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What is the only organ that can't be transplanted?

• Skin
• Lungs
• Brain
• Heart

Dr John Ngigi, a kidney specialist at KNH, says only the brain can't be transplanted. Reasons range from considerable obstacles in fusing the brain's severed nerve endings to a new spinal cord to establish normal nervous connections between the brain and the new body. Then there is overcoming the new body's inevitable immunological reaction to new tissues besides keeping the brain alive while it is deprived of blood during transplant.

Source: Standard Media

Which of these mammals can not swim?

• Bobcat
• Gorilla
• Brown bear
• Wolf

Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. Although they’re over 10 times stronger than humans, they share 98.3% of their DNA with us—making the gorilla our closest cousin after chimpanzees and bonobos. Gorillas can’t swim naturally and often avoid large bodies of water. They sometimes use sticks to measure the depth of rivers and make sure they’re safe to wade across. When caught in a sudden shower, it’s common for gorillas to sit still and wait it out or take shelter in a nearby cave.

Source: International Fund for Animal Welfare

Which item is banned in Hollywood, California during Halloween?

• Jack O'Lanterns
• Plastic Skeletons
• Monster Masks
• Silly String

There are basic rules that every kid should follow when they go out trick-or-treating for Halloween. In Hollywood, California, USA, people are not allowed to use silly string between midnight on Halloween to noon the next day. City leaders came up with this rule after a few Halloweens when things got out of control.

Source: CBC Kids

Which word is also the name of a southern French city?

• Nice
• Beautiful
• Pretty
• Lovely

Nice is the seventh most populous urban area in France and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department. The metropolitan area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly 1 million on an area of 744 km2 (287 sq mi). Located on the French Riviera, the southeastern coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the French Alps, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast and the second-largest city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region after Marseille.

Source: Wikipedia

According to the Guinness World Records, what mammal has the most names?

• Cougar
• Bison
• Deer
• Bear

The mammal which has the highest number of different names is the puma or cougar (Puma concolor). In the English language alone, it has over 40, including cougar, panther and mountain lion. Painter, catamount (short for “cat-of-the-mountain”) and the deer tiger are frequently used east of the Mississippi, USA. At the same time, as many as 29 sub-species or geographic races of the puma are recognized and each of these has its own name as well; for example, there is the Florida panther, Yuma cougar, and Colorado cougar. Pumas live in both North and South America, and it is due to this wide distribution that the common names for the puma have developed.

Source: Guinness World Records

Which movie star did Einstein befriend during his US visit in 1930?

• Buster Keaton
• Rudolph Valentino
• Charlie Chaplin
• Greta Garbo

In December 1930, Einstein visited America for the second time, originally intended as a two-month working visit as a research fellow at the California Institute of Technology. Einstein was a pronounced pacifist. This aversion to war also led Einstein to befriend author Upton Sinclair and film star Charlie Chaplin, both noted for their pacifism. Carl Laemmle, head of Universal Studios, gave Einstein a tour of his studio and introduced him to Chaplin. They had an instant rapport, with Chaplin inviting Einstein and his wife, Elsa, to his home for dinner. Chaplin said Einstein's outward persona, calm and gentle, seemed to conceal a "highly emotional temperament", from which came his "extraordinary intellectual energy".

Source: Wikipedia

What is Ringo Starr's real first name?

• John
• Philip
• Arthur
• Richard

Ringo Starr, byname of Sir Richard Starkey, (born July 7, 1940, Liverpool, Merseyside, England), is a British musician, singer, songwriter, and actor who was the drummer for the Beatles, one of the most influential bands in rock history. He also found success in a solo career. He spent two years in the hospital when he was six, and a further two years in a sanatorium at the age of 13. He was introduced to the drums by a health worker.

Source: Britannica

Which of these actors is an honorary member of the U.S. Marine Corps?

• Jack Nicholson
• Tom Cruise
• Chuck Norris
• Steven Seagal

Chuck Norris is an American martial artist and actor. He is a black belt in Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and judo. After serving in the United States Air Force, Norris won many martial arts championships and later founded his own discipline Chun Kuk Do. On March 28, 2007, Commandant Gen. James T. Conway made Norris an honorary United States Marine during a dinner at the commandant's residence in Washington, D.C.

Source: Wikipedia

Crickets make their iconic sound with which part of their bodies?

