GAME - HOW TRIVIAL!

Dick van Dyke

What kind of weapon is a falchion?

You guys are good!

A one-handed single blade knife.

Showgirls and the like (nude or scantily dressed) sometimes wear something over their private parts. This has been used since the olden days. Do you know its name & what was its original purpose?

Either merkins or pasties? Merkins have been around since the 1450s, I didn't realise that they were worn by showgirls until I checked with wiki. 

I don't know if my answer is correct but I will go ahead.

What is the technical name for a cat's hairball?

If the answer to Primula's question is "merkin," they were used for sanitary reasons.

A hairball is a trichobezoar.

What famous US person died from bloodletting?

George Washington

What is the most powerful microscope in the world, how much did it cost and how much can it magnify?

Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. $27 million. There are a lot of different kinds of microscopes, I hope this is the one. It has the ability to make images to a resolution of half the width of a hydrogen atom.

Most powerful telescope?

Boris Diamond said:

If the answer to Primula's question is "merkin," they were used for sanitary reasons.

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Merkins is correct. Today they are used in some showgirl shows so that the girls all look the same. Crazy Horse in Paris, e.g.

Merkins were used more for deception than for sanitary purposes. If a prostitute had syphilis or something else nasty in her genitals area she would shave and fix the merkin there to hide boils, etc.



James Webb Space telescope.

Which tree produces apples and nuts?

The cashew tree.

Who discovered the first virus and what was it called?

Late 1800s Louis Pasteur discovered rabies virus. Presume you didn't mean a computer virus.

Darn it - thought cashew tree would keep you going for a while. What a remarkable tree!


Which is the only world flag that depicts human figures?

Didn't think this one was hard.

Belize

Where is the world's most ancient forest?

Bristlecone Pines Forest, CA




Jeopardy final clue tonight. I knew it, but the contestants did not:

A boy wrote to a director in 1963 saying "I am fat & wear spectacles". He got the role in what movie?

Hugh Edwards, Piggy in Lord of the Flies.

What is the only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise?

Venus

Who started the development of the Periodic Table that we still use today?

Mendeleev

 Which veteran British actor, who died in April 2014, played Nikita Khrushchev, Beria, Manuel Noriega, Pope John XXIII, Mussolini, J. Edgar Hoover, and Winston Churchill?

Bob Hoskins

"Do I dare to eat a peach" was a line in what poem by which poet?  

The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock - T.S. Eliot

What percent of the salt mined every year in the world is used to de-ice US roads?

The Love Song of Prufrock - T.S. Eliot

Who is this?

I've messed up the game a bit since Boris & I overlapped our answers. Need to leave now until Friday so someone else sort us out. Merci!