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3 unusual facts about Answers.com


Answers.com

At Jeff Pulver's 140 Characters Conference in New York City in April 2010, Answers.com launched its alpha version of a Twitter-answering service nicknamed 'Hoopoe.'

Blufr

After they chose their answer the correct answer was then displayed, along with links to relevant topics in Answers.com, the creator of the game.

Ideotype

An Ideotype (′id·ē·o′tīp) as defined by Answers.com is


1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown

Because Dem’janov’s answers to calls from the GCI station sounded uncertain, he was finally ordered back to Ak-Tepe AB and instead, at 06:52 AM, Lt.Col.

2000 Year Old Man

In a Yiddish accent, Brooks would improvise answers to topics such as the earliest known language ("basic Rock"), the creation of the Cross ("it was easier to put together than the Star of David"; "to me it seemed...simple. I didn't know then it was eloquent!"), and Joan of Arc ("Know her? I went with her, dummy, I went with her!").

Akhmim wooden tablets

In 2002 Hana Vymazalová obtained a fresh copy of the text from the Cairo Museum, and confirmed that all five two-part answers were correctly checked for accuracy by the scribe that returned a 64/64 hekat unity.

America's Money Class With Suze Orman

The series showcases Suze Orman as she hosts a money class which answers the most difficult financial questions and how to survive in this tough economy.

Anne of Geierstein

In 1875, less than fifty years after the publication of Scott's novel, Sir Henry Ponsonby felt compelled to write to Notes and Queries to ask for the foundation of the superstition, and received several different answers, none of which mention Anne of Geierstein.

Answers

Yahoo! Answers, community-driven knowledge market website launched by Yahoo

Atlantic City Weekly

Jerry Blavat, the legendary DJ known as "“The Geator” with the heater, the boss with the hot sauce,” answers your music and trivia questions as only the Geator can.

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 178

The first part formerly contained a number of homilies and other texts by Ælfric, including the Interrogationes Sigewulfi, his adaptation of Alcuin's Quaestiones in Genesim, which contains almost three hundred questions and answers on the Book of Genesis.

Carl Rose

Her daughter answers, "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it." (The phrase "I say it's spinach" entered the vernacular; in 1932, Irving Berlin's popular Broadway revue Face The Music included the song "I Say It's Spinach (And The Hell With It)".

Charles Rollier

He finds answers by the Christian mystics like Gregoire Palamas or Denys l’Aréopagite, and in some traditions coming from classical India, like Shaktism and tantric Buddhism.

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins

According to Cosloy, he took questions by Pavement's biographer, Rob Jovanovic, changed them slightly, and wrote silly answers for them.

Crown Prosecution Service

The CPS is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions (currently Alison Saunders CB) who answers to the Attorney General for England and Wales (currently Dominic Grieve, QC, MP).

David Murray Cowie

Cowie appealed to the Michigan State Medical Society, a "productive group which concerned itself with the search for answers to difficult medical questions pertaining to the health of the state's residents".

Decoder pen

Fans of the adventure games released by Sierra Entertainment in the 1980s such as King's Quest and Space Quest are also familiar with the decoder pen, which was used to reveal the answers to hints in the hints book sold for each game.

Dick Christian

"Only Dick Christian," answers Lord Forester, "& it is nothing new to him." "But he'll be drowned", exclaims Lord Kinnaird.

Dorothy Dixer

The term references American advice columnist Dorothy Dix's reputed practice of making up her own questions to allow her to publish more interesting answers.

Fragarach

Fragarach appears in the Dungeons and Dragons module The Temple of Elemental Evil as a sword that never misses and "answers" any strike to the wielder with a strike of its own.

Gelfond–Schneider theorem

The Gelfond–Schneider theorem answers affirmatively Hilbert's seventh problem.

General Achievement Test

In 2009, a student-organised movement headed by Lucas Shipsides and Andrew Onorato and fuelled by Facebook brought the GAT to the attention of the national press, by suggesting that students make as many references to actor George Clooney as possible in their answers.

Havering College of Further and Higher Education

A five minute video of the event was submitted to the BBC Schools Questions and Answers competition, which Havering won and hosted a live webcast BBC Question Time-styled program.

Hirsty's Daily Dose

Mindmasher - Brain teaser delivered by the show's producer, Scott Myers, for listeners to text in their answers.

Jumping the shark

In the episode, the central characters visit Los Angeles, where a water-skiing Fonzie (Henry Winkler) answers a challenge to his bravery by wearing swim trunks and his trademark leather jacket, and jumping over a confined shark.

Ken Ham

On 28 May 2007 the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky, a project which cost $27 million.

Legend of the Millennium Dragon

Jun shortly finds out a different story than what Gen'un has told him from the Oni's and now wants answers.

Lock-out device

Perhaps the most famous modern game show to use a lock-out device is Jeopardy!, which uses a sophisticated system that is so fundamental to the game, mastering the signaling device is commonly said to be as or more important than knowing the answers to the questions.