• Jaws
• Antennae
• Wings
• Feet

Those chirping sounds you hear that can keep you up at night (if you have a cricket in your house), are only made by male crickets. They make the noise by rubbing their wings together. Their wings are ribbed which can intensify the sound of the chirp. The warmer the temperature is, the faster they can move, making the chirping louder. No wonder that sound is associated with a warm summer night!

Source: Western Pest

Which of these musicians never toured outside of the U.S. and Canada?

• Elvis Presley
• Chuck Berry
• Ray Charles
• James Brown

In reality, Elvis Presley never toured internationally. He performed in over 240 cities, over 1,600 performances, but these were all in the United States. He did do three shows in Canada, all in 1957, but we're not going to count that as traveling internationally because at the time, you could travel freely between the U.S. and Canada without a passport. We're not being arbitrary with that definition—freedom of travel is the crucial issue here and is the reason Elvis couldn't tour outside America. Elvis' manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker, believed that if he ever left the U.S., border authorities would forbid him (Parker) from ever coming back.

Source: Cracked

Which body part is clinically known as "umbilicus"?

• Nostrils
• Teeth gap
• Fingernails
• Belly button

The navel (clinically known as the umbilicus; commonly known as the belly button or tummy button) is a protruding, flat, or hollowed area on the abdomen at the attachment site of the umbilical cord. All placental mammals have a navel, although it is generally more conspicuous in humans. It is a prominent scar on the abdomen, with its position being relatively consistent among humans. The skin around the waist at the level of the umbilicus is supplied by the tenth thoracic spinal nerve. The umbilicus itself typically lies at a vertical level corresponding to the junction between the L3 and L4 vertebrae, with a normal variation among people between the L3 and L5 vertebrae.

Source: Wikipedia

Norma Jeane is the name of what famous actress?

• Audrey Hepburn
• Barbra Streisand
• Grace Kelly
• Marilyn Monroe

Norma Jeane Mortenson, who would become better known around the world as the glamorous actress Marilyn Monroe, was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. She was later given her mother’s name and baptized Norma Jeane Baker. At the outset of her acting career, Norma Jeane dyed her brown hair blonde and changed her name again, calling herself Marilyn Monroe (Monroe was her grandmother’s last name). Her true breakout performance came in Niagara (1953), a thriller in which Monroe played an adulterous young wife who plots with her lover to kill her husband.

Source: History.com

Which of these is a remarkable mammal that lives only in Australia?

• Bison
• Platypus
• Pronghorn
• Raccoon

The platypus is a remarkable mammal found only in Australia. The platypus is a duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, egg-laying aquatic creature native to Australia. If its appearance alone somehow fails to impress, the male of the species is also one of the world’s few venomous mammals! The female platypus lays her eggs in an underground burrow that she digs near the water’s edge. Baby platypuses hatch after 10 days and nurse for up to four months before they swim off and forage on their own. There is only one other egg-laying mammal in the world: The echidna, a distant cousin of the anteater.

Source: Ocean Service

The famous song "That Toddlin' Town" refers to which U.S. city?

• Chicago
• Portland
• New York City
• Philadelphia

"Chicago" is a popular song written by Fred Fisher and published in 1922. The original sheet music variously spelled the title "Todd'ling" or "Toddling." The song has been recorded by many artists, but the best-known versions are by Frank Sinatra & Ben Selvin. The song "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" made a minor appearance on the U.S. pop charts, reaching #84 in the fall of 1957. It was the first of two charting songs about Chicago recorded by Sinatra. The other was "My Kind of Town" from 1964, which reached U.S. #110.

Source: Wikipedia

The actor Clint Eastwood was mayor of which American city?

• Sausalito
• Carmel-by-the-Sea
• Ojai
• Cambria

In one of the most surreal moments of his impressive career, on April 8th, 1986, the Western legend made headlines when he became the Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, a tiny coastal city in the sunshine state. With under 5,000 residents and just one square mile of land, Eastwood had settled there due to its quiet way of life and naturally beautiful surroundings. He never intended to run for Mayor until he was forced into action. Per his own account, Eastwood’s plans to erect office blocks on a property he owned in the city were blocked by the council, who he said gave him so much stress that he decided to sue them. He won an out-of-court settlement, which permitted him to build on the proviso that he used more wood than glass.

Source: Far Out Magazine

Which was Dr. Seuss's first name?

• Martin
• Christopher
• Theodor
• Edward

Theodor Geisel, better known to the world as Dr. Seuss, the author and illustrator of such children’s books as “The Cat in the Hat” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” is born in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904. Geisel, who used his middle name (which was also his mother’s maiden name) as his pen name, wrote 48 books.

Source: History