Inappropriate For Single Questions Quiz

Answer: Clueless

According to the script for "Clueless", the restaurant scenes were written as taking place at California Pizza Kitchen, but when the CEOs of that franchise read the breadstick jokes in the script they didn't allow filming to take place in their restaurants. The joke was made by the character Tai, played by the late Brittany Murphy. They could've cut the joke but decided instead to film elsewhere. Now, that's integrity.

"Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" takes place in Alabama, "Do The Right Thing" in Brooklyn, New York, and "Mystic Pizza" is set in where else but Mystic, Connecticut.

Answer: Attended the Yalta Peace Conference

Author Lorraine Hansberry did not attend the 1945 Yalta Conference of World War II nation leaders, but she did attend a peace conference in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1952, where she delivered a speech on behalf of Paul Robeson, who was banned from international travel by the U.S. State Department. Using the pen name Emily Jones, Ms. Hansberry did publish several lesbian-themed stories, and wrote two letters to the lesbian magazine "The Ladder," signing them with her married initials, L.N. which stood for Lorraine Nemiroff. That name was the heading on the letter she wrote to Langston Hughes when she asked permission to use "A Raisin in the Sun" as the title of her play.

In his poem, "Harlem", Mr. Hughes had written: "What happens to a dream deferred?" with one of his possible answers being, "Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?" Her married name, Nemiroff, was that of Robert Nemiroff, a publisher and political activist.

The setting of her second Broadway play, "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" was based on their experience moving to Greenwich Village.

While dying of cancer, Lorraine Hansberry gave a speech coining the phrase "young, gifted, and black" which her friend, singer Nina Simone borrowed for title to one of her songs.

Answer: Gregory Lee Johnson

Gregory Lee Johnson was famous for pretty much the exact opposite of being the American flag's designer: instead, he burned the American flag at a political activist demonstration at the 1984 Republican National Convention. He would become the defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case "Texas vs. Johnson."

Although some sources propose the idea that Betsy Ross designed the American flag, most of that legend relies is based on her grandson citing stories of other family members. This claim was made publicly several decades after she died. Instead, many historians credit Francis Hopkinson as the American flag's designer as mentioned in journals from the Continental Congress; Hopkinson was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and he himself did claim to be the flag's designer, but again the evidence is blurry. The original plan for the flag's design was to add a new star and a new stripe for each state entering the union, a reasonable plan with only 13 states, but eventually that idea needed to shift to 13 stripes for 13 colonies, and only a star added for each new state. The design for a 50-star flag came during Eisenhower's administration. A popular story is that high school student Robert G. Heft designed his submission as part of a class project and it won. That story took hold so firmly that many reputable sources including the quiz show "Jeopardy!" cited it as fact for years. It is now, however, said to be a hoax.

Answer: Green

"How Green Was My Valley" (1941) and "Green Book" (2018) are the two movies that took home the Best Picture Academy Award.

"Green Acres" (1965-1971) is the TV show that was nominated for the TV Land Award in 2005: "Green acres is the place to be / Farm livin' is the life for me / Land spreadin' out so far and wide / Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside!" The song was written by Vic Mizzy who also wrote the them for "The Addams Family". It lost the award however, to "Gilligan's Island."

Answer: a 100-watt bulb for 3 to 4 months

The average lightning bolt zigzags through the sky at thousands of miles per second; the electric charge comes from small drops of water and/or ice bumping against each other inside of huge cumulonimbus clouds. Lightning occurs when the charge grows big enough. Bolts can jump between clouds or into the ground. According to the National Weather Service, a bolt is about 300 million volts and about 300,000 amperes. According to exchangeutility.co.uk the average bolt has about 1 billion joules of energy. To run a 100-watt bulb, you use 100 joules per second. One billion joules divided by 100 gives 10 million seconds, which equals about 116 days, or a little under 4 months.

This calculation is based on the "average" lightning bolt and could increase based on a longer than average duration of the strike and/or a much more powerful bolt than the "average" bolt.

But even with greater duration and a more powerful bolt, those other answer choices are astronomically and impossibly too high to consider true.

