DOUG
Darrel and I were on KUAF 91.3 Friday, March 31st, and Sunday, April 2nd.
We did our version of "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" by asking host Kyle Kellams to guess which of three oddities was a true story as opposed to an urban legend. Kyle did pretty well, but admittedly the quiz was rather difficult, as we picked some often-believed urban legends and some rather curious true stories.
You can listen to the MP3 file here:
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuaf/ ... _ID=896613
About half of our questions were used in the KUAF broadcast. You can hear the rest of them in the "extended broadcast" section of KUAF Ozarks at Large here:
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuaf/ ... _ID=896610
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The questions
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Here are the questions:
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I. Religion (which one is false):
a) Exodus 34:29-35 says that after meeting with God Moses' face became radiant. St. Jerome’s Vulgate mistranslated “radiant”as “horned,” so for centuries Moses was thought to have grown horns on Mt. Sinai.
b) Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting "The Last Supper" in Milan, Italy, used the same models for Jesus as for Judas.
c) In 2000, food giant General Mills apologized for accidentally including in cereal boxes a CD-rom containing the Bible.
II. Church and State (which one is false):
a) George W. Bush, as Governor of Texas, proclaimed June 10, 2000, as “Jesus Day” in Texas.
b) The constitutions of all fifty states make reference to God.
c) The Supreme Court declared that Secular Humanism is a religion.
III. Religious events (which one is true):
a) The burning of the ballots used to elect the Pope led to the phrase 'Holy smoke.’
b) Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church on October 31, 1517.
c) The cornerstone of the Washington Monument has a Bible in it.
IV. Television (which one is true):
a) Fred Rogers of “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” was a sniper in the military with over 500 confirmed kills.
b)Sesame Street added an HIV-positive, female muppet character named Kami.
c)Bob Keeshan, TV’s original Captain Kangaroo, saved the life of actor Lee Marvin when they served together in the Marines during WWII.
V. Science (which one is false):
a) Toilets flush clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere.
b) A lightbulb at a fire station in Livermore, California, has been turned on since 1901 and is still lit.
c) Eating the poppy seeds on bagels and muffins can cause you to test positive on drug tests.
VI. Cryptozoology (which one is false):
a) In 1969, while governor of Georgia, former president Jimmy Carter reported boarding a UFO.
b) The most famous footage of Bigfoot, the Patterson film, has now been discredited because Patterson’s family confessed that the film was faked AND the man in the Bigfoot costume has confessed.
c) The most famous photograph of the Loch Ness Monster, "The Surgeon's Photo," is now known to be a hoax.
VII. Science in History (Which one is true):
a) Nasa has discovered that there is a missing day in history, corresponding to the 48-hour day in the book of Joshua.
b) Scientists measured missing weight at the moment a person died. Some have concluded that this missing weight is the soul.
c) A blind girl saw an atomic test explosion in New Mexico.
IX. Common beliefs (which one is true)
a) More people are alive today than the total that have ever been alive in the past.
b) When a tornado approaches, leaving the southwest window open to equalize the pressure will help protect your house.
c) Heating water in a ceramic cup in a microwave oven can cause the water to “explode” out of the cup.
X. Bizarre (which one is false):
a) A man in Bountiful, Utah, did not know his spouse of 3 ½ years was a man until police arrested the spouse and told him.
b) The Church of England’s 1995 Easter advertising campaign had the slogan: “’Surprise!’ Said Jesus to his friends three days after they buried him.”
c) Japanese Windows software replaces error messages with haiku poetry such as:
Something you entered
transcended parameters.
So much is unknown.
Here are the questions:
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I. Religion (which one is false):
a) Exodus 34:29-35 says that after meeting with God Moses' face became radiant. St. Jerome’s Vulgate mistranslated “radiant”as “horned,” so for centuries Moses was thought to have grown horns on Mt. Sinai.
b) Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting "The Last Supper" in Milan, Italy, used the same models for Jesus as for Judas.
c) In 2000, food giant General Mills apologized for accidentally including in cereal boxes a CD-rom containing the Bible.
II. Church and State (which one is false):
a) George W. Bush, as Governor of Texas, proclaimed June 10, 2000, as “Jesus Day” in Texas.
b) The constitutions of all fifty states make reference to God.
c) The Supreme Court declared that Secular Humanism is a religion.
III. Religious events (which one is true):
a) The burning of the ballots used to elect the Pope led to the phrase 'Holy smoke.’
b) Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church on October 31, 1517.
c) The cornerstone of the Washington Monument has a Bible in it.
IV. Television (which one is true):
a) Fred Rogers of “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” was a sniper in the military with over 500 confirmed kills.
b)Sesame Street added an HIV-positive, female muppet character named Kami.
c)Bob Keeshan, TV’s original Captain Kangaroo, saved the life of actor Lee Marvin when they served together in the Marines during WWII.
V. Science (which one is false):
a) Toilets flush clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere.
b) A lightbulb at a fire station in Livermore, California, has been turned on since 1901 and is still lit.
c) Eating the poppy seeds on bagels and muffins can cause you to test positive on drug tests.
VI. Cryptozoology (which one is false):
a) In 1969, while governor of Georgia, former president Jimmy Carter reported boarding a UFO.
b) The most famous footage of Bigfoot, the Patterson film, has now been discredited because Patterson’s family confessed that the film was faked AND the man in the Bigfoot costume has confessed.
c) The most famous photograph of the Loch Ness Monster, "The Surgeon's Photo," is now known to be a hoax.
VII. Science in History (Which one is true):
a) Nasa has discovered that there is a missing day in history, corresponding to the 48-hour day in the book of Joshua.
b) Scientists measured missing weight at the moment a person died. Some have concluded that this missing weight is the soul.
c) A blind girl saw an atomic test explosion in New Mexico.
IX. Common beliefs (which one is true)
a) More people are alive today than the total that have ever been alive in the past.
b) When a tornado approaches, leaving the southwest window open to equalize the pressure will help protect your house.
c) Heating water in a ceramic cup in a microwave oven can cause the water to “explode” out of the cup.
X. Bizarre (which one is false):
a) A man in Bountiful, Utah, did not know his spouse of 3 ½ years was a man until police arrested the spouse and told him.
b) The Church of England’s 1995 Easter advertising campaign had the slogan: “’Surprise!’ Said Jesus to his friends three days after they buried him.”
c) Japanese Windows software replaces error messages with haiku poetry such as:
Something you entered
transcended parameters.
So much is unknown.
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