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1. So you're sitting on the commode, thinking you have nothing to do? Wrong attitude! Get yourself cultured! Think of the possibilities. Get out your smart phone and watch the first ever "motion picture" created by Eadweard Muybridge in 1882, a series of still photographs designed to answer a simple question. What question?
2. Be an artiste! Find your inner passion and bring your creativity and imagination to life! Jackson Pollock could drip paint onto a canvas and make millions, why not you? All the materials you need are even around you! What Dada artist of the twentieth century gained international fame (and infamy) for signing an urinal "R. Mutt", calling it "Fountain"?
3. Think you can't do anything productive on the commode? Are you that person who couldn't see the Grand Canyon because you missed the bus sitting on the toilet? Absolute nonsense. Go to a famous toilet, like the bathroom made of solid gold located at the Hang Fung Gold Technology. In which Special Administrative Region, given back to China in 1997, could you find that tourist attraction?
4. Feeling on the adventurous side in a public toilet? Rather than making No. 2, be the bathroom's new No. 1 with the following trick.
Convincingly scream, "No, Olive, don't! Wait, why do you have scales? AAAAAHHHH it's a basilisk!" Then slump to the ground. Then say in a sugary sweet voice, "I guess I'm never leaving this bathroom forever and ever!"
Some of your bathroom co-inhabitants will surely laugh, recognizing you as Moaning Myrtle from which of these bestsellers?
5. Still not convinced? Here's an easy way to get yourself into the history books as the most innovative, genius mathematician of your day. All you need is a marker and a public stall. Simply write, "I have a brilliant proof of the twin prime conjecture--unfortunately, it is too large to fit on this bathroom stall." Give it a couple hundred years, and then bam! you'll be the answer to trivia questions for generations.
Which 17th-century French mathematician made a similarly suspect claim about his "last theorem" which wasn't proven until 1995?
6. If you're not feeling particularly ambitious, the least you could do is write a song that sells millions of copies. A gem among the glut of toilet-inspired music is the song "The Sound of Silence", written in response to the JFK assassination by which singer-songwriter team?
7. Every physicist's dream should be to have an eponymous effect. There's a lot of science in the toilet, if you only look closely with a critical eye. Which French scientist proposed an effect in which rotating reference frames cause objects to deflect, which is sometimes attributed to the direction that water flushes down a drain?
8. You don't need to be in the gym to work out! Use those minutes every day on the commode to get some exercise! Sit down, flex your calf muscles, straighten your back, and push backward. Repeat every day several times, and you're well on your way to being a champion of which Winter Olympic sport, in which competitors are supine for the entire event?
9. If you're looking for a more creative pursuit, start your budding literary career in the bathroom! You can write a short story or poem on a single trip to the toilet that makes you famous instantaneously. Which American Imagist poet of the twentieth century probably could have written his eight-line poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" in three minutes on the commode?
10. All right, if you don't like any suggestions, there's still one more possibility for you. Pass out (or pretend to) on the bathroom floor right in front of the toilet. Gyrate your hips once, then lay still. If you're lucky, you might make it on network television for your very impressive "impersonation" of which "kingly" celebrity?
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