Where, What, Who and How 4 Trivia Quiz

Answer: under the nose

You know that groove from the bottom of your nose to your upper lip? That's a philtrum! (The partition separating your nose into two nostrils, by the way, is a columna nasa.)

Answer: the bottom

Besides being what you do to a football and a flat-bottomed skiff, punt is the name given to that dome-shaped indentation at the bottom of many a wine bottle. Its purpose is to strengthen the bottom.

Answer: Bolivia

The La Paz Golf Club in Bolivia is 10,885 feet high.

Answer: Newport, R.I.

Actually, Maryland was a border state loyal on the whole to the Union. But Lincoln and his congress took no chances; after all, the nation's capital was surrounded by the South! So they had Maryland's legislature arrested and moved the Academy from Annapolis to Newport for the duration of the war.

Answer: a sand trap

"Fried egg" is golf slang for a ball partially buried in a sand trap. It was named because of the similarity to the ball and the impact ring surrounding it to a fried egg.

Answer: bowhead whale

The hippo, the whale shark (world's biggest fish), even the blue whale, largest animal on Earth, can't compare with the bowhead whale, whose head is often one-third its body length and whose mouth can be 16 feet long, 12 feet high and 8 feet wide!

Answer: whaling captain

Not only was Macy a whaling captain from Nantucket, Mass (before New Bedford became the world's whaling capital), but he descended from a long line of Nantucket whalemen. And he got the red star symbol for his chain (started in 1858) from a tattoo popular among Nantucket whalers.

Answer: Pennyworth

Cadbury was Richie Rich's butler in Harvey Comics. Alfred Pennyworth hired himself out to Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson then stumbled onto their secret identities as Batman and Robin. You may remember Alan Napier as Alfred in the 60s TV series.

Answer: The Producers

The other three don't have a character named Leo Bloom, as does "The Producers", named after Leopold Bloom of Joyce's "Ulysses". Gene Wilder played Bloom to Zero Mostel's Bialystock. Bloom even met Bialystock on June 16, the same day the plot of "Ulysses" took place!

Answer: archery

The root for "toxin" comes from the Latin for "archer's bow"; it came to mean the poison on arrowheads. It also gave us "toxophilite", a fancy name for an archer (hey, the "Toxophilites" would be a swell name for a Michael Powell-Emeric Pressburger fan club!)

Its homophone "tocsin" (bell) comes from the Latin for touch, as does "toccata".

Answer: Angelica Huston

Angelica Huston, who won for "Prizzi's Honor", had a grandfather, Walter Huston, who won the Best Actor Oscar for "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"; her father John won Best Director and Best Screenplay for the same film. Liza's mom Judy Garland got a special Oscar for "Wizard of Oz" and dad Vincente won for 1959's "Gigi". Vincente only directed his daughter once, in the 1976 bomb "A Matter of Time". Hanks and Eastwood didn't have acting parents.

Answer: Calvin Coolidge

Jefferson and Adams died on the Fourth of July, long after their terms ended, but Coolidge is the only one so far born on Independence Day, back in 1872 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont.

Answer: Chuck Wepner

Carnera inspired the Budd Schulberg story "The Harder They Fall" (which became Bogart's last film), but neither he nor Wolcott or Galento inspired Stallone. Chuck Wepner, an unknown underdog, fought Muhammad Ali for the whole length of their bout, giving Sly the idea of writing and acting the role of the Philly pug who shows he has the stuff to be more than a third-rate fighter by "going the distance" with the heavyweight champ.

Answer: Robert Browning

In 1889, shortly before his death, Browning recorded himself reciting his "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" for an Edison phonograph recording. He even apologized for fluffing his own poem! The year after his death, the recording was first played to the public.

Answer: Lemuel Gulliver

Hands was one of the pirate crew of Long John Silver on the "Hispaniola" in "Treasure Island", Claggart was the villain aboard the "Bellipotent" in "Billy Budd" and Peter Blood commanded the pirate ship "Arabella" in "Captain Blood". Gulliver sailed on the three ships in the question in "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift.

Answer: seven years

After all his ordeals in Homer's "Odyssey", Odysseus was the unwilling guest of Calypso for seven years before she finally let him go.

Answer: fourteen

There are seven stars in each Dipper, making fourteen.

Answer: six

Count them, there's six prongs on every jack!

Answer: Forty-eight

A goldfish has 94 chromosomes, compared to a human's 46. That's a lot of DNA!

Answer: True

Camels store fat in their humps and water is stored in the fat. Hope you enjoyed!