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Here are my questions to date. Am still thinking and need two more at least. If another good one occurs to me I may substitute it for one of the existing questions. Haven't given any thought to the order of the questions; but the birthdate question(#8 on the current list) will be first.
IAP Trivia Questions
1. Question: Most of us have some sort of silicone based lubricant in our shop and it is a wonderful material. Unfortunately, it can be a major annoyance when it gets somewhere it is not supposed to be. If you have some on your hands and transfer it to a pen blank, you can forget about a finish sticking the blank. Soap and water don’t do very much for clean up nor do most of the commonly used solvents. What is the best material to use to remove silicone lubricants?
Answer: Isopropyl alcohol is the solvent that will remove silicone lubricants. You can buy the stuff for a buck or two on any grocery store or Pharmacy labeled as rubbing alcohol. M<ost commonly it will be 70% by volume mixed with water. There are 91% and 99% strengths but they are not commonly available.
2. Question: An unusual plating for pen hardware is made from a mixture of gold and copper and is only available from one U.S. pen manufacturer. What is the plating called and who is the manufacturer?
Answer: Swiss Rose Gold from Berea
3. Question: What is Tesota and what is Tésota?
Answer: Two types of wood.
A. Desert Ironwood, Olneya</u> tesota
B. Sonoran Tree Catclaw, Acacia</u> occidentalis Rose
TESOTA
4. Question: You live in a town with two saw mills and are thinking of starting a blank selling business. Both mills sell exotic lumber; but only in one board foot pieces. Mill “A†offers low prices; but only sells boards that are 12†x 12â€. Mill “B†is 50% more expensive; but will provide boards in any dimensions that you would like.
You plan to start off offering blanks for the Sierra kit since it is popular in your area. You know that you can get 64 blanks from a 12†x 12†board; but need to figure out how many blanks you can possibly get out of an optimally sized board.
Here are the figures you need. The bookkeeper is on vacation this week so you have to do your own calculations.
The blanks need to be 3/4†x 3/4†x 2.21†+ 1/8â€(to prevent blowouts). The kerf width on your saw is 3/32â€. Which mill offers the better deal and what is the maximum number of blanks you can expect to get from a board foot of lumber?
Answer: Mill "B" is the best deal and you can squeeze out 105 blanks.
5. Question: The great majority of the wood that we turn into pens and pencils is a few tens of years old or at most 100-200 years old if a historical piece is available. There are two woods that are orders of magnitude older and, coincidentally, come from two islands situated halfway around the world from each other and were part of the UK at one time or another. What are the two woods?
Answer: Irish Bog Wood and Kauri.
Note: There are actually three woods that come out of the bogs of Ireland.....oak, pine, and yew. I would consider an answer that mentions any of the bog woods as being acceptable.
6. Question: The most expensive pen ever produced, When? How much? and by Whom?
Answer: Here is a link to the answer. http://most-expensive.net/pen-world
7. Question: Who created this pen?
Answer: Bruce Boone
(see more of Bruce's work here.)
8. Question: Here is an appropriate question for opening the Trivia Contest. What is the official birthday of IAP and who was the first member?(He never made a post.)
Answer: January 1, 2004, Art Oswald
9. Question: What is your favorite pen kit?
Answer: Any answer is acceptable.
10. Question: What is the biggest(not longest) commercial pen kit commonly available to American pen crafters and what is the smallest?
Answer: Largest is the Panache from CSUSA and the smallest is any of several kits that use the mini refill.
IAP Trivia Questions
1. Question: Most of us have some sort of silicone based lubricant in our shop and it is a wonderful material. Unfortunately, it can be a major annoyance when it gets somewhere it is not supposed to be. If you have some on your hands and transfer it to a pen blank, you can forget about a finish sticking the blank. Soap and water don’t do very much for clean up nor do most of the commonly used solvents. What is the best material to use to remove silicone lubricants?
Answer: Isopropyl alcohol is the solvent that will remove silicone lubricants. You can buy the stuff for a buck or two on any grocery store or Pharmacy labeled as rubbing alcohol. M<ost commonly it will be 70% by volume mixed with water. There are 91% and 99% strengths but they are not commonly available.
2. Question: An unusual plating for pen hardware is made from a mixture of gold and copper and is only available from one U.S. pen manufacturer. What is the plating called and who is the manufacturer?
Answer: Swiss Rose Gold from Berea
3. Question: What is Tesota and what is Tésota?
Answer: Two types of wood.
A. Desert Ironwood, Olneya</u> tesota
B. Sonoran Tree Catclaw, Acacia</u> occidentalis Rose
TESOTA
4. Question: You live in a town with two saw mills and are thinking of starting a blank selling business. Both mills sell exotic lumber; but only in one board foot pieces. Mill “A†offers low prices; but only sells boards that are 12†x 12â€. Mill “B†is 50% more expensive; but will provide boards in any dimensions that you would like.
You plan to start off offering blanks for the Sierra kit since it is popular in your area. You know that you can get 64 blanks from a 12†x 12†board; but need to figure out how many blanks you can possibly get out of an optimally sized board.
