# Yet to be answered trivia questions **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 6, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030 "2011-07-06T14:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/21 "2011-07-06T16:31:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > This one is easy. > It was picked up at approx. 10:30 am by Sally Van Op Dorp, on her way to the corner store to get a pack of Marlboros. It was used to prop up her the left front leg of her sewing machine table for about three years, until her nephew(9 year old Gregory Stilton) found it, replaced it with two issues of House Beautiful, and took it home…where it stayed in his closet, unread, until Mrs. Stilton sold it during a garage sale to raise money for Gregory’s education(a year and a half at the Columbia School of Broadcasting). It was bought by the current librarian at your very own grade school, Mrs. Sullivan-Phillips, who recognized the school imprint, and is now safely back in the hands of its original owners. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/22 "2011-07-06T16:32:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > This one is easy. > … > It was bought by the current librarian at your very own grade school, Mrs. Sullivan-Phillips, who recognized the school imprint, and is now safely back in the hands of its original owners. Then I want that lost book fine back! I think I had to pay $6 from my own savings to replace it. In today’s dollars, that would be at least $6.25! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/23 "2011-07-06T16:45:37Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Cite? In was in the report given to me by David Dudinski, P.I. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/24 "2011-07-06T16:48:17Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Then I want that lost book fine back! I think I had to pay $6 from my own savings to replace it. In today’s dollars, that would be at least $6.25! Mrs. Sullivan-Phillips has revised your late book fee. You now owe an additional $73.75. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/25 "2011-07-06T16:49:39Z")
Trivial though they are, I believe every one of the questions provided in this thread has a factual answer and should therefore be posed separately in GQ. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/26 "2011-07-06T17:39:16Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Trivial though they are, I believe every one of the questions provided in this thread has a factual answer and should therefore be posed separately in GQ. Yes. For instance, Kathleen McGowan [wrote The Book of Love](http://www.amazon.com/Book-Love-Novel-Magdalene-Line/dp/B004E3XD80/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1309973899&sr=8-5). ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/27 "2011-07-06T17:43:25Z")
14 k o s i a f p d Or however that went. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/28 "2011-07-06T18:57:49Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > 14 k o s i a f p d > > Or however that went. I refuse to correct that and start it all again. I can only hope everyone else does too. ---
**Author:** ![BleizDu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@BleizDu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BleizDu)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/29 "2011-07-06T18:58:50Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > 14 k o s i a f p d > > Or however that went. Yeah, that was my first thought while opening this thread! ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/30 "2011-07-06T18:59:08Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? 1. It’s in the commercial! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/31 "2011-07-07T02:19:07Z")
Where do the missing socks go after I put them in the dryer? Does this smell funny to you? ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/32 "2011-07-07T02:52:17Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > After I find my keys I like to continue looking for them, just to prove people wrong. 🙂 You’d really prove us wrong if you found them in the FIRST place you looked. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/33 "2011-07-07T03:39:17Z")
Where is my husband’s body armor? Did one of the moving dudes nick it, did it fly off the back of the pickup when I hit the deer, or is it hiding out with that lost library book and the missing socks? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/34 "2011-07-07T05:04:58Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > 1. It’s in the commercial! [This answer](http://gwax.com/content/tootsiepop.html) is a little more scientifically rigorous. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/35 "2011-07-07T19:18:41Z")
I kept a library book from my hometown on accident. It got mixed in with the rest of my stuff when I was moving to college 8 years ago, and I just ended up keeping it when I figured out the mistake (and by now the book is long since gone). I’d like to know if this is the kind of thing where they have my name written down with a big black mark against it, still counting up late fees, or if they’ve pretty much forgotten and replaced it by now. ---
**Author:** ![Kalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/df705f/32.png) [@Kalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalypso)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/36 "2011-07-07T19:48:21Z")
Definitely, “Where is that thing I just put down? It can’t be _gone_, I just had it a second ago! G\*\*\*\*\*\*\*t!” I do that at least once a day, it drives me batty. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/37 "2011-07-07T23:51:25Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > 14 k o s i a f p d > > Or however that went. It was “14 K of G in a F P D”, supposed to be “a common phrase” (though possibly in the UK - as it could be an advertisement slogan). > [@Gedd](#): > > I refuse to correct that and start it all again. > > I can only hope everyone else does too. Sorry, but recently I figured it out, very late at night. I forgot it by daybreak but since I now know it’s got a real solution, I figured I could drum up some help in rediscovering it. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/38 "2011-07-08T00:29:10Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Where do the missing socks go after I put them in the dryer? Many clothes dryers, and many navels, are wormhole portals. It’s quite common for a sock to get pulled into a dryer wormhole and emerge at the other end as bellybutton lint. No offense, but I thought everybody knew this. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/39 "2011-07-08T00:32:56Z")
[The answer to this Rebus, which is up there with 14 K of G in a F P D.](http://www.fofer.com/sharedimages//183924_498260422756_617742756_6554216_1921112_n-1-20110220-075454.jpg) [From this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=599610) ---
**Author:** ![SleepyDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SleepyDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleepyDuck)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/40 "2011-07-10T10:15:54Z")
Back in junior high, I stole a book out of some nerd’s book bag while he was staring at something in the sky. Scrawled in it was a cryptic formula – BD + JT = TLF. I have been losing sleep over that for about thirty years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030.md?page=3)