# The Hardest Quiz Ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772 "2006-01-06T18:41:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/21 "2006-01-06T20:29:30Z")
50.ABCFGHIKLP ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/22 "2006-01-06T20:31:41Z")
#43 d.shout anagrams of directions ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/23 "2006-01-06T20:46:47Z")
#18, 27 (educated guesses both…) Truman Capote (for _In Cold Blood_), Bic ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/24 "2006-01-06T20:57:07Z")
For question #7: I seem to recall that Cupid’s foot here is the foot from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, the one that steps on Queen Elizabeth’s head. Does that have anything do to with this at all? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/25 "2006-01-06T20:59:52Z")
#6: [spoiler]Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. The top 5 albums of 1966: 1. WHIPPED CREAM & OTHER DELIGHTS Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass 2. SOUND OF MUSIC Soundtrack 3. GOING PLACES Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass 4. RUBBER SOUL Beatles 5. WHAT NOW MY LOVE Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/26 "2006-01-06T21:01:21Z")
> [@amaranta](#): > > For question #7: > > I seem to recall that Cupid’s foot here is the foot from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, the one that steps on Queen Elizabeth’s head. Does that have anything do to with this at all? When I’m home later I’ll check for correctness and post as to such. I am very impressed with you all so far. You get a gold star. FWIW I could only get a handful of these without researching them (like the cards answer which was posted above already). Go SDMB!! ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/27 "2006-01-06T21:02:00Z")
Dammit. Scratch that, change it to Queen Victoria. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/28 "2006-01-06T21:13:01Z")
1. New Orleans Vampireologist Anne Rice 2. eight becomes **S** ight heading becomes hea **R** ing shell becomes s **M** ell paste becomes **T** aste tough becomes tou **C** h 3. ? 4. Hop on Pop 5. 60 faces 6. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass 7. Monty Python - The foot in the corner is the one that stamps things in the Monty Python animated bits 8. Skim milk 9. Jackie Robinson 10. b, Canada (Red and white flags) 11. Sherwood Schwartz/Gilligan’s Island (The Minnow was named after Newton “vast wasteland” Minnow), as described in Russell Johnson’s book 12. ? 13. ? 14. Taft to Raft (First name of George) 15. 1-E (unknown) 2-G (Kid Rock + y --\> Dick York) 3-D (Jules Asner + l --\>Jane Russell) 4-B (Paul O’Neill + i --\> Lou Piniella) 5-F (Blythe Danner + b --\> Brenda Blethyn) 6-C (Noah Wyle + j --\> John Elway) 7-A (Scott Weiland + o --\>Clint Eastwood) 1. Ellen DeGeneres / Vance 2. Gladstone 3. Sharp 4. ? 5. square 25 6. ? 7. a theremin 8. Hedy Lamarr 9. ? 10. ? 11. Romeo (Others are moons of Uranus) 12. ? 13. The Hollies (“Bus Stop” and “Stop Stop Stop”) 14. Cincinnati Reds (Became Redlegs) 15. The ace (alphabetical order: eight, five, four, jack, king, nine, queen, etc - Ace should be first) 16. W = Hee Haw A = Quantum Leap S = Alias T = That 70s Show E = American Idol L = The Man from U.N.C.L.E. A = Futurama N = Friends D = NYPD Blue 1. ? 2. Wally Cox 3. Sissy Spacek 4. ? 5. Peter Weir 6. ? 7. Ogden Nash 8. Vatican City (St. Peter’s Square) 9. Nestle 10. Pennsylvania (Monopoly sequence) 11. ? 12. d - shout (Anagram of compass directions) 13. a - Pierce (Maiden names of First ladies) 14. ? 15. c - height (Spoonerism: tall is to short as heavy is to light) 16. ? 17. ? 18. ? 19. ? ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/29 "2006-01-06T21:13:22Z")
#15: [spoiler]Add a ‘Y’ to Kid Rock (2) to get Dick York (g). Add an ‘O’ to Scott Weiland (7) to get Clint Eastwood (a) [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/30 "2006-01-06T21:21:27Z")
#15 Noah Wyle to John Elway ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/31 "2006-01-06T21:23:34Z")
Ahh, too slow on #15, I see. Anywho, #7 must be a two-word phrase… Cupid’s Foot? Python Foot? ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/32 "2006-01-06T22:01:24Z")
> [@amaranta](#): > > Ahh, too slow on #15, I see. Anywho, #7 must be a two-word phrase… Cupid’s Foot? Python Foot? **amaranta** - you’ve already done the heavy lifting, so I’ll just push you over the goal line: Monty Python? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/33 "2006-01-06T22:03:34Z")
