Trivia Thursday Let it Snow

It is once again Trivia Thursday. I will post a new set of trivia questions on Thursdays. The rules are simple. Please put your answers in the comments section of the post and I will reveal the answers next week or whenever I feel like it. No Cheating! I trust that all of you will all use the honor system? That means you will not use Google, (or any other internet search engines) or mooch off other peoples answers. Cheating is BAD. If your employer has somehow made it impossible for you to post comments (bastards), you may also email your answers to me at MCDupras@gmail.com.



It has been like 4 years since I got a day off from work due to snow. Total BS. So I am trying to will it to snow this year. On a Monday or Tuesday preferably. With a good stock of beer and food in my house. So this week's trivia is going to be about snow. Good luck:

1. As water droplets freeze, they grow into tiny snow crystals. These stick together to make what?
a. snowballs
b. hail
c. snowflakes
d. rain

2. If the air is cold and dry, what type of snow is made?
a. wet
b. powdery
c. icy
d. blue

3. Why doesn’t snow always melt right away?
a. the air temperature is always too cold
b. not enough air space between flakes
c. it’s too icy
d. the sun’s rays bounce off the snow

4. When snow falls, it muffles sound – true or false?
a. true
b. false

5. It must be 32 degrees F or colder for it to snow – true or false?
a. true
b. false

6. Wet snow that splashes and makes puddles is called:
a. powder
b. blue
c. slush
d. hail

7. Can it snow from clear skies?
a. yes
b. no

8. What rule of thumb is often given for the amount of snow that one inch of rain freezes into:
a. 10 inches
b. 2 feet
c. 1 inch
d. 5 inches

9. Sun reflecting on snow can cause sunburn, even in cold weather – true or false?
a. true
b. false

10. When snow begins to melt at the end of winter, what is it called?
a. flooding
b. a Chinook
c. a thaw
d. blue snow

11. What kind of snow should you never eat?


12. Why does salt help keep snow from turning into ice?
a. salt is warm
b. salt is tasty
c. salt water doesn’t bond with ice particles
d. salt waters needs to be much colder to freeze

13. At which of the following temperatures does water spontaneously freeze?
a. 18 degrees F
b. 32 degrees F
c. 0 degrees F
d. -40 degrees F

14. What is mixed together to create a blizzard?
a. snow and rain
b. wind and rain
c. wind and snow
d. hail and rain

15. Snow sometimes melts during the day and freezes as ice at night. Dripping water that freezes makes what?



16. Heavy equipment that clears snow off roads are called?
a. snowplows
b. dumptrucks
c. snowpushers
d. sander trucks

17. Sheep can be buried under snow – true or false?
a. true
b. false

18. Wind blowing the snow can form what?
a. tobogganing hills
b. waves
c. drifts
d. snowmen

19. Which of the following is not effected by wind chill?
a. person
b. dog
c. car radiator
d. bird

20. The Inuit have many words for snow – true or false?
a. true
b. false

Good luck!

Answers to Christmas Carol Trivia

Here are the answers to last week's riddles:

1. Oh, member of the round table with missing areas = Oh Holy Night

2. Boulder of the tinkling metal spheres = Jingle Bell Rock

3. Vehicular homicide was committed on Dad's mom by a precipitous darling =
Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer

4. Wanted in December: top forward incisors = All I Want For Christmas Is My
Two Front Teeth

5. The apartment of two psychiatrists = The Nutcracker Suite

6. The lad is a diminutive percussionist = Little Drummer Boy

7. Sir Lancelot with laryngitis = Silent Night

8. Decorate the entryways = Deck the Halls

9. Cup-shaped instruments fashioned of a whitish metallic element = Silver
Bells

10. Oh small Israel urban center = Oh Little Town of Bethlehem

11. Far off in a haybin = Away in a Manger

12. We are Kong, Lear, and Nat Cole = We Three Kings

13. Duodecimal enumeration of the passage of the yuletide season = The Twelve
Days of Christmas

14. Leave and broadcast from an elevation = Go Tell It on the Mountain

15. Our fervent hope is that you thoroughly enjoy your yuletide season =
We Wish You a Merry Christmas

16. Listen, the winged heavenly messengers are proclaiming tunefully = Hark
the Herald Angels Sing

17. As the guardians of the woolly animals protected their charges in the
dark hours = Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night

18. I beheld a trio of nautical vessels moving in this direction = I Saw
Three Ships

19. Jubilation to the entire terrestrial globe = Joy to the World

20. Do you perceive the same vibrations which stimulate my auditory sense
organ? = Do You Hear What I Hear?

21. A joyful song of reverence relative to hollow metallic vessels which
vibrate and bring forth a ringing sound when struck = Carol of the Bells

22. Parent was observed osculating a red-coated unshaven teamster = I Saw
Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

23. May the Deity bestow an absence of fatigue to mild male humans = God Rest
Ye Merry Gentlemen

24. Rose-colored uncouth dolf is aware of the nature of precipitation, darling =
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Doug started off with a less than stellar performance, but got a save from his wife to bring him up to 22 out of 24 right. Good job, Lisa (cough cough), I mean Doug. Just kiddin' ya.

Ann Marie came in second place with 18 out of 24. She smart.

Thanks for playing!

Pimpin' ain't easy

I got a really cool gift from my friend Karen in a Secret Santa swap: the opportunity to take my workspace from boring to bling with a Pimp My Cubicle kit.


Sweet, huh?

