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 Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:14 pm
42~The Blue Boy is a work by which artist?
I can picture the work but had to look it up: Thomas Gainsborough painted it about 1770 and the subject's identity is uncertain.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:15 pm
43~Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe, I do believe.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:18 pm
44~Who discovered the rabies vaccination?
I'm tempted to say Louis Pasteur but I'm thinking that's the Smallpox vaccine. i looked it up and it is Pasteur, with Emile Roux.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:20 pm
45~How many hearts does an octopus have?
Gee, more than one? Eight, one for each arm, perhaps? lol Okay, so I'm keeping Wikipedia open....Octopi have 3 hearts: one for each of their gills and one for everything else.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:22 pm
46~Who plays Gabrielle Solis in Desperate Housewives?
I have never watched this show: I'm not a TV person.
Looked it up: Eva Longoria Parker. When I clicked through to her personal entry I recognized the face. Can't escape popular culture.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:24 pm
47~How many countries are still members of the British Commonwealth?
As of last editing of the Wikipedia entry, 54 countries are still in this organization.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:25 pm
48~Who wrote the opera Madam Butterfly?
Oh, oh, is that a Puccini work? Yes! premiered in 1904. My mom is an opera nut.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:27 pm
49~In the TV comedy Dad's Army what is Captain Mainwaring's first name?
More TV. At least this one I can plead being a Yank for not knowing (again, lol). The Captain's first name is George.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:34 pm
50~Pershore, Victoria and Washington are types of which fruit?
hehehe, cherries? being a silly american, again. There is a Washington cherry but no mention of the others. The Pershore entry refers to pears and plums. The plum entry does have a 'Victoria' type listed.
Google searches on all these names, as types of plums, gives me a bingo!
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:36 pm
51~How many teeth does an elephant have?
Elephants have teeth? Maybe molars in the back that you can't see? I was just at the zoo and got to pet an elephant!
Okay, here's the scoop on elephant teeth: at any given time most elephants have six teeth: 2 tusks and 4 molars. The molars get worn down and then are replaced, up to six sets in an elephant's lifetime.
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:38 pm
52~Which US city hosted the 1985 Live Aid concert?
Philadelphia....had to look it up since all I could remember was the concert in London.
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:39 pm
53~Haptic relates to which of the five senses?
I want to say sense of smell but it turns out to be about the sense of touch.
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:42 pm
54~What is the second largest island in the world?
Well, let's see....Greenland is the biggest and how about Madagascar as the second? Close....Madagascar is #4 behind New Guinea and Borneo.
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:43 pm
55~How many times in succession did Bjorn Borg win the Men's Tennis Singles at Wimbledon?
No clue.....Wiki says five times.
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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 4:04 pm
56~What type of animal is a Saki?
No idea. All I can think of is the Japanese rice wine, Sake, which of course is something different.
Saki is the pen name of an author, a series of manga, the name of a character in the Rubayiam of Omar Khayyam. Actually had to put 'animal named saki' into Google to find out that a saki is a type of monkey.
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