Here are the figures you need. The bookkeeper is on vacation this week so you have to do your own calculations.
The blanks need to be 3/4†x 3/4†x 2.21†+ 1/8â€(to prevent blowouts). The kerf width on your saw is 3/32â€. Which mill offers the better deal and what is the maximum number of blanks you can expect to get from a board foot of lumber?
Answer: Mill "B" is the best deal and you can squeeze out 105 blanks.
5. Question: The great majority of the wood that we turn into pens and pencils is a few tens of years old or at most 100-200 years old if a historical piece is available. There are two woods that are orders of magnitude older and, coincidentally, come from two islands situated halfway around the world from each other and were part of the UK at one time or another. What are the two woods?
Answer: Irish Bog Wood and Kauri.
Note: There are actually three woods that come out of the bogs of Ireland.....oak, pine, and yew. I would consider an answer that mentions any of the bog woods as being acceptable.
6. Question: The most expensive pen ever produced, When? How much? and by Whom?
Answer: Here is a link to the answer. http://most-expensive.net/pen-world
7. Question: Who created this pen?
Answer: Bruce Boone
(see more of Bruce's work here.)
8. Question: Here is an appropriate question for opening the Trivia Contest. What is the official birthday of IAP and who was the first member?(He never made a post.)
Answer: January 1, 2004, Art Oswald
9. Question: What is your favorite pen kit?
Answer: Any answer is acceptable.
10. Question: What is the biggest(not longest) commercial pen kit commonly available to American pen crafters and what is the smallest?
Answer: Largest is the Panache from CSUSA and the smallest is any of several kits that use the mini refill.
Hi Randy,
For your board foot question, your answer only lists the number of blanks, not the mill that offers the better deal as your question states....
For your board foot question, your answer only lists the number of blanks, not the mill that offers the better deal as your question states....
Randy_
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Thanks, Andrew. Corrected.
Randy_
Member
I have made a change or two to my list of questions and ordered them in the sequence that I would like them to be presented for the contest. I hope someone will scan through them quickly to make sure there are no obvious mistakes. Thanks.
<center>IAP Trivia Questions</center></u>
1. Question: Here is an appropriate question for opening the Trivia Contest. What is the official birthday of IAP and who is the first “official†member? (Hint: He never made an IAP post.)
Answer: January 1, 2004, Art Oswald
2. Question: What is Tesota and what is Tésota?
Answer: Two types of wood.
A. Olneya</u> tesota and A.K.A. Desert Ironwood
B. Acacia</u> occidentalis Rose and A.K.A. Sonoran Tree Catclaw
TESOTA
3. Question: Most of us have some sort of silicone based lubricant in our shop and it is a wonderful material. Unfortunately, it can be a major annoyance when it gets somewhere it is not supposed to be. If you have some on your hands and transfer it to a pen blank, you can forget about a finish sticking the blank. Soap and water don’t do very much for clean up nor do most of the commonly used solvents. What is the best material to use to remove silicone lubricants?
Answer: Isopropyl alcohol is the solvent that will remove silicone lubricants. You can buy the stuff for a buck or two on any grocery store or Pharmacy labeled as rubbing alcohol. Most commonly it will be 70% by volume mixed with water. There are 91% and 99% strengths but they are not commonly available.
4. Question: An unusual plating for pen hardware is made from a mixture of gold and copper and is only available from one U.S. pen manufacturer. What is the plating called and who is the manufacturer?
Answer: Swiss Rose Gold from Berea
5. Question: Anybody know where Vanuatu is? Doesn’t really matter; but do you know what the wood is that comes from this French island (and other South sea islands) that some folks use for making pens? And is apparently misidentified in the CSUSA catalog!!
Answer: Paldao, Dracontomelon</u> dao (sometimes called New Guinea Walnut) and identified by CSUSA as Island Walnut Paldor, Dracontomlum</u> spp.
6. Question: What is the most expensive pen ever produced and how much does it cost.
Answer: Here is a link to the answer. http://most-expensive.net/pen-world
7. Question: Who created this pen?
Answer: Bruce Boone
(see more of Bruce's work here.)
8. Question: What is the largest (not longest) commercial pen kit commonly available to American pen crafters and what is the smallest?
Answer: Largest is the Panache from CSUSA and the smallest is any of several kits that use the mini refill……necklace pen, key chain pen, refrigerator pen and maybe a few others.
9. Question: The great majority of the wood that we turn into pens and pencils is a few tens of years old or at most 100-200 years old if a historical piece is available. There are two woods that are orders of magnitude older and, coincidentally, come from two islands situated halfway around the world from each other and were part of the UK at one time or another. What are the two woods?
Answer: Irish Bog Wood and Kauri.
Note: There are actually three species that come out of the bogs of Ireland.....oak, pine, and yew. I would consider an answer that mentions any of the bog woods as being acceptable.
