In what year did the reboot of ‘The Parent Trap,’ starring Lindsay Lohan, come out?

When one star in a leading role doesn’t seem like enough, how about one star in two leading roles — as identical twins? Nicolas Cage did it in “Adaptation.” Armie Hammer did it in “The Social Network.” JeanClaude Van Damme did it in “Double Impact.” And the list goes on. Bette Davis did it in two separate films, “A Stolen Life” and “Dead Ringer” (not to be confused with Jeremy Irons playing twins in 1988’s “Dead Ringers”). Lindsay Lohan also accomplished the feat twice, first in the 1998 reboot of “The Parent Trap” and again in “I Know Who Killed Me.”

Trivia question:

A) Mauritius

B) Montenegro

C) Poland

D) Thailand

In 2006, identical twin brothers held the offices of president and prime minister of what country?

Bright yellow sunflowers have been a symbol for nuclear disarmament since the 1980s, reminding people that even though other forms of energy can be produced, the sun is the world’s biggest, most reliable power generator. But sunflowers have another use in protecting us from the negative effects of nuclear radiation: They have the ability to absorb certain radioactive substances from contaminated water. Tests using sunflowers for phytoremediation, as it’s called, were done after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 and after the Fukushima accident in 2011. In the socalled Haunted Gallery at Henry VIII’s Hampton Court Palace is a “dynastic portrait” of the king and his wife and children. It was most likely painted at Henry’s request around 1545. Of course, as we know, Henry VIII had six wives and in 1545 he was married to his sixth wife, Catherine Parr. Yet the portrait depicts Jane Seymour, Henry’s third wife, who died in 1537 just 12 days after giving birth to their son, Edward. The portrait, obviously not painted from life, shows teenage princesses Mary (Mary I) and Elizabeth (Elizabeth I) and prince Edward as an adolescent — something poor Jane Seymour did not live to see. Trinidad and Tobago gained its independence from the United Kingdom on Aug. 31, 1962. The twin-island nation is the birthplace of calypso music, steelpan drums and the guppy ... sort of. A favorite subject for evolutionary biologists, the fish Poecilia reticulata is commonly known as the guppy. It’s named for Robert John Lechmere Guppy, an engineer and scientist working in Trinidad who supplied guppy specimens to the British Museum for scientific study. Lefthanded relief pitcher Masanori Murakami was the first Japanese-born player in Major League Baseball. Signed by the San Francisco Giants, he made his American big league debut at age 19 on Sept. 1, 1964, against the New York Mets. Murakami played just 54 games in the majors before returning to Japan in 1965. Another 30 years passed before right-handed starter Hideo Nomo became the second Japanese-born player in Major League Baseball, joining the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995. Founded in 1761 and still going strong, the familyowned firm of Faber-Castell produces more than 2.3 billion wood-cased pencils a year for artists, students and everyone who enjoys the feeling of “analog” writing in a digital world. Though they’re called “lead pencils,” they’re not now — nor have they ever been — made from lead. The lead-colored substance is graphite, whose name comes from the Greek word for writing.

Trivia answer:

In 2006, Lech Kaczynski was the president of Poland and his identical twin brother, Jaroslaw, was prime minister. TRIVIA FANS: Leslie Elman is the author of “Weird But True: 200 Astounding, Outrageous and Totally Off the Wall Facts.” Contact her at triviabitsleslie@gmail. com.

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