# Impossible Trivia (A penny for your thoughts my dear...) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 18, 2001, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671 "2001-01-18T10:59:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MetropoChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@MetropoChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MetropoChris)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/1 "2001-01-18T10:59:35Z")
In light of the “What happend on May 33rd” thread _(Was that ever solved BTW)_ Lets start our own “impossible” trivia thread here. First up: _ **When is lavendar blue?** _ _clue in subject BTW…_ If you get it, ask one of your own… ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/2 "2001-01-18T11:19:52Z")
I can’t really come up with a new question right now but, When you love me, dilly dilly, I will love you. (maybe a guy named Fugazi should be disqualified from answering this one)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/3 "2001-01-18T12:54:58Z")
I finally came up with one. Which band’s music “could be described as lame”? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/4 "2001-01-18T13:41:54Z")
Why is a mouse when it spins? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/5 "2001-01-18T14:28:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > \*\*Why is a mouse when it spins? > > \*\* Because it’s upside down. What is the difference between a duck? ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/6 "2001-01-18T14:39:16Z")
What is the appropriate forum for your favorite trivia? (Hint: it isn’t General Questions.) TVeblen Moderator, IMHO ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/7 "2001-01-18T15:33:33Z")
These _aren’t_ trivia. These are just riddles. Here’s an example of tough _trivia_: **In the movie, _The Shining_, what is the signature on the bat used by Jack Nicholson?** ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/8 "2001-01-18T15:45:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fugazi \* > \*\*I finally came up with one. Which band’s music “could be described as lame”? \*\* _Limp_ Bizkit? And I got the one in the OP as well, dammit. I owe you for your love… **What band seems to want to warn us for impending and irrevocable doom?** ---
**Author:** ![Pjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pjen)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/9 "2001-01-18T21:06:48Z")
To Reality Chuck: Why is a mouse when it spins? Because the faster the higher. but why this answer? It refers to engineering slang about speed limiters on a shaft of an engine. ---
**Author:** ![MetropoChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@MetropoChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MetropoChris)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/10 "2001-01-18T21:35:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fugazi \* > \*\* > (maybe a guy named Fugazi should be disqualified from answering this one)🙂 \*\* The minute I saw the name Fugazi in my email notificaion letter I knew my Q was answered. **Transatlantic II coming soon!** (You ever post to the [MikePortnoy.com](http://MikePortnoy.com) MB Fugazi?) ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/11 "2001-01-18T22:02:40Z")
I think a lot of people might be confused about Question #1 at this point, so let me recap the give-and-take: 1. “lavendar blue” and “A penny for your thoughts my dear” and “When you love me, dilly dilly, I will love you” are lyrics from “Lavender”, a song on Marillion’s “Misplaced Childhood” album. 2. **Fugazi** was the name of the group’s second album. ---
**Author:** ![MetropoChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@MetropoChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MetropoChris)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/12 "2001-01-18T22:43:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fugazi \* > \*\* > (maybe a guy named Fugazi should be disqualified from answering this one)🙂 \*\* The minute I saw the name Fugazi in my email notificaion letter I knew my Q was answered. **Transatlantic II coming soon!** (You ever post to the [MikePortnoy.com](http://MikePortnoy.com) MB Fugazi?) ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/13 "2001-01-19T00:37:53Z")
You want impossible trivia? In the movie “The War of the Worlds” one of the most suspenseful scenes is when Glenn Ford et al are approaching the half buried and still smoking spacecraft. Slowly and with a peculiar grinding sound the hatch begins to spin out of the side of the craft. For ten virtual silver dimes; What Foley technique produced the sound in the movie? ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/14 "2001-01-19T03:04:04Z")
Was the sound effect created by unscewing the lid of a jar while held down within a toilet bowl? (I’m pretty sure I heard that was what was done for either the radio show or the movie). ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/15 "2001-01-19T03:14:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cabbage \* > \*\*Was the sound effect created by unscewing the lid of a jar while held down within a toilet bowl? (I’m pretty sure I heard that was what was done for either the radio show or the movie). \*\* Most excellent **Cabbage**! The only thing that you omitted was the fact that the lid to the mason jar was rusty. I think that we can both safely assume that you are referring to an _empty_ toilet bowl. Good show, I’m impressed! ::clinking of ten virtual silver dimes changing hands:: ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/16 "2001-01-19T03:30:01Z")
😃 Here’s one, but I really don’t have a good feel for how hard it may/may not be: In _Psycho_, what was used for the fake blood in the shower scene? ---
**Author:** ![MetropoChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@MetropoChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MetropoChris)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/17 "2001-01-19T03:33:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Cabbage \* > > \*\*Was the sound effect created by unscewing the lid of a jar while held down within a toilet bowl? (I’m pretty sure I heard that was what was done for either the radio show or the movie). \*\* > > Most excellent **Cabbage**! > \*\* Dammit! I knew that at one point in my life. Watched the WoTW-Special in school, no bells rung when I read the question but the answer brought back the memory clearly… On the table still… Irrevicable doom… and The Sig on the bat in the Shining… _(If I had this on DVD rather than VHS Id check myself… I hate VHS now BTW…)_ ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/18 "2001-01-19T04:56:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cabbage \* > \*\*Here’s one, but I really don’t have a good feel for how hard it may/may not be: In _Psycho_, what was used for the fake blood in the shower scene? \*\* Wasn’t it Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup? What’s the smallest city in England? ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/19 "2001-01-19T05:05:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Cabbage \* > > \*\*Here’s one, but I really don’t have a good feel for how hard it may/may not be: In _Psycho_, what was used for the fake blood in the shower scene? \*\* > > Wasn’t it Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup? > > What’s the smallest city in England? \*\* I’m pretty sure that Hershey’s was the hematic liquid of choice in “Night of the Living Dead.” Might have been in “Psycho” too. Here’s your next _killer_ Hitchcock trivia: How did they arrive at the stabbing sound effect for the shower scene in _Psycho_? What was the method of selection? ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671/20 "2001-01-19T05:28:26Z")
Yep, Hershey’s it was! _Psycho_ was filmed in B&W so it wouldn’t end up looking like a blood bath, chocolate syrup had the closest consistency to blood that Hitch found. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-trivia-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-my-dear/50671.md?page=2)