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On the Commode Again Trivia Quiz


Every year, you waste hours sitting on the commode. No more! Take this quiz and learn how you can use that "unproductive time" to make yourself into a billionaire celebrity athlete scientist genius musician. No money-back guarantees.

A multiple-choice quiz by adams627. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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adams627
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Jul 23 22
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Question 1 of 10
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? Hint


Question 2 of 10
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"? Hint


Question 3 of 10
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? Hint


Question 4 of 10
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?
Hint


Question 5 of 10
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?
Hint


Question 6 of 10
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? Hint


Question 7 of 10
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? Hint


Question 8 of 10
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? Hint


Question 9 of 10
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? Hint


Question 10 of 10
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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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
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?

Answer: Are all four hooves of a galloping horse ever simultaneously off the ground?

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) is best-known for his pioneering work in photography. Using a device called a zoopraxiscope, Muybridge was able to first take dozens of pictures using stop-motion cameras, then project them in order, forming essentially the first motion picture. Legendarily, Muybridge's first project was to settle a question which had puzzled zoologists for years: is a horse ever completely airborne while galloping? Leland Stanford, the namesake of Stanford University, asked Muybridge to prove the answer. The answer was determined to be: yes, there is a time when a horse is galloping with all four legs off the ground.

In his spare time, Muybridge also shot and killed his wife's lover. Muybridge's lawyers claimed that the photographer had been temporarily insane, but Muybridge shrugged them off. Astoundingly, he was let off with a verdict of justifiable homicide. Philip Glass later wrote an opera about the story.
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"?

Answer: Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp was a member of the Dadaist school of art, which is often described as "anti-art" because its members sought...alternate...ways of expressing themselves. Duchamp may be the best-known adherent. In addition to "Fountain", which was submitted for an exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists and denied entry, Duchamp is known for his other "readymades". Such works of art literally consist of ordinary household objects. Examples include "Bicycle Wheel", "Bottle Rack", and "In advance of the broken arm", which is a snow shovel. Duchamp is also known for his painting "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2", which Theodore Roosevelt famously compared to his bathroom rug, and which another critic simply called "an explosion in a shingles factory".
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?

Answer: Hong Kong

The Hang Fung Gold Technology Group is famous for its elegant showroom consisting of dozens of elaborate gold and jewel-encrusted treasures, but the location in Hong Kong is remembered by bathroom enthusiasts for its solid gold bathroom. The toilet is made of 24-carat gold. Owned by Lam Sai-Wing, the Hang Fung group began melting down some of its treasures in 2008, with the worldwide economy tanking and gold hitting record prices of 1000 dollars per ounce.

However, Lam refuses to sell the gold toilet regardless of the price of gold, and the toilet is fully functional for users.

But sorry tourists, no taking pictures of the commode.
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?

Answer: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

It's the comic character of Moaning Myrtle, in fact, who leads Harry and Ron to the solution of a mystery in the second installment of JK Rowling's massively popular series. Lord Voldemort, then the marginally-less-evil persona of Tom Riddle, opened the Chamber of Secrets during his own time at Hogwarts, unleashing a terrible beast called a basilisk. Poor Myrtle was trying to escape bullying in the second-floor bathroom when the basilisk came and killed her immediately. Fast-forward several years, when Harry, Ron, and Hermione are at Hogwarts, and the basilisk is back.

Basilisks actually are real lizards that live in South America; ironically enough, they're sometimes called "Jesus lizards" because their webbed feet allow them to walk over water. The "evil lizard monster that kills anything it looks at" is more properly described from actual mythology as a cockatrice.
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?

Answer: Pierre de Fermat

Pierre de Fermat really was a mathematician and a good one, at that. His work in optics gave great insight into the wave nature of light, and he also was responsible for several innovative theorems. None, though, has garnered more attention or controversy than "Fermat's Last Theorem."

