Paper Throughout Fun Trivia Trivia Quiz

Answer: From their nests

Paper wasps make nests out of bits of wood, plants and their saliva. The resulting nests resemble papier-mâché. They are also sometimes called umbrella wasps, also due to their nests: each cell in the nest resembles an umbrella. While North America boasts about 22 species of paper wasps, it is a comparatively low percentage as there are about 700 different species world-wide.

Answer: Back Words and Palindromes

The sentence is indeed a palindrome. Palindromes are words, phrases or sentences that read the same forwards and backwards. Weird Al Yankovic did a whole song, called "Bob," where each line was a palindrome.

This sentence could not be the answer to a Drop A Letter quiz because it's too long and contains punctuation. It could not be in Anagrams because it's not a common phrase, which it would need to be to justify its length. It could also not be a Wordwise as no combination of separating letters/words or writing them above or below each other could logically lead to that phrase.

Answer: Tom Cruise

The newspaper claimed that the Church of Scientology had created the marriage in order to hide the homosexuality of Cruise (and possibly Kidman) and their sterility and impotence. Cruise and Kidman met on the set of "Days of Thunder" (1990). They married the same year, but divorced in 2001.

Answer: Spider-Man

Spider-Man has, over the years, had over 15 separate ongoing comic book series. All the series that didn't explicitly state that they were set in another universe followed the continuity set forth in the first Spider-Man series, "The Amazing Spider-Man".

However, the comic strip, which has the same name, set its own timeline. The only time the strip consciously paralleled the comic series was in the months leading up to Peter Parker's marriage to Mary Jane and in the dissolution of that marriage. Later, the comic strip, after pressure from fans, claimed that the strips where Peter hadn't married Mary Jane were just a dream/nightmare that he had been having.

Answer: Flour

Flour mixed with salt and water will indeed make good papier-mâché glue. How much flour you add depends on the consistency you're looking for in the glue. Papier-mâché is French for "chewed-up paper".

Answer: College-ruled

The difference between the two is that in wide-ruled (also known as legal ruled) paper, the blue lines are farther apart. In college-ruled (also known as medium-ruled), the blue lines are closer together, which allows for more lines to be on the paper, and, theoretically, more writing.

Other types of ruled paper in the United States include narrow-ruled, which has even less space between the lines than college-ruled, and manuscript ruled which is commonly used to teach children how to write. Neither of the latter are commonly found as loose leaf.

Answer: New Jersey

According to the Official Website for the State of New Jersey, New Jersey has 8204.37 square miles in total area. One square mile is equal to 4,014,489,600 square inches. One sheet of 8.5" x 11" is 93.5 square inches. To figure out the area, in square inches, of New Jersey, multiply 8204.37 by 4,014,489,600 and you get 32,936,358,039,552.

Then divide that number by square inches in a sheet of paper, and you've got your answer.

Answer: Vellum

Vellum is made from animal skin. It is more durable than paper, and is used more regularly in the printing of important documents (hence diplomas being referred to as "sheepskins"). While parchment and vellum are both made from animal skin, vellum was made from animal hide that was not split in two like parchment, and was seen as being of a higher quality.

Answer: It's what the collectibles are made from.

Philately is stamp collecting. Life lists are used by bird watchers to write down which birds they've seen. The Blue Book is a book of U.S. coins which list the wholesale value of American coins. The shapes option was implying origami.

The British Guiana "Black on Magenta" one-cent stamp is often considered as the rarest stamp in existence. What makes it so rare is that the colony had run out of stamps and the postmaster asked a local company to print out stamps. Since the quality was not very good and could be easily forged, the postal employees had to initial the stamps to authenticate them. Only one verified stamp of this issue has been found.

Answer: United States

The Paper Mill Playhouse started out as a paper mill in 1795 in New Jersey. Although the mill burned down on at least two occasions, it was rebuilt and served as a paper mill until 1928. A few years later, Antoinette Scudder bought the mill and converted it into a theater.

In 2007, it was in danger of shutting down but donations totaling over one million dollars helped the theater to finish out its season. At the start of its 2007-2008 season, the theater took out a loan to fund the season. In early 2008, Millburn Township bought the land the theater is located on and entered into a long-term lease that took care of most of the theater's financial problems.

Answer: Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block's "Grifter's Game" was Hard Case Crime's first release. It was a reprint of a book that Block had written in 1961. Charles Ardai and Max Phillips were both big fans of pulp crime novels with the alluring covers of femme fatales and hard-nosed crooks, so they decided to bring them back for a new generation.

They've released about 12 novels per year, each featuring artwork by the likes of Robert McGinnis, Chuck Pyle and Richard B. Farrell, among others. Ardai and Phillips have both also published their own fiction through Hard Case Crime. Phillips' book was the second to be released, called "Fade to Blonde," while Ardai's was the fourth (written as Richard Aleas, which is an anagram of his name) called "Little Girl Lost."

