Waste stumper

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In the U.S. alone there is an estimated 43,000 tons of wasted _______________ per day?

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), March 06, 2002

Answers

Food.

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), March 06, 2002.

True and correct and shameful, what we waste would prevent starvation elsewhere.

New question: Due to the Earths and Moons rotation there is a time each year that the tide rises the highest and falls the lowest; the lowest is known as: ____________ tide?

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), March 06, 2002.


Are you looking for neap tide? Polly

-- (jserg45@hotmail.com), March 06, 2002.

Neap is correct, you all are getting to sharp, back to the adult questions!!

New question: When and where did the college degree become reachable for women in the U.S.?

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), March 06, 2002.


Catherine Brewer Benson, the first woman to earn a college degree

1840

Wesleyan College Macon, Georgia

-- heather (h.m.metheny@att.net), March 06, 2002.



Correct. I see I am going to have to raise the questions another notch, or start running each and every one through search engines again, the answers are apparently too easy to obtaine. Now for a serious question.

New question: What cartoon personallity that we all know from Saturday morning tv. was given the middle name - Dumas?

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), March 06, 2002.


This is one of our oldest cartoon figures.~

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), March 06, 2002.

My students are guessing Foghorn Leghorn Polly

-- (jserg45@hotmai.com), March 06, 2002.

Is this going into a classroom live, Polly?

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), March 06, 2002.

Mitch, I am addicted to trivia, I usually check out your stumpers daily, today during my plan period I saw the one on neap tides, at lunch you had the new one up so I posed your question to my students. Polly

-- (jserg45@hotmail.com), March 06, 2002.


Its not Foghorn Leghorn but they have appeared together.~

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), March 06, 2002.

Daffy Duck?

-- Cathy N. (homekeeper86@sympatico.ca), March 06, 2002.

Daffy Dumas Duck to be exact, mentioned once in a 1937 cartoon.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), March 06, 2002.

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