Thematic Feet Trivia

1. What is the name of the 1989 film which presents the story of Christy Brown?

From Quiz All About Feet

Answer: "My Left Foot"

Daniel Day-Lewis starred in this film dealing with Christy Brown, a quadriplegic, who could only control his left foot due to cerebral palsy. Daniel Day-Lewis won the Academy Award for best acting. In the film, Brown learns to write and paint with his left foot. Of course, here one needs to remember the left has sometimes been considered socially as not as "normal" as the right side. This makes Brown's achievement all the more memorable.

From Quiz The Agony of De Feet!

Answer: 0.3048 meters

If you multiply the number of feet you need to convert by 0.3048, you get the measurement in meters. The U.S.A. attempted to adopt the metric system back in 1975. We went so far as to establish a 'United States Metric Board' for the transition; but by the early 1980s, the only progress made was that liquor had to be labeled in liters. We tried again in 1988, when Congress decided that government agencies must try to become metric by 1992. Today, the Department of Defense and NASA are becoming close to being fully converted; while others, like the Department of Education, are still fighting it. They've cited the "rights of each state to make its own decision".

From Quiz Footloose

Answer: They each have one foot.

Long John Silver is the one-legged pirate in Treasure Island. Snails and other gastropod molluscs have a single "foot" which they protrude out of their shell for locomotion and/or attachment to a surface. (Some snails live in the sea, but not all. Their feet do not have toes.)

From Quiz Look Ma! No Hands!

Answer: athlete's foot

Athlete's foot is a form of ringworm or a fungus that typically attacks the skin of the feet, particularly around the toes. Few people know, however, that the fungus can spread to other parts of the body and that, if left untreated, a serious enough infection could occur that requires antibiotic treatment. A bunion is a growth of bone or tissue around the joint where the big toe connects with the foot. Club foot is a birth defect that causes one's foot to turn inward at the ankle. .

From Quiz All About Feet

Answer: Ground

Rushdie's 2000 book develops further the Greek Orpheus/Eurydice myth. It had rock music instead of Orpheus' lyre. Toni Morrison called it a "global novel." Later, the book became both a film and a stage presentation (2007). U2 have a song called "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" appearing in the 2000 film "Million Dollar Hotel." Bono developed the song, which Rushdie thought had "some of the most beautiful melodies." Rushdie is the writer who had a death sentence issued by Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khomeinei because of the novel's allegedly "blasphemous" treatment of Islam.

From Quiz The Agony of De Feet!

Answer: Feet do not 'grow', but appear longer and wider from loss of muscle and connective tissue.

As strange as it may seem, human feet do tend to expand as we age; our arches break down and the foot bones spread out. So, technically they're expanding, not growing. A half size expansion is typical.

From Quiz Footloose

Answer: calcaneus

The metatarsals are the bones across the main part of the foot (between the ankle and the toes). A phalanx is one of the toe (or finger) bones. The tibia is in the lower leg - it is the shin bone. The ankle bones (of which calcaneus is one) are the tarsals.

From Quiz All About Feet

Answer: "Stamp Your Feet"

Born as LaDonna Adrian Gaines aka "the Queen of Disco," Donna Summer released the single "Stamp Your Feet" in 2008. Speaking of feet, her adult contemporary single "Sand On My Feet" got to number 30 on the Adult Contemporary chart in 2008. In 2009 she was invited to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert for Barack Obama in Oslo, Norway.

From Quiz Footloose

Answer: a fungus

There are several different species of fungus that can cause athlete's foot, but the most common ones belong to the genus Trichophyton. The fungus grows on the surface of the skin, especially between the toes, causing damage by digesting and feeding on the living cells of the skin and underlying tissues. Yuk!

From Quiz Toenails All Around

Answer: Inserting a sharp and sterile needle underneath the toenail.

If executed properly the insertion of a sharp and sterile needle will leave no mark but will still cause excruciating pain. Pulling the nail or crushing it will certainly hurt like there is no tomorrow but it will also leave marks and that is not a good thing if you are a professional torturer. Filing the toenail until the flesh is just a good way to maintain healthy toenails and doesn't hurt a bit. And uhhh... do I need to add that torture is illegal and should not be executed ever?

From Quiz All About Feet

Answer: Six Feet Under

Literally, to be six feet under means to be dead, to be buried approximately six feet under ground. "Six Feet Under" is a famous 2001 TV series appearing from 2001-2005 featuring an unusual family that ran a funeral home. "Six Feet Under" is also the name of a death metal band.

From Quiz The Agony of De Feet!

Answer: toes

An African-American vocal group featuring funk and soul music, Parliament was based in Plainfield, NJ. They were somewhat popular in the 1970s.

From Quiz Footloose

Answer: He has cerebral palsy.

"My Left Foot" was released in 1989, and is based on a true story. The movie stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the Irishman Christy Brown. Christy Brown was born with cerebral palsy, and could at first only move his left foot. As a child he was considered by doctors to be mentally disabled as well, but he overcame his problems to write the autobiography on which this movie is based.

