Anything Goes Number Two Trivia Quiz

Answer: Spanish bagpipes

There are approximately ten different kind of Spanish bagpipes, many of which are noted for their tenor drones. The things you learn while writing quizzes for Fun Trivia! Apart from being astonished to learn that the Spanish had bagpipes at all, another interesting fact is that several of these bagpipes were in use as far back as the 13th century.

It is thought that the word gaita is derived from an old word for goat, as the materials from these early musical instruments were made from the skin of same.

Answer: Rox Messup

Rex Mossup (1928-2011) began his long love affair with sports by playing football in both Rugby League and Rugby Union. He represented Australia in eight international tests of Union, and then switched to League, again representing Australia at international level, and becoming one of that game's very aggressive front row forwards. His somewhat battered face reflected his long career playing football at the top level.

Retiring from active playing at the age of thirty-five, Mossop gained the position of Sports Director at one of Australia's leading television channels. He worked in that position and as on air commentator on several other channels from then until the 1990s. His style was extremely blunt to say the least and he quite often found himself in confrontations with players he had managed to upset with his less than flattering descriptions of their abilities. Because of the speed at which he called games, he was also prone to verbal bloopers on more than one occasion, leading him to earn the nickname Rex Messup. Poor old Rex scored his final touch down in 2011 after some years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Answer: No dragons were harmed in the making of this film

The fourth film in the long saga of the bespectacled boy wizard sees Harry having to complete a number of specific magical tasks in order to qualify to take part in a Triwizard Tournament. Quite frightening and threatening tasks of course, all guaranteed to give children nightmares for weeks afterwards. As with all the films build around the exploits of Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe stars as the magical boy wizard.

Other interesting facts from the "Harry Potter" series of films is that Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) once got a bat entangled in his beard, and Mad Eye Moody and Bill Weasley are father and son in real life. These and other human interest snippets can be found on the following site:

Source: www.buzzfeed.com

Answer: Liberty Measles

World War I (1914-1918) involved much of the western world in a long and bloody series of battles between Germany and her supporters and the Allies. The casualty list was shocking. This "war to end all wars" turned out to be anything but, and our beautiful world is still reeling today from blow after savage blow, as humanity seems hell bent on following its path to self-destruction. During World War One, when anti-German sentiment was at its highest, anything remotely associated with that country hastily found itself renamed, rehoused and re-identified.

In the US, as no doubt with other countries on the side of the Allies, German language was no long taught in schools, German speaking organisations switched to using English, the exquisite music of the great German composers was no longer played, any names of German origin were anglicised, and so on. For example, sauerkraut became known as liberty cabbage, dachshunds were renamed liberty hounds, and even German measles became known as liberty measles instead of its traditional name, though what is so liberating about that confounded affliction is anybody's guess.

Answer: 100,000 golf balls

This search by Scottish scientists in 2009 failed to turn up Nessie (surprise, surprise), but what it did discover were 100,000 golf balls. This fact would be comical if not for the potential damage the balls can do to the lake. Golf balls take very many years to break down (unlike frustrated golfers) but when they do, they contain dangerous levels of zinc and lead.

This has the potential to cause real damage to the waters of the lovely Loch. One supposes Nessie wouldn't be too happy either if that elusive creature swallowed them.

In fact, it could end up with 100,000 holes in one.

Answer: He was shot and killed before the big day.

New Mexico State University began as a small college in 1888. It was established by one Hiram Hadly from Indiana. By 1890, this college had merged with another to form the fledgling university, with an enrollment of thirty-students monitored by six members of its faculty.

It was known then as New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. When 1893 rolled around, their first student was ready to graduate, and great was the anticipation of all concerned at this inaugural event. Unfortunately, however, this unfortunate scholar was bumped off before that ceremony was due to take place. You could even say it went off...with a bang?

Answer: Yes

Marie Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish born scientist, who, along with her husband Pierre, worked extensively in the pioneering field of radioactivity and radiation. This work in physics and her associated work in chemistry saw this amazing woman earn not one but two Nobel Prizes, the first person to earn two of these great honours, and most definitely, the first woman to win at all.

Her dedication to her research, however, came at a great price, and her death in 1934 was a direct result of her years of radiation exposure. Such is the deadly power of this substance that even in 2013 Marie Curie's notebooks (and her cookbook!) were considered too dangerous to be handled and have been kept locked away in lead containers. Special permission is needed to view them and, if granted, protective clothing must be worn in order to do so.

Answer: His ashes were buried in one

How comical is that? From the sublime to the ridiculous. Fredric Baur lived from 1918 until 2008. He was a chemist and food technician by trade, and his most outstanding contribution to the world appears to be his design of the Pringles chips packaging container.

When he finally passed away he was cremated, and, at his wish, part of his remains were placed in a Pringles container. The rest of his remains were placed in urns and either buried along with the Pringles monument, or, extremely unfortunately in my opinion, given to one of his grandchildren. What a ghastly legacy. That'd turn me off eating junk food for life.

Answer: Spy on Russian embassies

I promise I'm not pulling your leg. In 1966, the CIA once spent over twenty millions in attempting to train and equip cats so that they could be placed in Russian embassies. There, with a surgically implanted battery and microphone in its body, and an antenna in its tail, endless hours were spent trying to teach each cat the art of espionage. Unfortunately they didn't take into account how easily cats are distracted by birds and the effect this has on their hunger. Nevertheless, the training continued and the first cat was released to spy on two men meeting in a park near the Russian compound in Washington.

What happened, I hear you ask? The mission was a complete failure because the cat, so intent on playing Austin Purrs, was hit by a taxi instead and killed instantly. This project, known as Acoustic Kitty, was abandoned shortly after.

Answer: Mr Darcy

Jane Austen's Mr Darcy has been thrilling the hearts of ladies for some two hundred years ever since he first appeared in the excellent 1818 novel "Pride and Prejudice" which related the story of a country gentleman and his nitwit of a wife's attempts to marry off her five single daughters.

The tall, dark and handsome Mr Darcy subsequently became the husband of the novel's heroine, Elizabeth Bennett. It's an absolutely lovely tale and has been portrayed in several films, theatre productions and television series ever since.

The most popular of these was the superb 1995 TV production starring the yummy Colin Firth as that haughty but delectable Mr Darcy. But to honour that literary heartthrob by naming a sex pheromone in mice after him? Who was the rat who came up with that idea?