The Odds Are In Your Favor! Trivia Quiz

Answer: False

While Cherry Garcia may be one of Ben and Jerry's most popular ice cream flavours, they actually started with plain, ol' Vanilla, back in 1978. Created in Vermont, U.S. in the late 1970s, Ben and Jerry's became an international name in ice cream after releasing series after series of unique flavour combinations ranging from-- yes-- Cherry Garcia (named after the Grateful Dead singer, Jerry) to Chunky Monkey to Half-Baked, all of which rank in the top ten flavours released.

Answer: True

While Finland achieved independence from the Russian empire on December 6, 1917, Canada was an independent country fifty years earlier, achieving Confederation and slightly distancing itself from its parent UK in 1867 (on July 1st). Finland was also, at one point, ruled by the Swedes.

They elected their first President two years after independence. It was the last of the Scandinavian countries to split off.

Answer: True

Johnny Depp's first acting nomination at an Academy Awards ceremony was in 2003; he was nominated for his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" film, "The Curse of the Black Pearl". It would be a role he would revisit in numerous films in the series, in turn becoming one of the highest-paid movie roles to date. Depp would be nominated again in 2004 for "Finding Neverland" and once more in 2007 for Tim Burton's musical, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street".

Answer: False

"Go Set a Watchman", featuring characters seen in Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and also set in Maycomb County, was actually created as an early draft of the novel and was never intended for release. Many were confused with its release, fifty-five years after the original, because of concerns that it had been done against Lee's wishes so soon before her death in 2016 as an effort for family and lawyers to cash in on the Harper Lee name. Shortly after its debut, news circulated about the cessation of production for paperback copies of Lee's original work, possibly to earn more money before it falls into the public domain, and at the cost of public schools who've used the low-cost version as a staple in curriculums for decades.

Answer: True

Collecting money from Free Parking is often made as a house rule by players and is not endorsed by the actual game rules, which focus more on acquiring properties and unfolding the game through different means; adding money to Free Parking adds a more chaotic element to the game and, by its nature, makes the game run longer. Free Parking is meant to be a free space with no strings attached.

Answer: True

Released as a self-titled debut under her actual name, Katy Hudson, Katy Perry's first album was much less popular than her later works. Seven years after her debut release she launched "One of the Boys", which featured the hit songs "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot n Cold", both of which propelled her to pop stardom.

She soon became one of the highest earning solo female artists of the 2010s, even hosting the Super Bowl halftime show in 2015. Her first album sold 200 copies upon initial release.

Answer: False

While infant child Maggie Simpson never really ages on the long-running animated TV show "The Simpsons", she has had the opportunity to stretch her vocal cords on more than one occasion (though, to be fair, one episode involved a Halloween vignette and she most definitely did not keep her deep, alien voice).

She did, however, say her first word in the episode "Lisa's First Word"-- it was 'Daddy'-- and it was recorded by actress Elizabeth Taylor in 1992.

Answer: False

UNQUESTIONABLY, this is all false (see them all in there?).
There are actually quite a few words with all five vowels in them. The word 'facetiously', for instance, contains all of them. The word 'Iouea' also refers to a type of sponge...and that contains only the five vowels.
If you wanted to take things a step further, the word 'aeriously' contains all five vowels (plus Y) in order!

Answer: True

This is true! Kyoto was actually the capital of Japan for one thousand and seventy-four years from 794 AD to 1868 AD (though not always under the same name). It wasn't the only capital in Japan's history either. Between legendary capitals during the reigns of the earliest emperors and the historical Kofun, Asuka, Nara, and Heian Periods, there have been more than fifty capitals. Tokyo only became the national capital in 1868.

Answer: True

You've probably seen this stuff in crime scene investigation TV shows; the user squirts an area with this special spray and, when shown under a blacklight, it glows blue to indicate blood, regardless of whether or not it's been cleaned up. Why is this exactly? The chemical formula in the spray reacts to iron.

The test isn't 100% positive though; there are various instances in which human error and interaction with other chemicals can interfere with an accurate result.