10. Question: OK, this is the last question for my part of the trivia contest. At first reading it will seem like a pretty tough question; but if you think about it for a minute, it is really quite simple and takes only about 15 seconds to figure out. (probably about a 7th or 8th grade math question) Good luck!!
You live in a town with two saw mills and are thinking of starting a blank selling business. Both mills sell exotic lumber; but only in one board foot pieces. Mill “A†offers low prices; but only sells boards that are 12†x 12â€. Mill “B†is 50% more expensive; but will provide boards in any dimensions that you would like.
You plan to start off offering blanks for the Sierra kit since it is popular in your area. You know that you can get 64 blanks from a 12†x 12†board; but need to figure out how many blanks you can possibly get out of an optimally sized board.
Here are the figures you need. The bookkeeper is on vacation this week so you have to do your own calculations.
The blanks need to be 3/4†x 3/4†x 2.21†+ 1/8â€(to prevent blowouts). The kerf width on your saw is 3/32â€. Which mill offers the better deal and what is the maximum number of blanks you can expect to get from a board foot of lumber?
Answer: Mill "B" is the best deal and you can squeeze out 105 blanks.
<center>IAP Trivia Questions</center></u>
1. Question: Here is an appropriate question for opening the Trivia Contest. What is the official birthday of IAP and who is the first “official†member? (Hint: He never made an IAP post.)
Answer: January 1, 2004, Art Oswald
2. Question: What is Tesota and what is Tésota?
Answer: Two types of wood.
A. Olneya</u> tesota and A.K.A. Desert Ironwood
B. Acacia</u> occidentalis Rose and A.K.A. Sonoran Tree Catclaw
TESOTA
3. Question: Most of us have some sort of silicone based lubricant in our shop and it is a wonderful material. Unfortunately, it can be a major annoyance when it gets somewhere it is not supposed to be. If you have some on your hands and transfer it to a pen blank, you can forget about a finish sticking the blank. Soap and water don’t do very much for clean up nor do most of the commonly used solvents. What is the best material to use to remove silicone lubricants?
Answer: Isopropyl alcohol is the solvent that will remove silicone lubricants. You can buy the stuff for a buck or two on any grocery store or Pharmacy labeled as rubbing alcohol. Most commonly it will be 70% by volume mixed with water. There are 91% and 99% strengths but they are not commonly available.
4. Question: An unusual plating for pen hardware is made from a mixture of gold and copper and is only available from one U.S. pen manufacturer. What is the plating called and who is the manufacturer?
Answer: Swiss Rose Gold from Berea
5. Question: Anybody know where Vanuatu is? Doesn’t really matter; but do you know what the wood is that comes from this French island (and other South sea islands) that some folks use for making pens? And is apparently misidentified in the CSUSA catalog!!
Answer: Paldao, Dracontomelon</u> dao (sometimes called New Guinea Walnut) and identified by CSUSA as Island Walnut Paldor, Dracontomlum</u> spp.
6. Question: What is the most expensive pen ever produced and how much does it cost.
Answer: Here is a link to the answer. http://most-expensive.net/pen-world
7. Question: Who created this pen?
Answer: Bruce Boone
(see more of Bruce's work here.)
8. Question: What is the largest (not longest) commercial pen kit commonly available to American pen crafters and what is the smallest?
Answer: Largest is the Panache from CSUSA and the smallest is any of several kits that use the mini refill……necklace pen, key chain pen, refrigerator pen and maybe a few others.
9. Question: The great majority of the wood that we turn into pens and pencils is a few tens of years old or at most 100-200 years old if a historical piece is available. There are two woods that are orders of magnitude older and, coincidentally, come from two islands situated halfway around the world from each other and were part of the UK at one time or another. What are the two woods?
Answer: Irish Bog Wood and Kauri.
Note: There are actually three species that come out of the bogs of Ireland.....oak, pine, and yew. I would consider an answer that mentions any of the bog woods as being acceptable.
10. Question: OK, this is the last question for my part of the trivia contest. At first reading it will seem like a pretty tough question; but if you think about it for a minute, it is really quite simple and takes only about 15 seconds to figure out. (probably about a 7th or 8th grade math question) Good luck!!
You live in a town with two saw mills and are thinking of starting a blank selling business. Both mills sell exotic lumber; but only in one board foot pieces. Mill “A†offers low prices; but only sells boards that are 12†x 12â€. Mill “B†is 50% more expensive; but will provide boards in any dimensions that you would like.
You plan to start off offering blanks for the Sierra kit since it is popular in your area. You know that you can get 64 blanks from a 12†x 12†board; but need to figure out how many blanks you can possibly get out of an optimally sized board.
Here are the figures you need. The bookkeeper is on vacation this week so you have to do your own calculations.
The blanks need to be 3/4†x 3/4†x 2.21†+ 1/8â€(to prevent blowouts). The kerf width on your saw is 3/32â€. Which mill offers the better deal and what is the maximum number of blanks you can expect to get from a board foot of lumber?
Answer: Mill "B" is the best deal and you can squeeze out 105 blanks.
Looks good! I like the new order better too - end with the brain blender! 
Randy_
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