Question: What is used to apply watermarks and other patterns?
Answer: rollers

Question: What is in common with the lentgh along and across the grain of paper produced by a machine such as the Fourdrinier?
Answer: density

Question: What leaves a pattern on the paper that has a consistent density width and lengthwise?
Answer: wire mesh

Question: What type of lines does wove paper not exhibit?
Answer: Laidlines

Question: What are small regular lines left on paper when handmade in a mould?
Answer: Laidlines

Question: What runs perpendicular to the laidlines?
Answer: chainlines

Question: Which is lines are commonly higher in density, laidlines or chainlines?
Answer: Laidlines

Question: What tool is often used in measuring the thickness of paper?
Answer: caliper

Question: In the United States, what units are used when stating the measurements of paper thickness?
Answer: thousandths of an inch

Question: Someone measuring the thickness of paper in the UK is likely to use what unit?
Answer: mm

Question: Sated in inches, what is the common range of paper thickness?
Answer: 0.0028 and 0.0071 in

Question: What characteristic is paper usually classified by?
Answer: weight

Question: In the US, the weight of what is used to classify paper for sale?
Answer: a ream

Question: Paper rated at over 110lb is considered what type of stock?
Answer: card

Question: What ISO sizing system does Europe use?
Answer: ISO 216

Question: If paper is over 160g what is it considered as?
Answer: card

Question: Besides thickness, what attribute is used in stating the weight of a ream in Europe?
Answer: dimensions

Question: Commercial paper is commonly defined by what?
Answer: length and width

Question: Most commercial paper in North America is cut in what manner?
Answer: standard paper sizes

Question: Standard paper sizes are usually described with what terms?
Answer: length and width

Question: Most countries besides the US use what ISO System?
Answer: ISO 216

Question: What country first adopted the ISO 216 standard?
Answer: Germany

Question: What is the largest standard size paper?
Answer: A0

Question: How many sheets of A1 paper would cover one single piece of A0 paper?
Answer: 2

Question: What is the lowest numbered A paper that is commonly used at home?
Answer: A3

Question: What is the lightest density of paper produced?
Answer: tissue paper

Question: What is the common density of printing paper?
Answer: 800 kg/m3

Question: What acidic salts were commonly found in the early types of paper produced?
Answer: Alum

Question: Early papermakers added alum to help in what process?
Answer: sizing

Question: How was rag paper superior to the early types of paper made using alum?
Answer: more stable

Question: What particle is associated with the yellowing of newspapers?
Answer: lignin

Question: A book is likely made with paper that has low amounts of what component of wood?
Answer: lignin

Question: What does lignin react to to produce the yellowing you see in newspapers?
Answer: light and oxygen

Question: Who sponsored the tests that show that all papers are subject to acid decay?
Answer: Library of Congress

Question: Besides formic, acetic, and lactic acid, what type of acid does cellulose produce?
Answer: oxalic

Question: How many times more yield does the mechanical pulping process produce when compared to to the chemical pulping process?
Answer: twice

Question: What type of process is used to produce most paper used in paperback books?
Answer: Mechanical

Question: What level of acid is usually found in the paper used by book publishers?
Answer: acid-free

Question: In the last 40 years, how much has worldwide paper consumption risen?
Answer: 400%

Question: What percentage of harvested trees are used in the manufacturing of paper?
Answer: 35%

Question: What do many paper companies do to ensure the health of forests?
Answer: plant trees

Question: What percentage of wood pulp comes from old-growth trees?
Answer: 10%

Question: What percentage of total waste can be attributed to paper?
Answer: 40%

Question: How many millions of tons of paper are wasted in the US each year?
Answer: 71.6 million

Question: How many paper cups are used by Americans each year?
Answer: 16 billion

Question: How many pages are printed by the average office worker in the US each day?
Answer: 31

Question: What process of papermaking is most heavily linked to the pollution?
Answer: bleaching

Question: How are humans commonly exposed to the byproducts of the bleaching process?
Answer: through food

Question: Where are dioxins stored in our animal sources of food?
Answer: fatty tissue

Question: What agency internationally regulates dioxins?
Answer: the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Question: What product used in the sale ofpaper is newly used by manufacturers in an effort to be more environmentally friendly?
Answer: paperfoam

Question: What is the main benefit of using paperfoam over traditional shrink-wrap?
Answer: biodegradable

Question: What is paperfoam primarily made of?
Answer: paper

Question: How is paperfoam commonly disposed of?
Answer: recycled

Question: What is newly used as a coating in high grease applications?
Answer: corn protein

Question: Popcorn bags produced modernly are likely to use what type of coating?
Answer: corn protein

Question: PFOA is what type of coating?
Answer: synthetic

Question: When was the football league established?
Answer: 1987

Question: Where is football played?
Answer: indoors

Question: What does AFL sand for?
Answer: Arena Football League

Question: Who founded The AFL?
Answer: Jim Foster

Question: In what year was the AFL founded?
Answer: 1987

Question: In what decade was AFL sport invented?
Answer: 1980s

Question: Who was the founder of the Arena Football League?
Answer: Jim Foster

Question: What was the inaugural year of the AFL?
Answer: 1987

Question: Where does the Arena Football League rank amongst professional football leagues in North America by longevity?
Answer: third

Question: In yards, how large is an arena football field?
Answer: 68

Question: What fraction of the size of an NFL football field is an arena football field?
Answer: half

Question: How many teams were there in the 2015 season?
Answer: 12

Question: How many conferences does the AFL have?
Answer: 2

Question: What are these conferences in the AFL named?
Answer: American Conference and National Conference

Question: Which team was the Champion in the 2015 season?
Answer: San Jose SaberCats

Question: How many teams played in the Arena Football League in the 2015 season?
Answer: 12

Question: What team left the AFL after the 2015 season to join another league?
Answer: Spokane Shock

Question: What league did the Spokane Shock join after the 2015 season?
Answer: IFL

Question: Along with the American Conference, what is the other conference in the AFL?
Answer: National Conference

Question: As of 2016, how many teams does each conference have?
Answer: four

Question: As of 2016, how many regular season games does an AFL team play?
Answer: 16

Question: How long is the AFL regular season?
Answer: 18-week

Question: In what month did the 2015 AFL season begin?
Answer: March

Question: What month did the 2015 AFL season end?
Answer: August

Question: What is the name of the AFL championship game?
Answer: ArenaBowl

Question: What was the name of the AFL development league?
Answer: af2

Question: When did the AFL development league begin?
Answer: 2000

Question: When was the first AFL season played?
Answer: 1987

Question: What Arena Football League season was cancelled?
Answer: 2009

Question: In what city and state is the Arena Football League based?
Answer: Chicago, Illinois

Question: Who was Jim Foster's employer prior to his founding the Arena Football League?
Answer: the National Football League

Question: What was Jim Foster viewing when he came up with the idea for arena football?
Answer: an indoor soccer match