Truth or Dare Trivia Quiz

Answer: A baby swan is called a cygnet.

Cygnets and swans belong to the same family as geese and ducks. A swan can lay 3-8 eggs at a time.

Answer: Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. His nickname was "Old Hickory" because of his toughness. Jackson said he only had two regrets, not shooting Henry Clay and not hanging John C. Calhoun.

Answer: valuable

Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Clemens. He got his pen name from a nautical term. His best known works are "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." The nautical term mark twain means two fathoms, it is a shortened form of "markin' the twine".

Answer: your foot

Pie is the Spanish word for foot. If I wanted a pie I would have said empanada. Pie in Spanish is what is known as a false cognate. It looks like the English word pie, but does not mean a pie. An example of a real cognate is the word telefono, it looks like and means telephone.

Answer: Kirstie Alley was born in Kansas.

According to wikipedia.com Kirstie Alley was born January 12, 1951, her year of birth in other sources such as Ladies Home Journal have given the year of her birth as 1955. She was born in Wichita, KS.
Patrick Swayze was born August 18, 1952 in Houston, TX. He died in 2009 from pancreatic cancer.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were born on June 13, 1986 in Sherman Oaks, California. They are not identical twins, as they get older this is becoming more noticeable. Ashley is right-handed, while Mary-Kate is left handed. Ashley is two minutes older than her sister, Mary-Kate.
John Travolta was born February 18, 1954 in Englewood, NJ. His oldest son Jett's death as a result of a seizure sparked a lot of controversy about John Travolta's religion of Scientology. He and wife, Kelly Preston, also have a daughter Ella Bleu born in 2000 and a son Benjamin born in 2010.

Answer: Wilt Chamberlain

Wilt Chamberlain was born August 21, 1936 in Philadelphia, PA. He played basketball with the Philadelphia 76ers from 1965-1968 and then with the LA Lakers from 1968-1973. In 1978 he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Answer: Mr. Miyagi in "Karate Kid II"

All the movies listed contain a line with the word truth. Col. Jessep's line from "A Few Good Men" is of course "You can't handle the truth!". In "Jesus Christ Superstar" Pilate says to Jesus, "But what is truth?" In the movie "Aladdin", Aladdin does not know how to get Princess Jasmine, and keeps telling her lies. Genie's suggestion: "Tell her the TRUTH!".

Mr. Miyagi was played by Noriyuki "Pat" Morita who was born on June 28, 1932 in Isleton, California. As a child, at the age of 2 he had tuberculosis and it was thought he would never walk. He was able to walk again by age 11.

Answer: Roberto Benigni

All were nominated that year along with Ed Norton, but the award went to Mr. Benigni for his portrayal of Guido Orefice in "Life is Beautiful" in which he plays a Jewish man with a sense of humor that helps him get his son through a Nazi concentration camp.

Answer: Fe is Iron

Fe gets its symbol for the Latin word for iron ferrum. Tb is the chemical symbol for Terbium which was discovered in 1843 by Carl Mosander. The chemical symbol for Calcium is Ca. Pb is the chemical symbol for Lead, while Radium is Ra. Sn is not Silver, but Tin. The chemical symbol for Silver is Ag.

Answer: Poison Ivy

Poison ivy is not real ivy. It can come in tree forms, a shrub, or a trailing vine, or a climbing vine. To most people its poison causes an itchy rash on the skin it comes in contact with.