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Quiz about Wild Mutant Noggins Throughout History
Quiz about Wild Mutant Noggins Throughout History

Wild Mutant Noggins Throughout History Quiz


We are the Wild Mutant Noggins. Throughout history there have been thousands of us - not all really wild or mutant, but all noggin-oriented. This quiz brings you questions about just ten of these fabulous creatures.

A multiple-choice quiz by Team The Wild Mutant Noggins. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
jamespark888
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
328,368
Updated
Jul 23 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
467
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Question 1 of 10
1. This Wild Mutant Noggin shocked the world when, in 1610, he began supporting the idea that the Earth, and the rest of the planets, revolved around the Sun. Who was this "telescopic" man? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Then there was that American Civil War General who was pretty good at his job, but harbored a weird delusion. He thought that one of his arms was longer than the other, so every now and then he'd hold the "longer" one up to balance out his circulation. Who was this Wild Mutant Noggin? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. A famous Irish-born Fabian-Socialist writer, the author of "Pygmalion," had a strange idiosyncrasy certifying him as a Wild Mutant Noggin. He would not write more than five pages a day. If he came to the end of a page, he'd stop, even to the point of leaving a sentence unfinished. Who was this writer? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Archimedes, the ancient Greek scientist, was very noggin challenged. His Eureka moment and major discovery was made in his laboratory, which very much resembled what?
Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. America's Founding Fathers were not without representation on the early teams of Mutant Noggins. Which Founding Father invented bifocal glasses to help his poor noggin's poor vision? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Some say this Roman emperor was truly insane. Whether or not he was, he sure did some crazy things. In one of his crazier deeds, he had his steed, Incitatus, appointed to the senate. Who was this Wild Mutant Noggin? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Another Age of Enlightenment Mutant Noggin belonged to the Frenchman Nicolas Appert. He was know as "the father of canning". To prove the abilities of his methodologies, what did he once can to preserve it? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. The field of entertainment is not without its share of Noggins of the past. This entertainer had a broadcast show for twenty years, painted clowns and other circus memories of his teenage years, wrote short stories and composed many pieces of background music. Which Noggin was this? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Thomas Edison was one of the most brilliant men who ever lived. Unfortunately, he tried to prove that his own direct current (DC) was better then his rivals George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla's alternating current (AC) in a rather horrifying way. What did he do to show how dangerous an alternating current could be? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. In 1945, the use of microwaves to heat and cook food was discovered by accident. What was the name of the Noggin who was credited with this discovery? Hint





Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. This Wild Mutant Noggin shocked the world when, in 1610, he began supporting the idea that the Earth, and the rest of the planets, revolved around the Sun. Who was this "telescopic" man?

Answer: Galileo Galilei

Using his newly improved telescope, Galileo noticed that many of the planets, as well as the Moon, had phases. This could only be possible if the planets orbited something much larger, and something that generated its own light source.
2. Then there was that American Civil War General who was pretty good at his job, but harbored a weird delusion. He thought that one of his arms was longer than the other, so every now and then he'd hold the "longer" one up to balance out his circulation. Who was this Wild Mutant Noggin?

Answer: Stonewall Jackson

Old Stonewall Jackson had many concerns about his health, some real and some imagined. He was also known to chew on whole lemons to aid his digestion.
As a Confederate general, Jackson neither condemned nor condoned slavery, but felt that the God of the Bible had sanctioned it. He eventually died in the Civil War, a casualty of "friendly fire." (Info enWikipedia.com)
3. A famous Irish-born Fabian-Socialist writer, the author of "Pygmalion," had a strange idiosyncrasy certifying him as a Wild Mutant Noggin. He would not write more than five pages a day. If he came to the end of a page, he'd stop, even to the point of leaving a sentence unfinished. Who was this writer?

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) wrote more than 60 plays in his life. He won an Oscar for contributing to the movie version of "Pygmalion"(1938), but almost turned down the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925, eventually accepting it when his wife suggested that it would be a good thing for Ireland.

