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Strange Trivia Quiz


Things too strange for you? Well then, welcome to my crusade to remove a little strangeness from this very strange world. Strangely, though, it has caused some confusion. You may have to straighten up after my "de-strangifying" efforts.

A multiple-choice quiz by darthrevan89. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
darthrevan89
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
337,488
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
790
Last 3 plays: Guest 96 (3/10), Guest 69 (9/10), Guest 107 (5/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. You know when you hit a certain part of your arm and it goes numb? Soon, in my strange-free world, you'll say, "Ouch, that was my run-of-the-mill bone!" I'm not changing scientific names, though. Which body part is involved in what used to be called "hitting your funny bone"? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Collectors will line their curio cabinets with "familiars and ends" instead of "odds and ends." Of course, if you don't like this new term, there are other suitable words and phrases referring to trinkets. Which of the following admittedly odd terms is NOT one of them? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Children will rush to the library to check out freshly printed copies of "Mundane George" by Margret and H.A. Rey. What kind of animal is the title character George, a friend of the Man with the Yellow Hat? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Eager shoppers will stock up on spray bottles of Garden-Variety, an S.C. Johnson product. What purpose will the substance formerly known as Fantastik continue to serve under this new, more user-friendly name? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Three, nine, twenty-five -- why did these numbers get such a bad rap as "odd" numbers? I have to do something about that. Let's try "dime-a-dozen" numbers. How am I going to determine which numbers fall into the category that is being renamed? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Viewers will now hear this introduction to "Star Trek": "These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore well-trodden old worlds... to boldly go where no man has gone before!" Who spoke a slightly "stranger" version of this quote in the show's title sequence? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Gentlemen will rely upon a new cologne and aftershave called Bay Everyday, a masculine scent created from bay leaves and a certain liquor whose name means "strange" in British slang -- hence its inclusion in my campaign! What was this cologne formerly called? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Audiences will thrill to sound of rich organ music as a masked man entreats his beloved Christine with a haunting melody and these words: "Sing once again with me, our ho-hum duet." For which musical will this new-and-improved scene be most appropriate? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Perhaps we can bring Turkey red, like the color worn by British redcoats, back into fashion by renaming the source of the color, "more normal plant." If this was your favorite plant, don't get angry! Just tell me, what was this plant known as before I renamed it? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Whenever someone has some unpleasant fate to endure, they will say: "I shall have to dree my usual alone." All right, so this saying hasn't been extremely popular of late, but maybe that's because it was too strange! What word did I replace with "usual"? Hint



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1. You know when you hit a certain part of your arm and it goes numb? Soon, in my strange-free world, you'll say, "Ouch, that was my run-of-the-mill bone!" I'm not changing scientific names, though. Which body part is involved in what used to be called "hitting your funny bone"?

Answer: Ulnar nerve

"Funny bone" is possibly intended to be a play on the name of the bone involved, the humerus. But the sensation is more strange and painful than amusing!

So, what actually happens when you hit your funny bone and your arm strangely goes tingly and numb? Your ulnar nerve is the responsible party: it runs through your elbow and down to your hand and fingers, and its location near the surface leaves it protected only by skin. When you hit your elbow, the ulnar nerve can get pinched between the skin and the humerus, a bone that spans from the shoulder to the elbow, causing the weird sensation. Since the hyoid bone is in your neck, the hamstring is in your knee, and the coccyx is your tailbone, they are unlikely to be involved in hitting your funny bone.
2. Collectors will line their curio cabinets with "familiars and ends" instead of "odds and ends." Of course, if you don't like this new term, there are other suitable words and phrases referring to trinkets. Which of the following admittedly odd terms is NOT one of them?

Answer: Frick and Frack

What's in your curio cabinet? Why not help the new phrase catch on by making sure that your miscellaneous "odds and ends" are more hodgepodge in nature than strange.

A term likely originating from lumberyards where it referred to leftover pieces of sawn wood, "odds and ends" can be a variety of bits and bobs, objects or fragments. Bric-a-brac, derived from a French phrase, and knickknacks include collectible or display objects, and pieces valued for uniqueness or sentiment. Some odds and ends, bric-a-brac, and knickknacks might be considered tchotchkes (or chachkas), a Yiddish word for inexpensive decorative baubles and trinkets. Frick and Frack, however, were Swiss skaters who performed in the Ice Follies beginning in the 1930s; their names became a slang term for two people who seem inseparable.
3. Children will rush to the library to check out freshly printed copies of "Mundane George" by Margret and H.A. Rey. What kind of animal is the title character George, a friend of the Man with the Yellow Hat?

Answer: Monkey

"Curious" can also mean "inquisitive," its most probable definition in this case, but I don't want people scared off thinking this monkey is strange!

The first book in a series for children, "Curious George" (1941) was written and illustrated by H.A. and Margret Rey, who carried the manuscript out of war-torn Paris on bicycles. In their story, the inquisitive monkey named George with a penchant for getting into scrapes is taken from Africa to a zoo by the Man with the Yellow Hat. Eventually, the Man with the Yellow Hat takes George to live at his home. The husband-and-wife co-authors wrote seven "Curious George" stories. The final one, in which George has an operation after swallowing a puzzle piece, was published in 1966.
4. Eager shoppers will stock up on spray bottles of Garden-Variety, an S.C. Johnson product. What purpose will the substance formerly known as Fantastik continue to serve under this new, more user-friendly name?

Answer: Cleaning countertops

In all likelihood, S.C. Johnson was only thinking about the "wonderful" meaning of "fantastic" when they named their all-purpose cleaner -- they should've realized how bizarre the name sounds!

