10 Questions That Do Nothing For Gray Hair Quiz

Answer: Melanin

Haptoglobin is a component in blood plasma. Aluminum is a mineral commonly found within each cell of the human body, but has nothing to do with hair color. Klorax B is a figment of my over active imagination. The correct answer is melanin. As pigment cells die, less melanin is produced causing the hair to fade in color, becoming more transparent.

Answer: It is an East Indian curry soup.

Not Welsh, Scottish, or Creole, but Indian, mulligatawny soup can be made from fowl, rabbit, breasts of veal, or calf's head. Toss in a clove of garlic, onions, ground almonds, curry powder, some broth, and you are on your way.

Answer: A

In binary, only 1's and 0's are used (1010 would have been the answer in binary). In the decimal system we use, the numbers 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, and 9 are used (10 would have been the answer in decimal). Hexadecimal lacks the needed number symbols used to represent the decimal numbers 10,11,12,13,14, and 15, so letters are used.

A is 10, B is 11, etc. If you answered F, you were wrong because 3 and 7 do not add up to 15.

Answer: A very big, very hairy, dog.

A Bouvier des Flandres is a large, hairy, dog. They were originally cattle herders in France and Belgium, hence the name 'bouvier'. They were used as rescue and message carriers during World War I and the breed was almost wiped out. They make great watchdogs and guardians.

They are very smart, and have also been used as seeing eye dogs and in police work. I was once told that George Lucas got the idea for wookies from them, but take that with a grain of salt.

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger

OK, I cheated a little bit, what he said sounded more like "It's not a too-mah!" in the film "Kindergarten Cop". Jerry Brown was not an actor, but like Arnold, he was governor of California, serving for two terms from 1975-1983. Ronald Reagan, a one time actor like Arnold, served as governor from 1966-1974 before going on to the presidency. Clint Eastwood served as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, but so far has never been governor.

Answer: A glass of water.

This question harkens back to the classic Dick Van Dyke Show and an episode titled, "It May Look Like a Walnut!", in which Danny Thomas played Kolac, leader of a group of thumbless aliens who breathed water and used walnuts to take control of humans. The aliens had a second pair of eyes in the back of their heads. I still remember Laura, her back to Rob, raise a flap of hair and announce, "I see you!"

Answer: Your ungulates are without equal.

Placoids are scales found on sharks. A calamus is a part of a bird's feather and also is a type of plant. A buccal mass is part of the digestive system belonging to snails. That leaves ungulates, which are hooves. Cows do not have scales, feathers, or snail-like digestive cavities. They do, however, have hooves.

Answer: As a defender standing against a demonic entity.

The actor that said those words is Sir Ian McKellan. They were spoken in the film "The Fellowship of the Ring" by the wizard Gandalf, who stood barring the passage of the bridge of Khazad-Dum from a monstrous demon called a balrog.

Answer: ...that he discovered FM transmission.

NEIL Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. LANCE Armstrong is the famous cyclist. Louis Armstrong's first name WAS Louis. Edwin Armstrong was an early radio pioneer who was responsible for the regenerative circuit and FM radio. His career, along with other early radio pioneers, is chronicled in the documentary "Empire of the Air" by Ken Burns.

Answer: Planting trees.

John Chapman was born on September 26, 1774 in the state of Massachusetts. He was one of the first people to explore what was then the Northwest Territory of the United States. While there, he established tree nurseries and later sold or gave the trees to settlers as they made their way into the territory.

The trees he planted were apple trees. John Chapman is better known as Johnny Appleseed.