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Travel tips: Phrases you need to know when traveling to France

July 29th, 2009 by Lea

It’s summertime, and many of you are planning a wonderful vacation. Some are planning exciting activities not far from home, while others are escaping to a foreign country. When you travel to places where you’re not familiar with the language, it may be challenging to get around. Sarah and Veronique, two dedicated QA team members, have joined forces to help answer: What sentences or words do you need to know when traveling to France?

Bon voyage!!

Do you have more French travel questions? Check out our relevant Q&A categories:

Answers.com Embroidery

July 17th, 2009 by Lea

The Answers.com embroidery on our new T-shirts look like this on the inside of the shirt. Some of us have been wondering why it’s like that. We quickly turned to WikiAnswers.com, and here is the answer we found.

Answers.com embroidery

What Are Creative Uses of Duct Tape?

July 15th, 2009 by Lea

He’s back! Following on the heels of his debut smash hit, our very own IT Manager (aka the AnswerMan) returns to tackle a bigger challenge: What are some uses of duct tape? If you thought his paper clip ideas were original, wait until you see what he can do with duct tape… or is that duck tape? At least we know it’s not masking tape.

If YOU have a special question you’d like us to answer, leave a comment below. And even better – you can create your own WikiWednesday answer video (just make sure you mention that in the video) and send us the video link for a chance to be highlighted here in one of our next WikiWednesday answer videos.

Job Interview Tips: ‘What is your biggest weakness?’ (the worst answers)

July 8th, 2009 by Lea

In times of economic recession, job interview tips can come in handy. If you want to maximize your interview success, it’s a good idea to hone your interview skills first. There are many helpful resources out there, one of them being WikiAnswers. Its job interviews Q&A category has various tips such as the one we are about to share with you.

Gil Reich (Answers.com’s VP of Product Management) and Pnina Baumgarten (Content Editor), help answer: “What are the worst answers to ‘What is you biggest weakness?’”

In case you’re still hankering for some more ways to shine while showing weakness, check out this one: “How do you answer ‘What is your greatest weakness’ in a job interview?”

More useful categories are:

What can you do with a paper clip?

July 1st, 2009 by Lea

Some of our questions just can’t be adequately answered in words. So we recruited Answers.com’s IT manager, aka The AnswerMan, to demonstrate novel uses of the common paper clip.

How many more uses can you come up with? Add them to: What can you do with a paper clip?

Note: First attempt at uploading the video showed an audio-video sync problem which led us to look for an answer to the problem: Why is the uploaded Youtube audio-visual sync way off?
We apologize to @WikiAnswers followers who saw multiple tweets about paper clips as we were trying to fix the problem.