The Misplaced General Knowledge Quiz Vol.4

Answer: The African Queen

Humphrey Bogart was nominated three times for the best actor academy award, for "Casablanca" 1942, "The African Queen" 1951 and "The Caine Mutiny" 1954. At the 24th Academy Awards in 1952 he won the Oscar for his portrayal of Charlie Allnut in "The African Queen" starring Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull and Theodore Bikel. Bogart's lines in the original screenplay called for a cockney accent but the script was rewritten and his character became a Canadian.

Question submitted by shipyardbernie

Answer: Ayrton Senna

Ayrton Senna was a very skilled racing car driver who won the Formula One World Championship in 1988, 1990 and 1991. He was only 24 years old when he died while leading the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994. Many Formula One experts consider Senna to have been one of the greatest drivers ever.

Sadly, Roland Ratzenberger died the previous day during qualification for the same race in which Ayrton Senna died. Stirling Moss and Michael Schumacher were famous drivers in different eras, who survived serious racing car crashes during their careers.

Question submitted by Warrior100.

Answer: "Lucy Does The Tango" (1957)

In "Lucy Does The Tango" Lucy and Ricky are going to dance the Tango for the PTA of Little Ricky's school. Meanwhile, Ricky and Fred decide to sell the chickens they are raising for eggs because the hens are not laying. Lucy and Ethel don't want the boys to sell them, so they go to the store and buy dozens and dozens of eggs to make it look like the hens are now laying. As they're taking them to the chicken house, Ricky comes home.

Lucy and Ethel quickly hide as many eggs as they can in their clothing. Lucy stuffs three dozen eggs down the front of her shirt. (This was not rehearsed before the show was recorded.) Ricky insists that he and Lucy practice the Tango. Lucy tries to get out of it, but Ricky insists. At the finale of the dance, Ricky pulls Lucy to his chest, causing the three dozen eggs to break. The laughter ran for 67 seconds, and still had to be edited.

Question submitted by kennell

Answer: They were all inventors

Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper blade in 1903.

Josephine Garis Cochrane invented the first commercially successful automatic dishwasher. George Butters was the mechanic who built it for her in 1886. She only received recognition in 2006 by being included in the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Margaret A. Wilcox invented the first car heater in 1893. It used engine heat channelled into the vehicle to warm feet. She also had the bright idea of a combined clothes and dish washer in one.

Question submitted by Waitakere

Answer: Africa

The majority of Wilbur Smith's books are set in Africa and those that are set elsewhere have some connection to Africa. He has written over forty novels. His first book "When the Lion Feeds" introduces us to the Courtney family, and to date, there are sixteen novels in this series. There are five books in the Ballantyne series and six books in the Egyptian series. He has written other series and many stand-alone novels. Seven of his novels have been made into films or TV mini-series.

Wilbur Smith was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1933. When he was a young man he worked in gold mines and on fishing boats and whalers. He went on to study and become an accountant but turned his hand to writing. He sold his first story to a magazine for seventy pounds and enormous success followed.

Question submitted by wenray

Answer: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr

The Fab Four, otherwise known as The Beatles, were Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and John Lennon. They were from Liverpool, England, along with their manager the late Brian Epstein. Their record producer was the late Sir George Martin.

A massive achievement of theirs was to hold, for the week ending April 4th 1964, the top five slots on the Billboard Hot 100, Wow! This was some achievement and the Top Five singles were, 1."Can't Buy Me Love" 2."Twist And Shout" 3."She Loves You" 4."I Want To Hold Your Hand" 5."Please Please Me".

Question submitted by linda122

Answer: Royal Flying Doctor Service

The Royal Flying Doctor Service was established in 1928 by the Reverend John Flynn, known as "Flynn of the Inland" to provide emergency medical services to people in remote areas of Australia.

Beginning with one plane leased from QANTAS which carried only one doctor and the pilot, it now runs a fleet of about 60 fully equipped Air Ambulances covering an area of 7.6 million square kilometers. The service is free for all who need it and funded by donations, fundraising and government subsidies.

Question submitted by boof123

Answer: Robert Frost

Robert Frost, (born March 26 1874, died January 29 1963), was known for his depiction of rural life in New England, including the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". He was the recipient of four Pulitzer Prizes.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (born July 4 1804, died May 19 1864), Ralph Waldo Emerson (born May 25 1803, died April 27 1882), Henry David Thoreau (born July 12 1817, died May 6 1862), were not only contemporaries, they were good friends. All three were outspoken abolitionists and were involved in the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century.

Question submitted by dekeaunt

Answer: Japan

The Japanese used the strong air currents over the Pacific to carry paper balloons with attached explosives from mainland Japan to continental America in the last few months of the war. Records suggest over 7000 were launched with about 1000 reaching the U.S.A.

Due to media controls at the time, very little publicity was given to this tactic. Just one incident involving fatalities was recorded: the death of a mother and her family of five while playing with a balloon in the Oregon countryside.

Question submitted by Warrior100

Answer: Callahan

Clint Eastwood starred as Harry Callahan in the five "Dirty Harry" movies, "Dirty Harry" (1971), "Magnum Force" (1973), "The Enforcer" (1976), "Sudden Impact" (1983) and "The Dead Pool" (1988). The famous line from "Dirty Harry" is "You've got to ask yourself a question: 'Do you feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?". The quote "Go ahead, make my day" comes from "Sudden Impact".

Clinton Eastwood Jr was born on 31 May 1930. He rose to fame as Rowdy Yates in the Western TV series "Rawhide" and then as the "Man With No Name" in three "Spaghetti Westerns". He won two Academy Awards in 1992 for his movie "Unforgiven", one for Best Director and one for Best Picture. He won the Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award in 1994, and two Academy Awards in 2004 for "Million Dollar Baby", one for Best Director and the other for Best Picture. He was also nominated for seven other Oscars. He has starred in over 70 movies in a career that has spanned nearly 70 years.

Question submitted by wenray