Q 01/05

Which 1967 US Supreme Court case, named for the couple who brought it, ended state bans on interracial marriage?

A) Roe v. Wade

B) Loving v. Virginia

C) Obergefell v. Hodges

D) Brown v. Board

Answer · why

B) Loving v. Virginia

Loving v. Virginia began when police found the Lovings asleep at home. Mildred Loving pointed to the marriage certificate on the bedroom wall, but the...

Q 02/05

Which country hosts the Wife Carrying World Championships, where the winner's prize is the wife's weight in beer?

A) Finland

B) Estonia

C) Norway

D) Germany

Answer · why

A) Finland

Finland has staged the race in the town of Sonkajärvi since 1992. Men haul their partners over a 253.5-metre obstacle course, and a heavier wife means...

Q 03/05

What did William Shakespeare's will famously leave to his wife, Anne Hathaway, in a line squeezed in late?

A) His house in Stratford

B) His silver-gilt bowl

C) His shares in the Globe

D) His second-best bed

Answer · why

D) His second-best bed

His second-best bed was written in between the lines of the will. Most of the estate went to his daughter Susanna and her husband, and scholars still ...

Q 04/05

Which Welsh actor did Elizabeth Taylor marry twice, in 1964 and again in 1975?

A) Anthony Hopkins

B) Rex Harrison

C) Richard Burton

D) Peter O'Toole

Answer · why

C) Richard Burton

Richard Burton was her co-star in Cleopatra before he was her husband. She married eight times to seven men; the pair divorced in 1974 and remarried t...

Q 05/05

Which naturalist listed the pros and cons of marrying on scrap paper before proposing to his cousin Emma Wedgwood?

A) Charles Darwin

B) Thomas Huxley

C) Charles Lyell

D) Alfred Russel Wallace

Answer · why

A) Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin headed his two columns Marry and Not Marry. A constant companion, he noted, would be better than a dog anyhow; the price was less money...