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10月28日

Cinema Tivia

Trivia Time
 
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Questions:
 
1. What actor-and one-time New York Yankee batboy- portrayed Babe Ruth in the 1948 biography of the Sultan Swat?
 
 
2. Who provided Mickey Mouse's high-pitched voice in the early Walt Disney films starring the animated mouse?
 
 
3. For what two films did Elizabeth Taylor win best actress Oscars?
 
 
4. What American actress once described herself as "pure as the driven slush?"
 
 
5. What was the only horror film in which Humphrey Bogart appeared?
 
 
6. Who was Gene Kelly's unusual dancing partner in an imaginative pas de duex in the 1945 film Anchors Aweigh?
 
 
7. How old was Shirley Temple when she appeared in her first 1971 film, The Red-Haired Alibi?
 
 
8. Who played Scorpio, the sadistic killer, in Clint Eastwood's 1971 film, Dirty Harry?
 
 
9. Whose lengthy Oscar acceptance speech prompted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to set a time limit at later award ceremonies?
 
 
10. What was the first R-rated film produced by the Walt Disney studio?
 
 
11. What was used to simulate blood in the famous shower scene in the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock chiller Psycho?
 
 
12. What 1977 movie was originally going to be titled Anhedonia- a word that means the psychological inability to experience pleasure?
 
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Answers:
 
1. William Bendix.
 
2. Walt Disney, himself.
 
3. Butterfield 8-in 1960; and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf-in 1966.
 
4. Tallulah Bankhead.
 
5. The Return of Dr. X; Bogart played in a zombie in the 1939 film.
 
6. Jerry, the animated mouse from the Tom and Jerry cartoon.
 
7. Three years old.
 
8. Andy Robinson, son of Edward G. Robinson.
 
9. Greer Garson's. She said her thanks for 5 1/2 minutes at the 1943 ceremonies when she was honored for her starring role in Mrs. Miniver.
 
10. Down and out in Beverly Hills, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler, and Nick Nolte, in 1985.
 
11. Hershey's Chocolate syrup.
 
12. Woody Allen's Annie Hall.
10月26日

Food

Just wanted to make a note that I made this animation all by myself!!!  Yay!!!
 
 
Food
 
Questions: (answers at the bottom)

1. What part of the strawberry plant is a true fruit?

 

2. What percentage of whole milk is water?

 

3. In which American city is the greatest amount of ketchup consumed?

 

4. How many kernels of dorum wheat are used to make a pound of pasta?

 

5. What is the official state beverage of Delaware?

 

6. What part of the banana is used to make banana oil?

 

7. From what part of the cinnamon tree do we get the spice?

 

8. How many pounds of roasted, ground coffee does one coffee tree yield annually?

 

9. According to the US Agriculture Department grading regulations, how many ounces must a dozen "jumbo" eggs weigh?

 

10. The pretzel shape was created by French monks in 610 AD.  What was it designed to resemble?

 

11. What American Brewery was the first to market beer in a bottle?

 

12. The Father of what American poet invented peppermint Life Savers?

 

13. In cooking, how many drops to a teaspoon?

 

14. Black-eyed peas are not peas. What are they?

 

 

 

Answers:

1. The seed. The delicacy that we eat and call the fruit is actually the swollen end of the stem called a drupe.

 

2. 87%

 

3. New Orleans

 

4. Approximately 16,550

 

5. Milk

 

6. No part. Banana oil, a synthetic compound made of amyl alcohol, is named for its banana-like aroma. It is used primarily as a paint solvent and in artificial fruit flavoring.

 

7. The inner bark of young wood.

 

8. Just one.

 

9. Thirty ounces.

 

10. A little child's arms in prayer.

 

11. F&M Schaefer.

 

12. Hart Crane; his father's name was Clarence.

 

13. Sixty.

 

14. Beans.