You might remember the Pythagorean Theorem from grade school, a^2 + b^2 = c^2. Fermat's Last Theorem states that there are no integers n greater than 2 for which a^n + b^n = c^n, where a, b, and c are also integers. For example, the sum of two perfect cubes is never a perfect cube. In the margins of a book, Fermat's son found a note written by Fermat pointing to the equation, saying that he had a "truly marvelous" proof of the statement...but that it was too small to fit in the margin.

Many mathematicians nowadays doubt that Fermat actually had a general proof for his last theorem. It took until the year 1995, when Andrew Wiles proved the assertion with mathematics that hadn't been developed by Fermat's death in 1665. And to finally prove the "last theorem", Wiles had to lock himself in an attic for seven years.
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?

Answer: Simon & Garfunkel

Paul Simon claimed that he wrote "The Sound of Silence" while sitting alone in a dark bathroom, listening to the faucet dripping. Writing one line a day, the song apparently took six months to compose. The lyrics of the song contemplate the inability for human beings to talk with each other--appropriate, for the alienation felt in the country after JFK's 1963 assassination. Both Simon and Art Garfunkel were 22 when that happened, and their first real hit, "The Sound of Silence", reflected the country's mood when it was released in February 1964.

The classic comedy "The Graduate" features a soundtrack by Simon & Garfunkel, including their now classic hit, "Mrs. Robinson". Interested in more toilet stories? Allegedly, Richard Berry wrote the lyrics to "Louie, Louie" on toilet paper in a public bathroom.
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?

Answer: Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis

The Coriolis effect is the reason that if you throw a ball off a merry-go-round, it appears that the ball is curving in midair. The ball isn't rotating--the observer is. The concept of rotating reference frames wasn't around when Galileo formulated classical relativity. A force is called "fictitious" if the only effect of it can be seen by an observer in a non-inertial reference frame (essentially, someone who isn't accelerating by speeding up, slowing down, or changing direction).

The Coriolis effect is NOT responsible for the direction that toilet water flushes. In fact, toilets don't flush clockwise in one hemisphere and counterclockwise in the other at all! The Earth is a large system which is constantly rotating, and the Coriolis effect does impact which direction cyclones or other air masses rotate. But not small things like your toilet bowl.
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?

Answer: Luge

Luge is a fairly simple sport. Lie face-up on a sled on your back. Go downhill. The faster you are, the better. Sound dangerous? It is. Lugers can achieve speeds surpassing 80 mph (130 kph), often around banked curves which can exert 3-5 G-forces. They also have to steer the sled. There are dozens of injuries, even in Olympic events, since the sport was introduced at Innsbruck in 1964. In 2010 in Vancouver, Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed in a practice run for the luge event. Lugers must have a minimum body weight in order to compete, as air resistance and drag are major factors contributing to success in the event.

The opposite of luge is called skeleton, in which competitors slide face-down, face-first.
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?

Answer: William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was one of the most recognizable American poets of the Imagist movement. Imagists often treasured physical descriptions of objects. Ezra Pound and Anne Sexton were other advocates of the style.

Williams, also a practicing doctor for most of his life, is best-known for his short poem "The Red Wheelbarrow", reproduced in full below.

"so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens"

Rather than attempt to explain the deep meaning of why "so much" depends upon the red wheelbarrow, I will instead quote another Williams poem, this one entitled "This Is Just To Say".

"I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold"

There, don't you think you could do that sitting on the toilet some day?
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?

Answer: Elvis Presley

On August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley was found dead in a puddle of his own vomit on the bathroom floor at Graceland. The "King" hadn't been well for years, succumbing to his extensive drug use and the emotional turmoil following a divorce in 1973. But the legend lived on. Both doctors who announced cause of death were incriminated for lack of evidence and perhaps over-eager jumping-to-conclusions.

In 1994, the case was re-opened, and the doctor this time found no evidence that a drug overdose was responsible for Elvis' death. Of course, conspiracy theorists complain that the singer is really still alive, perhaps spurred by the incredibly popular and dubious phenomenon of Elvis impersonators.
Source: Author adams627

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