Slo's right.... I blew that one....And here I was thinkin' I knew me some TZ trivia.....
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Nerdy Geek Trivia
- Thread starter slobake
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This is going to kill me. I gotta google it. I recognize that I know this, but I don't REMEMBER this.. drat it all!
I'm going to let you all in on a dirty little secret. The "Lassie" character on T.V was portrayed by a Laddie. 
You heard it first here folks.
You heard it first here folks.
Close - I first heard it more than 50 years ago ...I'm going to let you all in on a dirty little secret. The "Lassie" character on T.V was portrayed by a Laddie.
Shake 'n' Bake?
...that's what Van Loen (the suit leading the investigation) called them.
Harcourt "Harry" Fenton Mudd
That was the slang for the type of colony that it was, not it's actual name.
Acheron was the name of the planet. In the first movie Alien the planet was unsurveyed and thus only designated as LV426.
That was the slang for the type of colony that it was, not it's actual name.
Acheron was the name of the planet. In the first movie Alien the planet was unsurveyed and thus only designated as LV426.
Keep in mind the topic was real space geeek stuff
ABES: Air breathing engine system
Oh and MIRV: close enough.
In military slang, particularly army aviation military slang, what is a blivet? Hint, it is not a devils fork, which is sometime referred to as a blivet, and it is not lighting a fart. That is a blivit.
Hint, the correct answer is actually a 2 parter, as it has multiple meaning depending on context. One is an object and the other is a situation.
Too easy
A: Shadowfax.
Q: What does Shadowfax mean?
Wait, wasn't Shadowfax a late to the party 70's American prog rock band who went New Age? Or am I being too much of a music nerd?
Part 1 of 2 is an inflatable (usually fuel) storage system. Kinda like a big water balloon.
It's not really inflatable, but it is a big cylindrical rubber fuel transport bladder moved as a sling load (usually) under a chinook.
No takers on part 2?
Here's an easy one? What tops the washington monument?
Correct! I'm either getting slow or ya'll are getting fast, either way I'm loving it.
Which creature is considered the best living example of an evolutionary "in between"?
I'm gonna guess platypus - as an oviparous mammal...
Now for my question:
Who is buried in Grant's Tomb? Partial answers will not be accepted...
Sorry, that is incorrect.
I'm pretty sure it's Grant and his wife, but I can't recall her name. Drat!!
