Nothing Difficult is Ever Easy Quiz

Answer: Dwarf

The common dwarf and the Ethiopian dwarf are mainly found in Africa. The two overlap, but the common dwarf mongoose covers more area.

Answer: flower

Sunflowers are tall one-flower plants. They are so named because they look like a giant sun. Many believe the adult sunflower follows the sun, but this is not true; it tends to face east all day in one position and not move as the sun does.

A flower child was another word for hippie, especially during the 1967 "Summer of Love." The name came from the fact they often wore flowers in their hair, and also would hand out flowers to people.

Flower child has also been associated with the flower power political movement. This was the idea of protesting the Vietnam War peacefully.

Answer: Bess Truman

Elizabeth "Bess" Virginia Truman ne้ Wallace was born on February 13, 1885, in Independence, Missouri, USA. She served as the first lady from 1945-1953. Harry and Bess first met when she was five, and he was six, in their Sunday school class at church.

In 1974, June Dayton played Bess Truman in the biopic movie "The Man from Independence." The film is about Harry Truman in 1929 when he began his political career.

Diana Scarwid played Bess Truman in 1994 in the TV movie "Truman." This movie was also a biopic about Harry Truman. This film's tagline was, "It took a farmer's hand to shape a nation."

Answer: The Yellow Kid

"The Yellow Kid" ran from 1895-1998 in "New York World," and then "New York Journal." The yellow kid was a bald child with one tooth who always wore a yellow shirt. He lived in the hood and was bald because he recently had headlice.

Because the newspapers "The Yellow Kid" ran in were known for not very real news because of exaggeration and sensationalism, they were called "Yellow Kid Journalism." The phrase, first used by Erwin Wardman, an editor of "New York Press,' was later shortened to "yellow journalism."

Answer: Mountain

"Night on Bald Mountain" was composed by Modest Mussorgsky. He was a Russian composer in the 19th century (the 1800s). "Night on Bald Mountain" is a series of compositions.

Answer: yellow

The code for tender shoots is B5CC39. It goes well with blue and magenta. It also contrasts with white.

Answer: Hualai River

The Hualai River is only about 15cm wide at its widest point, and at its narrowest, it's only 4cm wide. It flows in the Gongger grasslands. The Hualai River is more than 17 km long.

Answer: Treaty of Paris

The Crimean War was fought 1853-1856. An estimated 650,000 people died during the war, which was fought partly over religious tension over control of Jerusalem and other places considered holy to the Christians. Britain was becoming nervous about how aggressive Russia was, and France wanted revenge when Russia defeated Napoleon, so both countries joined the war on the Turkish side.

The Treaty of Paris was signed on March 30, 1856. Some things included were safe trade on the Black Sea. The Ottoman Empire was guaranteed independence. And, of course, it ended the war.

Answer: Mozzarella

Over 30% of the cheese made in the Wisconsin cheese factories is mozzarella. This is most likely due to Americans' love for eating pizza. The state produces more than 30x the weight of The Leaning Tower of Pisa in just mozzarella cheese alone. The second most popular is far behind at only around 19%, which is cheddar.

Answer: plot of land

Erf originated in Southern Africa in the Afrikaans language. It most commonly refers to land used to build something on it.

Answer: He did not use the letter E when writing it.

"Gadsby" is a lipogram. A lipogram is a type of writing that avoids using a letter or a group of letters. Since E is the most common letter in the English language, not using it is also the most challenging. His name and introduction have the letter E, but once the novel starts, there is not one E in the entire 50,000 words. Gadsby is a mayor of a town called Branton Hills. The mayor is trying to fix up this town.

Since Wright did not use the letter E, there were no "he," "she," "they," "the," or past tense words ending in "-ed."

Answer: The Toll of the Sea

"The Toll of the Sea" (1922) starred Anna May Wong as Lotus Flower. The movie is about an American white man, Allen (played by Kenneth Harlan), who goes to China, and while he's there falls in love with a Chinese woman (Wong), but then he has second thoughts about it.

