posted February 09, 2014 02:26 PM            

Think you are a Trivia Master?

Give this page a try, and - suffer the unnamed blows of ineptitude

With me!

Most are interesting, and my fave so far is:

The largest tire manufacturer in the world is?

• Goodyear
• The LEGO Group
• British Petroleum
• The Chinese Ministry of Transportation
  

that last one reminds me of the ministry of silly walks

posted February 10, 2014 09:20 AM            

the answer to the tire question is simple when you know that LEGO makes toys....Toys with lots of tires!

posted February 10, 2014 09:25 AM            

• a flash drive
• Post it notes w/ passwords
• sophisticated Russian intrusion
• a gov surplus auction

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Answer: A Flash Drive

In 2008, a U.S. military official stationed at a Department of Defense base was walking in from the parking lot and noticed a flash drive sitting on the ground. He picked the flash drive up, took it inside, and later in the day plugged it into a computer to see what was on it (ostensibly, to see if it was one of their flash drives or belonged to a co-worker).

That flash drive was actually loaded with malicious software and planted by a foreign operative. It loaded a worm, agent.btz, directly onto a computer connected to the Department of Defense network and linked to the United States Central Command. The worm exploded across the network and the Pentagon spent over a year tracking it down and purging it.

posted February 10, 2014 09:35 AM            

If you come into possession of a butt of wine–derived from the Italian botte–you’re the proud owner of a half tun (a large cask with the volume of four standard wine barrels) or roughly 475-480 liters of wine. Adjusted into US gallons, the average butt of wine then is 126 gallons–with the cask and all, a butt of wine weighs around 1200 pounds.

posted February 11, 2014 06:14 AM            

Cheerium
Positia
Pronoia
Optimania

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Answer: Pronoia

Paranoia is a form or facet of a greater mental disorder wherein the affected believes that many (or even all) individuals in their greater environment mean to do them harm in some capacity–the classic “Everyone is out to get me!” delusion. Sufferers frequently attribute what others would chalk up to chance or bad luck as evidence of that the world is conspiring against them.

On the opposite end of the spectrum exists a completely different delusion: the belief that the entire world is conspiring to help you. Pronoia is the state of belief that the entire world is in fact out to help you, not harm you, and that everything that happens is part of some grand conspiracy to guide the individual towards success. Just like the paranoid individual attributes the random events in their environment to the conspiracy to harm them, the pronoid person attributes all the random events in their environment to a positive conspiracy focused on helping them.

posted February 12, 2014 02:33 PM            

His 'scopes and writing are excellent.