Thursday Thirteen #8

Thirteen Trivias which Shoshana stumbled upon.

I'm curious, without looking for answers other than what's available, do you noticed these things? I missed quite a few. I guess I wasn't paying attention quite.

  1. Which way do fans rotate?

  2. Whose face is on a dime?

  3. How many sides does a stop sign have?

  4. Do books have even-numbered pages on the right or the left side?

  5. How many lug nuts are there on a standard car wheel?

  6. How many sides are there on a standard pencil?

  7. Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc: who's missing?

  8. How many hot dog buns are there in a standard package?

  9. On which playing card is the card maker's trademark?

  10. On which side of a Venetia blind is the cord that adjusts the opening between the slats?

  11. What is in the center on the back of a $1 bill?

  12. There are 12 buttons on a touch tone phone. What two symbols bear no digits?

  13. How many curves are there in the standard paper clip?

  14. BONUS:
  15. Does a merry-go-rounds turn clockwise or counter clockwise?
Answers are found here.
So, how did you do?

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18 comments:

K said...

Hmmm. Lots of interesting questions. I know that a stop sign has (I think) six sides to it. And on a phone, the 2 buttons with no digits are the pound * sign and the number # sign.

I think that's all I can answer...

A great list! Makes you think!

Have a good Thursday!!

Caylynn said...

Cool quiz. :) I knew all of the answers, except for those referring to American currency (since I'm Canadian). I so didn't know the answers to 2 and 11.

Have a good day!

Barb said...

It's 3:30am.. too sleepy to think lol

Nathalie said...

Very nice TT, though I don't think I got any of them right ;)
Thank you for visiting my list!

Bubba said...

I got 12 out of 13 right. I'm not sure that's bragging though...I think it means I'm too much of a nerd.

Happy TT!

Chaotic Mom said...

Too much thought, too little coffee. Seriously, I could hardly answer five. And a stop sign has TWO SIDES. Front and back. ;)

I've posted my Thursday Thirteen, too. Enjoy!

Di said...

Bashful was apparently too shy to show up on your list. (Sorry, I had to google it...only on my second cup of coffee.)

My fans can turn either way (ceiling fans I mean) and one is supposed to pull air up and one is supposed to push air down...and I don't know which is for when it's hot and which is for when it's cold.

I might have to go back to bed now.

Merry go rounds definitely go counter clockwise.

Susan Helene Gottfried said...

Wow. Those are things I never thought about. Maybe I should, huh?

Happy TT!

Girlie said...

I was not observant enough. I saw and heard about these things, but I didn't really pay close attention to them.

Anonymous said...

bashful is missing!

Anonymous said...

Very cool. I wish I weren't so brain fried from tutoring today-I might have actually gotten some of these! :P

Anonymous said...

OMGosh, I love it! What a great list!

I only knew 3 of them. LOL

Anonymous said...

oh,i only got 1 correct answer,the no. 1..

i dont pay attention either :)

TGIF,Shoshana!!

Airah said...

i haven't look at the answers yet but here are my answers.

hehe, this seems like a pop up quiz , honesty is the best policy coz it is here wherein you'll gonna check your own answers. gosh. i hope i pass.

#1 clockwise
#2 (no idea)
#3 2 sides: outside, inside =P
#4 left side
#5 (what is a lug nut anyway?)
#6 2 sides also: outside, inside =P
#7 (i'm not really familiar with the name of the 7 dwarfs)
#8 12 buns
#9 joker?
#10 (goshie, i don't know)
#11 (no idea too)
#12 # and *
#13 clockwise

Airah said...

i got only 3 correct!

quiz failed. *grins*

have a nice day! *hugs*

cheers,
aiRah

Girlie said...

Ali: I don't even know all of Snow Whites Dwarf!

S@m, I thought I knew them, but sadly missed a whole lot!

Ghee: I have a fun in my room that's rotating the opposite...what do you make of that?!

Airah, I remember those quizzes days. Do you know that quizzes might just be a quirk of the Philippine schools because the whole time I was getting my degree here in the states, I don't remember having that many quizzes as I did during two years of my nursing school.

I went to three different schools, and maybe have gotten two pop-quizzes.

How many pop quizzes do you get a week?

Airah said...

gosh miss, i've got a lot. maybe once a week for each subjects.

why is it that you only have like 2 pop quizzes before?

Girlie said...

Airah, it seems like it's not in style here. Weird huh?