Metropolitan Jewish Hospice

Because Orthodox Jewish patients look to Jewish law (Halakha) and tradition for guidance and answers regarding hospice care, Metropolitan Jewish Hospice created the Halachic Pathway that enables Orthodox Jewish patients to sign a Halachic Living Will if they so choose.

Milhamoth ha-Shem

The Milhamoth ha-Shem of Jacob ben Reuben, is a 12th-century Jewish apologia against conversion by Christians, consisting of questions and answers from selected texts of Gospel of Matthew, including Matt.

Native Nod

Native Nod were an emotive hardcore band formed in the early '90s based in the New York / New Jersey area where they'd often play shows. In their short lifetime as a band they only released 9 songs, divided amongst the 3 seven inch EPs Bread, Answers, and Lower GI Bleed.

Nick Arcade

Season 1 teams were given three possible answers, with each team using a Magna Doodle to write the answer they thought was correct.

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

In Packing for Mars, Roach searches for answers to questions about the gross, the bizarre, and the uncomfortable aspects of space travel.

Penelope K, by the way

In each episode, Penelope K (played by Amanda Bishop) is asked a general knowledge question by a child, which she answers by researching the contents and talking to characters inhabiting her Information Station.

Precious Cargo

In this episode, the Enterprise answers an alien distress call and Commander Tucker (Connor Trinneer) is kidnapped and then escapes with a spoiled and beautiful alien princess (Padma Lakshmi).

Radio 1 Anti-Nazi Mix

It contains two discs: Disc 1 contains a mix named "Radio 1 Anti-Nazi Mix"; disc 2 contains an interview with journalist Peter Paphides, of which 38 answers (as 38 tracks) are included.

Regio Centurion Private School

Dr. Calitz's studies in the work of Dr. Montessori, Piaget, Vygotsky, Gardner and Erikson strengthened her view that young children have incredible potential and the will and motivation to find answers for themselves and take control over the exploration of the world they live in.

Sailing to Byzantium

Cleanth Brooks asks whether, in this poem, Yeats chooses idealism or materialism and answers his own question, "Yeats chooses both and neither. One cannot know the world of being save through the world of becoming (though one must remember that the world of becoming is a meaningless flux aside from the world of being which it implies)".

Sheila Liaugminas

Most recently, Liaugminas hosted the radio show The Right Questions and Issues and Answers on the Relevant Radio Network, heard throughout the United States and beyond.

Sheryl Cruz

On December 7, 2013, Cruz won the P1,000,000 in The Singing Bee with four consecutive answers.

Some Words with a Mummy

Allamistakeo answers them all, while one of the men beg the narrator to consult Ptolemy, Plutarch, and Diodorus Siculus as he asks the questions.

The KangaZoo Club

Russel and Melissa took viewers on expeditions to Canadian zoos including the Toronto Zoo with Toby Styles, Marineland in Niagara Falls with Mark Shawver, and the African Lion Safari in Rockton with Ron Cameron, where they interviewed animal handlers to get answers to questions that the children might want to ask.

The Mysterious Traveler

And the succeeding answers were equally disconcerting and not in all cases publishable—though I have forwarded a copy to Miskatonic University for its files.

The Snow

The Snow (Answers Come In Dreams I)" and "The Snow (Answers Come In Dreams II)" are remixes by Jack Dangers. "The Snow (As Pure As?)" was remixed by John Balance and Drew McDowall.

The Snow is a track by the British group Coil, available on the album Love's Secret Domain (1991) and also released as a 12" vinyl, cassette and CD EP. A music video of "The Snow (Answers Come in Dreams II)" was directed by Peter Christopherson.

Thinking Skills Assessment

The multiple-choice answers (Section 1) are marked by the Admissions Testing Service with 1 mark available per question.

Toothpick bulletin

The Bulletin, edited by Neila Bredehoft, St. Louisville, Ohio, features a variety of informative articles related to toothpick holder collecting; including identification of patterns, reproductions, questions and answers, ads for buying, selling or trading, news from members and new discoveries.

U. G. Krishnamurti

During his 20s, Krishnamurti began attending the University of Madras, studying psychology, philosophy, mysticism, and the sciences, but never completed a degree, having determined that the answers of the West – to what he considered were essential questions – were no better than those of the East.

Verbot

It was therefore only a very short cognitive leap from Julia to Lycos, another robotic agent that explores a virtual world made of hyperlinked pages of text, and which answers questions about those pages.

Violet Mersereau

Lincoln, Nebraska Sunday Star, Answers To Movie Fans, March 18, 1917, Page 3.

We Are Both

Prince Charming/David (Josh Dallas) goes to Regina's house to demand answers about the Mad Hatter/Jefferson's (Sebastian Stan) hat and how to get Emma (Jennifer Morrison) and Snow White/Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin) back, but Regina pretends she doesn't know how and says she is more concerned about Henry (Jared S. Gilmore).

Wigbold

Wigbold, however, did not compose these answers himself, but gives verbatim, statements by eight Church Fathers: St. Augustine, St. Gregory, St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, St. Hilary, St. Isidore, St. Eucherius and St. Junilius.


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