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You Can't Be Serious... Trivia Quiz

After reading and answering each of these questions, you might just end up thinking to yourself, "You can't be serious."

A multiple-choice quiz by trident. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
trident

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
253,834

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

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3340

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. If Popeye the Sailor had gotten his spinach in the U.S. around September 2006, his biceps might not grow larger. In fact, he may just start feeling abdominal pain, severe cramps, and have to suffer through diarrhea. Which of the following might he say? Hint

I eats all me spinach and I gets Salmonella! *Toot, toot!*

I eats all me spinach and I gets Ebola! *Toot, toot!*

I eats all me spinach and I gets Botulism! *Toot, toot!*

I eats all me spinach, and I gets E. coli! *Toot, toot!*

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Question 2 of 10

2. If we were to take Shakespeare's line from 'As You Like It', "All the world's a stage/ And all the men and women merely players" and changed the word "stage" to "chessboard" and "players" to "chess pieces", which of the following people would not be a chess piece? (HINT: think of the names of chess pieces and what titles each of these people may have held) Hint

Marie Antoinette

Niccolo Machiavelli

Desmond Tutu

Elton John

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Question 3 of 10

3. In many countries, there are laws against a brother and sister being intimately involved. If mythological gods could be charged ex post facto, which pair would be safe from prosecution? Hint

Skadi and Njord

Isis and Osiris

Zeus and Hera

Jarilo and Morana

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Question 4 of 10

4. Joke time! -- So there's this guy who walks into a sushi bar and orders some raw fish wrapped in seaweed. The sushi bartender says he can only have seaweed wrap if he calls it by name. So the man decides he doesn't want it until later.

"Why?" asks the sushi bartender. What does the man reply? Hint

Kanji see? (Can't you see?)

You tako too much. (You talk too much.)

I'm not hu-nigiri. (I'm not hungry.)

Nori, san. (No reason.)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Santa's little helpers go on strike, so he decides to borrow some elves from Middle Earth to help get his sleigh ready. Which of the following matches would be valid? Hint

Aragorn bridles Donner

Elrond repairs Runner's shoes

Legolas gives Tricksy a bath

Arwen grooms Blitzen

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Question 6 of 10

6. If we were to mix Karl Marx's ideology with E. E. Cummings' writing style, which of the following might be the result? Hint

U r lyke a meen purson

THERE IS NO HIGHER BEING

i believe in socialism

Renounce... all... material... possessions...

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Question 7 of 10

7. Timmy is afraid of big words. However, he is even more afraid of words that mean "big". Which of the following is he going to want to steer clear of the most? Hint

picayune

copious

diminutive

minuscule

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Question 8 of 10

8. One's Erd�s number (or Bacon number) is how close they are from co-authoring a paper with mathematician Paul Erd�s (or starring with actor Kevin Bacon). Someone who has co-written a paper with Erd�s is assigned a value of one. And if another person were to have co-written a paper with a person who has co-written a paper with Erd�s, then their Erd�s number would be two. Whichever number you have that is the smallest is your Erd�s number.

Let's suppose that instead of an Erd�s number, there was a "Joseph McCarthy number" based on personal meetings between dignitaries. We want to find the "McCarthy number" for his most hated enemy, Joseph Stalin. If I said I could connect him in three steps, which of the following would break the connection because it never happened? Hint

Stalin meets with Truman at the Potsdam Conference

Eisenhower campaigns with McCarthy in Wisconsin

All of these happened

Truman discusses the transfer of power with Eisenhower at the White House

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Question 9 of 10

9. If the signers of the American Declaration of Independence were to participate in the Olympic Decathlon, which of the following would NOT be valid? Hint

John Hancock does the pole vault

Samuel Huntington runs the 110m hurdles

Thomas Jefferson throws the shot put

George Washington does the triple jump

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Question 10 of 10

10. The characters on the show "Friends" decide to join the Religious Society of Friends (also known as the Quakers). Which of the following 'life lessons' would not be learned by the characters as it is NOT one of the Testimonies of the Quakers? Hint

Rachel discovers the benefit of plain dress

Ross believes that men and women are equal

Joey learns that it is okay to marry more than one spouse

Phoebe teaches that violence is bad

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: I eats all me spinach, and I gets E. coli! *Toot, toot!*

In September of 2006, there was a scare across the United States when several people had eaten spinach and came down with E. coli. In the end, nearly two hundred cases were reported, and at least one death had occurred. The tainted spinach was traced back to farms in California. Since the spinach was fresh and uncooked in each instance, Popeye would likely not get sick from his canned version.

Answer: Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli was a Italian philosopher who wrote "The Prince". He doesn't fit any of the titles of chess pieces like the others.

Sir Elton John was KNIGHTed in 1998 by Queen Elizabeth II. Marie Antoinette was France's QUEEN as wife to King Louis XVI. BISHOP Desmond Tutu is a Nobel prize-winning activist.

