Trivia test/Strange but true

Fifi Rodriguez | Sep 06, 20120

TRIVIA TEST

1. MUSIC: Who composed the opera “Swan Lake”?

2. LANGUAGE: What is the meaning of the Latin phrase “Ars gratia artis”?

3. GEOGRAPHY: The island of Corsica belongs to what country?

4. MYTHOLOGY: What is the name for the three Greek goddesses of vengeance: Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone?

5. LITERATURE: Who wrote a semi-autobiographical travel book called “Roughing It”?

6. TELEVISION: What detective series featured the theme song “Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow”?

7. CHEMISTRY: What is the chemical symbol for bromine?

8. AD SLOGANS: What was billed as “The Greatest Show on Earth”?

9. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: Who once said, “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”?

10. MOVIES: Which Disney movie featured the hit song “A Whole New World”?

Answers

1. Peter Tchaikovsky

2. Art for art’s sake

3. France

4. The Furies

5. Mark Twain

6. “Baretta”

7. Br

8. Barnum & Bailey Circus

9. Elbert Hubbard

10. “Aladdin”

STRANGE BUT TRUE

by Samantha Weaver

• It was American singer Josh Groban who made the following sage observation: “There’s no half-singing in the shower, you’re either a rock star or an opera diva.”

• If you’re considering having a child sometime in the near future, you might want to consider this: It’s said that the cost of caring for a newborn during its first year of life is more than $6,000.

• In 1986, actor and director Clint Eastwood took on a new and unfamiliar role: political candidate. He ran for mayor of Carmel, Calif. He defeated the incumbent mayor in a landslide, and he kept the position for two years. His salary? A whopping $200 per week.

• Often these days you’ll see someone carrying a tiny dog around with them, but you might be surprised to learn that this is not an entirely new fashion. In ancient Rome and Greece it was not uncommon for a noble lady to carry her tiny Maltese dog around in the sleeve of her robe.

• In the early days of motion pictures, Will H. Hays became known as the “Czar of Hollywood.” He presided over the earliest incarnation of the MPAA, charged with ensuring the morality of movies. Some of the changes the so-called “Hays Office” insisted upon were removing the image of a cow’s udder from a Walt Disney cartoon; and removing any direct reference to adultery in the 1935 adaptation of the Tolstoy novel “Anna Karenina” — despite the fact that Anna’s affair is at the heart of the novel.

• Those who study such things say that a woman’s sense of smell tends to be better than that of a man.

Thought for the Day: “I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe