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1. We all sat in the dark for a few minutes trying to get used to a house without electricity. And it had to happen when Mom and Dad were away for the weekend! Then we got some candles out, lit them, and tried to come up with ideas for something to keep us from getting bored to death. Speaking of death, my cousin Lois said, "Let's tell ghost stories." That sent a chill through me because I'm not sure I don't believe in ghosts. My brother Bob told us the story of a movie he saw where this lady and her children and the servants are living in a house in England. It's all about whether there are ghosts in the house and how they could be found. It was scary, and you wouldn't believe the ending! Do you know what the name of the movie is?
2. I said "Let's not tell any more ghost stories because I'll have nightmares." My sister Kris said, "Oh, that reminds me of 'Nightmare on Elm Street'. That was a cool movie." Then she asked us if we could remember the tagline. I said, "What's a tagline?" And she said,
"You know, the sentence they give you that tells you what the movie is about. All right, I'll make it easy for you. Which one was it?"
3. Bob said, "I got a great game for us! It's based on spelling." "Oh, no," I said. (I'm only in the fifth grade.) But he said, "Come on. It's not that hard. One person starts with a letter. Then each person gives a letter until somebody spells a word of at least five letters. That person gets a "G". Then whoever spells five words first loses! And whatever letter you give has to be part of the word or you'll be challenged and you'll lose." So we played and it was fun but I lost because I'm the youngest one. Some day I'll show them! Oh, I forgot to ask. What was the name of the game?
4. After we played the spelling game for a while (Kris won), Kris thought of a weird game about statues and pictures. One or two people get into a pose that looks like a statue or a painting and the rest have to guess what it is. To show an example, she sat on the chair with her elbow on her knee and her chin on her hand. She asked us to give the name of the art work: "The _______."
5. Then my cousin Lois said, "Hey, I thought of a good one, truth or dare." I said, "What?" She said, "Truth or dare! Each person has to tell the truth about some private thing or take a dare from the rest of the group." I said, "All right, I dare you to stay in the cellar for ten minutes without a candle." Everybody else said, "Yeah! Good one!" She looked a little nervous and said, "No, thanks. I'll take truth instead." So my sister said, "What guy do you like?" Lois said, "Oh, do I have to?" And Kris said, "Yup. It's that or the basement." So Lois looked at my brother Bob a little shyly and said, "It's my neighbor, Ryan." But I have a feeling she wasn't telling the truth.
Bob said, "I saw a video called 'Truth or Dare'. I'm pretty sure that's what it was. It was about somebody famous, but I can't remember who." Can you help?
6. We got tired of truth or dare after a while, and Kris said, "I remember a game we used to play at camp. It was called cat's cradle. You take a long piece of string and wrap it around your fingers to make it look like something, like one is named after the game, but I can't see why anybody thinks it looks like a cradle for a cat. Anyway, then the next player has to take the string off the first person's fingers and form something else! You keep going until somebody messes up. Then they're out and you start again." We tried that for a while and Kris won. Big surprise! Then she said she read a book in school called "Cat's Cradle," but it didn't have much to do with the game. She couldn't remember who wrote the book. Can you?
7. So after cat's cradle it was still too early to go to bed, so we started to tell riddles. We did the one about Moses and the one about the rooster and the egg, but everybody knows those. But then Bob told one about these two girls. "Jane and Joan are sisters", he started. "They're not half sisters or step sisters or adopted sisters or anything like that. No tricks. They have the same mother and father. They were born in the same delivery room in the same hospital on the same day, just a few minutes apart, and they are identical. But they're not twins. What are they?" I said, "That's impossible. They have to be twins." And he said, "No, they're not. Think about it. This is not science fiction. It happens in real life. What are they?" And, after talking about it for a long time, we figured it out. Jane and Joan are ________."
8. Then I remembered a game we played in school called charades. We made two teams and acted out names of movies and songs and tv shows and stuff. That was fun. Then Lois said she saw a movie on TV called "Charade", but she couldn't remember who was in it. Bob said he did. What did he tell us were the two stars' names?
9. We had played a lot of games by then and it was late, but nobody wanted to go to bed. I think it was more like nobody wanted to go to bed in the dark alone. So we racked our brains for another game, and I remembered one we played at camp called Simon says. One person is the leader, sort of like an army sergeant, and that person gives orders that you follow only if they say "Simon says" first. Like if it's "Simon says turn right", you do it, but if it's just "Turn right", you don't. Make a mistake and you're out. The leader tries to get everybody out but one. It didn't take long and I was the winner! I was good at that game at camp. Then Bob said, "Who's got another game?" And Lois said," Wait a second. Where's the question?" Bob said, "What question?" She said, "You know. The question. This is a quiz, so we need a question, or the editors will give Mickey a hard time. Wait. I have one. There was a song called "Simon Says". Can you remember who sang it?
10. Then it was getting late, and we were running out of games. I mean we were really getting desperate so we decided to play trivia. I think that's boring. Everybody was suggesting topics. Then Bob said, "How about the Oscars? Everybody's interested in those." So we said okay. Then Bob said, "Here's my favorite Oscar question. Who was the only person ever to win an Oscar for playing someone of the opposite sex?" I said Dustin Hoffman in "Tootsie", and Kris said Julie Andrews in "Victor Victoria", but Bob said "No. Dustin played a man masquerading as a woman, and Julie played a woman masquerading as a man masquerading as a woman." (Huh?) "All right," he went on, "I'll give you the movie. It was 'The Year of Living Dangerously'. So who won the Oscar?"
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