Quiz On Just About Everything

Answer: June Havoc

Born Ellen Evangeline Hovick, June was the younger sister of Rose Louise (Gypsy). June got her start at age 2 working in movie shorts with Harold Lloyd. She was also a vaudeville headliner at age 5 and a child bride by 13. Havoc went to Hollywood and appeared in a number of films, plus her own TV series in 1964, but never achieved the status enjoyed by her big sister.

Answer: W.C. Fields

Real name Claude William Dunkenfield, this famous movie star of Hollywood's Golden Era once thought about using this for his epitaph. Sadly, this is the only question I remember from that college exam.

Answer: Cat

The Cat replaces the Rabbit in the Vietnamese Zodiac.

Answer: Epsilon

I guess if you're collegiate, this isn't that hard.

Answer: Barleycorn

A hertz (after Heinrich Hertz) indicates units of frequency, curies (after Marie Curie) measure units of radioactivity and the Apgar (after Virginia Apgar) is a numerical measurement of the health of a newborn baby. A barleycorn is an old English unit of length, based on the length of barley seeds. 'John Barleycorn' was the name of a British tavern song that was not connected to a real person.

Answer: Pittsburgh, PA

The home of the baseball Pirates, the football Steelers and the hockey Penguins.

Answer: Mali

Once a vast trade center, Timbuktu now sits enshrouded by the Sahara Desert.

Answer: Scoville

The Saffir-Simpson scale measures the strength of hurricanes, the Fujita-Pearson scale measures the damage inflicted by tornadoes and the Richter scale measures the intensity of earthquakes. A Scoville unit measures the concentration of capsaicin, the 'hot' ingredients in chili peppers...which, to some, may actually apply to this category.

Answer: Purple

The Olympic rings represent the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes throughout the world at the Olympic Games. The colors (red, green, blue, yellow and black) were chosen because at least one of these colors is found in the flag of every nation.

Answer: Deimos

Deimos is one of the moons of Mars.

Answer: Maude

'Good Times' lead character Florida Evans (Esther Rolle) was the former maid of Maude Finley (Bea Arthur), a cousin of 'All In The Family's Edith Bunker (Jean Stapleton).

Answer: Brontophobia

Eosophobia is the fear of dawn or daylight, myrmecophobia is the fear of ants and xanthophobia is the fear of anything yellow.

Answer: Georges Seurat

Creator of 'pointilism', Seurat's most famous painting is 'Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'. This painter was also the focus of a musical by Stephen Sondheim, 'Sunday In The Park With George'.

Answer: Phoenician

Discovered by members of Napoleon's Army in Egypt in 1799, the stone was created around March, 196 B.C, as a decree to mark the first anniversary of the coronation of Ptolemy V. French scholar Jean Francois Champollion deciphered the languages (Greek, Egyptian and Demotic (a version of Egyptian)) and opened the door to study of the Ancient World.

Answer: Stuart

Victoria, the last Hanover ruler (dating back to George I), died in 1901. Her son, Edward VII was of the House of Wettin or Saxony. It was later, during an outburst of anti-German sentiment, that the Wettin-Saxony surname was changed to Windsor, the current line.

Answer: Leonardo

Other names were Beelzebub and Figaro. 'Rhapsody' enjoyed the luxury of hitting number one on the U.S. charts twice, once in 1976 and again after the release of the 'Wayne's World' soundtrack in 1992.

Answer: Agnes

'Agnes Grey' was written by Anne, Charlotte wrote 'Jane Eyre' and Emily wrote 'Wuthering Heights'...all published in 1847.

Answer: an 'ex post facto' law

The 'ex post facto' law is listed in Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution. However in 1798, the Supreme Court held that the prohibition of retroactive laws applies only to criminal, not civil, laws.

Answer: c

Basically, the inertial mass of a moving body increased as its speed increased. This implies an equivalence between an increase in energy of motion of a body (its kinetic energy) and an increase in its mass. Stated in actual numbers, it shows that one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of matter, if converted entirely into energy, would give 25 billion kilowatt hours of energy.

Answer: Minke Whale

Besides whales, other marine mammals include porpoises, manatees, pinnipeds (seals, sea lions) and otters.

Answer: Green

Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois Avenues are red, Atlantic, Ventnor and Marvin Gardens are yellow while Boardwalk and Park Place are blue. The streets on the 'Monopoly' board are actually found in Atlantic City, NJ.

Answer: Roshambo

Roshambo is the formal name of rock-paper-scissors.

Answer: Dog

A female Samoyed Husky, Laika (Russian for 'barker') was launched aboard Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957. Sadly, there was no way to return Laika to earth so she died in space after about a week.

Answer: Nickolas Scratch

Whether it be the Chinese Shengdan Laoren, the Finnish Joulupukki or the Morroccan Black Peter (in the Netherlands, Peter is Santa's assistant), many recognize him as Santa Claus. Nicholas Scratch, on the other hand, is an alternate name for Satan.

Answer: Tintin

Tintin was created in 1929 by Belgian cartoonist Georges Rami, better known as Herge.