Boring Stuff on the Internet Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dav Pilkey

Dav Pilkey wrote the 'Captain Underpants' series of books along with 'Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot' series, 'Dumb Bunnies' and a bunch of other children's books. There is also a list of boring things to do to pass the time such as counting the number of words on a web page and staring at the screen long enough so you can clearly see the monitor refreshing. All pretty boring stuff...
All incorrect answers options are names of authors of children's book series.

Answer: Adobe/Macromedia

Although a search for "who invented Flash player" comes up with several Question/Answer pages declaring Barack Obama the creator of Flash player, unfortunately it is untrue. Obama was 'only' the 44th President of the United States.

Flash Player was created by Adobe and is a software program used for viewing animations and movies in a web browser. It was initially released in 1996 and available in most web browsers operating systems and languages.

Answer: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The idea of the Babel fish originally came from Douglas Adams' 'trilogy' of four books 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'. It is "small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the universe". The Babel fish is placed in the ear and 'mashes' any language so the listener can understand what is being said. It is also pointed out in the books that the Babel fish could not possibly have developed naturally therefore proving and disproving the existence of god. Make sense?

Oh, and a tip before you start 'playing' with translation sites: don't just translate into one language, THAT is boring. Translate from one language to another several times then back to the original language - it will keep you entertained for hours!

Answer: Alanis Morissette

'Ironic' was the second number-one hit for Alanis Morissette. An alternative version was written by Morissette in 2004 to show her support for same-sex marriage (Wikipedia).

The song has even been re-written by someone else (obviously bored at the time) to make the lyrics ironic. Here is one example I found "An old man turned ninety-eight. He won the lottery and died the next day... of chronic emphysema from inhalation of the latex particles scratched off decades' worth of lottery tickets." (collegehumor.com), definitely a more ironic version!

Answer: David Hasselhoff

In the mid-2000s the email phenomenon began. Emails started circulating of David Hasselhoff being 'photoshopped' into some of the strangest situations. He was there as part of the rescue effort after hurricane Katrina, wearing his red shorts and holding onto his flotation device used in the 'Baywatch' series. His face has also been 'photoshopped' onto local cricket, soccer and football heroes. The strange thing is, he is more popular out of his own country (USA) than in it! David Hasselhoff also starred in the TV show 'Knight Rider' and was quite popular in Europe for his music - something that the rest of the world seemingly couldn't stand.

All incorrect answers were a part of the 'Baywatch' cast at one stage.

Answer: Rick Astley

According Wikipedia, the first known occurrence of 'rickrolling' was in 2007 on a video game chat board. The craze soon leapt off the chat board and into popular culture and with several high profile 'rickrolls', new versions were born - the Barrack Roll and the Whitroll. iPhones that had been jailbroken were also targeted in 2009 with a worm virus designed to change the wallpaper of the infected phone to that of a picture of Rick Astley. Apparently Rick Astley was amused by the joke of 'rickrolling' but has reportedly only made $12 in YouTube performance royalties from the whole craze.

Answer: Tipp-ex

'A Hunter Shoots a Bear' kept us entertained at work for hours one day (can you tell it was a slow day that day?). Basically, when you first see the ad the hunter is threatening to shoot a bear that has wandered into his campsite in the forest. The hunter then takes the Tipp-ex pictured outside the video's frame and deletes the word 'shoots' from the title of the film. He then instructs the viewer to type any word they want into the now blank space to create their own 'ending' to the situation. A great way to fill in the blank space left by boredom

(A Hunter )'Shops with' and 'mows the lawn' (a Bear) were two of my favourites.

Answer: Surfboard

In less than 12 months, Kyle MacDonald had traded each of these items for the one following it in the list: his original red paper clip, a fish-shaped pen, a hand-sculpted doorknob, a camp stove, a Honda generator, an 'instant party' - an empty keg with a promise to fill it - and a Budweiser sign, a Ski-doo snowmobile, a two-person trip to Yahk in British Columbia, a cube van, a recording contract with Metal Works in Toronto, one year's rent in Phoenix, Arizona, an afternoon with Alice Cooper, a KISS motorized snow globe, a role in the film 'Donna on Demand', ending with the final trade - a two-story farmhouse in Saskatchewan.

Although it took nearly a full year, MacDonald ended up by trading his red paperclip for a house. He has also written a book about his experience.

It may have helped to pass the boredom between trades?

Answer: Facemash

The Facemash site was originally available for a short amount of time at Harvard University in the US. It was shut down by Harvard administration and Zuckerberg was charged (later dropped) with breaching security, violating individual privacy and violating copyrights. Zuckerberg's next project was a social study tool and was used by classmates to share notes.

In 2004, 'TheFacebook' was launched. After new additions to the team, the change of name to 'Facebook' and having expanded its membership from students and several companies, 'Facebook' was finally opened to the general public (anyone over the age of thirteen and with a valid email address) in September 2006. In 2010, a new film was released, 'The Social Network', based on the founding of 'Facebook'. Bored screenwriters and studio executives scraping the bottom of the barrel perhaps? Or a smart ploy? Either way, first reports from critics were positive...

Answer: Play quizzes (on FunTrivia of course!)

All of these suggestions, and more, are available on the internet to help people relieve boredom. There is also closing your eyes and stepping off a curb pretending it is a cliff, having a water-gargling contest with a friend, repeating everything you hear in a foreign accent, and making prank phone calls. Of course, a quick search will give you hours of fun - both searching for things to do and actually following through with some of the crazy suggestions.

There are also sites out there where you can upload footage of you relieving your boredom using the suggestions on that particular site. Fun for hours...?