Thursday, December 4, 2014

Trivia of the Day: Beheadings

1. Who is the Old Testament female who seduces Holofernes and then chops off his head while he sleeps in a drunken stupor?


And thus triggered every "Snapped" episode ever.

2. This New Testament beauty whose dance for her stepfather, King Herod Antipas, so pleased him that he offered to grant her anything she desired: the head of John the Baptist.


She seems like a reasonable woman. 

3. Name Washington Irving's famous story in which Ichabod Crane is pursued by a ghostly headless horseman.


In the horseman's defense,
Ichabod does look like a douche.

4. Name the English king who had two of his six wives "lose their heads" over him.


He was a charmer.
A big charmer.

5. "Off with her head!" screams this foul-tempered queen of what?


Fashion, obviously.





Answers:

1. Judith
2. Salome
3. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
4. King Henry VIII
5. Hearts

Source: Uncle John's Trivia

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