fun n games - Let's Get Trivial

Inquiries:

1. According to the Internet Movie Database, who has more screenplay credits: Stanley Kubrick or Jean-Claude Van Damme?

2. Who starred in a commercial for Alka Seltzer: Orson Welles, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, or Marlon Brando?

3. True or false: Not only did Galileo NOT invent the telescope, but he did nothing to dissuade those who believed he did.

4. According to the Midwest Dairy Association, who was history's first "Big Cheese"?: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander the Great, Winston Churchill, or Henry VIII?

5. Who said, "When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am"?: Douglas Adams, Captain Beefheart, Jacques Cousteau, or Ernest Hemingway?




Responses:

1. Kubrick, but at a 13-8 margin, it's a lot closer than you'd think, no?

2. Dali, though Welles did record voice-overs for frozen peas.

3. True, according to Timothy Ferris' "Coming of Age in the Milky Way." Geniuses can be real douchebags sometimes.
(The telescope was invented by Hans Lippershey.)

4. Jefferson. Says the MDA, "The phrase was coined when a cheesemaker gave a 1,235-pound cheese wheel to President Jefferson in 1801. Passers-by were amazed by the spectacle and dubbed it 'the big cheese.'"

5. Beefheart. He goes on to say, "Sometimes I'd rather be thought of as a dolphin than as a human being."