Mega Quiz

[LLcoolChance]

Who is ready for a MEGA QUIZ

It works like this You ask a question and the First person to get it right gets to ask the next question






Make it hard
Make it RANDOM




I will Start

What famous Soda (or pop for you "others") was created by laziness because it was not mixed properly with tap water but instead mixed with carbonated water

HINT: this drink was originally green (not anymoreeeee)

[Drummer Dude Go]

Great, now I can use some random facts about random stuff that exists in my head for no reason whatsoever!

Is the answer Mello Yello?

[LLcoolChance]

Nope


Hint2:it was a medicine



By the way another rule is that if by the third clue knowone gets it you can ask another question

[onaree]

Coca-Cola

[LLcoolChance]

CORECTO


your turn or you can PASS and decide to let the same person to ask another question


thats another rule



Take your pick

[onaree]

What former Saturday Night Live member has perfect pitch and was in a band?

[LLcoolChance]

Dana Carvey?

[Drummer Dude Go]

What former Saturday Night Live member has perfect pitch and was in a band?
I dont watch SNL, so I cant tell you.

[onaree]

Hint 2: He appeared in a video with Paul Simon for, "Call Me Al."

[LLcoolChance]

Jimmy Fallon?

[onaree]

Hint 3: He is the star of movies such as "National Lampoon's Vacation", "Fletch", and "Three Amigos".

[LLcoolChance]

Chevy Chase

[onaree]

Chevy Chase
Yep! That's right!

[LLcoolChance]

Alright MY TURN



What Soda Creator Was albino

[dplineman]

The creator of 7 UP?

[Aussie3rddayfan]

The creator of 7 UP?

Charles Leiper Grigg. Thanks to Wikipedia for that!

The bloodiest battle in history?

[Sharon]

Charles Leiper Grigg. Thanks to Wikipedia for that!

The bloodiest battle in history?

Aren't they all? What era? US or Europe?

Blind guess - War of the Roses

[HotWireD]

Aren't they all? What era? US or Europe?

Blind guess - War of the Roses

Agreed, all battles are bloody.

My guesses would be... (casualty figures searched out on internet after choosing them)
Battle of Stalingrad 251400 casualties per month. (That's an average of 7500 per day).
Battle of the Somme 224000 casualties per month.
I would have thought the Battle of the Somme was the bloodiest - for a days fighting.

For amount of blood spilt in as short a period as possible, the first few days of the battle of the Somme takes some beating.
Soldiers marching at a walking pace towards machine guns, with orders to fix bayonets and not load their guns with ammunition. Even being handed footballs to kick along as they advanced.

result...
The BEF (British Expeditionary Force) suffered 58,000 casualties in ONE DAY(a third of them killed), therefore making it the worse day in the history of the British Army.
The offensive continued throughout the summer...
http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/somme.htm

Battle of the Somme
First day of the battle, 1 July 1916. Ended, 18 November 1916.

Despite the slow but progressive British advance, poor weather – snow – brought a halt to the Somme offensive on 18 November. During the attack the British and French had gained 12 kilometres of ground, the taking of which resulted in 420,000 estimated British casualties, including many of the volunteer ‘pal’s’ battalions, plus a further 200,000 French casualties. German casualties were estimated to run at around 500,000.

Bloodiest Modern Battle (Death toll)
The greatest death toll in a battle has been estimated at 1,109,000 in the Battle of Stalingrad, USSR (now Volgograd, Russia), which started in the summer of 1942 and ended with the German surrender on January 31, 1943. Approximately 650,800 Soviet soldiers were wounded but survived.
Approx' seven months
1 109 000 Dead
650 800 wounded
1 759 800 casualties
251400 casualties per month.


My question - what was the reason behind the pharmacist Alfred Bird inventing Bird's Custard?

[LLcoolChance]

His Wife was allergic to eggs so they couldnt have custard (a main ingredient) so it was like artificial flavoring kind of

[Ringil]

What famous Soda (or pop for you "others") was created by laziness because it was not mixed properly with tap water but instead mixed with carbonated water

HINT: this drink was originally green (not anymoreeeee)
Um, none of that is true about Coke. If you don't beleive me go to www.snopes.com

[HotWireD]

Um, none of that is true about Coke. If you don't beleive me go to www.snopes.com

Snopes is a great site, I have it in my favourites - I get lots of emails from friends who do not check their stories.

It has lots of great articles on Coke, particularly on controversies with Islam - which, when investigated turned out to be fraudulent forgeries made with the intention of damaging Coke's and the West's reputation in the Middle East.
What surprises me is that years later we discover they were most probably the first shots in a propaganda campaign by Islamists against the West and the press never made an issue about it..

[Drummer Dude Go]

What is the world's first gasoline powered automobile?

[onaree]

It was made by Benz, but I can't find a name. Hints?

[LLcoolChance]

Wheres did Drummer Dude Go (ha get it)

[Eowyn]

Wheres did Drummer Dude Go (ha get it)
Haha, very funny. I'm not sure...

[dplineman]

He went to North Dakota.

[LLcoolChance]

oh ok









lets continue with the quiz shall we

im not sure exactly where it got side tracked

40% of all McDonald sales are based on what product

[dplineman]

Happy Meals

[LLcoolChance]

Correct!!!!

[Mac wannabe]

Apparently the individual who answered the last question is foreiting their right to question us further...so...its my turn ;)

What does the phrase "Jacks full of Eights" mean in poker,

-Calvino

[froglovesgod]

a full house!!!

[Musicdude]

A full house of 2 jacks and three 8's.