~~~~ The Quizzlers List of Ought Nine ~~~

with one quiz still unanswered




Winner's List:
Alphabetical with total wins in parenthesis to the side

  • Bman............................(6 1/2)
  • Cheryl...........................(1 1/2)
  • Pebble...........................(1)


    The answer to quiz 1 is: Patent # 110626, which was awarded to Henry Bradley for an "improved compound for culinary use" ~ Oleomargarine. The first correct answer to the first quiz of 2009 was sent in by the 2008 Quizzler Champion ~ Bman!! Who, we would like to add, found the answer despite the incorrect date first posted in the quiz!! Congratulations Bman!!!

    (Note: The Editing and Quality Control Review Department staff *will* be talked to)



    The answer to quiz 2 is: CK Nelson (Christian K. Nelson), in 1922, patented the Eskimo Pie "confection", an ice cream center covered in chocolate. The patent (No. 1,404,539) described the article as "in its simplest form, a block or brick or frozen confection within an edible container or shell. The core or center may be an ice cream, sherbet, sorbet, ice, or other material congealed by refrigeration." The shell was described as "like that used in coating chocolate candies, although preferably modified to harden at a lower temperature," and not too brittle. (Hmmmmmm) And Mr. PL Spencer (Percy LeBaron Spencer), same date just 38 years later, under the title "Method of Treating Foodstuffs" got the patent (No. 2,495,429) for the original Microwave Oven! The first correct answer was supplied once again by Bman who maintains his first answer streak started way back in Ought-Eight!

    (Management Note: The quizzler department has been told "enough with the patents already" and they are off looking for the next (non patented) quiz)

    (Response from the quizzler department: well, okay, but we were amused by it if even if no one else was)


    The answer to quiz 3 is: Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, who kept her dead husband’s, poet Percy Shelley, heart in her desk drawer wrapped either in a poem and/or in silk , until she died 30 years after he did.(!???!!) Mr. Shelley is buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, though his heart lies in St Peter's Churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset, England. And in what is still a clean sweep for the year ~ Bman has slam dunked this one! This makes it 5 in a row for Bman who is looking unstoppable for 2009!




    The answer to quiz 4 is: a buttonhole. In 1854, Charles Miller of St. Louis, Mo., patented the first U.S. sewing machine to stitch buttonholes (No. 10,609). His machine was adapted to sew the button-hole stitch, the whip-stitch, and the herring-bone stitch, by giving the cloth to be sewed "a movement laterally to the direction of the seam and in opposite directions, alternately, between every two stitches, in addition to the movement commonly given in the direction of the seam." For the button-hole stitch the movement in the direction of the seam is the distance of one thickness of thread, whereas that movement is greater for a whip-stitch. The herring bone stitch is made by taking all the stitches through. The first U.S. patent for any type of sewing machine dated back to 1842. Yes, one more patent question somehow snuck in and once more the quiz whiz kid Bman got the answer in first!! Way to go Bman!!!


    The answer to quiz 5 is: doughnuts. Rumors have it that the donut was invented as a cake for Johnny Fry to eat while speeding by young girls homes as he rode for the Pony Express. Washington Irving is believed to have coined the term “doughnut.” The earliest reference anyone can find of that exact word is in a short story of his dated 1808, and our apologies to policeman everywhere for use of an overused cliché association needed to help with the quiz! (that's all it was officers, we swear). Congratulations to Bman and Cheryl who, in one shining moment in quiz craziness, put down their quiz rivalry to work together and come up with the right answer!


    The answer to quiz 6 is: first cloned mule ~ named Idaho Gem. Much to the delight of mule-racing enthusiasts(?) throughout the world (???), Idaho Gem, (Idaho is the gemstone state ~ and they are the only other source of Star Garnets) the first mule ever cloned, was born on May 4, 2003, in Moscow, Idaho. (It was increased calcium that made the cloning successful) Congratulations to Bman who says he yahoos instead of googles but however he does it, he got the right answer again!


    The answer to quiz 7 is: in each and every year all those dates (along with May 9th, September 5th, July 11th and November 7th)(5/9, 9/5, 7/11, 11/7) are **always** all on the same day of the week!! Leap years included. This year it's a Saturday, next year they will all be on a Sunday. In a hotly contested* race Bman got his correct answer in 17 minutes ahead of Cheryl (*who was the hotly contester). Be careful out there Bman ~ she was not amused. :)


    The answer to quiz 8 is: the theremin. We can thank the Russian physicist, Leon Theremin, for inventing the Theremin, and possibly air guitar as well? The theremin with its mysterious sound - used in movies (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Spellbound), TV (My Favorite Martian, Dark Shadows), and books (Farenheit 451) (to name a few) - is played without keyboards, strings, valves, hammers or pipes. The performer "plays the air" around the instrument, making absolutely no physical contact with it. We have a new name in the winners list as Pebble jumps into 2nd place with her right answer! Nicely played Pebble!


    The answers to quiz 9 are: 1) Abraham Lincoln was the first US President to wear a beard. 2) Benjamin Harrison was the last US President to wear a beard (so far). 3) Charles Evan Hughes was the last bearded man to run for the office of President (in 1916). 4) William Howard Taft was the last man to win the Presidency with facial hair (in 1908). 5) The last man with facial hair to run for the office of President was the moustached Thomas E. Dewey. 6) The first election where both main candidates for President had facial hair was in 1864 (Lincoln with his beard vs. McClellan with his moustache) And finally, 7) The Republicans have historically been the hairier party. Getting the answers in first (just by the hair(s) on her chinny-chin-chin)(and taking full advantage of her nemesis Bman being held captive by KY State Code 159.010 governing the compulsive education laws which require mandatory attendance in school for all KY citizens (nemeses or not) between the ages of 6-16) Cheryl shaves the edge off of Pebble's advantage and moves up into 2nd place with her 7 correct answers to Quiz 9. Congratulations Cheryl on excellent googling ~ and use of state laws!


    The answers to
    quiz 10 are: sadly, have still not been sent in.










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