Q 01/05

Which fruit did artist Maurizio Cattelan duct-tape to an art fair wall for his work Comedian?

A) A lemon

B) An apple

C) A banana

D) A pear

Answer · why

C) A banana

A banana bought at a Miami grocery store for about 30 cents was all there was to see. Buyers really paid for a certificate and display instructions, s...

Q 02/05

Apollo 13's crew used duct tape to rig a filter adapter that scrubbed which gas from the cabin air?

A) Carbon dioxide

B) Carbon monoxide

C) Water vapour

D) Hydrogen gas

Answer · why

A) Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide was building up because the command module's square filters would not fit the lunar module's round sockets. Plastic covers torn from pr...

Q 03/05

Factory worker Vesta Stoudt pitched a waterproof cloth tape in a wartime letter to which US president?

A) Harry S. Truman

B) Franklin Roosevelt

C) Herbert Hoover

D) Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer · why

B) Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt received the letter, complete with her diagrams, and passed the idea on to be made. Stoudt had gone to the top only after her own f...

Q 04/05

A 2002 trial at a US military clinic found duct tape beat freezing for removing which skin growths?

A) Moles

B) Skin tags

C) Cysts

D) Warts

Answer · why

D) Warts

Warts cleared up in 85% of the patients who wore duct tape over them, against 60% of those treated with liquid nitrogen. Later trials were less convin...

Q 05/05

Which Discovery Channel series built a working cannon, sailboat and trebuchet to test duct tape?

A) MythBusters

B) Dirty Jobs

C) Man vs. Wild

D) American Chopper

Answer · why

A) MythBusters

MythBusters came back to duct tape again and again, even hanging a car from it and spanning a dry dock with a bridge made of nothing else. The team al...