Where, What, Who And How 3 Trivia Quiz

Answer: the throat

The U-shaped hyoid bone in the throat is the only bone in the human body not connected with any other, its sole purpose to support the tongue.

Answer: the head

The sinciput and occiput are respectively the front and back of the human head.

Answer: Monaco

Monegasques are natives of Monaco, named after their dialect, combining Italian and French.

Answer: China

Believe it or not, workers on China's Great Wall were the first to taste fermented cabbage (the Chinese used rice wine to ferment it!); obviously Germany missionaries took it back to Germany!

Answer: Belgium

Duffel was a suburb of Antwerp, where the coarse woolen fabric the bag is made of was first spun.

Answer: Bass

The red triangle of Bass beer is Britain's oldest registered trademark and it can be clearly seen in Edouard Manet's 1882 "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere", which prefigures Lautrec's Moulin Rouge works (and sadly was Manet's last painting).

Answer: Cuff and Link

Anyone who's seen the 1976 Oscar winner (written by Stallone) in a theater or on video knows that! They were miniature turtles in a bowl and Sly's feeding them was a comic high point of the film. John G. Avildsen, by the way, directed the film.

Answer: dentistry

Actually, Holliday was a dental surgeon, if you want to nitpick. Unlike John Ford's "My Darling Clementine", John Sturges' 50's version got Holliday's real job right. Gray tried dentistry before tuning to his successful writings. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an ophthalmologist before starting his Sherlock Holmes series.

Answer: tobacco smoke

There's a lot of misocapnists running around today! "-capnist" is from the Latin for smoke.

Answer: I Love Lucy

The show began reruns in its second season when Lucy had to take maternity leave to bear her son, Desi Arnaz, Jr.

Answer: Florence Nightingale

Nightingale found a pygmy owl in Greece and named it Athena, appropriately, because the bird of the goddess of wisdom was an owl ("Taking Owls to Athens"--the Greek city named for the goddess--means the same as "Taking Coals to Newcastle").

Answer: Louisa May Alcott

Teasdale was a 20's poet, Blixen was Isak Dinesen and Evans was George Eliot. Alcott, while born in Germantown, Pa., was raised and lived in Concord, Ma. She named her childhood house after a favorite dessert of hers! When not writing such works as "Little Women", she penned potboilers under the Blanchard byline and other pen names as Aunt Weedy, Minerva Moody, Flora Fairfield and Oranthy Bluggage(!).

Answer: Aimee Semple MacPherson

Evangelist MacPherson caused controversy in the 20's when she temporarily vanished. She baptized the six-month old Norma Jean Baker, future sexpot.

Answer: Aramis, Athos and Porthos

Yes, they're Dumas' Three Musketeers; read the book! Athos was once married to villainess Milady de Winter. D'Artagnan was only a Gascon farm boy.

Answer: Morgan Freeman

Freeman was Easy Reader on the kid's show that once accompanied "Sesame Street". He went on to big screen roles in "Glory" and "The ShawShank Redemption", to name two.

Answer: False

Besides Ireland and Cote d'Ivoire, there are Guinea and Mali, and Netherlands and Serbia and Montenegro (the former Yugoslavia). Four are horizontal tricolors, the other two vertical tricolors; you can see them in any almanac or flag book or website. While the flag of Senegal has the same colors as Mali, its green star in the central yellow stripe disqualifies it, like the Luxembourg flag's having a paler blue bottom stripe than the Netherlands. (Guinea, Mali and Cote d'Ivorie are all adjacent to each other)

Answer: 48

We're talking liquid measures here, of course! In metric terms, it's five ml to a teaspoon.

Answer: 63

The Slinky toy came about when researchers were trying to make a new type of spring.

Answer: 4

They are: Hamlet (Hamlet's father), Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar), Macbeth (Banquo's ghost) and Richard III (the ghost of Richard's victims).

Answer: 12

At 162 feet, it's the world's biggest triumphal arch.

Hope you enjoyed the quiz!