My Hamsters Ate My Grandfather Quiz

Answer: Coelacanth

Sometimes known as the Living Fossil, the coelacanth is a fish that has a number of unusual structural features which provide evidence to support theories about some interesting evolutionary relationships. Coelacanths were well known to scientists in fossil form, but were thought extinct until 1938 when one was caught in a shark gill net by fishermen near the mouth of the Chalumna River on the east coast of South Africa.

The fishermen notified a local museum of their find and the 'lost' became 'found'.

Answer: Atlantis

Atlantis is a legendary city, described by Plato as being located 'in front of the Pillars of Hercules' and reputed to have sunk into the sea in one day and one night some time around 10,000 BCE. Today, people understand the Pillars of Hercules to refer to the Strait of Gibraltar, but the actual location of Atlantis has never been positively identified; indeed, many doubt whether the city ever really existed at all.

Answer: Zsa Zsa Gabor

Zsa Zsa Gabor rose to stardom in film and television during the 1950s and is also infamous for her many marriages (nine weddings, seven divorces and one annulment). Her only child is Francesca, born in 1947 during Zsa Zsa's marriage to Conrad Hilton.

Answer: A kite

The 'kite-eating' tree constantly foils Charlie Brown's attempts to fly a kite, Lucy always pulls the football away as Charlie tries to kick it, and Snoopy regularly steals Linus's security blanket. 'Peanuts' is a classic comic strip written by Charles Schulz which ran from October 2, 1950 through February 13, 2000 - the day after Schulz's death.

Answer: A blue jacket

In 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' a mischievous young rabbit breaks into Mr. McGregor's garden to gorge on vegetables even though his father had met an untimely end there. Peter is spotted by McGregor and in his bid to escape loses his jacket and his shoes.

Answer: The Bermuda Triangle

The area known as the Bermuda Triangle has as its three vertices Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the southern tip of Florida. Legend has it that an inordinate number of mysterious disappearances have occurred in this area, though others claim that these incidents can be explained by natural phenomena.

Answer: Italy

After the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, the city of Pompeii was lost until 1748 when Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre discovered the remains while digging to establish the foundations of a summer palace for the king of Naples. Archaeological digs at Pompeii and sister city Herculaneum, destroyed by the same eruption, have provided valuable insights into life in the Roman era.

Answer: Waterloo

At the battle of Waterloo, which took place in Belgium in 1815, Napoleon's army was defeated by English and Prussian allied forces, effectively ending his rule as Emperor of France. In popular usage, meeting one's Waterloo has come to mean an unaccustomed but decisive defeat and the Swedish pop group ABBA used this reference as the driving motif for their song 'Waterloo'.

Answer: Barbie's shoes

Barbie is a female doll that has been criticised for presenting young children with unrealistic body-shape expectations. One thing is for sure, her feet are small and so are her shoes. Most Barbies come complete with small plastic shoes, but they can be knocked off quite easily and subsequently lost.

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

It took several hours after opening for Louvre staff to be sure that the painting was actually missing. Early suspects included Guillaume Apollinaire and his friend Pablo Picasso, but ultimately it was discovered that it was a Louvre employee. Vincenzo Peruggia entered the Louvre during business hours, hid in a broom closet, then removed the painting from the wall and walked out with it hidden under his coat after the museum had closed.

He was caught when he tried to sell it to the directors of the Uffizi Gallery where he believed it rightly belonged.

Answer: Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence was changing trains at Reading Station on his way home for Christmas when he left the case containing his manuscript in a refreshment room. It took him three months to rewrite the work, though he always preferred his original effort. Lawrence's attempts to build alliances between the Arab Revolt and the English army during World War One are depicted in the film 'Lawrence of Arabia'.

Answer: Ringo

'A Hard Day's Night' was the first movie featuring The Beatles. George Harrison met his future wife Patty on the set, and she makes a brief appearance in the film. The size of Ringo's nose is a running joke in the film; in response, he runs off and is missing as the rest of the group prepare for their big show.

Answer: Boston

The song's lyrics tell of Charlie, a man who boards the MTA (Boston's subway) and can't get home because he doesn't have the newly-introduced exit fee. The song is, obviously, a protest against this levy. Recently Boston has named its electronic-based fare system after Charlie from the song.

Answer: Henry Morton Stanley

Dr David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer, set out to discover the source of the Nile in 1866. Over the course of his journey most of his assistants lost confidence in his leadership and gradually abandoned him, some even reporting, prematurely, that he had died.

Henry Morton Stanley was sent to find Livingstone, which he did, though there is insufficient evidence to determine whether or not he actually spoke the now famous words attributed to him. Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke and Samuel White Baker were all also involved in expeditions seeking the source of the Nile River.

Answer: The Holy Grail

The Holy Grail is said to have been used by Jesus Christ during his last meal with his Disciples, but sources contain conflicting reports both as to whether it was a cup, plate or chalice, and as to whether it was in fact 'lost' or kept safe by the Catholic church. During the middle ages, questing for the Holy Grail became a popular theme in literature, one which continues to appear in both books and films.

Answer: Albert Einstein

This is possibly one of the most famous formulas in history and is frequently referenced in pop culture. Strictly, Einstein's equation states that mass and energy are two forms of the same thing, so technically mass is converted to another form rather than lost. E stands for energy, M for mass and C for the speed of light in a vacuum.

Answer: The Boston Red Sox

Before the Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth (sometimes called The Bambino) to the New York Yankees in 1919, Boston had won five of the fifteen World Series titles to that point. They didn't win again until 2004, when they defeated the St Louis Cardinals; during that period the Yankees were easily the most successful team in the game.

Answer: 'Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.'

This episode, 'The Old Man and the C Student', sees Bart doing community service at the local retirement home. At the conclusion of the edited version of 'Gone With The Wind' some of the residents quip happily about what a lovely ending it had and Hans Moleman asks, 'Didn't that movie used to have a war in it?'.

Answer: Lara Croft

'Tomb Raider' was originally released in 1996. Its use of a female lead character was hailed by some as an innovative break-away from the male characters typically used in adventure style video games, but others saw Lara Croft as a sexist attempt to use an idealised female form to attract teenage boys to the game. Since 1996 a number of 'Tomb Raider' video games have been released, as well as blockbuster movies based on them.

Answer: China

The sculptures in question represented the signs of the Chinese zodiac in the famous Haiyantang water clock fountain in the Garden of Eternal spring, part of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing. During the Second Opium War British and French troops destroyed and looted the palace, and for almost 150 years the whereabouts of the bronze zodiac sculptures was not widely known.

In 2000 the monkey, the ox and the tiger were returned to China. In 2009 the rabbit and the rat were for sale as part of the estate of Yves St Laurent, but the Chinese collector who won the auction refused to pay because he claimed the items were rightfully the property of his nation.

Some of the sculptures are still 'lost' but many believe they are held by the British Museum and the Louvre.