Solution Trivia Quiz

Answer: A hot iron and clean rag

Simply heat the iron to hot (or whatever heat your iron requires to do the job), lay the clean cloth over the dried wax, and apply heat evenly and with pressure to the cloth. When you see the transfer of the wax imprint to the upper side of the cloth, lift and check how much more wax is left. Keep at it until the wax is all on the cloth, using a clean spot each time. Voila! When doing the same with your jeans or any other clothing be sure to remove it from your body before ironing!

You could try the microwave, but fitting the carpet into it might be a problem, plus it could all catch fire. Boiling water would probably not be hot enough to melt the wax, but sufficient to burn you. As for the ice cubes and chisel, just picture it for a moment.

Answer: White wine or salt

When you serve red wine, keep white wine nearby. If red wine is spilled, pour white over it and blot with paper towels. Repeat till most of the stain is gone. Bring tablecloth to sink or large bowl and pour club soda through the stain. Pre-treat and wash as usual.

OR you can cover the fresh red wine stain with salt and work it into the fabric to abrade the wine, flush out with club soda, blot and wash. There are a few other methods but these two usually work. If they don't, consider tie-dying the tablecloth or cutting it up as rags. Hot water tends to set stains, so use cool to cold.

Answer: Fill the hole with same or similar carpet and color to match

First of all, do not take it out on your furred or feathered friends. Any swatch of similar carpeting will do if it fills the hole. You can get creative and make that one spot fuchsia, or you can attempt to duplicate the original carpet design. A good dab of super glue or similar sticky stuff should anchor it properly and it wouldn't hurt if you left a heavy book lying on it for a couple days.

Then color it to match.

Answer: Snuffing beet juice up one's nose

Drinking carrot wine was, of course, used to aid in conception. Pumpkin seed tea helped cure bed-wetting problems. Singed old walnut kernels in warm wine were often used as a cure for baldness. You merely drink the concoction, and your hair supposedly wouldn't fall out. Several cures for halitosis included: chewing dill seeds or juniper berries, chewing parsley leaves or caraway seeds, and drinking wine with thistles in it. If none of these worked, you could console yourself that halitosis was better than no breath at all! Or you could snuffle the beet juice.

Answer: Applying Mrs. Kellerman's 'Mean Streak' hair gel every day

Propecia lowers the levels of dihydrotestosterone in your system, which is considered a good preventative, and Minoxidil supposedly boosts hair follicle growth. They could be used in conjunction. Male Pattern Baldness is genetic. Some people get it and some don't. Some women get it as well, but the myth that women are the bad guys because they 'carry' it is nonsense! If you have it, you generally live with it. If you find some snake oil that cures it, we'll be looking for your photo on "Fortune 500".

Mrs. Kellerman has been serving time at the Women's Correctional Institute in Hollingsworth Penitentiary for more than 40 years. She is completely bald.

Answer: Beat some salt into a burdock root and apply to the bite

The asparagus roots were for labor pain. The cucumber was used for blackheads, which some believed to be living organisms back in the day. Ripe gooseberries were used for a weak bladder.

If you don't know a burdock root, best forgo that plan and get thee to a doctor ASAP. Bring the dog (muzzled, if possible). That way he can be tested for rabies rather than you. Rabies treatment/prevention is NOT painful anymore, nor is the injection given in the stomach but in the rearmost fleshy area. Five shots are given at exact intervals, and you're good for five years. Always try to bring the animal that did the biting. There is neither cure nor treatment for rabies, and you wouldn't want the animal to suffer or spread the disease. If the animal is 'mad' from something else, it should be treated as soon as possible. Many local universities will test ticks for Lyme Disease, and the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia, USA knows pretty much all there is to know about communicable diseases. Use resources.

Answer: Decoction of horsetail

You would probably have been given salt water to drink, possibly vinegar or lemon juice. Horsetail decoction (from the plant, NOT the animal) was often used for any type of bleeding, especially when it was not certain where it originated (the bleeding not the Horsetail). Cranberry juice, cool or ice water, and plantain were also used. A distilled concoction was used inwardly to stop bleeding from any source, and plantain root decoction was used as well as bruised plantain leaves directly on the skin over the wound. Sage was also used to stop bleeding and to clean sores. The wound was usually then dusted with flour.

Salt baths were used as cleansers, and were thought to beautify and strengthen the bather. Black cherry bark was used as a poultice for boils, as was ginger, flour, balm of Gilead salve, soap, white sugar, milk, bread, fried onions and mullein leaves. Apart from the soap, it sounds delicious - pop in the oven at 375 for about two hours, basting with white wine. You're gonna need a bigger oven.

The 'good old days' are any period of time that occurred before you were born (unless you're giving the lecture - trust me, there were whoppers long before B.K.)

Answer: Catsup poultice

All of the following were also once used to treat bronchitis: hot mustard poultice, hot mustard bath, mustard fomentation applied to the chest, garlic tonic, mustard foot bath, balm of Gilead tea, inhaled steam, skunk cabbage tea, dandelion leaf tea, and flax-seed tea with lemon and honey. The bronchitis probably fled from the odors produced by the medicines.

Answer: White and red oak and hemlock

Here is a detailed old recipe for cancer medicine (early 1920s USA):
Burn red oak bark to ashes, sprinkle it on sore till it is eaten out, then apply a plaster of tar, or take garget berries and leaves of stramonium, simmer them together in equal parts of neatsfoot oil and the tops of hemlock. Mix well together and apply to affected parts. At the same time make a tea of wintergreen (root and branch), put a handful into two quarts of water, add two ounces of sulphur and drink of this freely during the day.

Do NOT concoct this unless you get professional medical advice, and even then a second opinion is recommended.

Answer: Chew a lot of gum but do not swallow it

Traditionally, sufferers had to apply the salve, steep marigold in good cider vinegar to frequently wash the affected parts, which promised immediate relief. They also had to take half a pound of tar and half a pound of tobacco and boil them down separately to create a thick substance.

Then they would simmer them together and apply to the affected parts, which supposedly afforded fast relief. Raw potatoes could be inserted into problem areas. Finally, juniper berries were thought to help piles.