for pure components. Name the relation from
which the Antoine equation is derived?
Posted on: July 27th, 2009
Episode 133 - Trivia Question
Name the 5 ways in which bacteria can be classified.
Posted on: July 20th, 2009
This substance is odorless, practically
colorless and highly toxic. At lower levels of exposure, the
substance causes mild effects that are [...]
Posted on: July
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Name the group which in 1952 convened the conference titled “Condensation Control in Buildings as Related to Paints, Papers and Insulating Materials”.?
Posted on: June 26th, 2009 >
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