Mind challenge trivia -Who will rule :)

[oblongmelon]

Nothing like a few good trivia questions to get the mind going..Some of the questions I encountered on Mirc trivia the other night!

Sight your sources!

1.Which of the following animals has more chromosomes than humans?
A)Mouse
B)Orangutan
C)Guinea Pig

2.What islands did France and England jointly rule from 1906 to 1978?

3.What was the name of Thomas Edison's first movie?

4. What was Dorothy's last name in the Wizard of Oz ?

5. Who started LIVE AID?

6. What was Walt Disney's middle name?

7. Who performed the first Human Heart Transplant?

8. What is the hardest substance in the world?

9. What job does former pop idol Bobby Sherman do now?

10. Who produces the most popular blue cheese?

some seem pretty easy...until you are on a timer-then LOOK OUT-do you know how many ways GELDOF can be spelled? LOL

[Merlin]

Originally posted by oblongmelon
Sight your sources!

8. What is the hardest substance in the world?



That would be adamantium. Source: Stan Lee...:halo:

[irwin]

Originally posted by oblongmelon

8. What is the hardest substance in the world?



Smells like diamond, but that answer is too easy...must be a trick question...so I think I'll say adamantium as well. :D

[RoniMan]

answers
1.Which of the following animals has more chromosomes than humans?
A)Mouse
B)Orangutan
C)Guinea Pig

the guinea pig SOURCE: educated guess

2.What islands did France and England jointly rule from 1906 to 1978?

the island of atlantis SOURCE: NON-educated guess

3.What was the name of Thomas Edison's first movie?
"record of a sneeze" SOURCE: edisonhouse.org
(i thought it was starship troopers)

4. What was Dorothy's last name in the Wizard of Oz ?
gale SOURCE: endless days of movie watching in college

5. Who started LIVE AID?
the same people that started RITE AID

6. What was Walt Disney's middle name?
Susan

7. Who performed the first Human Heart Transplant?
Norman Shumway SOURCE: stanford.edu

8. What is the hardest substance in the world?
(waiting for snicker to die down) i'm going to go with diamond trebek

[b]9. What job does former pop idol Bobby Sherman do now?[\b]
LA police officer SOURCE: bobbysherman.com

[b]10. Who produces the most popular blue cheese?[\b]
the blue group at the luxur

[faither]

Originally posted by oblongmelon
Nothing like a few good trivia questions to get the mind going..Some of the questions I encountered on Mirc trivia the other night!

Sight your sources!

3.What was the name of Thomas Edison's first movie?
The Sneeze - History of Cinema class in college

5. Who started LIVE AID?
Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats and "Do They Know It's Christmas" - I was 19 or 20 at the time. Back when MTV/VH1 was watchable.

6. What was Walt Disney's middle name?
Elias - We love almost all things Disney.

10. Who produces the most popular blue cheese?
The people of Wisconsin

[attgig]

My guesses:

1.Which of the following animals has more chromosomes than humans?
A)Mouse
B)Orangutan
C)Guinea Pig

C

2.What islands did France and England jointly rule from 1906 to 1978?

Balkan

3.What was the name of Thomas Edison's first movie?

Thomas Edison goes to town.

4. What was Dorothy's last name in the Wizard of Oz ?

Dorothy Hamill

5. Who started LIVE AID?

Mrs. Dole

6. What was Walt Disney's middle name?

Herbert

7. Who performed the first Human Heart Transplant?

Dr. Kavorkian

8. What is the hardest substance in the world?

Diamonds are forever

9. What job does former pop idol Bobby Sherman do now?

Run a restaurant (cuz they all own restaurants)

10. Who produces the most popular blue cheese?

People.

[Grimm]

Originally posted by oblongmelon

1.Which of the following animals has more chromosomes than humans?
A)Mouse
B)Orangutan
C)Guinea Pig

A, B and C with a bit of splicing... and VIOLA you have a Mouranguinea pig.
Source: The Voices.

Originally posted by oblongmelon

2.What islands did France and England jointly rule from 1906 to 1978?

Gilligan's Island, obviously, France and England never get along... so it took them 72 years to find the island to fight over it.

Source: The Voices.

Originally posted by oblongmelon

3.What was the name of Thomas Edison's first movie?

Well, his 2nd movie was "The Sneeze". His first was about his garden. But since it showed a child working in the garden it was confiscated and burned at the insistance of child labor activists.

Source: The Voices.

Originally posted by oblongmelon

4. What was Dorothy's last name in the Wizard of Oz ?

Garland

Source: The Voices.

Originally posted by oblongmelon

5. Who started LIVE AID?

Fred, he was a janitor that came up with the idea and did all the ground work. Then some glory seeker stole it and took all the credit.

Source: The Voices.

Originally posted by oblongmelon

6. What was Walt Disney's middle name?

Walt was his middle name, he used it instead of his first name because he was embaresed by "Snugglykittenwuzzymuffin"

Source: The Voices.

Originally posted by oblongmelon

7. Who performed the first Human Heart Transplant?

Freddy Kruger, it was, predictably, unsuccessful.

Source: The Voices.

Originally posted by oblongmelon

8. What is the hardest substance in the world?

Fruitcake

Source: The Voices.

Originally posted by oblongmelon

9. What job does former pop idol Bobby Sherman do now?

Cocaine

Source: The Voices.

Originally posted by oblongmelon

10. Who produces the most popular blue cheese?

As everyone should know, all blue cheese comes from the moon. It is not actualy produced, it is imported by secret stealth spaceships. Ocationaly the stealth fails and people report seeing them. Most UFO sightings are in cheese producing regions, ever notice this coincidence? So the only answer is The Man on the Moon.

Source: Fred, the Janitor

[WhiskeyPapa]

Originally posted by oblongmelon
2.What islands did France and England jointly rule from 1906 to 1978?Frangland. Less commonly known as "Englance".

[oblongmelon]

haha-some good guesses there folks..
like I said..it was mirc trivia.
dorothy's last name WAS GALE, not GARLAND..(oi vey)
I said diamonds, but I was wrong and didn't even catch the right answer.
I got Bob Geldof,the Edison Sneeze, and Bobby Sherman..I also thought stilton was the biggest producer of blue cheese.

[Grimm]

Originally posted by oblongmelon
haha-some good guesses there folks..
like I said..it was mirc trivia.
dorothy's last name WAS GALE, not GARLAND..(oi vey)
...
<sigh> Yes, I had hoped you would notice that all the other answers were intended as humorous. Judy Garland played Dorothy Gale in the Wizard of Oz. Listing the actresses last name instead of the characters was intended to also be humorous.

Do you even know what the book The Wizard of Oz was about? I will give you a hint, in the original book the Ruby Slippers were Silver Slippers.

[ProMinx]

I think that the jointly owned islands are either the Falklands (which doesn't sound right because they're too close to Spanish/Portuguese territories) or the Solomons, but the Falklands sticks out more in my mind... (Guesses based on prior knowledge require no citation)

The hardest substance is Fullerite (or more exactly...Ultra-Hard Fullerite), but it is only about 20 years old, so it is an easily missed molecule (even if it is carbon formed in the EXACT shape of a soccer ball). Citation: I was a Chemical Engineering major turned Astrophysics major. If I didn't know, my school would disown me.

ProMinx