Wednesday Wake Up Call Questions...

[KE4EST]

BTW the average speed for an escalator is about 1.023 MPH..

 

[Biketech solutions]

wake up call is it sound

 

[KE4EST]

Average speed of a human walking?

 

[radio]

Our answer today: the speed of Christopher Columbus' ships on the way to the new world (on his first transatlantic trip.)

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Sounds like he took the Slow Boat to China instead.

 

[KE4EST]

I never would have thought of that answer.

 

[radio]

Wednesday, May 15th: ESTIMATES SAY THAT IF YOU'RE "NEAR" NEW ENGLAND, THERE'S 4000 OF THESE NOT TOO FAR AWAY. WHAT ARE THEY?
Local winner: Large 2-item pizza from Northside Party Store and a "Burger of the Week" from the Lamplight Grill.
Long-distance (streaming) winner: a $10 gift certificate from Amazon dot com!

Good Luck! (for quickest submission of answers, e-mail to "morning@i1430.com" though you CAN post here!

 

[Larry B]

Cemeteries

 

[radio]

good guess, actually GREAT guess, but not correct!
Thanks, Larry!

 

[KE4EST]

Wow lots of people playing this morning

 

[Larry B]

Fishing boats

 

[KE4EST]

deaths

 

[KE4EST]

births

 

[pbeeman]

The answer is ...SHIPWRECKS! Thank you Michael for submitting your answer via email at morning@i1430.com.

 

[KE4EST]

Great question today!

 

[radio]

May 22nd, 2013:

Local "Terrestrial" listeners.....win today with our wake up call question: A burger of the week from the Lamplight Grill, and a large 2-item pizza from Northside Party Store & Deli. "Web" listeners...win a $10 gift certificate from Amazon dot com....here's the question: A STUDY OF THOSE "BEHIND BARS" SHOWS BURGLARS ARE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE WHAT THAN ARMED ROBBERS, KIDNAPPERS, OR WOULD-BE MURDERERS?

Use "morning@i1430.com", our phones at 616-527-9466, or post to this forum! First correct answer wins!

 

[KE4EST]

Wow, that was fast less than a minute after I tune in the answer is here.

Do another one!!

 

[radio]

We got our answer after just about 10 calls....the answer is "Tattoos!"
Randy from Ionia is our winner!
Congratulations, Randy!

 

[radio]

Wednesday May 29th: It's "Patent History"...

Research shows the U.S. patent office granted a rather odd patent which modified a chair! What was the modification?

Please use this forum, or: morning@i1430.com to answer, or...be bold and call us at 616-527-WION!

Local winners get a free pizza and a "burger of the week"...
Distant Listeners get a $10 Amazon dot Com gift certificate!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Only two chairs I can think of is... an electric chair or a barbers chair.