The history of S.C. Johnson & Son, "A Family Company," reaches back to 1886. Since then, the company has been handed down from its founder, Samuel Curtis Johnson, Sr., to four successive generations of the Johnson family. The company produces many brands that are household names across America, such as Ziploc storage bags, Windex glass cleaner, Glade air fresheners, and OFF! insect repellent. S.C. Johnson's Fantastik is an all-purpose cleaner that is much better suited to disinfecting greasy counter-tops than deodorizing underarms.
5. Three, nine, twenty-five -- why did these numbers get such a bad rap as "odd" numbers? I have to do something about that. Let's try "dime-a-dozen" numbers. How am I going to determine which numbers fall into the category that is being renamed?

Answer: They are not divisible by two

Odd numbers aren't strange or rare -- every other number is a so-called "odd" number! However, some folks consider certain odd numbers unlucky. Perhaps the new name will help to dispel that notion.

Odd numbers are easily differentiated from even numbers, since they are not divisible by 2 without a remainder. Odd numbers also make up the majority of prime numbers, which are identified by their trait of being divisible only by 1 and themselves. For instance, 19 is a prime (and odd!) number; the only natural numbers that are factors of 19 are 1 and 19. The only even prime number is 2, since it is divisible by 2, yet its only factors are 1 and 2. And remember, if you have two odd numbers, you can always add them together to get an even number!
6. Viewers will now hear this introduction to "Star Trek": "These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore well-trodden old worlds... to boldly go where no man has gone before!" Who spoke a slightly "stranger" version of this quote in the show's title sequence?

Answer: William Shatner as Capt. Kirk

"Strange new worlds"? Really? I have a sneaking suspicion they're just Hollywood sets, and that's well-trodden territory indeed.

The opening sequence of every "Star Trek: The Original Series" episode (1966-1969), save its two pilots, featured the voice of Captain James T. Kirk, played by William Shatner, describing the Enterprise's mission to explore strange new worlds and seek new life. Grammarians scoff at this narrative for its use of a split infinitive in, "...to boldly go." Some twenty years later, the introduction was altered for the sequel series, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987-1994), to be more gender-neutral. Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard ended it this way: "...Where no one has gone before."
7. Gentlemen will rely upon a new cologne and aftershave called Bay Everyday, a masculine scent created from bay leaves and a certain liquor whose name means "strange" in British slang -- hence its inclusion in my campaign! What was this cologne formerly called?

Answer: Bay rum

Since I've never smelled it, I couldn't say whether "bay rum" smells more "rum" or "everyday." But surely the latter name will make it more approachable, hmm?

Native to the U.S. Virgin Islands, the leaves of the West Indian Bay Tree, also called the Bay Rum tree, provide the fragrant bay oil that is a key ingredient in many perfumes and colognes. The bay oil or leaves containing unextracted oil are distilled with alcohol such as rum, and ingredients including citrus oils or cinnamon, to make bay rum, a requisite cologne and aftershave at barber shops in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
8. Audiences will thrill to sound of rich organ music as a masked man entreats his beloved Christine with a haunting melody and these words: "Sing once again with me, our ho-hum duet." For which musical will this new-and-improved scene be most appropriate?

Answer: The Phantom of the Opera

"The Phantom of the Opera" really has it in for me: the aforementioned "strange duet" from the main theme, a song called "Stranger Than You Dreamt It," and the whole "strange affair"! Sigh.

Based on an early 20th-century story by French author Gaston Leroux, "The Phantom of the Opera" succeeded "Cats" in 2006 as Broadway's longest-running show, having debuted there in 1988. Can't make it to Broadway? You're in luck: Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical has been adapted to film several times. In 2004, "The Phantom of the Opera" came to the big screen with rich and lavish visuals to accompany beautiful melodies and the resonant organ music of the title theme. The film starred Gerard Butler as the "ghost" and Emmy Rossum as his protege.
9. Perhaps we can bring Turkey red, like the color worn by British redcoats, back into fashion by renaming the source of the color, "more normal plant." If this was your favorite plant, don't get angry! Just tell me, what was this plant known as before I renamed it?

Answer: Madder

"Madder" can mean angrier, or crazier! But I think that to call it "more normal" instead is the saner choice, by far.

The roots of the madder plant have as history of being used in natural dyes for many centuries. In India and Turkey, they were mixed with a disgusting array of animal products to create a shade called Turkey red. In the mid-18th century, the dye was brought to Europe, and was used in making the red coats of British soldiers. The red dye was later created via more sanitary means, and in 1804, an English dye maker found that adding mordants such as alum to madder root produced a more colorfast dye. Madder's heyday came to an end, however, when alizarin, the dye found naturally in madder, became the first pigment to be synthesized in 1869.
10. Whenever someone has some unpleasant fate to endure, they will say: "I shall have to dree my usual alone." All right, so this saying hasn't been extremely popular of late, but maybe that's because it was too strange! What word did I replace with "usual"?

Answer: Weird

All right, so my new phrase is just as likely to confuse those not familiar with archaic terms as the original. I shall thus "dree my weird," and surrender to the strangeness of this saying.

In Scottish and Old English terminology, to "dree" means to endure suffering, and "weird" is akin to destiny and the fates. Interestingly, the three Fates of mythology were called the Weirds. Also, the word's Scottish association with witches led to the term "weird sister," such as the three witches or Weird Sisters in Shakespeare's "Macbeth." But, what does it mean to "dree one's weird"? Simply put, it is to face the consequences of one's actions and accept destiny.
Source: Author darthrevan89

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