Pentagon Trivia

[Team Infidel]

Ok, here is the game... Now that I work in the puzzle palace, I wanted to start a trivia game based on that lovely building. So here goes.


How many square feet of office space is inside the Pentagon?

 

[bulldogg]

458,642 square feet

 

[Team Infidel]

wrong. not even close

 

[bulldogg]

Floor area of 6.5 million square feet, 34 acres, 13.8 hectares, of which 3.7 million square feet are used for offices.

 

[Team Infidel]

that would be correct

 

[bulldogg]

During construction how many concrete pilings were driven?

 

[Team Infidel]

41,492 .....

 

[bulldogg]

Correct. Your turn to pull the dingus.

 

[Team Infidel]

how many miles of corridors are in the pentagon?

 

[bulldogg]

*star trek computer voice* working................

17.5 miles

 

[Team Infidel]

correct....

 

[bulldogg]

How many tons of sand and gravel were dredged from the Potomac for construction?

 

[Team Infidel]

680,000

 

[bulldogg]

Correct again.

 

[Missileer]

If an imaginary string was stretched around the circumference of the Pentagon, then, it was lifted exactly one inch all the way around, what would be the circumference of the one inch adjusted string? :?: Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.

 

[tomtom22]

The same as it was when it was one inch below.

 

[bulldogg]

4,605 feet would be the circumference of the Pentagon.

However, the circumference of the string is impossible to determine from the information provided.

 

[The Cooler King]

Isn't it perimeter instead of circumference?

 

[Missileer]

Isn't it perimeter instead of circumference?

Yes, actually perimeter is a synonym for circumference, but when you get away from a circle (and it's point A for the radius) even with an elipse, the math becomes a nightmare of derivatives and integrals, and approximations ad nauseum. Maybe some Russian or Indian mathematician can solve it in fifty years or so.

 

[bulldogg]

So did someone get the answer right yet or not??