Miscellaneous Madness XI Trivia Quiz

Answer: Octopus

Though the octopus is very strong, he gives out easily because the hemocyanin is much less efficient than hemoglobin for carrying oxygen. When the octopus struggles, he goes into oxygen deprivation very easily.

Answer: False

Julia Ward Lowe, an American poet who wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", founded Mother's Day and called for June 2 to be "the day". President Wilson authorized the national holiday in 1915 and it was set in May.

Answer: Prostitute

The pom pom girl expression came from the "pom pom" automatic guns that were used by the Chicago gangsters and it worked its way into also meaning women who hung around the gangs and made what money they could in this way.

Answer: William Seward

Seward purchased Alaska from Russia for $7 million in 1867. It was called "Seward's Folly". The name Alaska comes from the Aleut word A-la-as-ka meaning "the great country". Captain Vitus Bering, a Dane, who had been exploring in Russia is thought to be the first white man to visit Alaska. Alaska became the 49th American state in 1959.

Answer: New York City, New York

The original is located between 48th and 52nd Streets on Seventh Avenue in NYC. The term was first written in 1914 and it no doubt came from the tinny, out of tune pianos that were being played creating constant noise from that area. Now, it can mean anyplace where popular music is published.

Answer: They had no name

Their descendants called them "Forefathers". The name "Pilgrim" was first used by William Bradford in 1630. He used the phrase, "they knew they were pilgrims" in his chronicle "Of Plimoth Plantation". The word "pilgrim" means a wanderer, a person who travels far to a sacred place. The word "pilgrim" came from the Latin "peregrinus" which means "a stranger".

Answer: Wheaties

"Wheaties----Breakfast of Champions". Even Tiger Woods eats his Wheaties. Wheaties loves the champions. There was a real Jack Armstrong. General Mills executive Sammy Gale roomed with Jack Armstrong in college and decided to use his name. Jack Armstrong went on to be a civil engineer, a decorated Army Air Force officer during WWII and even worked for the Apollo and Gemini space programs.

He died in 1985 at the age of 74----still a real champion.

Answer: Seagulls

Great flocks of seagulls arrived and the crops were saved. There is a monument to the seagull on Temple Square in Salt Lake City where it is written, "In grateful remembrance of the mercy of God to the Mormon pioneers". You know, the Great Salt Lake is a LONG distance from where the seagulls usually hang out.

They showed up another time in 1947 and destroyed a plague of caterpillars in Scotland.

Answer: Sea Islands - Off Georgia in the US

Gullah is an American dialect with approximately 5000 African terms included. It is said that it takes its name from the Gola tribe in Africa.

Answer: Egyptians

Told you it was weird! This was a traditional saying of the Egyptians who, at their banquets, exhibited a skeleton to the guests to remind them of the brevity of life. It also appears in Eccles 8:15, "A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, drink and be merry".