Tuesday, December 12, 2006

TQFS #8 Answers!

Currently listening to: "Ellytres" by Finntroll

mg and HDD tied on this one with 5 out of 10 correct...!

1. What is the natural substance in chocolate that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love?
B. phenylethylamine
I'm not even sure if endorphamine is a real word/thing...and Nymphetamine is the name of a Cradle of Filth album...

2. When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of how many minutes?
B. 20 minutes

3. Where did the white potato originate?
A. Andes mountains
Wow, no one guessed the correct answer on this one...

4. What is the correct response to the Irish greeting "Top o' the morning to you!"
A. "And the rest of the day to yourself"

5. What is the scientific name for the little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple?
C. Tragus
I've got nothing to say about the tragus, but here's what Wikipedia has to say about the gubernaculum:
The gubernaculum is a fold of peritoneum which attaches to the caudal end of the testes. As the scrotum forms, the gubernaculum causes the descent of the testes through the inguinal canal. In the adult, the vestigal remainder of the gubernaculum is known as the "scrotal ligament". In the female, the remnant is the round ligament of uterus...


6. The feet account for what percentage of the human body's bones?
B. 25%

7. What is banana oil actually made of?
C. Petroleum

8. What was the first drug ever to be marketed in tablet form?
A. Bayer Aspirin

9. Ancient artists of which country would never paint pictures of women's feet?
C. China
Ya know, Cinderella was originally a Chinese folktale... The Chinese have a weird thing about binding the feet of girls...it keeps the feet small and unusuable...so they can't run away...

10. How many tons of reddish-green paint does it take to coat the Eiffel Tower?
C. 300 tons
mg was the only one who got this right...

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

boy every day i take one of these tests i realize just how much of a numbskull i really am. lol

9:05 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i just had to tell someone that I'm loggin in from work again!!! woooooh!!!! yeah!!!!! heeellll yeah!!!

*does the evil happy dance*

7:53 AM  

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