Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Quiz

Answer: Duke of Wellington

The Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon Bonaparte during the Battle of Waterloo. Before this, Napoleon seemed unbeatable. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on June 18, 1815, on a Sunday. It was part of the War of the Seventh Coalition.

Answer: Archimedes

Archimedes had uttered these words when he discovered that the Golden Crown was less dense than solid gold. He had perhaps put the golden crown in liquid, seeing that it was more buoyant than solid gold. Archimedes had discovered that the water level rose when he got in the tub, and he used that on the Golden Crown.

He was so excited that he ran in the streets, still naked and wet from just having gotten out of the tub.

Answer: Creation of Adam

Leonardo Da Vinci painted several masterpieces, of which the "Mona Lisa" is the most famous. In fact, the "Mona Lisa" is one of the most famous paintings of all time, used more often than any other in the entertainment world. The "Vitruvian Man" is a very famous drawing of Da Vinci's. "The Last Supper" is one of the most famous religious paintings of all time, along with Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam".

Answer: Revelation

The apostle John wrote a total of five Bible books. He wrote Revelation while imprisoned on Patmos around 96 C.E. The other four books were written somewhere around Ephesus circa 98 C.E, all after his writing of Revelation. The first of these was 1 John, then 2 John, and then 3 John, but he did not complete his final book, John, until even later. John is one of the four Gospels.

Answer: Hamlet

"Hamlet" was Shakespeare's longest play, and because of its incredible length, its entire play would last much longer than the norm. In fact, this play has (typically) about 4,042 lines. Of course, varying versions of the play might be much shorter, as some directors decide to remove parts of the play that seem unimportant. Some even argue whether some lines are authentic or not. Also, "Hamlet" is a very difficult play to direct, because Shakespeare hardly included any stage directions. The play can be interpreted any number of ways by the director, and therefore, "Hamlet" might change completely based on how the director chooses to interpet it.

In contrast, Shakespeare's shortest play, "The Comedy of Errors", had only 1,787 lines.

From all of Shakespeare's works, including all 38 of his plays, he wrote 118,406 lines total. Considering that this would average roughly 3,000 lines per play, "Hamlet" has quite a huge number with it's over 4,000 lines. And that would be if you didn't even count all his sonnets! Remember, counting the sonnets would actually make the "average" number of lines in his works much lower. Indeed, "Hamlet" was quite an enormous play.

I should point out that "Hamlet", like all Shakespeare's plays, was edited and re-edited after his death experts using different editions, and so not all scenes from "Hamlet" are viewed as authentic by everyone. However, it is generally accepted that "Hamlet" is Shakespeare's longest play.

Answer: $666.66

The first Apple computer was released in 1976. It was discontinued in 1977, however, when it was discovered that it had many faults. In fact, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs did everything they could to try and take Apple 1 off the market completely, even allowing trade-ins for people to receive an Apple 2 as a replacement for their Apple 1 computer. Wozniak liked repeating numbers, so the original price was set at $666.66.

Since only 40 to 50 Apple 1 computers exist today, they are extremely valuable collector's items. They can range in value from US$ 14-16,000, but some, if they are still in working order, are sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

One man on an Apple documentary was shown as having originally bought the Apple 1 with an IP address of 005. This makes it one of the earliest known sold Apple 1 computers, if not the first, if 001-004 were even stickered.

Answer: The Modern Prometheus

The full title of "Frankenstein" is "Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus". Though many think Frankenstein was the monster, the name actually belongs to the creator of the monster, Victor Frankenstein. The monster itself is referred to as Frankenstein's monster.

The monster in the book is referred to by many things, including "monster" and "fiend", but Mary Shelley called it "Adam". The novel was first published by Shelley anonymously in 1818.

Answer: Revolutionary War

The Revolutionary War began in 1775, and lasted for 8 years until it was finally ended in 1783 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The Treaties of Versailles, also known as the Peace of Paris, were also signed to end the war.

Answer: Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison is known for inventing many important devices, such as the phonograph and the motion picture camera. However, out of his 1,093 patents, the invention of the lightbulb was Edison's most famous achievement. Edison's first working lightbulb was made in 1879, and the lightbulb lasted for 40 hours!

Answer: Montreal

Nadia Comaneci was on the Romanian team during the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. She scored the first perfect ten in gymnastics that year. The boards could not show a score of 10.0, so her perfect score instead showed up as a 1.00. That same Olympics, she received a total of six perfect tens.

She won a total of 3 gold medals that year, and another two gold medals in the 1980 Moscow Olympics. She was only 14 years old when she got the first perfect ten in gymnastics!