New - Trivia Just For A Post And A Giggle

TWO PART QUESTION WORTH 4 points total

Who does this ear belong to?
Who painted it?

Van Gogh, self portrait

Wrong

Daniel Gardner painted portrait of painter John Constable

WELL DONE!!

Daniel Gardner, ‘Portrait of John Constable’, 1796, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
© Victoria and Albert Museum http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/john-constable


4 Melissa Bittinger


NEXT QUESTION

Very easy one for this one

The space between sentences was once called an emspace

What letter is the same width as an emspace?

m

The letter "M"

A capital "M"

e

WELL DONE!!

CAPITAL M

I am giving Ilka 1 as that was a little m, and David 1 as he was correct with a capital M but second to answer


4 Melissa Bittinger
1 Ilka Boogaard
1 David Morefield



NEXT QUESTION

Mona Lisa has wonderful lips. Well, they should be as they took (?) years to paint?

4 years

Not the answer I am looking for

10 years.

No one knows - it took 4-6 years for the whole painting.

10 yrs XX edit: 12 yrs

XII

Nobody knows how many. They think it was 1503 - 1506 but anything is a guess

Heather gets only one point because she added a time


4 Melissa Bittinger
1 Ilka Boogaard
1 David Morefield
1 Heather Applegate



NEXT QUESTION

The Bennet family appear in which Jane Austen novel?

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is correct. I love that film and book! I have it on Google Books and read it if in the cafe on my own.


4 Melissa Bittinger
2 Ann Powell
1 Ilka Boogaard
1 David Morefield
1 Heather Applegate



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I also love The Pickwick Papers. Who wrote it?

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens indeed. I just watched an old black and white Scrooge. Wicked special effects for that time!


4 Melissa Bittinger
4 Ann Powell
1 Ilka Boogaard
1 David Morefield
1 Heather Applegate



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This author had a hard life from start to finish. Much like his heroes in some of his books

He took one of his names from his foster parents

Nobody knows how he actually died

His influence on writing lives on to this day and his name is known by nearly everyone even if they never read his books

Where was he born?

Edgar Allen Poe, Boston,MA

Well done :)

Boston


4 Melissa Bittinger
4 Ann Powell
2 Suzanne Powers
1 Ilka Boogaard
1 David Morefield
1 Heather Applegate



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Fabulous writer Poe was. Did you know that he wrote a prose about the big bang theory before we had a sitcom named after it? Also 80 years before it was made famoous by someone else.

What was the name of that prose?

eureka

Eureka: A Prose Poem by E. A. Poe

Apollo

I agree with Apollo

Apollo it is


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6 Ann Powell
6 Mark Papke
6 Mary Bedy
4 Suzanne Powers
4 Steve Augustin
4 J Morgan Massey
3 E B Schmidt
2 Rose Santuci-Sofranko
2 Lin Haring
2 Nikki Marie Smith
2 Beverly Livingstone
1 David Morefield

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0 Ilka Boogaard
0 Fran Riley
Christine Till
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Ed Meredith

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6 Melissa Bittinger
4 Mary Ellen Mueller-Legault
4 Jan Bickerton
Heather Applegate
Chrystyne Novack
Wendy J St Christopher


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This is the opening line from a classic..... which one?

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.


Note from me - If anyone has time to do this trivia for me, please feel free to offer. I will give the prizes as normal. However, I am now swamped in support and here, plus I really want to paint, AND I am working on my own site, plus I would like to have a little bit of a life in the real world also LOL I am continuing with this but if anyone has the time to take it over for me in asking questions etc, please let me know.

Moby Dick!

No, wait...That's "Call my E-mail."

Nevermind. :(

Are you psychic? That was the classic I was going to take a first line from but changed my mind. You WOULD have been correct!!!

