Thematic Invertebrates Trivia

1. Peter Parker's favourite card game should be Spider Solitaire. On which version of PC operating system "Windows" was this first available?

From Quiz Peter Parker's Pastimes

Answer: Windows '98

First available as part of the Windows '98 Microsoft Plus! package, Spider Solitaire has since been included on every version of Windows up to Windows 10, apart from Windows 2000 and Windows 8, for which it was available to download from the Windows store. By 2005, it was the most played game on Windows PCs and while the real life game usually uses two decks of cards, the PC version allows four decks to be used and features different levels of difficulty.

From Quiz Bee Season

Answer: Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States and was admitted to the Union in 1896. The beehive was adopted as the official state emblem in 1959, but had been associated with the state as far back as 1848 with the proposed provisional State of Deseret. (credit to Kino76)

From Quiz The Bug Type

Answer: Honey bee

The tremble dance is a dance worker bees perform to recruit more workers to collect nectar. The waggle dance is performed as a method of communication, usually to inform other bees of where resources are located. Various species of honey bee perform different waggle dances and the dance can also vary from colony to colony.

From Quiz Many's the Long Cricket Night

Answer: Fun and Fancy Free

Jiminy Cricket enjoyed a role as significant as the main protagonist in Walt Disney's "Pinocchio", after which, without Pinocchio, he hosted cartoon segments in "Fun and Fancy Free" (hopefully you picked up on the allusion to alliteration in repetition of the 'F' consonant). He did appear in the television series "House of Mouse", but not as a character in "Pinocchio's" immediate predecessor, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves". Incidentally, his name was used as a polite euphemistic expletive in "Snow White". This question was created by Phoenix Rising member JCSon.

From Quiz Lord Of The Fleas

Answer: Adult

The Adult stage begins when the flea emerges from the cocoon and this can be triggered by a number of factors. They can sense shadows passing by, or the temperature of the immediate surroundings increases, or a change in the air currents, the presence of carbon dioxide or even by vibrations created by movement.

From Quiz Best Laid Clams

Answer: Fishmonger's section

The term clam covers several types of shelled creatures. Differing varieties exist in both freshwater and seawater. Scallops, oysters and mussels are part of the same family.

From Quiz The Oyster is My World

Answer: Jonathan Swift

Swift made his remark about oysters in "Polite Conversations" (1738). In fact, oysters have been eaten since the most ancient times, with preserved shells found in the excavated middens of the earliest known sites of human occupation.

From Quiz Are You Afraid of Spiders?

Answer: Frying

A spider is simply another name for a frying pan. Originally the term referred to a heavy cast iron skillet with a rounded bottom and three long legs. Eventually the term came to be used for any type of frying pan or skillet.

From Quiz A Bee, See?

Answer: Mead

A simple recipe for mead. Take a tree on the African plains thousands of years ago, have elephant rip off branch. Honey bees arrive, make hive in hollow. Rains come, fill hole and bees move on. Natural fermentation occurs. Some months later early man dips finger in water, licks finger and thinks 'Hey, good stuff and why are the elephants pink?' Man has been refining the recipe and making mead ever since.

From Quiz What's Up With Those Mosquitoes?

Answer: Spanish/Portuguese word for "little fly"

Although any one of these definitions might be appropriate, the word is of Spanish/Portuguese origin. There are almost 4,000 species of this little pest, and the infectious diseases they carry kill millions of people annually.

From Quiz A Snail's Grace

Answer: Near a Thousand Tables

From "Near a Thousand Tables" (subtitled "A History of Food"): "Paleolithic shell mounds contain snail varieties bigger on average than today's equivalents. It therefore looks as though the snail eaters of the late ice age were already selecting for size. Mounds of this age and kind are so common and in some cases so large that only scholarly inhibitions stop us from assuming that they are evidence of systematic food production." Snails were cultivated first because they were small, easy to confine and feed, produced valuable protein, and were not dangerous. Kind of makes one look at them in a whole new light, doesn't it?

From Quiz Moths in Fact and Fiction

Answer: lepidoptera

So, you see, they're just butterflies in dowdy clothes. Sort of. Or butterflies are posh moths. Whichever, it doesn't endear them to me.

