Problem scenario
You have a stackable GE washer. The cylindrical basin of the washing machine allows for clothes items to disappear into the cubic chasis/frame of the washing machine. You are missing a washcloth, a sock or a glove. (You may or may not have seen it fall over the cylindrical tub basin into the square body of the washer when taking out the clean clothes. Sometimes an item just spins into the crevice between the agitator basin and the external body of the washer.) You want to get this small clothes item from your washing machine.

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Question
How do you determine/identify a vehicle identification number having the letter “O” (as in “Oscar”) or the numeral 0? The Arabic number 0 can be confused with the letter “O.”

Answer
It is numeral 0. The letter “O” is not allowed according to
https://checkventory.com/articles/whats-your-number/
. Apparently letters “I” and “Q” are not allowed either (presumably due to their potential confusion with numerals “1” and “0”).

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Question
What patriotic songs were written during the American Revolution?

Answer
“The Toast” by Francis Hopkinson
“World Turned Upside Down” (instrumental)
“The Liberty Song” by John Dickinson
“Free America” by Joseph Warren
“Chester” by William Billings; see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Billings
“Yankee Doodle“

“My Days Have Been So Wondrous” by Francis Hopkinson.

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Question
You are not sure if muscles really flex. You are curious if joints flex at all. Do either human muscles or human joints flex?

Answer
Muscles do not flex, but joints do flex. Muscles contract. Joints can “flex and extend.” Source: Page 100 of Starting Strength. Another source is https://www.pumpone.com/blog/39.

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Problem scenario
You work out regularly at a fitness gym. Is exercise the same as training?

Answer
Exercise is physical activity. Training involves a long-term goal designed to achieve results that will include regular physical activity. Training would include progressively more weights for specific lifts and/or cardio that is increasingly intense or longer in duration.

Source: Starting Strength page 292.

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Problem scenario
You want to find a sport or buy shoes that incorporates your legs anthropometry. How do you find the ratio of your tibia’s length to your femur’s length?

Answer
Depending on your style of dress, personal trainers may not be able to guess your femur length. You do have to measure.

How do you measure the tibia (the bone between your ankle and knee) length?

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Problem scenario
You see many strong people at the gym lift barefoot. Should you take your shoes off before squatting?

Possible Answer
It is not clear.

These articles give mixed treatment to squatting barefoot (with the top two being fairly favorable to the practice):

https://borntosweat.co/blog/the-benefits-of-barefoot-training-squatting-without-shoes/

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Question
You are trying to get a screw to get into a thread. It won’t start. How do you get the screw into the hole you are trying to screw-in?

Answer
Are the screws slightly too big? Did other screws come with the item you are working with? It could be that the screws are not the right ones. Sometimes there are hidden screws in a package or the wrong screws are in package (from a mistaken from the manufacturer).

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Problem scenario
A car company will not store your car because they have no storage facility. You are getting your car transported across the U.S. How do you find someone to receive your car?

Possible Solution #1
Ask a hotel to receive your car.

Possible Solution #2
Ask a fitness gym with ample parking that is open seven days per week to receive your car.

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Problem scenario
You bought new weightlifting shoes. They seem to tight. They are not comfortable. What should you do?

Possible Solution #1
If only one shoe feels too tight, can you see if the tongue is double-up or folded on one side? By flattening it or unravelling it, that may help.

Possible Solution #2
Can you make the velcro strap connect without as much force and tightness?

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