Mind Teasers of Common KnowledgeFollow

I like to see that the best thing you can point out is a simple typing error. If you are so concerned about spelling mistakes try looking at your name. I believe it is spelled ganster, not gansta, however hip you might think that sounds.

4 lug nuts is definately more common then it used to be, but it's still an oddity. I'm honestly kinda surprised when I see a car with only 4. Every car I've ever owned has had 5. I can't honestly think of any cars any of my friends have that have had 4 (but I'm sure there were a couple).

For the most part, only newer, smaller, sport/economy cars (cars that look sporty, but really just have small engines and bodies and pretty much no real sport characteristics) have 4 lug nuts. All other cars have 5.

Heh. I got the bashful one because at one point we had a group of computers at work named for the 7 dwarves. Otherwise, I would have had no clue...

I don't agree with the Venetian blind one. I guessed and got it right (and I honestly do think that's the "standard" configuration, so kinda like lug nuts, that makes it correct). The cords are going to be on different sides based on where you put the blinds. Unless you're just buying them generically from the store, you can pick which side does what. I've seen lots of homes with the cord positions reversed. I've seen blinds with both cords on the same side. So unless we're going with a particular brand as "Venetian" blinds, the answer is they can be on whatever side the manufacturer put them on. Left side for the angle and right for raising and lowering is definately the more common configuration though. All of the blinds in my place are set up that way (but I've got cheapo blinds).

Missed:
#3 b/c I don't eat Campbell's
#8 b/c I don't use matches (damn things will give you cancer quicker)
#10 b/c I listen to CDs, not radio
#14 b/c well...I'm gay, wtf do I care about women's blouses? lol
#15 b/c I live in SC, wtf do I care about NY?

Only one I truly guessed wrong was #24, thought the TM was usually on the Jokers. Meh.

Only missing one out of 24 questions that actually apply to me. Damn, I'm pretty sharp yo.

+1 Psycholotus

I scored a 21. Not great, but not too bad.

My ceiling fan has a switch that allowes you to change it to either direction, so missed that one cause I thought it was a trick question.

Own a Dodge Stratus, just has to have a tire changed, 5 lugnuts, thats only reason I knew that one.

Which side women's blouses have the buttons on is an old holdover. You have to first understand that until recently only the wealthy could afford to have shirts with buttons on them. So back several hundred years ago in Europe, the higher class people would wear outfits with buttons holding them closed (as opposed to draw strings or toggles).

Mens shirts have buttons on the right side. The assumption is that most men are right handed, and that allows the man to dress himself more easily (hold the button in the right hand and put it in the hole on the left side). Wealthy women tended to have servants dress them (for a number of reasons). So their buttons were on the left side so a right handed servant could more easily handle them.

We still do that today, even though it makes pretty much zero sense. I'm not sure how many women have someone else button up their blouses today, but it's probably a really really low number. But I suppose it's an easy way to tell them apart...



Oh. And corealis effect still applies even to something as small as water running down a drain. It's a small force, but given that it's acting on a smaller object it's arguably just as relatively "powerful". Sure, you *can* overcome it if you deliberately spin the water in the tub/tank the other way, but you can overcome gravity if you just throw something hard enough too. Doesn't mean the force isn't there...