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1. The inspiration for having celebrities leave handprints and footprints in the sidewalk outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood was an accident that befell this celebrity.
Gloria Swanson ✓
Norma Talmadge ✓
Buster Keaton ✓
Douglas Fairbanks ✓
When getting out of her car for a tour of the theatre, Ms. Talmadge placed her foot in wet cement. Her “official” prints were immortalized some time later, on 18 May 1927.
2. In this country, women give chocolate to men on Valentine’s Day, but men do not typically give gifts.
Indonesia ✓
Taiwan ✓
South Korea ✓
Sweden ✓
But men give non-chocolate candy to women on White Day (14 March).
3. In the U.S., it is nearly always a federal crime to …
Share your Netflix password ✓
Lie about the results of an election ✓
Try to log in to an online banking site during scheduled downtime ✓
Rob a convenience store ✓
4. How many time zones does China have?
1 ✓
7 ✓
5 ✓
3 ✓
5. The U.S. government gave the University of Indiana $1 million to study …
Internet disinformation ✓
Internet trolls ✓
Internet memes ✓
Internet addiction ✓
Specifically, the genesis, spread, and decline of memes.
6. The first known evidence of human dentistry dates from around what year?
425 BCE ✓
650 BCE ✓
7000 BCE ✓
1110 AD ✓
Indus Valley Civilization.
7. In Switzerland, it is illegal to …
Make chocolate in a home kitchen ✓
Possess marijuana ✓
Own just one guinea pig ✓
Own a nuclear shelter ✓
Guinea pigs (and certain other pets) are social creatures. It is considered cruel to deprive them of interaction with their own species.
8. Certain of these creatures can hibernate for up to three years.
Honeybees ✓
Alaskan brown bears ✓
Hummingbirds ✓
Snails ✓
9. The witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth add “eye of newt” to their cauldron. What are they referring to?
Heather ✓
Mustard seed ✓
Peppercorns ✓
A newt’s eye, silly ✓
10. Which is the only planet in our solar system that spins clockwise?
Venus ✓
Mercury ✓
Earth ✓
Uranus ✓
11. The mercury-in-glass thermometer was invented in 1714. What was used to fill thermometers before that?
Goat’s milk ✓
Brandy ✓
Isopropyl alcohol ✓
A nice, chewy Chianti ✓
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer in Amsterdam.
12. Which is NOT actually a berry, based on botanical classification?
Redcurrant ✓
Blueberry ✓
Strawberry ✓
Grape ✓
But bananas ARE berries, botanically speaking. Who knew?
13. The Statue of Liberty once functioned as a …
Lighthouse ✓
World War II decryption center ✓
Convenience store ✓
Processing center for immigrants ✓
The statue was administered by the United States Lighthouse Board until 1901.
14. What was this symbol (#) called at Bell Labs in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
Number sign ✓
Pound sign ✓
Octothorpe ✓
Hash sign ✓
“Octo” refers to the eight points created by the ends of the four lines. Nobody seems to have a clue where “thorpe” comes from, at least in the context of this word.
15. This crime family boss, nicknamed “The Oddfather” by the press, feigned insanity by walking around in public in his bathrobe and muttering to himself.
John Gotti ✓
Vincent Gigante ✓
Al Capone ✓
Charles “Lucky” Luciano ✓
He might very well have convinced me. Gigante was the head of New York City’s Genovese crime family between 1981 and 2005.
16. Which creature has three hearts?
Cow ✓
Goldfinch ✓
Whale ✓
Octopus ✓
One heart pumps blood around the body. The other two pump it past the gills.
17. The Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896) is the shortest in history. How long did it last?
nearly 2 hours ✓
5 1/2 hours ✓
14 minutes ✓
38 minutes ✓
All because Sultan Khalid bin Barghash took over without British permission after the previous sultan died. The British won, after bombarding the sultan’s palace.
18. For a brief period in 1934 and 1935, the U.S. printed $100,000 bills. Whose portrait appeared on the front of the bills?
Woodrow Wilson ✓
James Madison ✓
William Henry Harrison ✓
Betsy Ross ✓
The bills were issued solely to Federal Reserve Banks. Many Americans at the time were lucky to have two dimes to rub together.
19. Cows belonging to the late Queen Elizabeth II …
Ate imported grasses ✓
Slept on waterbeds ✓
Had weekends off ✓
Were named after former Prime Ministers ✓
It is believed that waterbeds ease pressure points and improve milk quality.
20. How many U.S. states have one-syllable names?
1 ✓
0 ✓
3 ✓
2 ✓
Only Maine.
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