Trivia Answers, Part 2

Last Thursday, I posted a bunch of trivia questions. On Tuesday, I posted the answers to the first four questions. Here are the answers to the final four:

5. I once was within 30ft of an Olympic torch being carried through a city, but missed actually seeing it because I was:

a. fussing over my hair

b. playing an on-line role-playing computer game

c. tending to a head wound after having a bicycling accident

d. selecting porn to rent in a video store with friends

Yeah, after hours of waiting around on Coventry Road (in Cleveland Heights) for this damned torch to be carried by, my friends and I decided to pop into Vidstar for a minute. After all, what were the chances that after several hours of waiting, the torch was going to go by in the next minute?

6. What organization (of which I am currently a member) have I been a member longest?

a. National Rifle Association (NRA)

b. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

c. US Underwater Basket-Weaving Association (USUBWA)

d. Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

They can pry my gun out of my cold dead hands... after I manage to buy a gun.

7. When I was a small child, my older sister trained me to constantly do what?

a. run around on all fours, barking like a dog

b. parrot "Where's the beef?"

c. devise innovative ways to total our parents' cars

d. beg our parents to take us through the Burger King drive-through

You would not believe the number of people who came up to me at my sister's wedding and said, "Wow, you're her little brother? The last time I saw you, you were running around on all fours, barking like a dog." ... which would be funny, if it wasn't such a good example of how stupid I was as a child. Next to me (when I was a child), even Jessica Simpson would look like Einstein.

Totaling our parents' cars were completely unplanned events (that thankfully did not happen constantly).

8. Identify which statement is not true about me:

a. I had managed to do such a good job of concealing the real date of my birthday from everyone that when Heimlich and I met, she proclaimed a random date that my birthday would be celebrated on.

b. I have seen Johnny Mathis live in concert (on purpose)

c. I have a three inch scar on my head from a vicious llama attack when I was little

d. My only major near-death experience involved my mother closing an electric car window on my neck, which blocked my windpipe. This was ostensibly an accident.

It turns out that I do have an enormous scar on my head, but it was not caused by a vicious llama attack. I just added that for comedic value. The scar was actually caused by a boring, old, run-of-the-mill knife fight. No, really, the scar was caused by surgery I had shortly after I was born.