R U O K? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Radish

Radishes are, in fact, root vegetables and not fruits. This is because the edible radish pieces are specifically grown to be eaten. Fruits grow as part of the ovary of a flowering plant.

With this in mind, the kiwi is a fruit with brown skin, but green, seeded insides. Kiwis are typically grown in the Southern Hemisphere and Southern Europe. New Zealand is probably one of the most common places to find them, especially since New Zealanders are commonly nicknamed 'Kiwis'. Oranges are seeded citrus fruits with orange rinds and segmented insides. Found all over the world, they're mostly grown in Southern Brazil and the United States. Ugli Fruit is mainly from Jamaica and is essentially a type of tangelo.

Radishes are pod-like roots (and thus vegetables). Although they're grown world-wide, they're from Europe.

Answer: U2

U2, headed by Bono and the Edge, won their second Album of the Year award for "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" although it was their seventeenth Grammy overall. Known for their contemporary rock stylings, U2 has sold over one hundred fifty million records and tied for the most Grammies received by a musical group. "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" was their eleventh album and it went number one internationally going several times platinum. Its major hit was "Vertigo".

Radiohead has won Grammys for their albums "OK Computer", "Kid A", and "In Rainbows" while OK Go won a Grammy for the music video of their single "Here It Goes Again" and the Kings of Leon won a number of Grammys for their song "Use Somebody" in 2010.

Answer: Origami

Origami, the English word for a Japanese art, literally translates to 'folding paper'. This often intricate art requires square pieces of paper, many of which are specially designed, and the result can be a frog, a crane, or many other shapes and figures. There is an old superstition that says that the person who creates one thousand paper cranes is granted a wish.

Kabuki is a form of Japanese theater which involves singing and dancing, usually in heavy make-up in traditional garb. Usagi is 'rabbit' in Japanese, and Ronin is a type of Japanese warrior (almost like a samurai) without a master. Unsurprisingly, you can craft an usagi in origami.

Answer: Kill Bill

"Kill Bill" starred Thurman as Black Mamba, an assassin working under the direction of a man known solely as Bill. After being left for dead on her wedding day, she vows revenge on Bill and her former peers, all former and current assassins. David Carradine starred as Bill while the other members of his squad were played by Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, and Daryl Hannah. Due to its length and variation in styles throughout, "Kill Bill" was split into two volumes. It earned over $180,000,000 in the box office and received critical acclaim.

Neither "Unbreakable" nor "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" featured either Uma Thurman in front of the camera or Quentin Tarantino behind it. The former was directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starred Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson (both from "Pulp Fiction" which, coincidentally, starred Thurman and was directed by Tarantino) while the latter was directed by the Coen Brothers.

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling is perhaps best-known for writing "The Jungle Book" in 1894 although he's also known for a series of poems and stories including "If-", "Mandalay", and "Gunga Din". He received a Nobel Prize in the field of literature for his contribution to the written word and he was born in Bombay. Uma Krishnaswami is a children's author from New Delhi (who moved to the U.S) who wrote "Monsoon".

The other two authors aren't Indian, though. O. Henry, also known as William Sydney Porter, wrote "The Gift of the Magi". Kenneth Oppel, on the other hand, is a Canadian author known for the "Silverwing" series of children's books.

Answer: Kiribati

Kiribati is a series of islands in the central Pacific Ocean. Tarawa, its capital, is actually an atoll of two dozen islands, some of which are completely underwater. Much of these islands lay on the Equator. Kiribati is actually one of the poorest nations in the world, and much of its resources come from other countries.

Oman's capital city, Muscat, is on the edge of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; Rwanda's capital, Kigali, is in the center of the country; Uzbekistan 's capital city, Tashkent, is in the country's eastern tip.

Answer: Oxford University

Oxford is one of the oldest universities in the world. Founded in the eleventh century, it's found in Oxford, England. Because of its status as one of the most well-known, prestigious schools in the world, admission is very difficult to achieve. Many famous people have graduated or at least attended Oxford in its centuries-old history including Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Donne, Philip Pullman, and Aldous Huxley (and that's just some of the authors).

King's College in London has been the school for Virginia Woolf, John Keats, and Desmond Tutu and the University of Cambridge (established in 1209) was the school of Sir Isaac Newton, Edmund Spenser, and William Wordsworth. The Royal Academy of Music was the establishment attended by Elton John and Annie Lennox (amongst other musicians). It was founded in 1822.

Answer: Ultramarine

Ultramarine is a colour associated with a tone found in lapis lazuli, a rare stone. Deep ultramarine can be an extremely rich blue, but it can also seem purple under specific circumstances. The word 'ultramarine' does not refer to its 'marine-like' colour; instead it refers to the fact that the pigment was shipped from Asia, beyond the sea.

Rose is a shade of colour found between red and magenta. A rather favourable colour, it's attributed to the flower of the same name. Khaki (also a type of fabric), is an earthy green first used and replicated in India. Ochre is an earthy yellow-brown used in oil-based paint because of its derivation from clay.

Answer: Utah

Utah hosted the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, the state's capital. Almost 2,400 athletes competed for their chance to become the world's best in their sports. Notably, this was the first Olympiad to feature the Skeleton as an event in almost sixty years. Salt Lake City is the most populated area in Utah and the nearby Great Salt Lake is North America's largest hypersaline lake.

Other states to have hosted Olympics in the past include Missouri, California, New York, and Georgia.

Answer: Rugrats

"Rugrats" followed Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Angelica as they went about their young lives as babies. Although many of the vignettes of each episode involved imaginative flights of fancy in the babies' minds, it was a popular animated show that produced over one hundred fifty episodes in eight years. It's one of the longest-running Nickelodeon shows ever made, though it ended in 2004. Klasky-Csupo animators also made "Duckman" and "The Wild Thornberrys".

"Kolchak: The Night Stalker" was a sci-fi show from the 1970s, the "Outer Limits" was another sci-fi show which has had a number of versions since the early 1960s, and "Ugly Betty" was a show starring America Ferrera that aired between 2006 and 2010.