Trick Questions

I didn’t see any answer to the quarter question :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

What’s the most unusual feature about the Mona Lisa’s face?

The answer may be here?:

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/monalisa/index.html

I beg to differ with the answer given.

In fact, the origin of the name is uncertain. There are several theories and legends. By far, the most likely explaination is that the Islands were named after the Canarii people.

A less likely answer is that they were named after the birdsong. The verb “to sing” in latin is canare.

There was a legend that they were named Cranaria after a man named Cranus who colonized the largest island. But he probably never existed.

The idea that they were named directly after dogs is almost certainly wrong.

Now my question.

What is the capital of Australia?

She has no eyebrows.

Too easy :slight_smile:

Canberra.

What movie set in Philadelphia won an Academy Award for best cinematography?

The Latin verb to sing is cantare, not canare.

mea culpa.

:dubious: bete raises the eyebrow Mona doesn’t have I don’t know if that counts as unusual. I’ve heard it was a fairly common fashion statement of the time.
Ok…two that are true or false (which therefore make them obvious, but you have to explain them).

Prohibition made the drinking of alcohol illegal.

When you are arrested you must be read your Miranda right.

False. Prohibition made the sale of alcohol illegal, not its consumption.

False. “Miranda” is a reading of two separate rights (Right to remain silent, right to an attorney even if you cannot afford one), not just the one. And it has to be stated aloud, not necessarily read.

The odds that it just happened are much better. That would be the odds of it happening before it happened.

Yes! Although it also made illegal the production of alcohol. But not the consumption.

All true. And in fact more accurate than I was. But not what I was going for.

The question is is it required that you be informed of your Miranda rights when you are are arrested?

As I understand it:

No there is no legal obligation for Police to read the Miranda rights. But if they fail to do so, any admission made by the suspect is inadmissable evidence.

Is it time to dig up and dust off
‘A plane crashes on the border of Country X and Country Y. Where do they bury the survivors?’
‘Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man’s father is my father’s son’
and that old one about St. Ives

Prohibition: False. The Eighteenth Amendment made the manufacture, sale, transportation, or importation of alcoholic beverages illegal. If you happened to own some already “manufactured” and in your possession, you could drink it – as far as the Amendment itself was concerned; I do not know what the Volstead Act or other laws may have said about that.

Miranda right: Not only are there four interrelated rights on the standard Miranda warning, but the recital of them is in no way mandated by law (though it may very well be by police procedural regulations). What is required is that under the circumstances calling for “reading him his rights” the apprehending authorities must ensure that the person they are detaining is fully aware of those four rights, and they must abide by his decisions with regard to them. “Reading him his Miranda rights” is merely the simplest way to ensure that he is aware of them.

All those are easy.
-If Mr Smith’s peacock lays an egg in Mr Jones’ yard, who owns the egg?

Peacocks don’t lay eggs, peahens do

-Name the most recent year in which New Year’s preceded Christmas.

  1. January always comes before December.

-Why are 1968 pennies worth more than 1967 pennies?

Because $19.68 is more money than $19.67

-Who had the title role in the 1931 movie Frankenstein?

The mad scientist (you can look up his name on IDMB just as easily as I can)

-If there are 6 apples and you take away 4, how many do you have?

You have the 4 apples you took.

-There are two coins which total 55 cents (read: $0.55). One of them is not a nickel. What are the two coins?

A 50 cent piece and a nickel. One is not a nickel, the other is.

-Do you say “Loo-iss-vill” is the capital of Kentucky, or do you say “Loo-ee-vill” is the capital of Kentucky?

I say Frankfurt

-Exactly how many slices of 1.5 cm each can you cut from a whole loaf of bread which is 22.5 cm long?

One. Once you slice off one slice it is no longer 22.5 cm

Essentially (although Poly provided even more accurate information :)) . It’s really only relevant to suspects the police want to question, for the above reason. But I recall my fellow detainees (when I was arrested for buying drugs, back wheh I was young and stupid :o ) confidently tellling each other their arrest was invalid because they hadn’t been read their rights. Such is the power of television.

They don’t, of course, bury the survivors.

It’s you

Easy one: George W. Bush is officially the 43rd president of the USA. How many men have served as president before him?

No.

It’s your son. Because your son’s father is your father’s son.