No, Hon...Just psycho. :-p

eek hehe

Apollo it is


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8 Barbara St Jean
6 Ann Powell
6 Mark Papke
6 Mary Bedy
4 Suzanne Powers
4 Steve Augustin
4 J Morgan Massey
3 E B Schmidt
2 Rose Santuci-Sofranko
2 Lin Haring
2 Nikki Marie Smith
2 Beverly Livingstone
1 David Morefield

MISSING A TURN



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5 Joy McKenzie
2 Patricia Strand
0 Bellesouth Studio
0 Ilka Boogaard
0 Fran Riley
Christine Till
Mick Donnelly
Ed Meredith

PLAYING JUST FOR A VIRTUAL COOKIE (UK Biscuit) COZ THEY WON EVERYTHING TO DATE so they are having a little private battle up to 50 points

6 Melissa Bittinger
4 Mary Ellen Mueller-Legault
4 Jan Bickerton
Heather Applegate
Chrystyne Novack
Wendy J St Christopher


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This is the opening line from a classic..... which one?

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.


Note from me - If anyone has time to do this trivia for me, please feel free to offer. I will give the prizes as normal. However, I am now swamped in support and here, plus I really want to paint, AND I am working on my own site, plus I would like to have a little bit of a life in the real world also LOL I am continuing with this but if anyone has the time to take it over for me in asking questions etc, please let me know.

The Secret Garden

It was the Secret Garden

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8 Barbara St Jean
6 Ann Powell
6 Mark Papke
6 Mary Bedy
4 Suzanne Powers
4 Steve Augustin
4 J Morgan Massey
3 E B Schmidt
2 Rose Santuci-Sofranko
2 Lin Haring
2 Nikki Marie Smith
2 Beverly Livingstone
1 David Morefield

MISSING A TURN



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5 Joy McKenzie
2 Patricia Strand
2 Ed Meredith
0 Bellesouth Studio
0 Ilka Boogaard
0 Fran Riley
Christine Till
Mick Donnelly

PLAYING JUST FOR A VIRTUAL COOKIE (UK Biscuit) COZ THEY WON EVERYTHING TO DATE so they are having a little private battle up to 50 points

6 Melissa Bittinger
4 Mary Ellen Mueller-Legault
4 Jan Bickerton
Heather Applegate
Chrystyne Novack
Wendy J St Christopher


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According to legend, who owned a sword named 'Crocea mors'?


Note from me - If anyone has time to do this trivia for me, please feel free to offer. I will give the prizes as normal. However, I am now swamped in support and here, plus I really want to paint, AND I am working on my own site, plus I would like to have a little bit of a life in the real world also LOL I am continuing with this but if anyone has the time to take it over for me in asking questions etc, please let me know.

J.C. julius caesar

Actual physical sword = Julius Caesar

Virtual sword (RWBY) = Jaune Arc

Mary

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8 Barbara St Jean
6 Ann Powell
6 Mark Papke
6 Mary Bedy
4 Suzanne Powers
4 Steve Augustin
4 J Morgan Massey
3 E B Schmidt
2 Rose Santuci-Sofranko
2 Lin Haring
2 Nikki Marie Smith
2 Beverly Livingstone
1 David Morefield

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5 Joy McKenzie
2 Patricia Strand
2 Ed Meredith
0 Bellesouth Studio
0 Ilka Boogaard
0 Fran Riley
Christine Till
Mick Donnelly

PLAYING JUST FOR A VIRTUAL COOKIE (UK Biscuit) COZ THEY WON EVERYTHING TO DATE so they are having a little private battle up to 50 points

6 Melissa Bittinger
6 Mary Ellen Mueller-Legault
4 Jan Bickerton
Heather Applegate
Chrystyne Novack
Wendy J St Christopher


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If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach how far?

60,000 miles.

60,000 miles.

Haha you were right the first time :)

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8 Barbara St Jean
6 Ann Powell
6 Mark Papke
6 Mary Bedy
4 Suzanne Powers
4 Steve Augustin
4 J Morgan Massey
3 E B Schmidt
2 Rose Santuci-Sofranko
2 Lin Haring
2 Nikki Marie Smith
2 Beverly Livingstone
2 Walter Holland
1 David Morefield

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5 Joy McKenzie
2 Patricia Strand
2 Ed Meredith
0 Bellesouth Studio
0 Ilka Boogaard
0 Fran Riley
Christine Till
Mick Donnelly

PLAYING JUST FOR A VIRTUAL COOKIE (UK Biscuit) COZ THEY WON EVERYTHING TO DATE so they are having a little private battle up to 50 points

6 Melissa Bittinger
6 Mary Ellen Mueller-Legault
4 Jan Bickerton
Heather Applegate
Chrystyne Novack
Wendy J St Christopher


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1 point each question..... Where do night butterfly's have ears? Why?

