Have you ever been so bored at work you felt like you’ve read the entire Internet? You’ve gone to all your sites. You’ve actually gone to them three or seven times hoping, pleading, that they’ve been updated with something new, only to find that, no, they actually haven’t in the past six minutes. You’ve chatted with all your pals, even the random ones you don’t chat with that often, and don’t really like, but will say whattup to every once in a while just to waste a minute and make the sound of keys tapping so as to convince the person sitting at the computer in the cube next to you that you’re actually doing something. You’ve watched as many videos on Youtube as you feel safe getting away with, even a couple of dirtier ones that you debated clicking on, but were like what the hell I would like to see Katie Holmes’ nipple. You’ve played whatever word game, or puzzle, or card game, or mindless little click game it is you play, I go with sporcle.com/games, but am always up for any suggestions. You’ve checked out every profile and picture you can pretend to care about and some you can’t but checked out anyway because they were recently posted on and at least it’s new. You’ve read every pathetic blog your friend or work associate or roommate or some other asshole writes. You’ve even opened up your junk e-mail, that list your on, and have been forever and are too lazy to ever unsubscribe from, and read that. Yeah, you’ve even done that. And now you’re just staring at your screen thinking what the hell else can I possibly do to kill time today?
Well, then I’ve got great news for you. As well as continuing to try and update geelastic.com once a week with an original, timely piece of witever, I will be adding a brand new additional feature to the site beginning, well, today. From here on out I will be updating geelastic.com every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday with a brand new 6 question round of trivia.
As a point of disclosure this isn’t that odd because, along with my old roommate Adam, I write and run bar trivia Mondays and Tuesdays at two different Brooklyn bars, but maybe that’s odd in its own right, so who knows? Either way, from here on out, every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday you will be presented with a new category of red-hot procrastinational trivia.
That’s right. 1 category, 6 questions, 3 times a week. And, just so you know, if you’re playing along at work, the questions get progressively harder throughout the round, and I will put up the answers at the bottom of the page. If you’d like a different format, just let me know, I’m open to anything.
I know this probably doesn’t require a full press release, but honestly, I’m pretty blocked up for ideas this week. I mean, I would bang Octo-Mom, I’m shocked no one has taken to calling the fiery Continental plane crash in upstate New York the “Buffalo Winged Incident,” and the chimp biting off the women’s face could be one of the best stories in the history of news, but none of these really inspired me to craft a full piece. I tried to write something putting the stimulus into perspective about how if you had 1 billion Skittles, that would be a shit ton of Skittles, but 787 billions Skittles, that’s just ridiculous, but, for some reason, I couldn’t really get anywhere with that. I even started looking into this New York Times science section story claiming that leading genome researchers believe that with the present technology they could bring a Neanderthal back to life for 30 million dollars, and how that’s a swell idea, and how we should name him Link and send him to high-school while telling everyone else he was an Estonian exchange student, but I wasn’t sure an Encino Man parody would have very broad appeal.
So, alas, I’m left with a space-holder and an introduction to a new era in geelastic.com. If you’ve just begun reading via Facebook, excellent. Welcome to it. Enjoy reading and enjoy the trivia. I promise I’ll be back soon having busted through this mental constipation ready to dump some humor all over your clean screens. Without further adieu:
Energy Drinks
1) Before all these fancy shmantzy canned energy drinks we see all over the place right now, there was, of course, coffee. Name the large South American nation that is the largest coffee producer in the world.
2) Cutting right to the chase was this energy drink that boasts of containing 3 times the amount of caffeine of Red Bull. Mired in controversy since its release, and at one point pulled off the shelves because of it’s name, but now back on the market, what is the name of this controversial Energy drink.
3) Crunk, launched in 2004, is the energy drink co-created by legendary alcohol distributor Sidney Frank and this legendary dirty south rapper and producer who still acts as CEO for Crunk Energy drink.
4) One of the primary ingredients in many energy drinks, and certainly in Red Bull, is this energy producing ingredient. Often rumored to come from a bull’s testicles or sperm, but actually a natural occurring acid in all of us and essential for the production of bile, name this popular energy drink ingredient.
5) Beginning as a clothing company and eventually moving into the energy drink market in a joint venture with Pepsi, name the lifestyle apparel company, wildly popular in the early to mid-nineties, that now boasts of an energy drink of the same name.
6) And finally we end with the mother of all energy drinks Red Bull. Based off an energy drink first discovered in Thailand, now over 4 billion cans of red bull are sold each year. This is very good for the company Red Bull, which, is headquartered in what european country?
Answers
1) Brazil
2) Cocaine
3) Li’l John
4) Taurine
5) No Fear
6) Austria
