A Quiz for Inquisition

Answer: False

Hitchcock had a sneaky side to him and he liked to save money. He bought the rights anonymously from the author for only $9,000. He then bought up as many copies of the novel as he could in order to keep the ending a secret. During filming, the movie was referred to as "Production 9401" or "Wimpy". Hitchcock used the crew from his TV series to save time and money on the fim.

It only cost $800,000 to make "Psycho" yet it earned more than $40 million. The actual house used for the design construction of the house in "Psycho" still stands in Kent, Ohio.

The shower scene had over 90 splices in it and didn't involve Anthony Perkins at all as he was in New York rehearsing for a play. The sound of the knife penetrating the flesh in the shower scene is actually the sound of a knife stabbing a casaba melon. (UGH!) Did you know that chocolate syrup was used to simulate the blood from the stabbing?

Answer: True

As a matter of fact, it had 293 performances and then went on a tour that lasted nine years. In 1939 when she starred in the movie, Judy Garland was only 16 years old. The ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland actioned off by Christie's in May of 2000 brought in $666,000. According to lead Munchkin, Jerry Maren, the "little people" were paid $50 per week for a six day workweek while Toto received $125 per week. During filming, Toto was stepped on by one of the witch's guards and had to have a doggie double for two weeks.

It took one hour and 45 minutes each day for Jack Haley's silver and black makeup to be applied for his role as the Tin Man. Ray Bolger, playing the Scarecrow sat in the makeup chair for two hours but poor Bert Lahr, the Cowardly Lion had the worst time of it. Once his lion's mouth and nose prostheses were glued to his face, he couldn't even open his mough wide enough to chew.

His lunch was whatever he could sip through a straw. His fur-covered lion costume, complete with fur mittens was so heavy and hot that Lahr had to take the suit off completely after each shot and each time it was dripping wet.

Answer: Live creatures

This pie was always served as the main course and it arrived at the banquet table with great fanfare. It was ceremoniously opened and out of the pie leaped all sorts of live animals - frogs, foxes, terriers, squirrels and as the nursery rhyme goes, four-and-twenty blackbirds.

At one grand dinner party it was reported that a dwarf leaped out and danced about the table. A personal thought: How did they get all these animals together in a pie? My source does not say...nor does it say what they guests had to eat after they caught up with all the animals.

They had to be hungry after all that excitement.

Answer: Indonesia

It's not only the most expensive at approximately $300 per pound - but the rarest as well. "Kopi luwak" is the end product (in more ways than one) of a catlike marsupial, called the paradoxurus that loves eating coffee beans. The enzymes of its stomach add a unique flavor and the beans are only collected after they are excreted.

After that exciting fact, we learn that Hawaii is the only state in the United States that grows coffee. Coffee beans are not beans but rather the pits of fruit that resembles beans. Approximately 2,000 of them are required to make one pound of coffee. According to the National Safety Council, coffee is not successful in sobering up a drunk person- - it may actually increase the adverse effects of alcohol.

Answer: True

A favorite dish of the Aztecs was roast turkey with chocolate gravy. The bitter but nourishing drink was called "xcoatl" by the Aztecs. Hernando Cortez, the Spanish explorer, brought the chocolate drink to Spain in 1529. It was a favorite of Spanish royalty for many years before becoming popular throughut Europe. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls every morning.

Her physician recommended this to improve her memory. Chocolate can be lethal to dogs. Theobromine, an ingredient that stimulates the cardiac muscle and the central nervous system, causes chocolate's toxicity.

As little as two counces of milk chocolate can be poisonous for a 10 pound puppy. White chocolate contains no caffeine. The first chocolate factory in America was started up by John Hannan and James Baker in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1765.

Answer: They were not sold.

Hindus, who make up a large portion of India's population, consider a cow a sacred animal and its slaughter a sacrilege, and Muslims don't eat pork. So, McDonalds had to come up with something else. Anybody for a "Maharajah Mac - two all-lamb patties?

Answer: Dr. Pepper

As you might have guessed, it was a phamacist who invented it. Did you know that the official soft drink of Nebraska is Kool-Aid? Pepsi's slogan "Come Alive with the Pepsi Generation" translated onto Taiwan billboards becomes "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead." CocaCola was originally billed an an "esteemed brain tonic and intellectual beverage" when it first appeared on the market in 1886. Pepsi's advertising slogan in 1903 mentioned that it "Aids Digestion".

The United States is second in consumption of CocaCola with Mexico coming in first. Lithiated Lemon was the original name for 7Up.

Answer: False

How you get your drink is to pour your companion's first and then your companion will pour yours. Chopstick etiquette is complex: Never use chopsticks to point at somebody. Never leave chopsticks standing up out of the food. Wandering the chopsticks over several foods without decision is called "maoibashi".

The act of raking food into one's already full mouth with chopsticks is disdainfully called "komibashi", but what might be worse is licking the ends of chopsticks. This is called "neburibashi" and is considered unforgivable.

While all this might be hard to remember, the plus side is that there is no tipping in a restaurant in Japan. I wonder if they have any Italian restaurants - or better yet, a McDonald's?

Answer: All have the same place of death

They all died or were pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. Of course, we know that John F. Kennedy was supposedly shot by Lee Harvey Oswald and that Jack Ruby shot Oswald. Ruby was convicted for the murder of Oswald and died on January 3, 1967 from a blood clot that lodged in his lungs.

He was suffering from lung cancer. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at auction for $6,600 in 1992.

Answer: True

Many types of whales were hunted to near extinction. Now, whales are protected worldwide by the Inernational Whaling Commission. The whalers in the Antarctic waters really had to move out by winter though as the ocean surface around Antarctica begins to freeze and at a rapid rate! The ice spreads an average of 30,000 square miles per day and the ring of sea ice finally covers more than 7 million square miles----an area larger than the continent itself. Now folks, that is a whole lot of ice!