10 Quick Questions

1. Which term refers to a brilliant discovery that seems obvious after the fact?

❑ Bulb of Edison

❑ Egg of Columbus

❑ Fire of Prometheus

❑ Spoon of Archimedes

2. True or false? Celery takes more energy to digest than you get from eating it.

❑ True

❑ False

3. Which of these words refers to a form of psychological manipulation?

❑ Limelighting

❑ Gaslighting

❑ Floodlighting

❑ Headlighting

4. Which of these people was

not involved in the Battle of the Little Bighorn?

❑ Sitting Bull

❑ Stonewall Jackson

❑ Crazy Horse

❑ George Custer

5. Which boxer was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the 1980 film Raging Bull?

❑ Jack Dempsey

❑ Gene Tunney

❑ Jake LaMotta

❑ Rocky Marciano

6. Which industry do the surnames Walker, Tucker and Fuller derive from?

❑ Transport

❑ Mining

❑ Farming

❑ Textiles

7. Ann and Nancy Wilson are members of which band?

❑ The B-52s

❑ The Go-Go’s

❑ The Bangles

❑ Heart

8. What kind of pastry is used to make éclairs and profiteroles?

❑ Filo

❑ Puff

❑ Choux

❑ Flaky

9. Who did John Hinckley jnr attempt to assassinate?

❑ Richard Nixon

❑ Pope John Paul II

❑ Ronald Reagan

❑ Elizabeth II

10. True or false? The human coccyx, or tailbone, is the remnant of a lost tail.

❑ True

❑ False

1. Egg of Columbus.

2. False. A stalk of celery provides around six

calories and takes half a calorie to digest. 3. Gaslighting.

4. Stonewall Jackson.

5. Jake LaMotta.

6. Textiles. The names refer to a step in

woollen clothmaking.

7. Heart.

8. Choux.

9. Ronald Reagan.

10. True.