From Quiz Peter Parker's Pastimes

Answer: Queen's Park

Queen's Park, formed in 1867, are the oldest association football club in Scotland,and play their home games at Hampden Park, a 51,000 all seater stadium which is also the home of the Scottish national team. Unfortunately for Queen's Park, they have not played in the top division for many years, and while in Scottish League Two, they average attendances of between only 600 and 700. The club is nicknamed "The Spiders" due to the black and white design of their club badge, which resembles a spider web, and although they may be few compared to Glasgow neighbours Celtic and Rangers, their fans, known as the "Irn Bru Firm", after the famous Scottish drink, are fiercely loyal. Third Lanark were also a Glasgow club, unfortunately dissolved in 1967 after years of mismanagement, while Hibernian are based in Edinburgh.

From Quiz The Bug Type

Answer: moth

Moths are mostly nocturnal flying insects. They differ from butterflies because moths do not have the little balls on the end of their antennas and butterflies usually do. However, this is not a uniform rule but rather a general guideline.

From Quiz Many's the Long Cricket Night

Answer: Paul McCartney

The Crickets began life in Lubbock, Texas in the mid-1950s and scored their first major hit in 1957 with the song "That'll Be the Day". The original line-up consisted of Buddy Holly on lead vocals and guitar, J.I. (Jerry) Allison playing the drums, and Joe B. Maudlin was brought in to play bass. They soon produced a string of hits, and when Buddy Holly moved to New York to develop his management skills in the industry, the band drafted in Sonny Curtis as his replacement. Whilst Holly is seen as the star within the group, the rest of the team were talented songwriters in their own right. Allison was the driving force behind "That'll Be the Day", "Peggy Sue", and "More Than I Can Say", while Maudlin was behind the pen for "Last Night", "I'm Gonna Love You Too", and "Well Alright". The band recorded and performed for over five decades, released the album "Not Fade Away" in 1995, and was inducted into Rock & Roll's Hall of Fame in 2012. (PS) A molly-dooker is a left hander. This question was created by Phoenix Rising member pollucci19.

From Quiz Lord Of The Fleas

Answer: 6 months +

Once the flea decides to hatch it only takes it one second to do so and will appear as a hungry adult. If it jumps onto an unwilling victim straightaway it can begin feeding after three seconds. If no source of food is instantly available the flea can jump up to 40,000 times without a break in its search for sustenance.

From Quiz BEE Connections

Answer: Sting

Sting was an Elvish knife found by Bilbo amongst a Trollish hoard. The knife glowed blue in the presence of Orcs or Goblins. (Question submitted by DaveH1960)

From Quiz Are You Afraid of Spiders?

Answer: Give him a free drink

A spider is the last drink in a bottle of liquor. If the bartender attempts to pour a shot and it comes up short of a full measure, the patron can call out "Spider!" and receive his drink for free. This custom is fairly universal throughout the Midwest, and may be in other parts of the country as well.

From Quiz A Bee, See?

Answer: Ariel

'The Tempest' by William Shakespeare, Act V, scene one. Ariel, (a sprite) sings these lines as he/she aids Prospero in dressing. 'When the bee sucks. there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.' (Miranda is the daughter of Prospero and Caliban the son of Sycorax. Antennae is what bees have as sensors.)

From Quiz What's Up With Those Mosquitoes?

Answer: Two weeks

Unless you want to keep the female as a pet, it will cycle through its four stages of life in 28 days maximum. Its first 3 stages will take 5-14 days. Its final stage, adulthood, will last another 14 days. In captivity, the last stage of the adult female's life can last up to one month.

From Quiz The Cultural Butterfly

Answer: Goldie Hawn

"Butterflies Are Free" was Goldie's third movie. She became popular on the TV show "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" as a giddy blonde but proved she had acting talent when her first movie, "The Cactus Flower" earned her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1970.

