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. On what skate edge do you take off to perform a lutz in figure skating?
-2. Whose name means "the beautiful one is come"? (Cleopatra, Hatshepsut, Nefertiti)
-3. At what time is the Doomsday Clock currently set?
-4. What city is home to the first United States mint?
-5. At what time did Wee Willie Winkie think children should be in bed?
-6. Where was Moll Flanders born?
-7. What does "Alamo" mean in Spanish?
-8. Why did Daniel Fahrenheit select 32 degrees as the freezing point of water on his temperature scale?
-9. Which scientist had a gold and silver artificial nose?
-10. Batman has Gotham City, Superman has Metropolis, but where does Spiderman battle crime?

6. In prison?

Newgate Prison, to be exact.

10. New York City

2 - Nefertiti

1. The back edge for speed.

Good answers!

4. Philadelphia

Yes!

7. Half a scoop of ice cream

9. Think it was an astronomer - Tyro Brach (????)
(or maybe it was Lee Marvin I'm thinking of...)

3 - 11:57 , i believe.....

Cue and Rog

Rog and niteowl, good answers! (Tycho Brahe)

5. 8:00

Absolutely!

7. Poplar (Cottonwood)

Good one, Koala!

8. Either he used his age at the time or else he was very confused (like me because I really don't know the answer).

Nope.

Daniel Fahrenheit did not use the freezing point of water as a basis for developing his scale. He called the temperature of an ice/salt/water mixture 'zero degrees', as this was the lowest temperature he could conveniently attain in his lab. He called his own body temperature '96 degrees', and then divided the scale into single degrees between 0 and 96. On this scale, the freezing point of pure water happens to occur at 32 (and the boiling point at 212). The Celsius scale has more convenient values for these phase transition points (0 and 100 degrees) because Anders Celsius DID use water as a basis for his scale.