How to Lose Friends and Alienate People Quiz

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1. One sure fire way to lose friends and/or alienate people is to constantly blast the music of which controversial pop singer who sings songs like "Baby" and "U Smile?"

Answer: Justin Bieber

Bieber got his start when Usher saw him perform in Atlanta. Bieber signed with Raymond Braun Media Group, who produced his first single "One Time." Bieber has became disliked because of a series of antics and his several arrests. He has been accused of vandalism on numerous occasions and was arrested for a DUI in 2014.

The latter led to over 250,000 people signing a petition asking President Obama to deport Bieber to his native Canada.

2. If you are trying not to lose friends and alienate people, do not spoil the endings to movies. So, don't go telling everyone about Bruce Willis in which 1999 movie starring Haley Joel Osment?

Answer: The Sixth Sense

Bruce Willis stars as Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, and Haley Joel Osment as Cole Sear, a boy who sees dead people. Together, they each help each other with their problems. Cole is afraid of the dead people he sees and Dr. Crowe is trying to reconcile with his wife.

After helping Cole, Dr. Crowe returns home and tells his wife that she was always first in his life. It is then that he realizes that he was one of the dead people only Cole could see.

3. Ruining the ending of novels is also a bad idea, particularly when there is a twist ending. Like in Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express," where it would be a bad idea to spoil the solution by telling someone that who is the killer?

Answer: Everyone (mostly)

In "Murder on the Orient Express," Ratchett, an unpleasant man and former kidnapper, is murdered in his train cabin. None of the clues make sense, which baffles Hercule Poirot. That is until Poirot realizes the only logical explanation is that they all did it. All of the passengers were somehow related to Daisy Armstrong, a girl Ratchett had kidnapped and killed.

They all took turns stabbing him so no one could be certain who actually killed him.

4. When asked about your favorite political icon, you will certainly lose friends and alienate people if you say your favorite world leader is what Fascist who led Italy during World War II?

Answer: Benito Mussolini

Mussolini was a close ally of Hitler's during World War II. By 1943, much of Mussolini's Cabinet and political allies had turned against him after the Italian Army saw defeat after defeat in Northern Africa. Mussolini and his mistress tried to flee Italy for Switzerland and then Spain, but were stopped.

They were executed the next day and their bodies were dragged and degraded throughout the streets of Milan.

5. Eating foul-smelling food is a good way to lose friends and alienate people. If that is your intention, you should try what Southeast Asian fruit which some people claim smells like raw sewage and whose name is derived from the Malaysian word for "spike"?

Answer: Durian

Durian is extremely popular in Southeast Asia and there is a dispute over its smell. While most westerners claim it smells like rotting flesh, it smells sweet to those in Asia. However, even those people who say it smells bad, say it does have a sweet taste.

6. In a relay race, it will cause you much consternation from your friends if you drop the baton and get disqualified like which nation did in both the men's and women's 4 x 100m relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics?

Answer: United States

Both times it happened during the qualifying round, not the final. This was a huge upset for Team USA who was expected to at least medal in both events. The team from Russia won the women's relay and the team from Jamaica won the men's.

7. Another good way to lose friends and alienate people is to speak haughty language no one else can understand. It is best to speak simply and coherently. So, instead of saying "I am looking forward to the estival activities," you can just say what kind of activities?

Answer: Summer

Estival means relating to summer. It comes from the Latin word aestas, which means summer. In many Romance languages, the world for summer is similar to estival. For example the season is called "estate" in Italian.

8. You run the risk of losing friends and alienating people if you mumble incoherently like a fractured word brain teaser. If you mutter "As her by Jan," which nation are you talking about?

Answer: Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is a former Soviet Republic located in the Caucasus Mountains. It is an oil-rich nation on the Caspian Sea with its capital located at Baku.

9. You will definitely lose friends and alienate people if you do not bathe regularly. I would recommend using this soap which is said to be 99 and 44/100% pure?

Answer: Ivory

Ivory soap is made by the Procter & Gamble Company. In 1891, it became popular with the slogan "it floats." Soon after that is when Ivory claimed to be 99 and 44/100% pure. It is believed that the purity rating was based on the amount of foreign substances in the soap, as there was no purity standard in the 19th century.

10. Absolutely no one wants to hear about your bowel disease. If you did, in fact, have a bowel disease, which one of these ailments could you have?

Answer: Ulcerative colitis

Ulcerative colitis is a form of bowel disease characterized by inflammation of the colon that can cause bloody diarrhea. It is similar to Crohn's disease. Other symptoms can include a painful abdomen and tiredness. A cure for the disease is to have surgery to remove the inflicted part of the colon.

A myocardial infarction is a heart attack. Cardiac arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat. Conjunctivitis is pink eye.

Source: Author Joepetz

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