Trivia: What's Your Eclipse IQ?
Trivia: What's Your Eclipse IQ?
Solar eclipses might be rare, but they come up all the time in the stories we tell. From Inuit folklore, when the moon god catches up with the sun goddess after a fight, to Stephen King mysteries, when murderers seem to come out for the kill: Strange things seem to happen during eclipses, no matter who’s telling the story, when they’re telling it or where they are in the world. Don’t be left in the dark: Take this quiz to see how your eclipse storytelling IQ lines up with everyone else under the sun!
Solar eclipses might be rare, but they come up all the time in the stories we tell. From Inuit folklore, when the moon god catches up with the sun goddess after a fight, to Stephen King mysteries, when murderers seem to come out for the kill: Strange things seem to happen during eclipses, no matter who’s telling the story, when they’re telling it or where they are in the world. Don’t be left in the dark: Take this quiz to see how your eclipse storytelling IQ lines up with everyone else under the sun!
Which epic poem features an eclipse?
In which "Little Shop of Horrors" song does Seymour talk about buying Audrey II during a solar eclipse?
Which Shakespeare character said, "There should be a huge eclipse of the sun and the moon, now that Desdemona's no longer on this earth"?
A solar eclipse is featured in what 2001 action-adventure film that was based on a popular video game?
Which group had a Top 5 song in 1969 that included the following lyrics?
"Don't go 'round tonight,
It's bound to take your life;
There's a bad moon on the rise"
In Vietnam it was believed that solar eclipses happened when the sun was devoured by what?
In 1972, what Carly Simon song had the lyrics, "You flew your Learjet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun"?
In what culture is it believed that flowers planted during a solar eclipse have brighter, more colorful blooms?
In what country is it traditionally believed that food cooked during an eclipse is poisonous?