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Archive for 2018

↓ Select a Pop-Question from the Year 2018 ↓

Solution - lightbulb 16 Dec 2018 — Job Hopping

Young people, 18 to 25, spend fewer than two years in a job — a shorter period than the previous generation at the same age.

Solution - lightbulb 1 Dec 2018 — Knickers (cattle)

Knickers, a 6-foot-4-inch cattle in Australia, went unsold at an auction for slaughter because potential buyers said he wouldn’t fit in their farm equipment.

Solution - lightbulb 12 Nov 2018 — Literally Laying Down

Wildfire fighters working under the most difficult conditions are literally laying down their lives to save others.

Solution - lightbulb 28 Oct 2018 — Affects

Dow Jones stock average on Oct. 29, 2018

The Dow tumbles 200 points in a wild session as we watch the affects of the tariffs on our economy. — news headlines

Solution - lightbulb 14 Oct 2018 — Be Best (slogans & ad campaigns)

"Be Best"

Melania Trump's initiative to keep children happy and healthy in today’s world. — source

Solution - lightbulb 30 Sep 2018 — Like

“For like is well-disposed to like. Accordingly, the Athenians prefer those sympathetic to themselves,” the Old Oligarch noted. — source

Solution - lightbulb 16 Sep 2018 — Lists

A "nest" of Bird dockless scooters on the sidewalk in San Jose, California

Companies such as Uber, Lyft, Bird and Lime used an “ask forgiveness, not permission” approach to establishing their businesses.

The playbook was simple: Swarm a town with your service, grow really big really fast, win over lots of customers, and enlist them as allies in lobbying to allow your business to operate. Not on that game plan: getting a go-ahead from civic leaders before rolling things out.

Solution - lightbulb 26 Aug 2018 — Smells good

My dog is a bloodhound; she smells good.

Solution - lightbulb 12 Aug 2018 — Only if

Only if humanity heeds the science, reverses course and lives within earth’s natural limits, can disaster be avoided.

Solution - lightbulb 29 July 2018 — Whataboutism

You waste your entire day playing video games.

What about you with your face glued to your phone screen?

Solution - lightbulb 15 July 2018 — Wonder

I always wondered how did I ever came up with it?

Solution - lightbulb 30 June 2018 — Self-service

The cost of living in San Francisco has risen so much that some restaurants are changing to a self-serve business model because they can no longer afford it.

Solution - lightbulb 17 June 2018 — Kicking

Kicking Homeless Person Arrest

(TV headline for upcoming story)

Solution - lightbulb 3 June 2018 — Waterfalls

It had never occurred to him or I that the waterfalls would be so loud that we couldn't even hear each other shouting.

Solution - lightbulb 22 May 2018 — Neither…nor

In August 2014, the US Copyright Office ruled that neither the monkey who took the selfie nor the photographer who set up the camera own the copyright to the photo.

Solution - lightbulb 6 May 2018 — Critical Analysis