Try your hand at these brain-busting trivia questions. Remember, please, that you may not google or use any reference sources for the first 24 hours of this thread.

-1. How do ants "hear"?
-2. What is a person who kisses the Blarney Stone supposed to receive?
-3. Which author stated, "I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."?
-4. What does the "Dada" in the Dada art movement mean?
-5. Why did daylight savings time start in the United States?
-6. What was The Prisoner's number in the 60’s television program The Prisoner?
-7. Which Biblical woman is associated with the Festival of Purim?
-8. Which animated family lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace?
-9. Following a medieval French tradition, Marie Antoinette attached several small vials of honey to the hoops under her wedding dress. Why did she do this?
-10. Which of the following elements in its standard state is a colorless gas? (Turbonium, Krypton, Vanadium)

2. The gift of gab

7. Esther

5. To save gas during the war...also to annoy me

8) The Simpsons

3 - james joyce

1. by feeling vibrations in the ground through their feet. Nice

6. (how appropriate!) He was Number Six - compulsive Brit viewing in the Swinging Sixties...

Excellent answers!

4. Not art?

10. krypton, one of the Noble Gases

4. Isn't that what my children do?

Flotsam is closest for #4.

Bob, you know your Superman.

4. I think it has been described as anti-art.

That's it in a nutshell, LadyK.

Participants claimed various, often humorous definitions of “Dada”—“Dada is irony,” “Dada is anti-art,” “Dada will kick you in the behind”—though the word itself is a nonsense utterance. As the story goes, the name Dada was either chosen at random by stabbing a knife into a dictionary, or consciously selected for a variety of connotations in different languages—French for “hobbyhorse” or Russian for “yes, yes.”

9. To guard against fleas.

Yes! To keep them away from the hard sugar-coating on her hair.