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Since we now have an off-topic board, it's time to bring back this brilliant quiz. The previous question was: How many wives did Henry VIII have? The answer is 4. His first wife was previously married to his brother, and in English law at that time you couldn't marry your brother's wife, and Henry married another before actually divorcing his previous wife.

An easy one next: What's the smallest city in Britain?

[Edited on 6/2/2004 3:32:32 AM]

  • 06.02.2004 3:32 AM PDT
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Well it's in Europe. I could ask jeeves but then that would be cheating. I have no clue.

  • 06.02.2004 5:21 AM PDT

And the answer is...London. The City of London is only one square mile.

Next question: How many moons has the Earth?

  • 06.02.2004 5:18 PM PDT

I hate everything, but it's not my fault.

Umm.....One? lol

  • 06.02.2004 5:20 PM PDT
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is this a trick question?

  • 06.02.2004 5:25 PM PDT
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We have 7.

  • 06.02.2004 5:26 PM PDT
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We have 13.

  • 06.02.2004 5:27 PM PDT
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none. no moon has Earth.

  • 06.02.2004 5:44 PM PDT

none. no moon has Earth.
Obviously, you don't understand Standard English sentence construction. "Got" is never used in Standard English.

[Edited on 6/2/2004 5:47:17 PM]

  • 06.02.2004 5:46 PM PDT
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Then what is the past tense of "get"?

  • 06.02.2004 5:47 PM PDT
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pig?

  • 06.02.2004 5:48 PM PDT
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Yeah, it's pig. Riiight.

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GOT GOT GOT because it rhymes with my name

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Your name is pot?

  • 06.02.2004 5:49 PM PDT

Then what is the past tense of "get"?
"Got" used in conjunction with "to have", to be more precise. But that's beside the point. Let's keep on topic.

  • 06.02.2004 5:53 PM PDT
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Besides the big one that we all probably know of, we have lots of man-made stuff orbiting us and at least a few discovered natural objects orbiting us. How many moons we have depends on what qualifies as a moon. Some don't consider our biggest satellite to be a moon, but part of a binary world since it's about a whole hundredth of our mass. In astronomical terms, that's pretty close. We also share our orbit around Sol with at least two other objects, which might be considered moons. For those interested, one's called Cruine (Say croo-een-ya. It's named for some tribe-like group or somethin'.) or some such, while the other's got a catalog designation I can't remember. The answer also depends on what qualifies as orbiting, too. I guess we could say that we and Sol are co-orbiting our common centre of gravity, or that the whole solar system is co-orbiting, or the whole -blam!-in' galaxy, or...

Edits are in bold.

[Edited on 6/2/2004 6:10:27 PM]

  • 06.02.2004 6:05 PM PDT

The answer is two, and the second is indeed Cruithne. Some consider it to not be a moon, but it has a regular orbit of about 385 years.

Next, another easy one: What is invisible and travels at about 38mph?

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  • 06.02.2004 6:12 PM PDT
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wind!

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wind at 38 miles per hour oooo that's a real answer

  • 06.02.2004 6:15 PM PDT

I'm talking about a constant 38mph.

  • 06.02.2004 6:21 PM PDT
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Uhmmm..... wa-ter? >.>

  • 06.02.2004 6:37 PM PDT
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my answer was FINE!

  • 06.02.2004 6:39 PM PDT
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I think you need to update your info. As of February this year, there were at least two known objects with what we call a horseshoe orbit. The one other than Cruine is the aforementioned object with a name I don't remember. There might even be other discovered ones I never heard about...
Personally, I consider objects with horseshoe orbits to be objects sharing our orbit around Sol, but not moons orbiting around us. Some strange interactions have them spiraling around us a lot of the time, but that's only during the interior phase. It's going around the sun all the time.

Edit: Oh, yeah. I would guess constant wind too. I'm finding the riddle thread more interesting. I don't mean to knock trivia questions, but I think that riddles are more interesting 'cause they are less subjective to trivial knowledge.

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  • 06.02.2004 6:43 PM PDT
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Solar wind or somthing like that

electicity

[Edited on 6/2/2004 6:49:37 PM]

  • 06.02.2004 6:48 PM PDT

I hate everything, but it's not my fault.

A cloaked MC! lol

  • 06.02.2004 6:59 PM PDT

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