TRIVIA !

[pk]

oh I knew I was being to easy on you..or did that twinkie give you added brain power...ummmm where is my box of twinkies??? lol

OK, greenbean....give us a difficult one now! lol

ok, maybe a medium one..can't find my twinkies! Will a banana do? :?

[AlumniClub]

He discovered that alcoholic fermentation of sugars is caused by yeast enzymes and not by the yeast cells themselves. Zymase, part of the enzyme system causing fermentation, was discovered by him in 1903.

Who is he?

[pk]

Eduard Buchner

Eduard BuchnerEduard Buchner (May 20, 1860 – August 13, 1917) was a German chemist and zymologist, the winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation.

[AlumniClub]

that was fast...but kinda easy one...youre up pk

[pk]

ok..here is a fast one back.

Since he took twelve months to be born he was almost sold as a newborn to pay for the medical bills...who was he?

[AlumniClub]

horses only count jan 1 as a birthday. if they are born on jan2 they are a newborn until the next year.

[pk]

sorry..not a horse. lol This is an actual person.

[AlumniClub]

One of the residents to deliver a healthy baby boy last year was Dr. August. Her pregnancy is also of note because it was the longest recorded human gestation on record. Dr. August was pregnant for a staggering 17 months 11 days.

[pk]

pregnant for a staggering 17 months 11 days...

oh..you make me shutter! 17 months! Way to long to be pregnant! lol

I had 4 babies and all was high risk. My first one I had almost 7 weeks early, the rest 2 weeks early. I almost lost my own life and that of my oldest son.... 17 months?? No way! lol

Anyways, the person I am thinking about was born in 1954. After almost being sold off to pay for the surgery his mom had to deliever him he grew up to become a well known actor. Does that help?

[AlumniClub]

So my answer is incorrect i assume.....sheesh...after all that searching too!

[Crys]

Dear gods, 17 months? 8O

I'm shuddering here too. Mine was late enough at 9 mo, 1 week. By that point I was so ready to able to walk on my own again... I can't even IMAGINE 17 months.

[pk]

well..well...well...it seems no one is getting this one and here I thought it was going to be a fast one!

OK, I"m going to give you everything but the person's name! Not sure what else to do but give the answer next! lol

Here's the clues:

(name?) waited a few months longer than other children to be born--instead of nine months, he took twelve. Those three extra months forced his mother to have a caesarean section, and when (name?) finally emerged, he was a whopping twelve pounds! On April 7th, 1954, (name?) was born in Hong Kong. The operation that his mother was forced to have put the family in severe debt, and the father nearly sold the newborn boy in order to pay the hospital. Luckily, his friends stepped in and raised enough money to keep little (name?) in the family.

(name?) grew up in poverty in Hong Kong until about the age of six. Then, in 1960, his family moved to Australia where his father took a job as a cook for the Australian Embassy. (name?) did so poorly in school there that he was never traditionally educated past the American equivalent of first grade. Instead, when he was seven, his family sent him back to Hong Kong to join the Peking Opera School. It was here that (name?) learned martial arts, acrobatics, singing, dancing and acting. He lived at the School until the age of 17, when he struck out on his own.

WHO IS HE???

[AlumniClub]

ghandi?

dahli llahma?

[pk]

WOW I should just give the answer to you since you are trying sooo hard! ...well, maybe not yet. lol Gotta try a little more greenbean, it 's not gandi.

Anyone else working on this? If so, you better hurry, greenbean is working 24/7 on this one!

[Crys]

Oh wait! I do know this!

It's Jackie Chan!

A close friend in college got me hooked on Jackie Chan movies

[pk]

YES!!!
Whew! Finally!

OK, now it's your turn...please go easy on us! lol


pk