Inappropriate For Single Questions (Part 5) Quiz

Answer: September

September has nine letters in its name, and it is the ninth month of the year. You would think that it should have been the seventh month since the Latin word "septem," means seven, and indeed in the original Roman calendar, September was actually the seventh month, not the ninth. That early Roman calendar had only ten months, with the year starting in March, not January. Later on, a Roman king - Numa Pompilius - added January and February to the beginning of the calendar, shifting September, October, November, and December to two positions later than their prefixes originally indicated.

Answer: the Wilhelm Scream

In this film about soldiers facing off against Seminole Indians in the Everglades, the sound editors used the Wilhelm Scream for the first time, two or three times in a fortress battle scene, and once when a soldier is dragged underwater by an alligator. Six takes of the scream were recorded, and the different takes were used for different scenes.

The scream remained in the sound effects libraries of movie studios for years and has been used in well over 400 movies. Ben Burtt, the sound designer on 1977's "Star Wars" coined the term "Wilhelm Scream" when he came across some notes at Warner Bros. that listed some names of actors scheduled to come in to record odds and ends of dialogue - one of the names was the actor (and singer) Sheb Wooley who portrayed the actor bitten by the alligator.

Answer: restrain and combine

There's really only one pair of common four-letter words that fits the bill here and those two words are "CURB" and "MELD". Restrain is a synonym for curb, meaning to suppress something or hold something back. And combine is a synonym for meld, both meaning to merge or blend things together.

Answer: wafers with honey

All those are descriptions in the Bible of how other foods tasted, but manna, as first mentioned in Exodus 16:15, is described later in Exodus 16:31 as "coriander seed, white. And the taste of it was like wafers with honey." Manna is mentioned fourteen times in the King James Bible's Old Testament and five times in the New Testament.

Answer: Old Testament

Specifically, the book of Habakkuk is the eighth of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible and appears between the books of Nahum and Zephaniah, making it the 35th book in the standard Protestant Old Testament ordering (eighth of the Minor Prophets). The short, three-chapter text is about God's justice amid Babylonian threats around 600 BCE.

Answer: That no nation may own the Moon or other celestial bodies

The Outer Space Treaty, formally known as the "Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies", does state that "Outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is free for exploration and use by all nations and is not subject to national appropriation. No country can claim sovereignty over any part of space."

The treaty does not address "space tourism", focusing instead on "astronauts", and does not mention or regulate the rights and responsibilities of private space or commercial tourism. Though the treaty does ban the installment of nuclear weaponry, it makes no mention of cyber-attacks, as it was written in 1967. It also does not cite mandates or mechanisms for mitigating of orbital debris from space stations or satellites or any other space exploration endeavors.

Answer: E

The word is "Education" and in 2025, in the United States, over 89,000 students graduated with a degree in Education. It was ranked ninth that year, with Business leading the list with 375,418 students earning their Bachelor's Degree in that. The median salary for education majors graduating in 2025 was $52,000.

Answer: the first woman officially drafted by an NBA team

Actually, a woman named Denise Long had been drafted by the NBA's San Francisco Warriors back in 1969, but the league voided that selection, so Ms. Harris became the first "officially" drafted woman. Luisa Harris led her Delta State University college basketball team to three national championships and was the only woman drafted by a National Basketball Association team.

The New Orleans Jazz selected her in the 7th round of the 1977 NBA Draft; she was the 137th player picked in that draft. She never did actually play in any NBA games though.

Her story has been told in the documentary "The Queen of Basketball."

Answer: Teeth and hair strands are the only body parts that don't heal

The cells that make tooth enamel (ameloblasts) die off when we grow our teeth and therefore the cells don't regenerate. Hair strands are not living tissue and thus they don't heal themselves once damaged. You can grow new hair and more hair, but damaged hair doesn't heal.

Many people assert that "Sesame Street's" characters Bert and Ernie are named after two characters from "It's a Wonderful Life"--the policeman Bert, played by Ward Bond, and the cab driver Ernie, played by Frank Faylen. But it is purely coincidental according to many people involved in "Sesame Street" including Jim Henson's writing partner Jerry Juhl, who said he was positive the rumor was incorrect.

It is extremely improbable that a person would eat even one spider while sleeping, let alone eight over their life span. There are many reasons for that. According to the Sleep Foundation, and "Scientific American", spiders keep very clear of humans, sensing their vibrations, movement and even breathing. They are inclined to run away from humans-- even sleeping ones. Also, people typically sleep with their mouths closed and even if the mouth was open their snoring and/or breathing would make spiders want to steer clear.

The four words are common enough: hazardous, stupendous, tremendous, and horrendous, however there are nearly five times as many, mostly uncommon except for nonhazardous. There's also jeopardous, iridous, macropodous, polymodous and many others.

Answer: rotator

"Rotator" is the same spelled backward as it is forward, thus making it a palindrome.

"Rotator" is something that rotates or causes rotation; this means it is something that turns or spins around an axis, center point, or fixed line, like the Earth spinning daily on its axis, or the wheels of a car spinning on the axle.