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Questions that I have asked myself at some point in my life.

1. How many pounds are in a kilogram?
   
   Approximately 2.20462262185 lb equals 1.0 kg
   Approximately 0.45359236999 kg equals 1.0 lb
    
2. What is the word for someone who draws blood?
   
   phlebotomist
    
3. How do you tell if the moon is waxing or waning?
   
   In the northern hemisphere, the moon is waxing if the right side is shining and the left side is clouded over, and the moon is waning if the left side is shining and the right side is clouded over.  For the southern hemisphere it is opposite.
    
4. What is a blue moon?
   
   It is the second full moon in a single calendar month.
   Note: A "Black Moon" is the second new moon (when you can't see the moon) in a calendar month.
    
5. How many feet are in a mile?
   
   5,280 feet equal 1 mile
    
6. What is the official name for an ink blot test?
   
   Rorschach test
    
7. At what time does the time officially change to adjust for daylight saving?
   
   It changes at 2 AM in each time zone (i.e. every time zone switches at a different time)
    
8. What places in the U.S. do not change time for daylight saving?
   
   Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, most of the Eastern Time Zone portion of the State of Indiana, and the state of Arizona (not the Navajo Indian Reservation, which does observe).
    
9. What is the order of the planets from shortest to longest distance from the sun?
   
   Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto (sometimes Neptune and Pluto are switched)
    
10. How tall was the tallest man ever? (in recorded history)
    
    An American, Robert Wadlow is the tallest man ever (thanks to his overactive pituitary gland).  He died in 1940 measuring in at 8 feet and 11 inches tall.  Robert was 5' 6.5" at age FIVE, 6' 5" at age TEN and 7' 4" at age THIRTEEN.
     
11. What are the seven wonders of the ancient world?
    
    The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
    The Colossus of Rhodes
    The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
    The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
    The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
    The Pharos of Alexandria
    The Pyramid of Cheops at Giza
     
12. What is the correct way to pronounce the word mauve?
    
    Mauve is a French word and the French pronounce it mOv (rhyming with stove).  I have looked it up in two english dictionaries and this is what I found...
    American Heritage Dictionary:  pronounced mOv
    Merriam-Webster: two pronunciations listed.  mov (rhyming with suave) first to denote most common pronunciation.  mOv second.
    Thanks to an anonymous emailer ::wink:: ::wink:: for pointing out the Merriam-Webster pronunciations!
     
13. What is the official definition of a second (the unit of time)?
    
    The second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.
     
14. How do I change whom my version of Windows XP is registered to? (This shows up when you go to control panel and then to system and look under the general tab)
    
    In Windows, click on Start then Run.  Type in regedit and click OK.  Navigate to the folder
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
    Modify/Create RegisteredOwner (data type String Value) to specify the owner (your name) of the copy of Windows.
    Modify/Create RegisteredOrganization (data type String Value) to specify your organization's name.
     
15. There are a lot of acronyms and abbreviations for internet and computer related things.  What do some of them mean?
    
    

    http	Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
    html	Hyper Text Markup Language
    www	World Wide Web
    DSL	Digital Subscriber Line
    RJ (as in RJ-45)	Registered Jack
    XML	eXtensible Markup Language
    PHP	PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
    USB	Universal Serial Bus
    IR	Infrared
    DVD	Digital Versatile Disc OR Digital Video Disc
    CD	Compact Disc
    RAM	Random-Access Memory
    ROM	Read-Only Memory
    SD	Secure Digital (A type of memory card)
    CF	Compact Flash
    GFE	Group Format Error

    
     
16. What is a special leap year?  When was the most recent special leap year?
    
    Any year divisible by 400 is a special leap year.  Leap years are years evenly divisible by four.  There is one exception to the rule though.  Leap years do not occur on years divisible by 100.  There is also one exception to the exception.  Leap years do occur on every year evenly divisible by 400.  So, 1700 and 1800 and 1900 were not leap years, but 2000 was a leap year.  2000 was the most recent special leap year.  1600, 1200, and 800 are other examples of special leap years.
    
     
17. Can you really count the seconds between lightning and thunder to figure how far away a storm is? (submitted by Davis Benson)
    
    You can approximate the storm's distance in miles by counting the seconds between the lightning and thunder and dividing by five. It takes about five seconds for the sonic boom to travel one mile, so if you see the sky illuminated by a streak of lightning and count 10 seconds until you hear the low rumble of the thunder, the storm is about two miles away.
    
     

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