Here's what G.B. Shaw had to say about the Nobel Peace Prize: "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Peace Prize." (Info Merinews.com)
4. Archimedes, the ancient Greek scientist, was very noggin challenged. His Eureka moment and major discovery was made in his laboratory, which very much resembled what?

Answer: A bathtub

Archimedes discovered the principle of buoyancy while in his bathtub, famously called out "Eureka" (Greek for "I have found it") and ships have floated ever since. He noticed that as objects floated, the water level rose in his bathtub which meant water was being displaced and then he kenned in his noggin the fact that the amount displaced was equal to the weight of the floated object. If you couldn't displace your weight, you'd sink.
5. America's Founding Fathers were not without representation on the early teams of Mutant Noggins. Which Founding Father invented bifocal glasses to help his poor noggin's poor vision?

Answer: Benjamin Franklin

In 1784 Franklin fused two different lengths and focuses of optical lenses together into one set of glasses which helped him from having to continually change them for differing situations. For the two hundred years until laser eye surgery came along, a sure sign of age was the need to get bifocal glasses.
6. Some say this Roman emperor was truly insane. Whether or not he was, he sure did some crazy things. In one of his crazier deeds, he had his steed, Incitatus, appointed to the senate. Who was this Wild Mutant Noggin?

Answer: Caligula

Although most accounts that have survived from ancient Rome depict Caligula as being insane, he was such an unpopular ruler that it is difficult to tell whether or not these accounts are completely unbiased. The few sources that have stood the test of time show him as a man who bragged about having affairs, dressed up as various gods and was very paranoid.
7. Another Age of Enlightenment Mutant Noggin belonged to the Frenchman Nicolas Appert. He was know as "the father of canning". To prove the abilities of his methodologies, what did he once can to preserve it?

Answer: A sheep

The clone Dolly was not alone in her sacrifices to humanity's progress. Appert canned one of her ancestors in a giant glass vessel, sealed it with a cork and then boiled the arrangement. He gained a lot of wealth supplying Napoleon, who had claimed an Army marches on its stomach and funded much research into food preservation.
8. The field of entertainment is not without its share of Noggins of the past. This entertainer had a broadcast show for twenty years, painted clowns and other circus memories of his teenage years, wrote short stories and composed many pieces of background music. Which Noggin was this?

Answer: Richard "Red" Skelton

Seen selling newspapers in Indiana by Ed Wynn (Keenan's dad but himself a famous vaudevillian actor), Skelton was introduced to showbiz. In his early years he traveled with the circuses and the showboats of America's great rivers. Later in life he devoted a lot of time to painting. In one year alone, lithographs of just his Clown paintings earned $2.5 million, much of which he donated to Danny Thomas' Leukemia charity and to his own when his son died from the disease. Groucho Marx called him "The greatest clown in Hollywood since Charlie Chaplin".
9. Thomas Edison was one of the most brilliant men who ever lived. Unfortunately, he tried to prove that his own direct current (DC) was better then his rivals George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla's alternating current (AC) in a rather horrifying way. What did he do to show how dangerous an alternating current could be?

Answer: Captured on film the use of an AC in the public electrocution of an elephant

The elephant, named Topsy, was sentenced to death in 1903 for having killed three handlers (one of them abusive) in three years. Although Edison also killed cats, dogs, horses and cows, he ultimately lost his battle as AC is now favored over DC. Nevertheless, with his 1,093 patents, it cannot be denied that his impact on science and humanity was extraordinary.
10. In 1945, the use of microwaves to heat and cook food was discovered by accident. What was the name of the Noggin who was credited with this discovery?

Answer: Percy Spencer

In 1945, Percy Spencer was building magnetrons for a company known as Raytheon, when he noticed that the microwaves produced by the magnetron melted a candy bar in his pocket. He deduced that microwaves in small doses could be used to cook food safely.
Source: Author jamespark888

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