Short Quiz II
14.3.10
1) Prior to 2007, it began on the first Sunday in April and "normalcy" returned on the last Sunday in October, but since 2007 it begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on first Sunday in November. Something of this sort was first suggested by Benjamin Franklin in 1774 in an essay titled "An Economic Project". What?
Daylight Saving Time
2)Which song by Aerosmith came out as a result of a session with Motley Crue, their glam look and their frequent use of a word referring to a person, typically a male, who is well dressed or who has never lived outside a big city?
Dude(looks like a lady)
3)X is the title of several Marvel comic books exploring "the road not traveled" by its various characters. Events in the series are considered separate from mainstream continuity in the Marvel Universe. Y is X's counterpart on the DC Comics side. Unlike X, which bases its stories on a single point of divergence from the regular continuity, most Y stories instead take place in entirely self-contained continuities whose only connection to the canon DC continuity are the presence of familiar DC characters. Id X and Y.
What if... and Elseworlds (X and Y)
4) A simple one. Id the man on the left.
Wolfgang Puck
5) This one is a straight lift from one of the Odyssey Quizzes I attended.
This quote is often mistaken as a quote from a movie though it wasn't even in the script. Its origin was chauvinistic, back-lot humour. It was a quip by a five gold medal winning Olympian to the actress of the movie they both were working in. Seeing her struggling to lift her suitcase into the trunk of her car, the Olympian laughingly uttered these words as he swooped the suit case and put it in the trunk. Who is the Olympian and what is the quote?
Johnny Weissmuller and "Me Tarzan, You Jane"
6) This book by the Medved Brothers, Michael and Harry, awards the fictional ________ to films that the Medveds feel are poor in quality, along with directors and actors judged to have created a chronically inept body of work. Id the book.
The Golden Turkey Awards
7) _______ is considered a parody of Santa Claus or Easter Bunny Which exists in the imagination of Linus van Pelt. According to Linus, when writing to _______, you don't ask anything specific: you wait for whatever he brings you. In this way, Linus states a difference between the _________ and Santa Claus (children writing to Santa include in their letters lists of exactly what they want). Also, Linus states that Santa gives away toys because it's his job and it's expected of him, whereas the _______ gives away toys because he feels he is fulfilling a moral obligation.
The Great Pumpkin
8)The name transltes to "The Immaculate Conception of Mary". Owned by Juan de la Cosa, it was originally named La Gallega becuase it was built in Galicia.Given below is a functioning replica of this.
Santa-Maria. Largest of the three Columbus's ships.
Daylight Saving Time
2)Which song by Aerosmith came out as a result of a session with Motley Crue, their glam look and their frequent use of a word referring to a person, typically a male, who is well dressed or who has never lived outside a big city?
Dude(looks like a lady)
3)X is the title of several Marvel comic books exploring "the road not traveled" by its various characters. Events in the series are considered separate from mainstream continuity in the Marvel Universe. Y is X's counterpart on the DC Comics side. Unlike X, which bases its stories on a single point of divergence from the regular continuity, most Y stories instead take place in entirely self-contained continuities whose only connection to the canon DC continuity are the presence of familiar DC characters. Id X and Y.
What if... and Elseworlds (X and Y)
4) A simple one. Id the man on the left.
Wolfgang Puck
5) This one is a straight lift from one of the Odyssey Quizzes I attended.
This quote is often mistaken as a quote from a movie though it wasn't even in the script. Its origin was chauvinistic, back-lot humour. It was a quip by a five gold medal winning Olympian to the actress of the movie they both were working in. Seeing her struggling to lift her suitcase into the trunk of her car, the Olympian laughingly uttered these words as he swooped the suit case and put it in the trunk. Who is the Olympian and what is the quote?
Johnny Weissmuller and "Me Tarzan, You Jane"
6) This book by the Medved Brothers, Michael and Harry, awards the fictional ________ to films that the Medveds feel are poor in quality, along with directors and actors judged to have created a chronically inept body of work. Id the book.
The Golden Turkey Awards
7) _______ is considered a parody of Santa Claus or Easter Bunny Which exists in the imagination of Linus van Pelt. According to Linus, when writing to _______, you don't ask anything specific: you wait for whatever he brings you. In this way, Linus states a difference between the _________ and Santa Claus (children writing to Santa include in their letters lists of exactly what they want). Also, Linus states that Santa gives away toys because it's his job and it's expected of him, whereas the _______ gives away toys because he feels he is fulfilling a moral obligation.
The Great Pumpkin
8)The name transltes to "The Immaculate Conception of Mary". Owned by Juan de la Cosa, it was originally named La Gallega becuase it was built in Galicia.Given below is a functioning replica of this.
Santa-Maria. Largest of the three Columbus's ships.
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