Pass It On Trivia Quiz

Answer: Tiger

This is the full wording for the childhood method of deciding who is "it":

"Eeny, meeny, miny, mo,
Catch a tiger by the toe,
If they holler,
Let them go
Eeny, meeny, miny, mo"

Growing up, I always remember replacing the second "Eeny, meeny, miny, mo" with "My mother said to pick this one". Often, children will add various additional lines to the rhymes so that they can choose who will be "it".

At the very least, this rhyme has been around since the 19th century as a counting rhyme.

Question by author BxBarracuda.

Answer: 28 Days Later

Directed by Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle, "28 Days Later" starred Cillian Murphy as a man who survives the initial outbreak of the deadly 'Rage' virus. Confined to the United Kingdom, those infected with the disease lose most of their natural instincts, instead angrily murdering their victims and perpetuating the virus. Compared to most zombie films, the enemies are not actually zombies- this was one of the first horror films to make use of 'the infected' as opposed to the undead. The film was followed up in 2007 by "28 Weeks Later", at which point the whole country is given a momentous relapse and the virus begins anew.

Question by author kyleisalive.

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II of England

The young Queen was in Australia for celebrations of capital Canberra's 50th anniversary, and took the opportunity to grant Menzies (1894-1978) the Order of the Thistle for 'Services to Queen and Country'. Although Menzies held the view that 'local' honours were necessarily politically motivated and thus inappropriate for a current Prime Minister to accept, the gift of the Order was in Her Majesty's power alone, and bestowed on him as a mark of personal royal esteem. So it is unsurprising that he was feeling quite well-disposed towards her when he made his now-infamous speech, which branded Menzies forever as an anglophile sycophant. It is unfortunate, perhaps, that the piece of footage of the speech is one of the best-known pieces of 'historical' footage in Australia, and that the voiceover declares "There is no greater admirer of the Royal Family than the Prime Minister." While undoubtedly the personal respect went both ways, Menzies' defenders claimed that this simple quote - quite sweet and gallant in its way - in no way encompassed his entire feelings towards the British monarchy.

The queens in the three incorrect answers were all reigning in 1963. The quote comes from a 1607 poem called "There is a Ladie Sweet and Kind", written by otherwise obscure English court musician Thomas Ford (1580-1648). There's a line in there somewhere about possible relationships to certain Head Honchos of FunTrivia, and the gene for romantic utterings perhaps being passed on, but far be it from me to be so gauche as to spell it out...

Question by author ing.

Answer: Pay It Forward

When a social studies teacher asked his seventh grade class to think of an idea that could change the world, Trevor McKinney came up with a way to make the world a better place. He proposed doing good deeds for people, but instead of asking them to pay him back for the favor, he would ask them to "Pay It Forward". "That's me, and that's three people," Trevor explained to the class while drawing circles on a blackboard. "And I'm going to help them, but it has to be something really big, something they can't do by themselves. So I do it for them, then they do it for three other people." And so, like some karmic pyramid scheme, Trevor's simple idea grew into a social movement, and forever changed the lives of his mother, his teacher, and countless others both known and unknown to him. This bittersweet film was based on the book of the same name by Catherine Ryan Hyde, and starred Haley Joel Osment, Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt.

Question by author jmorrow.

Answer: Their DNA pattern is very similar to that of humans

Human cells have 23 pairs of chromosomes. On the other hand, common fruit fly cells have only four pairs of chromosomes. This makes the genetic analysis less complicated. Also, the common fruit fly has a very short life cycle, namely a mere ten days. Therefore, geneticists can observe and study the characteristics and phenotypes (physical appearances) of the organisms within two weeks. A female common fruit fly can lay up to 100 eggs per day.

Question by author Matthew_07.

Answer: The Coral

The Coral were originally formed by six friends in Hoylake near Liverpool in 1996. They became part of the thriving Liverpool music scene of the early part of the twentieth century along with bands such as The Zutons, The Basement and The Rascals, although it is fair to say that only The Zutons rivaled The Coral's commercial success.

The first five studio albums by The Coral all reached the top ten in the UK album charts with "Magic and Medicine" hitting the very top. The Coral released four successful singles from that album, but "Pass It On" was the most successful of the quartet.

Question by author mutchisman.

Answer: Robert Koch

Written in the late 18th century, by Koch and his associate Loeffler, "Koch's Postulates" state:

"The microorganism must be found in abundance in all organisms suffering from the disease, but should not be found in healthy animals. The microorganism must be isolated from a diseased organism and grown in pure culture. The cultured microorganism should cause disease when introduced into a healthy organism. The microorganism must be reisolated from the inoculated, diseased experimental host and identified as being identical to the original specific causative agent."

When the Postulates are applied to genes within organisms, they can be used to help determine the virulence of a microbe (i.e., its ability to cause disease in other organisms).

Question by author Rowena8482.

Answer: Momentum

This is a classic example of the principle of the conservation of linear momentum. This law states that the total momentum after the collision is equal to the total momentum before the collision. In the collision in the example above, the red ball will lose all its momentum and the yellow ball will gain that same value of momentum.
Conservation of momentum isn't just confined to the carpet of the pool table but is seen in all collisions and explosions. The wonderfully simple equation for momentum is: momentum (p) = mass (m) x velocity (v).

Question by author jonnowales.

Answer: The USA

The battle of the Kasserine Pass took place from mid to late February 1943. The fighting took place in Tunisia and primarily involved the Axis Panzer forces led by Erwin Rommel (the Desert Fox) and the US Army's II Corps under the command of Major General Lloyd Fredendall. The Americans were poorly led and unaware of the strength of the German forces and so faced heavy casualties. However, after the arrival of British reinforcements and the revision of US tactics the Axis forces were successfully forced to retreat.

The involvement of the joint US/UK forces in northwest Africa at this time (and subsequent Allied victory in the Mediterranean) was only possible after what became known as "Operation Torch" in November 1942. This was the first successful amphibious landing during the war and was particularly significant as it stretched German resources and divided their army.

Question by author doublemm.

Answer: Dorothy Parker

An author, poet, critic, screenwriter, playwright and lyricist, Dorothy Parker was known for her sharp wit, her circle of literary friends and her drinking. She was an early crusader for civil rights; when she died, she bequeathed her estate to Martin Luther King, Jr. Her ashes are buried in a memorial garden at the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore with her requested epitaph, "Excuse my dust".

Question by author PDAZ.