Answer: Nixon resigns / Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk

President Richard Nixon resigned from office on August 8, 1974, amid the Watergate scandal. He delivered that televised address announcing his intention to resign at 9:01 p.m.

The day before that, on a cloudy August 7, 1974 morning, Philippe Petit walked across his illegally-rigged wire stretching from one World Trade Center Tower to the other. That walk was depicted in the 2015 movie, "The Walk". Petit would be charged with trespassing afterward, but the charges were later dropped in light of the publicity for the Port Authority, and Petit agreed to perform a free show in Central Park. Ironically, he received a lifetime pass to the WTC's observation deck.

John F. Kennedy's assassination and disc jockey Alan Freed's firing were 3 years and 1 day apart. Harry S Truman's election over Thomas Dewey and Serbia and Montenegro joining the United Nations happened 52 years and 1 day apart. Lyndon Baines Johnson signing of the Civil Rights Act and Tom Cruise's birth were 6 years and 1 day apart.

Answer: C and S

Six state capitals begin with a C: Columbus, Ohio; Columbia, South Carolina; Concord, New Hampshire; Charleston, West Virginia; Carson City, Nevada; and Cheyenne, Wyoming. And likewise, six state capitals begin with an S: Springfield, Illinois; Sacramento, California; St. Paul, Minnesota; Salem, Oregon, Salt Lake City, Utah; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The letter A is close behind, with five state capitals: Atlanta, Georgia; Annapolis, Maryland; Albany, New York; Augusta, Maine; and Austin, Texas. Ten letters do not have any state capitals that begin with them: E, G, K, Q, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z.

Answer: Mercury and Venus

All the planets are graced with a partner or partners in the form of a moon or moons, except for two of them: Mercury and Venus. We, that is, Earth has only one moon. Mars has two moons. Jupiter has between 80 and 95, but Saturn is king of the moons with 124. Uranus has 27 moons (I'm consciously avoiding a wisecrack here). Neptune has 14 moons, and finally, Pluto has 5 moons, and hopefully no spoilsports will declassify them as moons.

Answer: Hamster

Alcohol is toxic to dogs, and although some monkeys have a greater tolerance for it. Although elephants have been supposedly getting drunk on the veldt, those are most likely false stories because the claim is that they drink the fermented fruit from the marula tree; however, elephants eat the fruit fresh off the tree, not the fruit rotting on the ground. Fresh fruit wouldn't have enough time to ferment in the elephant once eaten. And even in the event an elephant did eat the rotten fruit it would have to eat 1,400 pieces of VERY fermented fruit to feel any effect.

Hamsters, however, are amongst the biggest alcohol consumers by weight. They can consume 18 grams of alcohol per kilogram of body weight, and that's a much bigger ratio than even humans consume. Observing the hamsters hasn't even indicated that they get drunk from it. Hamsters collect ryegrass seeds in the wild, storing them in their burrows, eating it as it ferments. They do this for a practical reason though--not to get drunk but to pile on the calories for the winter.

Answer: sedimentary rock formation

The tilt of the Earth changes the amount of heat that some parts of the planet receive. The part of the Earth that is tilted toward the Sun gets more heat and the temperatures rise--this is summertime. The converse is true as well, the part tilted away from the Sun experiences winter. The direction of the Sun's rays is a factor, since the sunrays shine straight down on the tropics, and the rays strike the polar regions at a sharp angle, spreading the rays out over a larger area, essentially dispersing it more at the chilly poles.

Air masses are large blocks of air that move slowly, bringing weather changes wherever they go: Cold, dry air masses move from cold land toward the equator, bringing clear dry weather. Cold, moist air masses form over cold ocean water, moving toward the equator and bringing rain or snow. Warm dry air masses form over the tropic lands and bring hot, dry weather, whereas warm and moist air masses form over warm water and bring clouds and rain as they move away from the equator.

Known as lithification, the slow compacting of sediments such as sandstone, shale, siltstone, etc., doesn't alter air pressure, humidity, or wind patterns, and is therefore not largely relevant to changes in weather.