Hey, It's Me Again Trivia Quiz

Answer: Have their appendix removed

Villa das Estrellas (Stars Village) is a Chilean city and research station on King George Island, in the Chilean Antarctica, with a population of about 150 people. As a safety measure, since 2018, all people (adults and children) are required to have their appendix removed before going to live in the Villa, because health services are very limited; there is no surgeon on the team, the nearest hospital is more than 1000 km away and the weather conditions, in general, restrict access to the region.

This is not a requirement made for all workers at all stations located in the Antartic and Subarctic region, belonging to other countries. For example, only doctors who go to work at Australian stations in the region need to undergo this surgery before going.

Answer: Coins

Our interests are coins and medals. Obverses and reverses are the largest surfaces of coins and medals. The definitions of which face is the obverse of an issue and which is the reverse are not absolute, and are essentially a matter of convention, with plenty of exceptions throughout the ages and across mints.

The edge circumscribes the coin and has many notable characteristics, from patterns, textures to lettering, to inhibit removal of material from the coined disc.

Answer: MGM - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Leo the lion is the mascot of the Hollywood-based MGM - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - film studio. Since 1924, when the company was created, it has used a lion and its famous roars at the beginning of every film. Although MGM has referred to all the lions used as mascots as "Leo the Lion" there have been seven different lions featured in the MGM logo through the years. Only the current lion, in use since 1957, was actually named "Leo". It was born in the Dublin Zoo, Ireland and trained by Ralph Helfer, a famous American animal behaviorist.

Leo appeared at the beginning of most MGM films since 1957 and also in movies (eg. King of Kings, 1961), commercials and television series. The company has made several updates, redesigns, revamps of this logo with the lions.

Answer: The second wife of Peter the Great

Yekaterinburg is located on the Iset River, east of the Ural Mountains, in the middle of Eurasia in Asia. It is the administrative center of the Sverdlovsk Oblast and it is an important industrial and cultural center in Russia.

Yekaterinburg was founded in 1723 and it is named after Catherine, the second wife of the Emperor Peter the Great, or Peter I, who after his death became Empress Catherine I, (that in Russian is Yekaterina). Her Polish name was Marta Helena Skowronska; she was born in 1684 and died in 1727, two years after Peter's death.

Answer: He was kidnapped

The Cuban dictator at this time, Fulgencio Batista, in order to increase tourism in the country created in 1957 the Cuban Gran Prix, a race not included in the official calendar of Formula One.

The Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio (1911-1995) dominated the first decade of Formula One racing, winning the World Driver's Championship five times. Fangio won the 1957 Cuban race and was the main attraction of the race in 1958. On the eve of the race, February 23, 1958, Fangio was kidnapped from his hotel by masked and armed men and was released 29 hours later. The hijackers were part of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement. The kidnapping was intended to demoralize the government and draw the world's attention to its cause.

Answer: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

This phrase appeared in an American musical comedy movie, released in 1953, named "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", directed by Howard Hawks and starring Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russel and Charles Coburn.

In this movie, Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russel), two best friends and showgirls, are traveling on a cruise to Paris. Lorelei is crazy for diamonds and thinks that the best way to be successful is to marry a rich man. During the trip Lorelei starts to flirt with Sir Francis "Piggy" Beeckman (Charles Coburn), who is married and owns a diamond mine. The phrase "I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever" appears in a scene where Sir "Piggy" kisses Lorelei's hand.

Answer: A case tried in the American Supreme Court

The Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967) is a case that involved Mildred Jeter Loving, a woman of color, and her white husband Richard Perry Loving, who were sentenced in 1958 to one year in prison for having married each other. With the marriage they violated Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which criminalized marriage between people characterized as "white" and people classified as "colored". The couple appealed to the Supreme Court of Virginia that upheld the sentence. Then they appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which on June 12, 1967, made an unanimous decision, 9-0, in favor of the Lovings and overturned Virginia's anti-miscegenation law.

The Supreme Court's decision did not prevent anti-miscegenation laws from continuing in several states, although they became unenforceable. Alabama was the last state to remove anti-miscegenation language from its legislation in 2000.

Answer: 26 years old

American George Orson Welles (1915-1985) is considered one of the greatest film directors of all-time.

He was an actor, director and writer for theater, radio and cinema. In his twenties he was already successful. At the age of 26 he released his first film, "Citizen Kane", 1941, which is considered by some the greatest movie ever made. The "Citizen Kane" movie was co-written, produced and starred by Orson Welles, who played Charles Foster Kane.

In 1942 the Citizen Kane received nine nominations at the 1941 Academy Awards and won one award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2002, Orson Welles was voted as the greatest film director in British Film Institute polls among directors and critics. In 2018 he was included in the list of the 50 greatest Hollywood actors by The Daily Telegraph.

Answer: The painter's sister and his dentist

Grant Wood (1891-1942) was an American artist, who was born in Iowa and is known for his rural paintings in the American Midwest. He worked with various types of media but from a very young age he dedicated himself to painting.

In August 1930, strolling around Eldon, Iowa, Wood noticed the "Dibble House", which drew his attention for its Gothic-style window. After getting permission from the owners of the house to paint it, he imagined the type of person who would live in that house. He chose his sister, Nan (1899-1990) to model the daughter, dressing her in a colonial print apron common in the American countryside and invited Dr. Byron McKeeby (1867-1950), the family dentist, to model the father in the painting. Many who see the painting think it is a husband and a wife, but Nan told that her brother envisioned a father and a daughter, which can be confirmed by a letter from Wood to Nellie Sudduth in 1941: "The prim lady with him is his grown-up daughter". The picture was named "American Gothic", 1930 and it is part of the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Answer: True

The Notre-Dame Cathedral has ten bells, the two main ones being in the South Tower and the others in the North Tower. The bourdon, called Emmanuel, is the masterpiece of the whole group of bells. It dates from the 15th century and it was recast in the year 1681 upon the request of the King Louis XIV, who also gave its name. Emmanuel weighs 13,271 kg, has a diameter of 261 cm and is tuned to F Sharp.

During the French Revolution the great bell Marie (6.023 kg), the second bell of the South Tower, along with all the bells of the North tower, were taken down and melted into cannonballs during 1791 and 1792. Only Emmanuel was saved from destruction.

The other nine bells were recast over time and all maintained their original characteristics. Each bell is tuned to a note. In 2013, Notre-Dame Cathedral promoted an exhibition of all the bells of which nine were cast in 2012 and Emmanuel in 1681.

Emmanuel marked the greatest events in the history of France and of the world. Since it was cast, it was played at the coronation of the kings of France, the end of the great wars, the death of famous celebrities, etc. It was also heard on April 15, 2020 at 8:00 pm to mark a year from the fire that the cathedral suffered in 2019.