Get Your Facts Straight! Trivia Quiz

Answer: All of these facts are false.

Seychelles is a nation containing 158 small islands northeast of the large island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. South Africa actually has three capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein, and has a point where two of the world's four vast oceans meet known as the Cape of Good Hope.

The country also completely surrounds the large plateau of Lesotho and almost fully surrounds Swaziland.

Answer: In "Anger Management", Dr. Buddy Rydell is played by Jack Nicholson.

"Click" was released on June 23, 2006 in the United States. In "Anger Management", Sandler plays a man named Dave Buznik who is ordered to have anger management by a therapist named Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson). Dr. Rydell does help Dave, but seems to be causing problems more than solving them at the time. Adam Sandler does not play Sonny Koufax in Anger Management, but that is who he plays as in "Big Daddy", another movie he stars in. "Click" was released in America on June 23, 2006. It is about Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) who gets a remote that controls time from an "angel".

But the "angel" is really the Angel of Death, and Michael finds out about many tricks that are built into the remote. In the end, Michael Newman skips most of his remaining life, gets divorced, becomes a workaholic, and soon dies on the cold street in front of a hospital.

He then gets another chance at the time he got the remote, but he thinks first, and throws it out.

Answer: Only five people were killed in the Boston Massacre.

The United States was separated into thirteen colonies at the time. The Boston Tea Party occurred December 16, 1773 when a group of colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians dumped many crates of British tea on a ship stationed at the docks. After the Boston Tea Party, there was much more to come, like the famous Declaration of Independence being signed on July 4, 1776. Even though the Boston Massacre does not correspond to the definition of a massacre, it was still called one.

The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770 when Edward Garrick was taunting a British officer. Soon another British soldier, Hugh White, whacked Garrick on the head causing a riot to form. Moments later, many civilians formed a huge uproar throwing ice and stones at the soldiers. So the officers began firing their muskets at the angry mob.

Answer: All of these facts are false.

Texas hold'em started small, but in 1967, it was played at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas, which was founded in 1946. There were many variations of Texas hold'em that were created, including Royal hold'em and Pineapple hold'em. Texas hold'em was said to have originated in Robstown, Texas. Johnny Moss won the first World Series of Poker Main Event in 1970.

There are many possible hands in Texas hold'em, seven-high being the worst, and a royal flush being the best. Crandell Addington won the first Texas Gamblers Convention Tournament.

Answer: Nine players played in the first game of basketball.

Wilt Chamberlain averaged 50 points a game in one season, and for many decades, held the records for both the most points (100) and rebounds (55) in a game. Kareem won six NBA MVPs in his career, all (or at least partially) in the 70s. Bill Russell has made it close to Wilt Chamberlain's accomplishment of 55 rebounds in a game, but the highest he ended up getting was 51, earning him second place.

He also has had 49 rebounds in two games in his career. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (formerly Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.) also won the NBA Rookie of the Year award in the 1969-70 season in addition to his six Most Valuable Player awards. Dr. Naismith put up two peach baskets ten feet off the ground, and the first game was played on January 20, 1892.

Answer: All of these facts are false.

50 Cent's real name is Curtis James Jackson III, but Eminem's (Slim Shady's) real name is Marshall Mathers. 300,000 albums need to be sold in order to go platinum in the United Kingdom, but 1,000,000 must be sold in the United States. Even though there are many different kinds of horns (trumpet, French horn, etc.) in the brass group, "horns" was never used as the official term for the brass section of the orchestra.

There are two primary ways of purchasing music. One is to download music, and the other is to buy the album.

Many websites have had legal problems, because they are illegally providing users with downloaded music. Musicians and singers may perform at concerts, and some artists' songs may be made into music videos.

Answer: The Wii was first called the Nintendo Revolution.

Hiroshi Yamauchi was the President and Chairman of Nintendo until May 31, 2002, when he gave up his position to Satoru Iwata, long before the Wii remote was unveiled at the Tokyo Game Show. There were 23 Wii launch titles including Wii Sports. Thanks to Yamauchi and a few others, they developed the small playing card company of Nintendo into an enormous video game company that is well-known around the world.

The Wii was first thought of in 2001, around when the Gamecube was released, during an interview with the Head of Game Designing, Shigeru Miyamoto.

He told them that he was planning on making a more interactive way of playing games than just pushing buttons on a controller. Two years later, engineers and designers began to develop the project further.

In 2005, they had created a prototype of the Wii, then known as the Nintendo Revolution.

Answer: All of these facts are false.

The platform for the Hogwarts Express (train that takes kids to Hogwarts) is invisible to muggles (people who aren't at all associated with magic), and the platform's number is 9¾. Harry was the seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch Team at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the first book.

The seeker's job is to catch the golden snitch to win the game, while the keeper's job is to block the chasers, who try to throw the quaffel into the goals. Beauxbatons Academy of Magic is a school like Hogwarts that plays a part in the Tri-Wizard Tournament in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".

The school is portrayed as an all-girl's school in the movie, but it is clearly a coed school in the book.

Answer: If a tribe wins an immunity challenge in the television program "Survivor", the other team votes off one of their own.

After the immunity challenge, the opposing team goes to meet the host of "Survivor" at a bonfire called Tribal Council. At Tribal Council, the team members (one by one) vote who they think should be eliminated on their team. The host of the show then slowly takes the slips of paper out, revealing the votes and eliminating one team member. "Family Feud" is considered a game show, not a sitcom. GSN is a channel that only airs game shows, a large portion of them reruns, and their first slogan was "The Network for Games".

Answer: Some flightless birds are emus, ostriches, kiwis, penguins, and the extinct moas.

Moas were flightless birds that became extinct around 1500. A man was given a part of a moa's skeleton in 1839, and even after his uncle sent it to biologist, palaeontologist, and anatomist Richard Owen, people were not sure where the bone fragment came from. Owen later figured out it was the piece of a femur in an extinct bird that resembled the ostrich.

As years passed, people began discovering more parts of a moa's skeleton, and full skeletons were put together, giving us a better idea of what the moa was like when it existed. On average, Emperor penguins dive down 150-250 meters underwater when hunting for food.

A penguin's hearing is considered average compared to other birds. Penguins use their wings and tails as support in the water. Did you know penguins are able to safely drink salt water, because they have their own filter that removes the salt from the bloodstream?