From Quiz All About Feet

Answer: think

A related phrase to this is to stand on your own two feet. To think on one's feet means that someone can quickly digest information and come up with answers readily, to improvise. There is a short article on line offering advice on "how to think on one's feet like Conan O'Brien."

From Quiz The Agony of De Feet!

Answer: 6076 feet

The International Nautical Mile, which is used for sea and air navigation, is equal to the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the Earth. The great circle of Earth theorizes that Earth is a perfect sphere, so that by averaging one minute of arc at the equator and the polar planes, the results are at 1852 meters. This is equal to 6076.11549 feet.

From Quiz Footloose

Answer: Labour

Michael Foot was leader of the British Labour Party from 1980 to 1983, but he never became Prime Minister - he resigned after his party lost the 1983 election. The other two main British political parties are the Conservatives and the Liberals. There really is a British political party called the Official Monster Raving Loonies, which has been going since 1983 (they fielded 19 parliamentary candidates in the 2005 general election) - but the party has never won a parliamentary seat.

From Quiz All About Feet

Answer: mouth

To put one's foot in one's mouth means that a person says something wrong, silly or for which one will be embarrassed. For example, "Harry put his foot in his mouth when he said too many details about getting fired during a new job interview."

From Quiz The Agony of De Feet!

Answer: podophilia

Neurologists have offered that 'foot fetishism' might be caused by possible communication between neighboring feet and genital sensory areas in the brain. Pedophilia is when an adult is sexually attracted to a child; podiatry is the study and treatment of foot disorders; and pedagogy is the art or science of teaching.

From Quiz Footloose

Answer: A human foot is nearly always shorter than 12 inches.

Although the "foot" probably has its historical origins in the length of a human foot, the average length of the human foot (for both women and men) is in fact well below 12 inches. Perhaps this is because the original measurement was of a human foot with a shoe on.

From Quiz Look Ma! No Hands!

Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis

Christy Brown frequently wrote poetry and painted with his left foot, his left leg being the only limb of which he had substantial control after the paralysis he suffered because of his cerebral palsy. Daniel Day-Lewis portrayed him in the 1989 Jim Sheridan film "My Left Foot", a film sharing the same name as Brown's autobiography. Day-Lewis won his first Academy Award for Best Actor in 1990 for his work on the film. Day-Lewis is known for his method acting, and he often refuses to step out of character until his work on a film is completed. Sometimes, such behavior takes a toll on his health.

From Quiz All About Feet

Answer: down

A person puts his/her foot down--as in put it down on the ground hard and decisively. Notice, it is put your foot down and not your feet.

From Quiz Footloose

Answer: trochee

A "foot" is one of the units of rhythm in a line of verse - for example, an iambic pentameter (as in much of Shakespeare's verse) has five iambs. An iamb has two syllables, which are short-long (or, unstressed-stressed), as in e.g. "Macbeth". A spondee is long-long, and a pyrrhus is short-short.

From Quiz All About Feet

Answer: camps

This phrase literally means to be involved with two groups of very different interests or positions. Gradually, if a person is often accused of having her foot in both camps, others will conclude that she has not yet taken a definite position.

From Quiz The Agony of De Feet!

Answer: Happy Feet

Also nominated that year were "Cars" and "Monster House". "Happy Feet" was directed by George Miller, Warren Coleman, and Judy Morris.

From Quiz Footloose

Answer: fourteen

Insects have six legs (and spiders have eight), but a woodlouse is a crustacean: as such, it is more closely related to prawns and shrimps than to beetles etc. Insects, Arachnids (including spiders and scorpions), Myriapods (millipedes and centipedes) and Crustaceans are the four main classes of the animal phylum Arthropoda. Most crustaceans are aquatic, but the woodlouse is a rare terrestrial example.

From Quiz Toenails All Around

Answer: The area under the cuticle, which is the rim of the nail.

It is where growth of the nail is taking place.

From Quiz The Agony of De Feet!

Answer: Dr. Seuss

In 1965, Theodor Seuss Geisel used the pen name "Theo. LeSieg" when he wrote this book about a little boy who tries out various interesting body parts and finally decides he's okay just the way he is.

From Quiz Footloose

Answer: Eric Idle

"One Foot in the Grave" was a popular sitcom on British TV from 1990 to 2000, with many repeats since. It features the tribulations of the grumpy retired security guard, Victor Meldrew (played by Richard Wilson), whose response to most of life's troubles is his catchphrase - "I don't believe it!"

From Quiz Look Ma! No Hands!

Answer: a mile

A foot is usually considered .3048 of a meter. The origin of the term and of the precise length is assumed to be that a human foot was frequently used as a standard for measuring. However, the need arose for a consistent length so that "a foot" didn't mean different lengths for different people. Of course, anyone with common sense will quickly argue that most human feet are not 12 inches long. The assumption is that the 12 inches was decided upon after measuring the length of a man's foot with a shoe on it. After all, most people, when measuring with their feet, do so with shod feet. Who takes off his or her shoes to walk heel-toe when measuring?

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