Interesting bonus fact: When Wong tried out for the Chinese woman in "The Good Earth," she was rejected, and they used a white woman painted to look Chinese (as they often did back then). The reason was Wong did not look like what white people thought Chinese women looked like.

Answer: deaf

Mandy Harvey was born on January 2, 1988, in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Harvey suffered from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) as a child, a connective tissue disease. She majored in vocal musical education at Colorado State after finishing high school. However, when she was eighteen, she completely lost her hearing due to the EDS.

At first, she gave up music, but then with visual help and the fact that she had perfect pitch, she realized she did not have to give up her dream. In 2017, she was on season 12 of "America's Got Talent," where she came in 4th. She received threats from some people in the Deaf community for promoting "hearing activities."

Answer: doctors

H.H. Holmes is considered the first American serial killer. He lived from 1861-1894. He had a "Murder Castle" in Chicago where he kept a kiln to burn the bodies.

Josef Mengele was also known as "The Angel of Death." He was a Nazi doctor who performed deadly experiments on prisoners of Auschwitz II. He also was one of the ones who decided who went to the gas chambers, and he even turned the gas on himself. He managed to avoid being caught and died in 1979 when he had a stroke while swimming and drowned.

Harold Shipman also earned the nickname "Angel of Death" and targeted the elderly. He would kill them by prescribing them high dosages of drugs, not unlike the high dosages of morphine his mother was on in her final days as she was dying from lung cancer when Shipman was seventeen. He was very close to his mother.

Answer: Haman

Haman was a powerful man who worked directly for King Xerxes. He was also a wicked man, and when Mordechai refused to bow to him, he not only wanted to kill Mordechai, Haman wanted to wipe out all the Jewish people the Persians had in exile.

Esther was also Jewish and the queen. Only no one knew at the time she was Jewish.

Haman tricked the king, telling him some people aren't obeying his laws, and Haman will destroy them all for the king if the king will let him. Xerxes gives Haman his signet ring and tells him to go ahead.

Haman takes the ring and writes a decree to annihilate all the Jews. He seals it so it is as official as if it came from the king.

If you want to know the outcome, it is found in the book of Esther.

Answer: limbic system

The limbic system is bilateral and found on each side of the thalamus in the brain. It is what controls emotions, memory, behavior, and sense of smell. The hippocampus, essential for short-term memory, is in the limbic system.

Answer: Player accidentally touches stone

When a player accidentally hits the stone (the granite piece that is used in the game) with their body or their broom, while in play, it is called burning a stone, and it's an infraction. If it's not in play, and the stone doesn't move, it's not an infraction. Players are expected to call this information on themselves, as curling involves a lot of good sportsmanship.

Answer: Charlie Briscoe

"Living Dolls" was a spin-off of "Who's the Boss?". It starred Leah Remini as Charlene "Charlie" Briscoe, who lived in a house run by Miss Patricia "Trish" Carlin for teenage models. They lived in the house, had to do well in school, and worked on their modeling careers while living in the house.

It did not do well with critics, and "People" magazine gave it an F grade in their review, the only show they gave that grade to for 1989. The show was canceled after 12 episodes.

Answer: Donkey Kong Jr, Math

NES' "Donkey Kong Jr, Math" could be played by one or two players. Like the original "Donkey Kong," the player had to climb vines and hop from one to the other according to the mathematical sign to get the answer that Donkey Kong is showing at the top.

The game did not do well in North America, so no more games were sold there.

Answer: Qing

Aisin-Gioro Puyi was born on February 7, 1906, in Beijing, China. He became Emperor on December 2, 1908. His name as emperor was Xuantong Emperor, which means "proclamation of unity." He was the last emperor of the Chinese dynasty. Puyi was known for his kindness and humility. He passed away on October 17, 1967 from kidney cancer and heart disease.