It's Tuesday and therefore time for trivia once again. Since I had fire extinguisher training recently, I'll use that as inspiration. Most fires are broken up into four main classes: A, B, C and D. Class D fires are flammable metals, which will serve as our category today.
What flammable metal used in some fireworks and flares has a common mineral form that shares a similar name and pronounciation with a 1975 blaxploitation film featuring a kung-fu fighting pimp?
The usual rules apply. Remember, the race goes not to the swift, but to the swift and correct.
Update: Congrats to MC Etcher, the first to say that it was magnesium. Also congrats go out to Many Manifestos for giving us dolomite, the connection between a mineral form of magnesium and a movie about a pimp (the mineral is dolomite, the movie is Dolemite).
June 06, 2006
Trivial Tuesday
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Not a clue, but I'm curious enough to Google it to find out.
Does it count if we have to google it? Because I did and I have an answer. But I never would have known had I not looked. In my defense, it took a fair amount of effort so do we get points for the investigative effort?!
Must be that uber-pimp known as Magnesium Superfly Jones
Geology nerd check in.
The answer is dolomite. The above is kinda right since dolomite does have magnesium in its chemical composition.
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