A few weeks ago I started a tradition, the backstory of which I won’t go into. Each day, I pull up the wikipedia entry on a random thing of my choosing. It could be a person, a place, an event, whatever. I read it and try to learn whatever I can about that subject, and then I synthesize it into a nice summary email and send it off to my friend/wifer Julie so that she too can learn about random things.
To commemorate the milestone of 25 wikipedia lessons, I gave Julie a pop quiz – one question for each lesson. The quiz appears below. If you dare, take the quiz and comment or email me your answers (arielleblogs at gmail). DO NOT CHEAT PLEASE THAT IS NO FUN. If you don’t know something, and I guarantee that you won’t know everything, be creative!
If anyone actually does this (doubtful?), I’ll send whoever scores the highest some kind of prize. Later on I’ll post all the correct answers, and possibly also Julie’s answers because they're awesome, if not always correct. Ready? Go!
1. Who won the Franco-Prussian War? Choose France or Prussia.
2. The person who knew of the Senate’s plan to murder Julius Caesar and unsuccessfully tried to stop them was___________
3. Mata Hari was a Dutch stripper who was arrested for_______________
4. Use one word (any word of your choosing as long as it’s at least remotely accurate) to describe dub-step music.
5. Joe Frazier was temporarily the Heavyweight champion of the world. Name either the boxer from whom he took the title OR the boxer to whom he lost the title. Specify which one you’re naming.
6. Name 2 countries known for exporting blood diamonds. BONUS QUESTION: Name the person who sings a song about blood diamonds.
7. Give me 3 facts about Liechtenstein. Any 3 facts.
8. What is the miracle of Chanukah (ie why do we celebrate this holiday)?
9. Quarks, a form of subatomic particle, come in 6 different what? (Hint: vanilla is not one of them)
10. Levi Strauss sold the first pairs of blue jeans to _____________. (Hint: they were in California)
11. Say something funny about curling.
12. The cornucopia is seen as a symbol of ___________. BONUS QUESTION: When reading this wiki article, I skipped over a part of it because it started talking about the cornucopia’s significance in a certain book I happened to be reading at the time. What was that book?
13. J. Cole is a protégé of which famous rapper?
14. Thomas Alva Edison is most known for which of his inventions?
15. The most prominent feature of the planet Jupiter is called the _____ _____ Spot
16. Alpacas are related to what other animal?
17. TWO PARTER. Contrary to popular belief, Sam Adams was not a _______. Contrary to Julie’s belief, he was also not a ________.
18. The person whose picture appears on the wikipedia page for the popped collar is _________ (note: you, blog readers, can go look at the page for this only because it won’t give you the answer but you can guess anyway and no, you do
not need to guess at the person’s actual name).
19. The Coca-Cola Company has its headquarters in which city?
20. Jillian Michaels is (choose one) ____ gay ____ straight ____ bisexual _____ unclear
21. The Great Sphinx of Gaza is missing 2 features. What are they?
22. Describe the role that women had in 18th century French salons.
23. In Scandinavia, “Saturday” is often referred to as “bathing day.” Why?
24. Margaret Thatcher resigned from her post as Prime Minster of the UK during which term? (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th)
25. Describe the main difference between Mexican burritos and American burritos. BONUS QUESTION: What does “burritas” mean?
Answer away! I love this kind of stuff.
6 comments:
I'm not even going to try. I played 90s Trivial Pursuit with Dave, Andy and Maria last night and failed miserably.
Oh, it's ON! I was originally going to send you only ridiculous and sarcastic answers, but then I started knowing actual answers, so now I'm going to send you a mixture of both.
Also, I would love to get that type of e-mail everyday. I realize that this type of service probably already exists, but I feel like yours would be way funnier.
hahaha...my coworkers and I totally do this SAME THING!!! but..we wiki tons of really dumb topics/people on regular basis, although today's topic was the american flag.
1. From the choices available to me, I choose Prussia. But ultimately, Germany won this bitch.
2. My guess is Marc Antony. I know he was Caesar's drinking buddy but I don't remember if he knew...
3. She was a spy.
4. Ahhh, crap. I have to use deductive reasoning here. "Dub-step"...Dub sounds like something dancy or hip hop. How about "breakdance".
5. He was temporarily the champ for a few years I think. Anyway, George Foreman took it from him.
6. Zimbabwe and...dunno. Dunno the song part either.
7. Its in Europe, its heavily populated by Germans, and every time I hear that name I think of the (highly underrated) movie A Knight's Tale!
8. The miracle, if I remember right, was that there was apparently only a few days worth of fuel to burn on the menorah, but it lasted 8 days. Thus, miracle.
9. Top, bottom, up, down, and I do not recall the rest.
10. No idea.
11. I have no idea how that sport is so popular.
12. No clue. I know its not math related and I'm certain it has nothing to do with science.
13. Jigga. Hova. Jay Z. My man.
14. Light bulb, though his resume is far more extensive than just that.
15. Great Red Spot. Its a really big storm.
16. No clue.
17. I'm pretty sure he wasn't a brewer. Don't know Julie's beef with him.
18. Ha- can I use Urbandictionary instead?
19. Hotlanta
20. Unclear. I don't think I know who that is.
21. Nose and beard
22. Ack, why don't I know this? For jokes sake I'm tempted to say brothel. But its probably a book club since reading was the cool thing to do among the elites in them days.
23. Uh, no idea
24. Another one I should know. Third?
25. Ha, no idea
OH MY GOD, THIS IS SO DIFFICULT.
Yeah I can't answer this. And that itself is SAD. But I continue to kick ass at Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture.
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