Answer: Peter Bogdanovich

Tatum O'Neal won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for this film at the age of ten. While never clearly stated in the movie, we are lead to believe that it is possible that Addie really is Moses' daughter, as it is hinted that he did have a relationship with her mother.

This movie was the first time Ryan and his daughter, Tatum, appeared on screen together. The second was also for Bogdanovich, 1976's "Nickelodeon". The third was 1980's "Circle of Two," although Ryan is not listed in the credits of that film.

Answer: Swagga Like Us

"Swagga Like Us" won the Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. It features T.I., Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, and Kanye West. At the 2009 Grammys, a very pregnant M.I.A. came out singing the chorus to "Paper Planes" in front of some curtains. When she got to the part where she sings "No one on the corner has swagga like us" the curtains opened up to reveal T.I., Jay-Z, Lil Wayne and Kanye West.

The beat changed a little and Kanye West took over with the first verse of "Swagga Like Us."

Answer: Erdos Number

Paul Erdos published over 1400 math papers. He collaborated on over 500 of them, and that's how he came to be known as the Kevin Bacon of the math world (it's actually the other way around since the term "Erdos Number" came before the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon").

In the question, I said "might get yourself one of these numbers" because the person you are collaborating with would have to have written a paper with someone who'd collaborated with Erdos (or would have had to collaborate with Erdos themselves) in order for you to get a number. If you collaborated with someone who'd collaborated with Erdos, your Erdos Number would be two. If someone then collaborated with you, their Erdos Number would be three, assuming you were their first Erdos link. And so on.

Answer: The Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 11 caves on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. The first cave was discovered in 1947, the last was discovered in 1956. Many of the caves did not have complete scrolls, but pieces of larger scrolls. In 1954, four complete scrolls that had been discovered were advertised in "The Wall Street Journal".

The ad read: "'The Four Dead Sea Scrolls' Biblical Manuscripts dating back to at least 200 BC, are for sale. This would be an ideal gift to an educational or religious institution by an individual or group. Box F 206, The Wall Street Journal." The final purchase price was $250,000.

Answer: LeapFrog

The pen housed an infra-red camera while the paper had an integrated grid which allowed the pen to map out where it was in relation to the paper. It also allowed it to read what had been written or drawn on the paper. In addition to the aforementioned keyboard, you could also draw a calculator and the pen would call out the numbers and functions as you touched the keys.

It also had writing, language and game functions. The company LeapFrog was founded in 1995 after Michael Wood couldn't find any products that could aid his son in learning to read, so he developed his own.

Answer: IBA

The four major sanctioning bodies are the World Boxing Council (WBC), the International Boxing Federation (IBF), the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and the World Boxing Association (WBA).

The term "paper champion" can also be applied to champions who obtained their championships without beating the previous champion (due to the previous champion being stripped of the title, retiring while still champion, etc). It is also applied to champions who defend their titles against opponents who are not perceived as being on the same level as the champion.

Answer: MTV

"The Paper" mainly focused on Amanda Lorder and Alex Angert as they provided the bulk of the drama. Amanda was the Editor-In-Chief and relied on Alex to be her right-hand man, while Alex was the Managing Editor and thought he should have Amanda's job. The show was filmed in Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Florida. The series was eight episodes long and aired in the spring of 2008.

Answer: Seven Pure Hearts

"Super Paper Mario" is the Wii's addition to the long running series of Super Mario quest games. The quest games, as opposed to the side-scrolling ones like "Super Mario Bros." can be traced back to "Super Mario RPG" for the Super Nintendo. It was in that game that he had to collect seven Star Road pieces.

The series continued with "Paper Mario" for the Nintendo 64 in which Mario had to collect seven Star Spirits. That game was followed by "Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door" for the GameCube in which Mario had to collect the seven Crystal Stars.

Although the look and feel of the game is very similar to its predecessors, Nintendo changed the game play a little bit. Among the most noticeable changes is the lack of battles when facing opponents. Whereas in the first three titles, a battle with an opponent would consist of Mario and his opponent taking turns hitting each other, that is not the case in "Super Paper Mario."

Answer: Magna Carta

The Magna Carta was based on the Charter of Henry I. The English barons felt that King John was abusing his power, so they drew up this charter which consisted of 63 articles. Having no choice, as the barons had shown up en force, King John signed it.

The Pope was not happy as this also reduced the power he had over the country, and he gave his approval to King John to disregard the charter. This plunged England into war. King John's death a little over a year later helped put an end to the war when his son, Henry III, was crowned.

After a rewrite, the new king signed the document and honored it for his 56 years as reigning monarch.