3. In many countries, there are laws against a brother and sister being intimately involved. If mythological gods could be charged ex post facto, which pair would be safe from prosecution?

Answer: Skadi and Njord

Each of these couples in mythology are brother and sister: Hera and Zeus from Greek mythology, Isis and Osiris from Egyptian mythology, and Jarilo and Morana from Slavic mythology.

Skadi and Njord are a couple in Norse mythology, however, they are not related. Skadi is a giantess who married Njord, the god of wind.

4. Joke time! -- So there's this guy who walks into a sushi bar and orders some raw fish wrapped in seaweed. The sushi bartender says he can only have seaweed wrap if he calls it by name. So the man decides he doesn't want it until later. "Why?" asks the sushi bartender. What does the man reply?

Answer: Nori, san. (No reason.)

Nori is a seaweed wrap often used in Japan and in sushi bars across the world. It is also used as a condiment for some dishes. Nori is made from an algae cultivated in Japan.

Kanji is a type of script in Japan which incorporates aspects of Chinese writing. Nigiri is a Japanese dish served with rice. Tako is octopus.

5. Santa's little helpers go on strike, so he decides to borrow some elves from Middle Earth to help get his sleigh ready. Which of the following matches would be valid?

Answer: Arwen grooms Blitzen

Legolas and Elrond are both elves, but their reindeer aren't the names of Santa's reindeer. Donner is one of Santa's reindeer, but Aragorn is a human, not an elf.

6. If we were to mix Karl Marx's ideology with E. E. Cummings' writing style, which of the following might be the result?

Answer: i believe in socialism

Karl Marx's ideology, which believes in the downfall of -capitalism-, supports socialistic styles of government.

The poet, E. E. Cummings, had a distinctive writing style in which he would often not use -capitalization-, especially for the word "I".

While Marx was an atheist, the option "THERE IS NO HIGHER BEING" would not be valid as it is contrary to E. E. Cummings writing style.

It might be interesting to note here the common bond between these two things that I tried to outline in dashes: Marx was opposed to capitalism while E. E. Cummings was prone to ignore the rules of capitalization.

7. Timmy is afraid of big words. However, he is even more afraid of words that mean "big". Which of the following is he going to want to steer clear of the most?

Answer: copious

Of the words listed, "copious" is the only one that is synonymous with "big". While the rest have many letters, they are all synonymous with "small".

8. One's Erd�s number (or Bacon number) is how close they are from co-authoring a paper with mathematician Paul Erd�s (or starring with actor Kevin Bacon). Someone who has co-written a paper with Erd�s is assigned a value of one. And if another person were to have co-written a paper with a person who has co-written a paper with Erd�s, then their Erd�s number would be two. Whichever number you have that is the smallest is your Erd�s number. Let's suppose that instead of an Erd�s number, there was a "Joseph McCarthy number" based on personal meetings between dignitaries. We want to find the "McCarthy number" for his most hated enemy, Joseph Stalin. If I said I could connect him in three steps, which of the following would break the connection because it never happened?

Answer: All of these happened

The first of these events happens to be the Potsdam Conference which took place in Potsdam, Germany from July 17 to August 2, 1945. Here, U.S. President Harry Truman, along with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (and later Clement Atlee) met with Joseph Stalin which was convened to decide the fate of Germany after WWII. The second of these events took place during the 1952 campaign when U.S. Presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower met and campaigned with Joseph McCarthy in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Though Eisenhower was wary of campaigning with such an unpopular figure, he felt it necessary to win Wisconsin's electoral votes. The last of these events took place on November 19, 1952, when Truman met with Eisenhower at the White House to discuss the transfer of power. The meeting was described as being, "stiff, formal, embarrassing, and unrewarding".

The connection, starting with Stalin, goes as such: Stalin meets with Truman at the Potsdam Conference, Truman discusses the transfer of power with Eisenhower at the White House, Eisenhower campaigns with McCarthy in Wisconsin.

So we can connect Joseph McCarthy and Joseph Stalin in three steps therefore giving Stalin a "McCarthy number" of three. If anyone can connect them in less steps, I'd be fascinated to know!

9. If the signers of the American Declaration of Independence were to participate in the Olympic Decathlon, which of the following would NOT be valid?

Answer: George Washington does the triple jump

George Washington did not sign the American Declaration of Independence due to the fact that he was making war preparations in New York. Also, while the long jump and high jump are decathlon events, the triple jump is not.

Answer: Joey learns that it is okay to marry more than one spouse

The Quakers (or the Religious Society of Friends) are a mostly devout group. The Testimony of Equality states that regardless of race, social status, or sex, everyone is equal in the eyes of God. The Peace Testimony shows that they deplore violence and that members should not participate in war.

The Testimony of Simplicity holds the belief that members of the Quakers should lead simple lives, a part of this being dressing plainly. The Quakers do not believe in marriage to more than one spouse.

Source: Author trident

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