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Balderdash 4 Trivia Quiz


Let's see how this one goes. You'll get a question/category and you pick the right answer. Nothing new there, but the right answer is a slippery rascal indeed. Have fun!

A multiple-choice quiz by gatsby722. Estimated time: 9 mins.
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Author
gatsby722
Time
9 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
200,003
Updated
Sep 19 23
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
4 / 10
Plays
1449
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Question 1 of 10
1. Kitchen Utensils: They are multi-purpose. Which of these is a strange fact about them? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Agility: Which of these is considered The World's Most Flexible Man? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Rock Bands: If I say Alan Wilson & Bob Hite, which band fact would come to mind? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Tragic Accidents: One happened in Cass County, Michigan in April 2002. Which of these? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Slang: As the day progresses you decide to "chuck a sickie". What on Earth are you up to? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Hungry?: Which of these DID NOT appear on the third class passenger menu for dinner [better known now as lunch] on April 14, 1912 aboard The Titanic? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Snip, Snip: Which of these is widely known as the inventor of scissors? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Sports: One of these about sports, of any kind, is right. Which? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Movies: One actress had the shortest screen time that got her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She didn't win. Who was this? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. TV Shows: Which classic (now) television comedy nearly got cancelled after its very first season? Hint



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1. Kitchen Utensils: They are multi-purpose. Which of these is a strange fact about them?

Answer: An unknown woman in Missouri had a headstone only marked with a cast iron kettle. Finding out who she was has been a problem. It would appear that frying up dinner was her signature, though.

In Missouri, in 1883, the governorship there decided to beef up their Bureau Of Vital Records. This task included figuring out who died where and when for their records. It was a hard job since many people were rural (farmers mostly) and to find out who was who was almost impossible.

But they did find a grave marker of a woman who no one remembered. Her marker was only an iron kettle - and it lent no more information than that.
2. Agility: Which of these is considered The World's Most Flexible Man?

Answer: It's that Canadian schoolteacher who earned the nickname Mr. Gumby. He even managed to fit himself into a box about the same size as a picnic basket.

Pierre Beauchemin dazzled the audience with this gasper on "Guinness World Records: Primetime" in 1999. The box really WAS about the size of a picnic basket (just 29" x 15" x 15")! He had to disjoint both of his legs to do this, of course, not that there is anything 'regular' about that. Always unbelievably double jointed, Pierre was told by doctors he would be a cripple by the time he hit 30 - never happened.

He passed away in 2000 at age 40, due to a very sudden illness.
3. Rock Bands: If I say Alan Wilson & Bob Hite, which band fact would come to mind?

Answer: That's those two fellows who started out in the early 60s. They eventually hit the Woodstock stage in 1969.

Wilson and Hite were record collectors and blues historians who formed the band Canned Heat in the early 60s. They went to the Monterey Festival after getting some attention and did end up at Woodstock (singing just five songs: "A Change Is Gonna Come", "Woodstock Boogie", "Going Up The Country", "Let's Work Together" and "Too Many Drivers At The Wheel").

The band changed members a lot but those two stayed until their deaths; Alan Wilson, a harmonica player extraordinaire, in 1970 and Bob Hite ('The Bear') in 1981.
4. Tragic Accidents: One happened in Cass County, Michigan in April 2002. Which of these?

Answer: How awful! A baby was shot and killed when a gun went off that was being stored in the oven! His grandmother had hidden it there and when someone turned the oven on it discharged.

WNDU (Channel 16) reported this horrific story on April 17th that year. Young Dylan Christopher Goodwin, just 5 months old, was shot in the head by a gun his grandmother stored in the oven. When ignited it just fired. The bullet went through the oven structure and hit poor Dylan some 25 feet away. Clearly no one intended for such a thing to happen BUT, strangely, there was a gun safe in the house! Unfortunately it was not used.
5. Slang: As the day progresses you decide to "chuck a sickie". What on Earth are you up to?

Answer: In Australia you'd be taking a day off work. Calling in sick, even though you feel fine. Shame on you!

What am I doing writing a quiz question about Australian slang? Don't ask me. But, anyway, it is a phrase used for taking a day off work without a valid reason. In America we say "chuck it" a lot. Ignore it or get rid of the bother. All part of the same idea, one would conclude.
6. Hungry?: Which of these DID NOT appear on the third class passenger menu for dinner [better known now as lunch] on April 14, 1912 aboard The Titanic?

Answer: Hard Boiled Eggs (served with pepper and mustard. Very popular snack back then).

Their last midday meal, as the vessel sunk before noon occurred the next night, really wasn't so extraordinary. Third Class people did get fed well and were catered but their menu was very basic. Hard boiled eggs were not an option that day, though. The galley prepared the food for all passengers, no matter which class, and was located on D Deck (right above the engine room).

The ship's bugler, Mr. P.W. Fletcher, went from deck to deck blowing his horn and announced when chow time was. Both he and his bugle never saw the sunrise of April 15th that year.
7. Snip, Snip: Which of these is widely known as the inventor of scissors?

Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci is right. He even had a sketch or two involving robots! He had many a talent and a startling vision about things to come.

Da Vinci 'just' a painter, eh? Not even close! He was a sculptor, astronomer, geologist, mathematician, botanist, animal behaviourist, inventor, engineer, architect and even a musician.
8. Sports: One of these about sports, of any kind, is right. Which?

Answer: The longest baseball game lasted 8 hours and 6 minutes! It went 25 innings before somebody won it! The score only ending up 7 to 6.

On May 19th, 1984 the Chicago White Sox vs. the Milwaukee Brewers had quite a marathon of it. Chicago won eventually. The other three choices are quite nonsense. The Baseball Almanac reports another long one, in the early 1900s that was pretty lengthy, too (Brooklyn against Boston), but that one ended up a tie.

There are many baseball records but the White Sox victory is the one to both win the game and in the most innings and longest time ever.
9. Movies: One actress had the shortest screen time that got her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She didn't win. Who was this?

Answer: They must have run out of other available nominees that year. But the answer is Sylvia Miles for her short work in "Midnight Cowboy".

Let's eliminate the completely wrong answers first. Paxinou and Straight both won on their efforts in 1943 and 1976, consecutively speaking. Foster was nominated in 1976, too, but had a considerably greater screen time than just 6 minutes. So Miles is the one and Sylvia Miles earns this record. "Midnight Cowboy" was a very unsettling movie in 1969, in my opinion! Completely bleak. What a pack of lost characters! However, despite its 'X' rating, it was named Best Picture.

But things were a bit liberal in '69.
10. TV Shows: Which classic (now) television comedy nearly got cancelled after its very first season?

Answer: What am I supposed to answer? They all almost did!

See what happens when initial Nielsen ratings basically stink? Give them a year or two to get their footing and it all becomes a valued chunk of pop culture. The business part of it makes the networks money. Sponsors stayed away so the plug was almost pulled - we are lucky that someone decided to stick with these three (and others).

Whew. I can stop lying now! Hope you had a little fun with this one.
Source: Author gatsby722

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