It came with all kinds of awesome stuff:

Gold push pins, so I can put up stylish reminders and memos to make my coworkers jealous:



Leopard print fringe to decorate with (grrrrrrrrrrrr) that I displayed proudly outside my door:



A disco ball as a nod to the days of the original pimps:



A new mousepad that NO ONE else in my office has.



A bling key. What's a pimp without bling? I'm saving up to make it an all bling keyboard.



A $ paperweight, so everyone knows I'm rollin' in the Benjamins:




Plus it's great for holding down my messages. Pimps are in demand, ya know.





That is a pimped office. Now where my ho's at? Oh wait. Got 'em.



Thanks, Karen! This was a lot of fun. It entertained a whole bunch of coworkers too.

Trivia Thursday - I'm feeling joyful

It is once again Trivia Thursday. I will post a new set of trivia questions on Thursdays. The rules are simple. Please put your answers in the comments section of the post and I will reveal the answers next week or whenever I feel like it. No Cheating! I trust that all of you will all use the honor system? That means you will not use Google, (or any other internet search engines) or mooch off other peoples answers. Cheating is BAD. If your employer has somehow made it impossible for you to post comments (bastards), you may also email your answers to me at MCDupras@gmail.com.



I am playing hooky today so that I can go do my Christmas shopping. Every year Marty and I go to King of Prussia, separate for hours and then get back together for drinks and dinner at the Cheesecake Factory because I am usually disgusted with mankind at that point. I was close to fisticuffs last year in a video game store. We had a good system going: One line for two registers. Then a woman decides to forgo the line and just walk up to one of the registers. Much yelling and cursing ensued from all in the line, including me. Oh joyful memories of Christmases past. Anyway, I will make Marty listen to Christmas music the whole drive there, even though he would rather listen to Sports Talk. See if you can tell me the name of the carols described in the riddles below:

1. Oh, member of the round table with missing areas

2. Boulder of the tinkling metal spheres

3. Vehicular homicide was committed on Dad's mom by a precipitous darling

4. Wanted in December: top forward incisors

5. The apartment of two psychiatrists

6. The lad is a diminutive percussionist

7. Sir Lancelot with laryngitis

8. Decorate the entryways

9. Cup-shaped instruments fashioned of a whitish metallic element

10. Oh small Israel urban center

11. Far off in a haybin

12. We are Kong, Lear, and Nat Cole

13. Duodecimal enumeration of the passage of the yuletide season

14. Leave and broadcast from an elevation

15. Our fervent hope is that you thoroughly enjoy your yuletide season

16. Listen, the winged heavenly messengers are proclaiming tunefully

17. As the guardians of the woolly animals protected their charges in
the dark hours

18. I beheld a trio of nautical vessels moving in this direction

19. Jubilation to the entire terrestrial globe

20. Do you perceive the same vibrations which stimulate my auditory sense
organ?

21. A joyful song of reverence relative to hollow metallic vessels which
vibrate and bring forth a ringing sound when struck

22. Parent was observed osculating a red-coated unshaven teamster

23. May the Deity bestow an absence of fatigue to mild male humans

24. Rose-colored uncouth dolf is aware of the nature of precipitation,
darling

I'm so much more of a winner than this guy

You know who really quit smoking, meaning not smoking any cigarettes at all? Me.

You know who quit smoking, but still smokes? President Elect Barack Obama.

In your face, Barack.

You can read the full article here http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081207/pl_nm/us_usa_obama_smoking_3.

He says he won't violate the no smoking rule at the White House. We will see. I live in a white house too and I never smoked there. I used the porch.

Yep. I'm back.

So I've been missing for several months. OK. Seven months. What made me go away? Laziness, apathy, boredom.. So what made me come back?

Well...

1. I am now new and improved as you can tell by my new blog look. I'm still kind of up in the air about this. It seemed cool at home and then I came into work where I have a 24 inch screen, pulled up my fancy new blog and I got scared. The picture looked huge. Looking at big pictures of myself is uncomfortable. Kind of like the feeling you get when you hear your own voice on an answering machine or in a video. It may be coming down.

2. I am in demand and wildly popular. That's slightly exaggerated. Two people have asked me recently about the blog.

3. In my blogging absence, I have been on Facebook a lot. It's like crack. Yet at times, I am totally confused by the facebook etiquette or lack thereof. Have you run into this?? You get the email from Facebook "Girl you haven't spoken to in 12 years has added you as a friend. Confirm her as your friend." Then I confirm the friend and there's no catching up or emails exchanged. I just see pictures and updates about her in her new life that really don't make sense to me.

4. Gears of War 2 came out. Marty's logging hours a day on the xBox. I have been cut off from my television set. He no longer speaks to me. I was bringing work home to entertain myself as I listen to chainsaws and guns in the background. Not good. I figure the game might "break" in a couple weeks, but that I can entertain myself with the blog for a little while. It was that or alcohol. I bounce back much better the morning after blogging than the morning after drinking. And stupid me bought him three new games for Christmas and I think one of them may be about the zombie apocalypse. I should probably rethink this decision.

5. I'm still not smoking. The anger subsided for a bit. But now it's back. Maybe it's the added stress of the holidays? Not sure. I need something to do to distract myself. This works.

6. Don't know if you've heard, but apparently the economy is going down the toilet. I've learned that our retirement statements should go from mailbox to shredder without getting opened. I live in a one income household (5 months til graduation!!), so we have this new plan: don't go out to dinner, don't go shopping, don't go to the bar, don't go on weekend trips and don't internet shop. Super. WTF am I supposed to do with myself? Cook, scrub, vacuum? No. No. No.

So here I am...