Questions Of The Week June 29, 2019

**** Welcome to another round of Questions of The Week!

Please read the Introduction and requirements, changes may have been made.

A member of the Awards Committee will post questions, at a random day/time.

The competing member and “ Sir Roy ” may make one post per question thread to answer the questions and the member’s winning entry must have all parts of the questions answered completely in that one post. Editing your one answer post allowed will result in disqualification.

Any disregard to the above and divulging the correct answers or giving hints/references will cause a disqualification.
Since I’ve seen so very many new members here, you are eligible if you have been a member for less than five years. I may open to all if no winner.

First correct answers (as judged by the Awards Committee or Poster of the Questions) wins.
The lucky winner will get a case of “Now that you’ve had a Home Inspection Books” shipped to them at their address on file. Make sure your Address on File with Inachi is correct.
Winners of the Questions of The Week shall request their prize by emailing fastreply@nachi.org and submitting their Mailing address for shipping.
Allow 2 weeks for delivery.

GOOD LUCK! ~ GO! :cowboy_hat_face:

  1. When water is cooled, does it expand or contract?

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2) What is the name of the closest star to the earth

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3) Switches must be at least _______ from any inside walls of an indoor spa or hot tub

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4) Settlement cracks
a) can be prevented from developing using control joints
b) do not usually have corresponding cracks elsewhere in the structure
c) will occur at weak spots in the wall
d) typically do not go all the way up into the structure above

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5) True or false? Water is an example of a dual chemical element

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EXTRA CREDIT ~ now that you’ve answered the above, how about:

What Song was this in?? (NOT the rapper)
Bow bow bow…

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Great questions, Marc, and thanks for doing them!

Good luck to all participants. :smile:

The song nice guess ~ that’s the Artist Bow Wow Wow

I was lookin’ for the lyric BOW BOW BOW :cowboy_hat_face:

1 contract
2 The Sun
3 5 feet
4 a
5 T
Good questions Marc, thanks for your time!

1 contract
2 The Sun
3 6 foot
4 c
5 T

What is the matter with you?
That’s right you went to night school… :rofl:

Thanks Steve but not the rapper. That tune is pretty DUMB & disgusting - that’s music?
Since you were kind enough to post, please answer others if ya want to. :cowboy_hat_face:

  1. When liquid water is cooled , it contracts until a temperature of approximately 4 degrees Celsius is reached. After that, it expands slightly until it reaches the freezing point, and then when it freezes it expands by approximately 9%.
  2. The Sun
  3. Six feet measured horizontally.
  4. C
  5. False
    E.C. ?
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  1. Expands
  2. The Sun
  3. 3 ft.
  4. A
  5. True

Welcome back, Jeff and good luck! :smile:

  1. contracts then expands
  2. Sun
  3. 5 feet
  4. C
  5. False
    Rubber Biscuit

Bill you amaze me with your musical knowledge!

Bow bow bow…

Ummm… the other day I had a ricochet biscuit. A ricochet biscuit is the
kind of a biscuit that’s supposed to bounce back off the wall into your
mouth. If it don’t bounce back, hee hee hee, … you go hungry!

Yeah I know. Just posted that because of the ridiculousness factor :grimacing:

Marc,
As soon as I said those three words out loud, the Bothers John and Dan came to mind!

contract
sun
5ft
c
t

  1. expand
  2. Sun
  3. 5ft
  4. A
  5. F
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Bow bow bow…

Bow bow bow…

Have you ever heard of a wish sandwich?
A wish sandwich is the kind of a

sandwich where you have two slices of bread and you, hee hee hee, wish you had some meat…

Bow bow bow…

Bow bow bow…

The Chips, ‘‘Rubber Biscuit’’ 1956

Sounds like a broken record Marc. LOL

If you want to hear a broken record, try: “Surfin’ Bird, Bird is the Word” by The Trashmen, I think s the name of the song and who recorded it. At least, I remember it that way. :nerd_face: