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Trivia at work this week

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:14 am
by christie1111
Obviously people will be googling here so feel free to do the same...

Spoiler
1- One minute of playing with the garden hose uses X gallons of water?

2- What percent of the 350,000,000 lbs of food bought each year is thrown away?

3- Producing 1 serving (2oz) of pasta requires how many gallons of water?

Re: Trivia at work this week

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:20 am
by littlebeast13
christie1111 wrote:Obviously people will be googling here so feel free to do the same...

Spoiler
3- Producing 1 serving (2oz) of pasta requires how many gallons of water?
Spoiler
Zero. I eat spaghetti straight out of the box..... :P

lb13

Re: Trivia at work this week

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:24 am
by Hello, Mini!
BiT will dismiss the questions as liberal propaganda, you know....

And beast, you'll have to fight three of my kids for the dry spaghetti! Do you prefer thin, like angel hair, or thick? Rain Man is the only one who doesn't chomp on the crunchy stuff. Even the CAT eats the dry spaghetti!

Re: Trivia at work this week

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:29 am
by gsabc
Hello, Mini! wrote:BiT will dismiss the questions as liberal propaganda, you know....

And beast, you'll have to fight three of my kids for the dry spaghetti! Do you prefer thin, like angel hair, or thick? Rain Man is the only one who doesn't chomp on the crunchy stuff. Even the CAT eats the dry spaghetti!
We use dry spaghetti to light those tall decorative candles in the glass holders. Only way to do it without burning your fingers trying to reach in. Also useful in relighting furnace pilot lights ...

Re: Trivia at work this week

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:30 am
by littlebeast13
Hello, Mini! wrote:BiT will dismiss the questions as liberal propaganda, you know....

And beast, you'll have to fight three of my kids for the dry spaghetti! Do you prefer thin, like angel hair, or thick? Rain Man is the only one who doesn't chomp on the crunchy stuff. Even the CAT eats the dry spaghetti!
I like the thicker spaghetti better, but either will work....

So I can scratch that off my weird list I guess......

lb13

Re: Trivia at work this week

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:31 am
by Hello, Mini!
Okay, beast--I found you a snack!
Open wide!
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Re: Trivia at work this week

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:32 am
by Hello, Mini!
gsabc wrote:
Hello, Mini! wrote:BiT will dismiss the questions as liberal propaganda, you know....

And beast, you'll have to fight three of my kids for the dry spaghetti! Do you prefer thin, like angel hair, or thick? Rain Man is the only one who doesn't chomp on the crunchy stuff. Even the CAT eats the dry spaghetti!
We use dry spaghetti to light those tall decorative candles in the glass holders. Only way to do it without burning your fingers trying to reach in. Also useful in relighting furnace pilot lights ...
I buy the long Aim 'n Flames in bulk...

Re: Trivia at work this week

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:35 am
by Hello, Mini!
littlebeast13 wrote:
Hello, Mini! wrote:BiT will dismiss the questions as liberal propaganda, you know....

And beast, you'll have to fight three of my kids for the dry spaghetti! Do you prefer thin, like angel hair, or thick? Rain Man is the only one who doesn't chomp on the crunchy stuff. Even the CAT eats the dry spaghetti!
I like the thicker spaghetti better, but either will work....

So I can scratch that off my weird list I guess......

lb13
My kids are angel hair sorts. Although when it's cooked, Erin loves the bow ties. I'm a penne person.

So my answer for how much water it takes would be: too much! I've found myself with one pan of sauce and three pots of water for three different types of noodles!

Re: Trivia at work this week

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:56 am
by TheConfessor
christie1111 wrote:Obviously people will be googling here so feel free to do the same...

Spoiler
1- One minute of playing with the garden hose uses X gallons of water?

2- What percent of the 350,000,000 lbs of food bought each year is thrown away?

3- Producing 1 serving (2oz) of pasta requires how many gallons of water?
350,000,000 lbs of food bought each year
What's that supposed to mean? Is that for the U.S. only? If so, it means that the average person buys only about one pound of food per year. They better not throw any of it away, because they're going to be hungry!

Re: Trivia at work this week

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:57 pm
by christie1111
Well, I don't know what they meant but I did win an I-pod Shuffle.

I just found a site that said that 50% of the food produced is wasted.

Hmmmm. Not in my house. Son1111 just called to see if he could eat what was left of his Dad's Monte Cristo sandwich.

:-)

Re: Trivia at work this week

Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:01 pm
by SportsFan68
Hello, Mini! wrote:BiT will dismiss the questions as liberal propaganda, you know....

And beast, you'll have to fight three of my kids for the dry spaghetti! Do you prefer thin, like angel hair, or thick? Rain Man is the only one who doesn't chomp on the crunchy stuff. Even the CAT eats the dry spaghetti!
And I thought Casey was weird! She loves dry spaghetti.

Re: Trivia at work this week

Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:19 pm
by Bob Juch
TheConfessor wrote:
christie1111 wrote:Obviously people will be googling here so feel free to do the same...

Spoiler
1- One minute of playing with the garden hose uses X gallons of water?

2- What percent of the 350,000,000 lbs of food bought each year is thrown away?

3- Producing 1 serving (2oz) of pasta requires how many gallons of water?
350,000,000 lbs of food bought each year
What's that supposed to mean? Is that for the U.S. only? If so, it means that the average person buys only about one pound of food per year. They better not throw any of it away, because they're going to be hungry!
That's 350,000,000 tons!

Re: Trivia at work this week

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:04 pm
by tanstaafl2
littlebeast13 wrote:
christie1111 wrote:Obviously people will be googling here so feel free to do the same...

Spoiler
3- Producing 1 serving (2oz) of pasta requires how many gallons of water?
Spoiler
Zero. I eat spaghetti straight out of the box..... :P

lb13
Of course that won't save much water as you still have to water the grain required to make the pasta.

But you knew that!