1. c. Take the first word and change each letter to the next letter of the alphabet. ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/34 "2006-01-06T22:17:24Z")
> [@McNew](#): > > **amaranta** - you’ve already done the heavy lifting, so I’ll just push you over the goal line: > > Monty Python? I guess I mis-read the question - I thought they were looking for the name of the applied to that detail, not the one associated with it. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![light\_strand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@light\_strand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/light_strand)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/35 "2006-01-06T22:17:34Z")
#3 absolutely positive"Mind your business" ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/36 "2006-01-06T22:25:11Z")
#26. Romeo is not a moon of Uranus. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/37 "2006-01-07T06:50:44Z")
1. Draelin Anne Rice [sup]Anyone mind explaining that one to me?[/sup] 2. Draelin The new words are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. 3. 4. Bricker Hop on Pop 5. Bricker 60 faces. 6. Rico Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. 7. Amaranta I seem to recall that Cupid’s foot here is the foot from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, the one that steps on Queen Elizabeth’s head. Does that have anything do to with this at all? - Answer is Monty Python, from the foot in the lower left corner. Judges would also accept Terry Gilliam 8. Gigi Skim Milk 9. Bricker Jackie Robinson 10. Crandolph Canada, because all the listed countries have red and white flags. 11. Alma (who doesn’t know how to count) Gilligan’s Island 12. Draelin Jerry Garcia 13. 14. Gigi Taft becomes Raft - Well known Georges 15. 16. Bricker Ellen DeGeneres / Vance 17. Bricker William Gladstone 18. Bricker Sharp 19. 20. Bricker 25 21. hehe - the answer to this one has is currently being discussed elsewhere on this message board, but not in these terms per se. 22. Bricker Theremin 23. Kellner Hedy Lamarr - Shibb’s Note: That’s _Hedley_ 24. 25. 26. Bricker Romeo (Others are moons of Uranus) 27. 28. Bricker The Hollies: Bus Stop and Stop, Stop, Stop 29. Bricker Cincinnati Reds (Became Redlegs) because of McCarthyism 30. Robot Arm The ace. The other cards are in alphabetical order; “eight”, “five”, “four”, etc. 31. Bricker W = Hee Haw A = Quantum Leap S = Alias T = That 70s Show E = American Idol L = The Man from U.N.C.L.E. A = Futurama N = Friends D = NYPD Blue 32. 33. Bricker Wally Cox - he was a friend of Brando’s 34. Bricker Sissy Spacek, who recorded “John, you went to far this time” under the name Rainbo 35. 36. Bricker Peter Weir 37. Gigi (very geeky) 55–atomic weight of cesium neon=10, argon=18… 38. Kellner (with caveats) Acceptable answers were Rome or Vatican City. The idea was to recognize St Peter’s Basilica and St. Peter’s Square. 39. Kellner Nestlé 40. Bricker Pennsylvannia - Monopoly state property names in their order on the board 41. 42. Gigi d.shout anagrams of directions 43. Bricker a - Pierce (Maiden names of First ladies) 44. 45. Bricker c - height (Spoonerism: tall is to short as heavy is to light) 46. 47. Gigi d.song douleur french for pain, pain french for bread; gelogen Dutch for lied, lied Dutch for song. Note: the second part, as given in the answer, is the German. I’ve no doubt it works in Dutch or is close enough. 48. Robot Arm Change each letter in the first word to the following letter in the alphabet yields the second word 49. Robot Arm ABCFGHIKLP ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/38 "2006-01-07T09:25:28Z")
My turn! #24 I’m fairly certain it would be a list of Winter Olympics events. Assuming the list is in alphabetical order, **Alpine skiing** would be first. If there’s some other order that the events usually appear in, someone can correct me. #32 **Harp**. These all appear on the respective countries’ €1.00 coin ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/39 "2006-01-07T14:42:22Z")
32 is correct, **Mbossa**. The other is not. ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772/40 "2006-01-07T16:05:05Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > #3755–atomic weight of cesium neon=10, argon=18… I think you mean atomic number, not weight. Also, I don’t understand the link between the answer and “miscue.” Could you elaborate? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hardest-quiz-ever/338772.md?page=3)