Q 01/05

Fingernails are made of which tough protein, also found in hair, hooves and rhino horns?

A) Collagen

B) Keratin

C) Elastin

D) Myosin

Answer · why

B) Keratin

Keratin makes up the whole nail plate, which contains no nerves, so cutting it is painless. The same protein builds claws, feathers and the outer laye...

Q 02/05

Which country star made the typewriter beat of her hit 9 to 5 by clicking her acrylic nails?

A) Reba McEntire

B) Loretta Lynn

C) Tammy Wynette

D) Dolly Parton

Answer · why

D) Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton is listed in the song's credits for lead vocals and nails. She devised the clacking rhythm by running her acrylic fingernails back and fo...

Q 03/05

What do nails only appear to do after death, an illusion caused by the skin drying and shrinking?

A) Keep growing

B) Curl inward

C) Change colour

D) Fall out

Answer · why

A) Keep growing

Nails only seem to keep growing: the skin dehydrates and tightens, exposing more of each nail. The same shrinkage makes hair and stubble appear longer...

Q 04/05

Which nail look with white tips did Orly founder Jeff Pink create for Hollywood film actresses in the 1970s?

A) Half-moon manicure

B) Chrome nails

C) French manicure

D) Ombré nails

Answer · why

C) French manicure

The French manicure was devised so screen actresses need not repaint their nails at every costume change. Pink only renamed it on a flight home from t...

Q 05/05

Which Hitchcock actress helped Vietnamese refugees train as manicurists, seeding a nail salon boom?

A) Tippi Hedren

B) Janet Leigh

C) Ingrid Bergman

D) Grace Kelly

Answer · why

A) Tippi Hedren

Tippi Hedren saw that women at a California refugee camp in 1975 admired her manicured nails, so she brought in her own nail technician to teach them....