Sour Grapes Trivia Quiz

Answer: Soviet Union

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin won the title of being the first human in outer space. Gagarin orbited the Earth for 108 minutes, and then ejected and landed by parachute. Three weeks later, Alan Shepard would be the first American in space. America, however, succeeded in putting the first humans on the moon, captured in the famous footage of Neil Armstrong taking the first steps. "One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind!"

Answer: Hitler

Adolf Hitler was responsible for starting World War II, and for the Holocaust, in which an estimated six million Jews were killed. Of course, once he lost the war, he would have been in a lot of trouble with quite a few people, so he shot himself.

Answer: John Wilkes Booth

That's right, I'm talking about the Lincoln assassination! Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy 100 years later, and Mary Surratt and David Herold were both co-conspirators in the Lincoln assassination.

Answer: Richard Nixon

President Nixon was involved in a theft from the Watergate Hotel, a Democratic building holding important documents. When it was almost certain he would be impeached, Nixon resigned, being the only president in history to do so. (As of 2011)

Answer: John Wesley Hardin

John Wesley Hardin was arguably the sourest of all the Old West grapes. The instance described in the question occurred when there was a dispute over a card game, and the two men dueled it out in the streets. Hardin also once shot a man through a hotel room wall because he was snoring too loudly, killing him.

Answer: 1

There is one known case of a man who was in Hiroshima when the first bomb was dropped, and survived but was burned. He spent the night in Hiroshima, and then returned to his home in Nagasaki, just in time for the second bomb. He died in 2010.

Answer: Nero

One myth states that while the city burned, Nero was in a neighboring city playing the fiddle, but this has been widely rejected, as fiddles hadn't been invented at the time. On one positive note for Nero, once he got back to the burnt down city, he did use his own money to help clean up.

Answer: Helen Keller

Helen Keller was born a healthy baby, but soon lost her sight and hearing to an illness, probably Scarlet Fever. At the age of seven, teacher Annie Sullivan arrived, and after many months of trying to teach Helen a hand alphabet, finally broke through with, "water", while water from a pump was splashing on Helen's hands.

She proceeded to receive a formal education, went on to write books, and met every president from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon Johnson. She was also friends with figures such as Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, and Charlie Chaplin. Laura Bridgman was another blind and deaf woman who was educated before Keller, and Patty Duke portrayed Helen Keller in the biographical drama, "The Miracle Worker".

Answer: Shot by police while driving

Bonnie and Clyde were killed at the same time on May 23, 1934. While driving in an automobile, they were ambushed by several police officers, who shot up to 130 rounds, not stopping even when the car had crashed into a ditch. They were immortalized in popular culture in 1967 film, "Bonnie and Clyde", directed by Arthur Penn, and staring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.

Answer: Fox

The story, "The Fox and the Grapes", is one of Aesop's Fables. This fable is noted for having only one animal protagonist.