On their wings to avoid bats.

They certainly have and for that very reason :D

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8 Barbara St Jean
6 Ann Powell
6 Mark Papke
6 Mary Bedy
4 Suzanne Powers
4 Steve Augustin
4 J Morgan Massey
3 E B Schmidt
2 Rose Santuci-Sofranko
2 Lin Haring
2 Nikki Marie Smith
2 Beverly Livingstone
2 Walter Holland
2 April Moen
1 David Morefield

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5 Joy McKenzie
2 Patricia Strand
2 Ed Meredith
0 Bellesouth Studio
0 Ilka Boogaard
0 Fran Riley
Christine Till
Mick Donnelly

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6 Melissa Bittinger
6 Mary Ellen Mueller-Legault
4 Jan Bickerton
Heather Applegate
Chrystyne Novack
Wendy J St Christopher


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Whose eye is this?

Pablo Picasso's

Picasso :)

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8 Barbara St Jean
6 Ann Powell
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6 Mary Bedy
4 Suzanne Powers
4 Steve Augustin
4 J Morgan Massey
3 E B Schmidt
2 Rose Santuci-Sofranko
2 Lin Haring
2 Nikki Marie Smith
2 Beverly Livingstone
2 Walter Holland
2 April Moen
1 David Morefield

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5 Joy McKenzie
2 Patricia Strand
2 Ed Meredith
2 Christine Till
0 Bellesouth Studio
0 Ilka Boogaard
0 Fran Riley
Mick Donnelly

PLAYING JUST FOR A VIRTUAL COOKIE (UK Biscuit) COZ THEY WON EVERYTHING TO DATE so they are having a little private battle up to 50 points

6 Melissa Bittinger
6 Mary Ellen Mueller-Legault
4 Jan Bickerton
Heather Applegate
Chrystyne Novack
Wendy J St Christopher


NEXT QUESTION

Who is Dr Evil?

fictional character, played by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers movies...which I've never seen.

Austin powers

MIKE MYERS

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8 Barbara St Jean
6 Ann Powell
6 Mark Papke
6 Mary Bedy
4 Suzanne Powers
4 Steve Augustin
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2 Lin Haring
2 Nikki Marie Smith
2 Beverly Livingstone
2 Walter Holland
2 April Moen
1 David Morefield

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5 Joy McKenzie
2 Patricia Strand
2 Ed Meredith
2 Christine Till
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0 Fran Riley
Mick Donnelly

PLAYING JUST FOR A VIRTUAL COOKIE (UK Biscuit) COZ THEY WON EVERYTHING TO DATE so they are having a little private battle up to 50 points

8 Melissa Bittinger
6 Mary Ellen Mueller-Legault
4 Jan Bickerton
Heather Applegate
Chrystyne Novack
Wendy J St Christopher


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1 point per answer

Who painted this?
What is its name?
Where does it currently reside?

Hans von Aachen
The Amazement of the Gods (some question about the name)
Room #4 of the National Gallery in London

Corrrrrect

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6 Mary Bedy
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4 Steve Augustin
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2 Lin Haring
2 Nikki Marie Smith
2 Beverly Livingstone
2 Walter Holland
2 April Moen
1 David Morefield

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5 Joy McKenzie
2 Patricia Strand
2 Ed Meredith
2 Christine Till
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0 Fran Riley
Mick Donnelly

PLAYING JUST FOR A VIRTUAL COOKIE (UK Biscuit) COZ THEY WON EVERYTHING TO DATE so they are having a little private battle up to 50 points

11 Melissa Bittinger
6 Mary Ellen Mueller-Legault
4 Jan Bickerton
Heather Applegate
Chrystyne Novack
Wendy J St Christopher


NEXT QUESTION

Comic Henny Youngman said, "When I first read about the evils of drinking, I ..." finish the phrase with 3 words.

...gave up reading

Agreed - ’’When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading’’