Quiz Seven Results

Congratulations to Invisible Lizard for winning last week's quiz! He will receive a free song from iTunes!

Here are the answers to Quiz Seven:

1) “That rug really tied the room together.”

The Big Lebowski.

2) “I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.”

The Royal Tennenbaums.

3) “Hello. I'm Dr. Freud, but you may call me Siggy.”

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

4) “First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village. But the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario, it just couldn't happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don't even have... reproductive organs under those little, white pants. It's just so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. You know, what's the point of living... if you don't have a dick?”

Donnie Darko

5) “I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.”

Being John Malkovich

6) “I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that.”

Beetlejuice.

7) “That movie has warped my fragile little mind.”

South Park the Movie

8) “I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me”

The Shawshank Redemption.

9) Guy: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man? Girl: No, have you?

Aliens.

10) “Listen, you'll have to excuse me. I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at the Four Seasons in 20 minutes.”

American Psycho.

Quiz Seven: Special Edition Again!

Welcome to The Trivia Exchange's sixth weekly quiz! This quiz will be open until Saturday night at midnight. The winner (person with the most correct answers) wins one free song from iTunes! The winner will be announced next Sunday. Please participate by hitting the comments link below for this entry and commenting with your answers.

SPECIAL ANNOUCEMENT: This will be the last quiz for the month of July. I will be going on vacation in the next couple of weeks and will not have internet access. A new quiz will be posted the week of August 7th.

In honor of some of the requests I have received, I've decided to come up with an all Movie Quote Edition. Simply name the movies the following quotes came from. Enjoy!

1) “That rug really tied the room together.”

2) “I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.”

3) “Hello. I'm Dr. Freud, but you may call me Siggy.”

4) “First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village. But the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario, it just couldn't happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don't even have... reproductive organs under those little, white pants. It's just so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. You know, what's the point of living... if you don't have a dick?”

5) “I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.”

6) “I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that.”

7) “That movie has warped my fragile little mind.”

8) “I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me”

9) Guy: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Girl: No, have you?

10) “Listen, you'll have to excuse me. I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at the Four Seasons in 20 minutes.”

Quiz Six Results

Congratulations AGAIN to Barbara for winning last week's quiz! She will receive a free song from iTunes!

Here are the answers to Quiz Six:

1) Anne Hutchinson, the famous puritan dissident, is also a direct ancestor to three U.S. presidents. Name two.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Herbert Walker Bush and George W. Bush.

2) When did the Bill of Rights go into effect?

1791.

3) What were "Stonewall" Jackson’s real first two names?

Thomas Jonathan.

4) How many amendments have been made to the U.S. constitution?

27.

5) Which amendment instated a presidential term limit?

22nd.

6) The man who assassinated President James Garfield belonged to a religious cult, which later became a major silverware company. What was the name of this group?

The Oneida Community.

7) In what magazine was The Battle Hymn of the Republic first published?

The Atlantic Monthly.

8) What for of government does the United States have?

Federal Republic.


Thanks again for playing. A new quiz will be posted tomorrow.

Quiz Six: Special Edition!

Welcome to The Trivia Exchange's sixth weekly quiz! This quiz will be open until Saturday night at midnight. The winner (person with the most correct answers) wins one free song from iTunes! The winner will be announced next Sunday. Please participate by hitting the comments link below for this entry and commenting with your answers.

UPDATE: Since it is now Friday at midnight and no one has taken the quiz, I 'm extending it an additional week. This quiz will close next Friday (7/14/06) at midnight.

In honor of Independence Day, this week will be the all U.S. History and Government questions.

And now for the quiz:

1) Anne Hutchinson, the famous puritan dissident, is also a direct ancestor to three U.S. presidents. Name two.

2) When did the Bill of Rights go into effect?

3) What were "Stonewall" Jackson’s first and second real names?

4) How many amendments have been made to the U.S. constitution?

5) Which amendment instated a presidential term limit?

6) The man who assassinated President James Garfield belonged to a religious cult, which later became a major silverware company. What was the name of this group?

7) In what magazine was The Battle Hymn of the Republic first published?

8) What form of government does the United States have?

Quiz Five Results

Congratulations AGAIN to Barbara for winning last week's quiz! She will receive a free song from iTunes!

Here are the answers to Quiz Five:
The Natural World

1) Which one of these animals does not hibernate?

C) Sloth

2) Name the animal that has three hearts and blue blood.

Octopus

Geography

1) The summit ridge of Mount Everest marks the border between which two Asian countries?

China and Nepal

2) What is the capital of Switzerland?

Bern.

The Human Body

1) What is the hardest substance in the human body?

Tooth enamel.

2) True or False: Your hair and nails continue to grow after you die.

False. Your tissue recedes, giving the hair and nails appearance of growing.

History

1) what happened at 1:00 pm on august 24th, 79 AD?

Mt. Vesuvius erupted.

2) What US post did Henry Kissinger hold from 1974 to 1977?

Secretary of State.

A new quiz will be posted tomorrow.

Trivia Quiz Five

Welcome to The Trivia Exchange's fifth weekly quiz! This quiz will be open until Friday night at midnight. The winner (person with the most correct answers) wins one free song from iTunes! The winner will be announced next Saturday. Please participate by hitting the comments link below and commenting with your answers.

The Natural World

1) Which one of these animals does not hibernate?

A) Frog
B) Snake
C) Sloth
D) Mouse

2) Name the animal that has three hearts and blue blood.


Geography

1) The summit ridge of Mount Everest marks the border between which two Asian countries?

2) What is the capital of Switzerland?


The Human Body

1) What is the hardest substance in the human body?

2) True or False: Your hair and nails continue to grow after you die.


History

1) What happened at 1:00 pm on august 24th, 79 AD?

2) What US post did Henry Kissinger hold from 1974 to 1977?

Quiz Five Posted Tonight

My Internet connection was not working last night due to a storm.

The quiz will be posted tonight.

Quiz Four Results

Congratulations AGAIN to Craig for winning last week's quiz! He will receive a free song from iTunes!

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: I will be vacationing with my family from the last week in July to the first week in August. We will be staying at a house with no dishwasher, no washer/dryer, and only one bathroom on the inside (the other bathroom is in the backyard). Needless to say I will not have Internet access. So it looks like there will be no quizzes those weeks. I'm toying with the idea of having a guest quizmaster. If the blog is really popular by that point, I may just have too.

Here are the answers to Quiz Four:

Botany

1) This week I was doing some gardening in my mother’s yard. I was planning on planting a tree that is tallest of all flowering evergreen plants, but decided against it cause it is poisonous to cats. What tree was I thinking of planting?

Eucalyptus.

2) Which branch of botany is concerned with the study of trees and woody plants?

Dendrology.

Disgusting (Cockroach) Facts

1) Humans can withstand 18 g’s of pressure. How many can a cockroach stand?

126.

2) A cockroach can live without its head for several days. However, it will eventually die, but from what?

Starvation.

Literature

1) In 1931, what book was banned in China because humans and animals used the same language?

Alice in Wonderland.

2) Name the novel and author from which the following quote originated”
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”

The Picture of Dorian Grey.


U.S. History

1) Name the famous historical figure pictured below:

John Adams

2) Name 2 of the 3 authors of The Federalist Papers.

James Madison, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton