Missile-A-Knee-Us Trivia #1 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Calvin Coolidge

Many of Calvin Coolidge's more unusual pets, including Billy or William Johnson Hippopotamus, were donated to the National Zoo. Billy was mated with a female pygmy hippo named Hannah to produce offspring. Later he also mated with other female pygmy hippos, and many of the modern pygmy hippos in the U.S. are his descendants.

Answer: fox

The fictional character Zorro (created by Johnston McCulley) wears a mask and goes around helping people by fighting injustice. He is as sly as a fox, for sure.

Answer: Dr. Seuss

In the 1950 story "If I Ran the Zoo", Dr. Seuss introduced us to Gerald McGrew, who had ideas of what he'd do if he ran the zoo. One thing he'd do is bring back a "nerd" from the land of Ka-troo. If it was me and I ran the zoo, I'd go get a wuzzle; is that a puzzle? And what about you?

Answer: lemniscate

Infinity uses the lemniscate, which looks like a sideways 8. This symbol is also used for the lemniscate of Bernoulli, the lemniscate of Gerono, and Watt's curve.

Answer: black

Before Crayola crayons came out in an eight pack in 1903 for a nickel, they had produced black crayons made with dry carbon black and different waxes for different industrial uses. These are known as Staonal Brand marking crayons.

Answer: tongue

The tongue is only attached on one end, and it is frequently called the strongest muscle. It can lift 80 times its own body weight and it is also the body's fastest healing muscle. Some think the jaw is the strongest, but the jaw isn't a muscle. It's made of bones called the maxilla and the mandible.

Answer: Boston

Asa Lovejoy, of Boston, Massachusetts, and William Overton, of Portland, Maine, both wanted to name the new town in Oregon after their hometowns. They did a coin toss and William Overton won two out of three coin tosses, so the new name of the town was Portland. Boston lost out. The coin used for this is known as "The Portland Penny", and it is kept on local display.

Answer: Roulette

Pascal had been interested in mathematics for years. Ironically, while trying to create a perpetual motion machine, he ended up creating what has now become a roulette wheel. While it stopped and didn't have perpetual motion, it became an enduring sign of his genius. Pascal is best known for Pascal's Triangle and binomial coefficients in mathematics, and for his laws governing likelihoods relating to probability.

Answer: tip their head to the right

According to the website "How Stuff Works" (2012), about two-thirds of people will tip their heads to the right while kissing. Some scientists believe this inclination begins before birth, when we tip our heads to the right in the womb. When you kiss, you use the orbicularis oris muscle, which runs around the outside of your mouth.

Answer: grapefruit

The website "Forever Healthy and Young" (2012) stated that in a test the grapefruit scent on women made men misjudge their ages by an average of six years. Grapefruit's effects also stimulated certain hormones that had a positive effect on the brain, in addition to the aroma of grapefruit. Grapefruit has many positive health effects.