From Quiz Outlandish Insect Wing Trivia

Answer: The Beatles

Buddy Holly and the Crickets were the inspiration for the Beatles' name according to Tom Turpin, Professor of Entomology at Purdue University. In his article "On Six Legs", according to Turpin, "The Beatles based their name on the 'beat' music they were playing, and the most common type of animal on Earth--beetles. They wanted an insect name because they admired the U.S. group known as Buddy Holly and the Crickets." In his article, Turpin references names as odd and obscure as Insect Opera, Locust Fudge and Atomic Flea. Can it be any coincidence that Sir Paul sprouted Wings? (And yes, the author's burning desire to include the last sentence was the whole reason for adding this question.)

From Quiz Moths in Fact and Fiction

Answer: Arthur

When The Tick was trying out battle-cries (he settled on "SPOOOON!"), his partner in insectile crimebusting, Arthur, came up with the intimidating "Not in the face!". Imposing, no?

From Quiz Peter Parker's Pastimes

Answer: McLaren

The McLaren 720S hit showrooms in 2017 as a replacement for the 650S and while the price of a 650S was just under £200,000, the 720S retailed at around £210,000. For your money though, you not only got that amazing speed but also ten percent better fuel economy, with the 720S managing 18 miles to the gallon in city driving and 36 mpg on the open road. The Spider version of the car was introduced in December 2018 and features an electric roof, which will take just 11 seconds to operate, and can be operated while travelling at 50 km/h (31 mph) if you should encounter rain. Prices for the Spider when it went on sale started at £237,000.

From Quiz Bee Season

Answer: Cancer

The Beehive Cluster, also known as Praesepe, is an open cluster found in the constellation of Cancer. It was first observed by telescope by Italian astronomer Galileo in 1609, but has featured in writings by ancient astronomer Ptolemy (c.AD 100 - c.AD 170). It is one of the closest open clusters to our solar system and is approximately 600 million years old, which is fairly young by comparison to our own Sun which is 4.5 billion years old. Of the four options, Cancer is the only constellation that is part of the zodiac. (credit to Dagny1)

From Quiz The Bug Type

Answer: Jeff Goldblum

Jeff Goldblum is a mad scientist of sorts who is smitten with Veronica Quaife, a journalist played by Geena Davis. He accidentally transforms himself into a human/fly hybrid when a fly enters his transporter with him.

From Quiz Many's the Long Cricket Night

Answer: J Hudson & Co

J Hudson & Co started business in the 19th century and is better known as the Acme Whistle Company. The whistles made by the company in its Birmingham factory have featured in many sporting moments through history and some tragic moments as well, such as the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The clicker was originally made to help time keeping in bands and orchestras but went on to be used by men of the US airborne forces as a signaling device during the airborne phase of the D-Day landings. In the 1962 movie "The Longest Day", John Wayne delivers a speech to his men before they take off for Normandy wherein he explains how their Crickets are to be used. This question was created by Phoenix Rising member zonko.

From Quiz Lord Of The Fleas

Answer: Two to seven days

Fleas that either cannot locate a host, or find themselves deprived of one, will eventually die of starvation. The problem does not end with the death of the flea, especially if it was female, as she can lay any number of eggs before dying, and it is these eggs which invariably present the next problem to the unwary.

From Quiz Fun Facts About Fleas

Answer: P.G. Wodehouse

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Wodehouse was living in Le Touquet, France. Following the German invasion, he was interned as an 'enemy alien', but released once he reached the age of sixty. He then made several broadcasts, aimed at America, which led to accusations of collaboration. Among his critics were A.A. Milne and O'Casey who wrote to the Daily Telegraph newspaper in 1941 saying 'If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English literature's performing flea'. George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh were among Wodehouse's defenders and British Intelligence decided that he was 'naive and foolish' rather than a traitor. Wodehouse went on to publish a book of letters he had written under the title of 'Performing Flea', although it was renamed 'Author! Author!' in the USA.

From Quiz The Oyster is My World

Answer: Sea snail

Commonly known as the oyster drill snail, they prey on young oysters and can be a huge problem in commercial oystering operations. Naturally found down the east coast of the United States, they have also been accidentally introduced to other waters, both on the west coast of the States and in Europe. The "radula" are the toothlike parts of a mollusc's ingestion organs, and some species of snail combine them with acid and/or venomous secretions too!

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