A New Trivia Stumper Thread

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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  1. When the “Big Four” met in Versailles after World War I, which one–Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, or Vittorio Orlando–was oldest?
  2. In the human body, what ductless gland is ensconced completely within another organ?
  3. What urban legend is commemorated in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath?
  4. Who was the first major-league player to hit four home runs in a regular-season game?
  5. Besides Humphrey Bopgart, what actor(s) in Casablancawas/were also in The Maltese Falcon?
  6. What metal has, in its atomic structure, no electrons in its outermost shell?
  7. Which Biblical prophet saw his wife die as an allegory for a prophetic pronouncement?
  8. Which canton in Switzerland was created to accommodate French speakers? (after many, many years)
  9. From King Lear: who gets King Lear’s inheritance–Goneril, Regan or Cordelia?
  10. In the “comic-book” days of Mad, the magazine satirized Wonder Woman. What other link did publisher Bill Gaines have with Wonder Woman?
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[off topic]
hey, i’m from Casablanca!
[off topic]

[whiny little bitch]
and i have no answer to any of your questions. Thanks for making me feel stupid
[/whiny little bitch]

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I’ll take a shot at #2, knowing the parathyroid (I think) is behind the thyroid, or something…

I woulda guessed the pituitary gland but … hmm … wait, the thyroid isn’t an organ, is it?

In that case my guess is the pituitary gland.

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#1 Clemenceau was by far the oldest. Lloyd George was the youngest.

#5 Besides Bogart, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Creighton Hale were in both movies.

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Bob Lowe hit 4 in a game in 1894 for the Boston Beaneaters.

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#3 - I don’t know the name of the legend, but it is something along the lines of someone dies while on a trip, the others going on the trip with the deceased don’t stop they let (him/her I can’t remember) remain in the car. And then when they do stop for a meal (as I recall, its more and more hazy as I go) the car get stolen, or lost… something, where the car and the body disappear.

Reading over it I feel like I didn’t know the answer, but I read the book a long while ago (would have been about 7 years…) and remember this because my english teached mentioned it. She wasn’t teaching it to the class, I mentioned I was reading it and she told me to look for it… shakes his head because he can’t remember better

Ronin

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Goneril and Regan split it; Cordelia got nothing.

Depends on what you mean by link. Bill Gaines’s father was a creator of the comic book, and his company did publish Wonder Woman, as well as several other comics that Mad satirized.

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Isn’t the gall bladder inside the pancreas?

how can a metal have no electrons in its outer shell? Isn’t wherever the outermost electrons sit its outer shell, and if it has none, it’s an ion?

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I’m with lurkernomore on this one. A whole year of SAT II Chemistry tells me that the outer shell of an atom is DEFINED as the shell which the outermost electrons occupy. Therefore the only substance that fits the criteria is H[sup]+[/sup], a proton, which is not a metal at all. Under tremendous pressure and really cold temps, hydrogen has been made metallic, but that’s molecular hydrogen, H[sub]2[/sub], with 2 electrons per molecule.

Also, as far as I can recall, one of the defining characteristics of a metal is a loose soup of electrons which floats around the orderly arrangement of atoms (which is why most metals conduct electricity well).

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According to my periodic table, palladium has one series of electrons fewer than the elements that surround it–ruthenium, rhodium, silver, and cadmium. (Maybe that’s why the metal absorbs hydrogen so well.)
The islets of Langerhans, which produce insulin, are scattered inside the pancreas, whose own function has nothing to do with producing insulin.
Max Gaines, Bill’s father, was the co-creator of Wonder Woman with Dr. William Marston, if I’ve keyed the name in correctly.
Some more:
11. Which U. S. President’s mother could have attended his inauguration, but declined to do so?
12. Which writer (1) refused the Nobel Prize for Literature and (2) Had all his works listed in the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum?
13. What second-string Yankee outfielder went on to greater fame in another sport?
14. In what country was the (now defunct) political subdivision Athabaska?
15. In South Pacific, what song attacked bigotry?
16. Philo T. Farnsworth is one inventor credited with designing the prototype of the TV picture tube. Who else is credited with this?
17. Why was Mickey Cohen’s girlfriend, Liz Renay, sent to jail for three years?
18. Turn On is famous as a network show that only lasted one day. Who hosted the show that day?
19. What is “Cayenne” known as besides the capital of French Guiana?
20. Which famous 19th-Century minister was taken to court for adultery (and had a hung jury)?

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  1. Jean-Paul Sartre
  2. “Turn-on” was hosted by Tim Conway
  3. Cayenne is a type of hot pepper
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I’m thinking the gall bladder, located pretty much inside the liver.

Wasn’t it Lot, who saw his wife turn into a pillar of salt?

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  1. The Islets of Langerhans, which secrete insulin, are ductless glands contained entirely within the pancreas, a ducted gland.

  2. Canada

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  1. George Halas
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  1. “You’ve got to be carefully taught.”
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Oops, I didn’t see that dougie already gave the Islets of Langerhans.

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  1. John Logie Baird
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#8: Jura was carved out of Bern in 1978.

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  1. She was sent to jail for perjury trying to protect Mickey.
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19: Cayenne is not only a hot type of pepper; it is also an instrumental guitar song written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon when they were about fifteen, only released (in a very poor recording) on the Beatles’ Anthology 1 CD.

Wasn’t that interesting?