From the monthly archives: November 2006
What is the total distance of the walking / jogging path around East Campus? Everyone I’ve asked gives a slightly different answer, and no one I’ve asked can find enough of the markers along the path to be certain.
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: It turns out this isn’t an easy question. Over two years ago, AP [...]
What percentage of gun sales in America are made by unlicensed gun dealers?
In other words, what portion of guns bought every year don’t actually involve background checks?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: According to a May 1997 National Institute of Justice fact sheet entitled “Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms” [...]
What is the second richest country in the world that does not have universal health care?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: This isn’t straightforward. The exact coverage of “universal” health care does vary by country, although it’s agreed upon that the USA doesn’t have it. Usually it’s equated with some sort of single-payer system managed by the [...]
How come Breedlove — a meeting room used by many many people at Duke — is so AV unfriendly? Is there anything/anybody other than cost that has kept the room without a Projector and a power source easily accessible from the conference room table?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: No, it isn’t that we simply want to [...]
your link to March 8th 2002 Chronicle Article “who is the answer person” is outated. The current link is: http://www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2002/03/08/UndefinedSection/Who-Is.The.Answer.Person-1456491.shtml?norewrite200611141301&sourcedomain=www.dukechronicle.com
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Thanks! Those folks at the Chronicle are always causing trouble for me. The one you mention, and the link above it, are now fixed, but this page also needs to have [...]
How do you pronounce the name of that delicious sandwich-type food, the gyro? I don’t want to sound ignorant, but also not like I’m trying way too hard to sound greek or intellectual.
I thank you.
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: The Oxford English Dictionary says the first consonant sound is a soft “g,” like “j” or [...]
Is there someplace to go curling in New York City? Even just outside the city would be cool. Thanks, eh!
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: There are a number of New York clubs listed here, even one right there in Manhattan: http://www.gncc.org/gnccclubs.html
You’ll have to contact them to see if you need to be a member [...]
I am currently on second floor Bostock, and it is absolutely freezing up here–with no way to turn down the air. A girl across from me is wearing scarf and gloves, I am wearing a sweatshirt and still freezing, and someone just walked past me wearing a heavy winter coat with her hood on. This [...]
how many high school students were there in the United States in 2005?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: The National Center for Education Statistics projected 14,847,000 in public high schools (grades 9-12) and 1,439,000 in private high schools. That’s 16,286,000 total. See: http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=65
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