Trivia

Trivia

1. Who said: “Big girls need big diamonds”?
Answer:  Elizabeth Taylor
 
2. True or False
Only one in one thousand diamonds grow large enough to be cut into a high quality, finished diamond weighing 1 carat or more.
Answer: True
 
3. True or False
If you were to gather all the diamonds ever polished, since the beginning of time, they would fill only one double-decker bus.
Answer: True
 
4. True or False
Diamonds are the 3rd hardest substances on earth.
Answer: False – Diamonds are the hardest substance on Earth
 
5.  True or False
Most diamonds found in nature are between one and 3 billion years old.
Answer: True
 
6. True or False
Diamonds are the only gemstones composed of just one chemical element.
Answer: True
 
7. What is the only thing that is able to be used to polish or scratch a diamond?
Answer: Another diamond
 
8. Does a cubic zirconia (man-made) have more or less sparkle, fire & brilliance than a diamond?
Answer: More
 
9. True or False
Diamonds float in water.
Answer: False
 
10. Is it true that you CANNOT crush a diamond with a hammer?
Answer: False - You CAN crush a diamond like this (please do not ever try this)
 
11. Where does the word Carat come from?
Answer: From the Carob Seed
 
12. What does a 1 ct Diamond weight in Grams: 
Answer: 1 gram
 
13. What does the word "diamond" mean?
Answer:  The word comes from the Greek word "adamas," and this means "unconquerable and indestructible."
 
14. In ancient times, what "powers" did people believe diamonds gave them?
Answer: Diamonds worn in ancient times were believed to promote strength, invincibility, and courage.
 
15. What are the "4Cs" of diamond grading?
Answer: They are cut, color, clarity and carat.
 
16. They are cut, color, clarity and carat.
Answer: Cost
 
17. What is the rarest color Diamonds?
Answer: Pink and Blue
 
18. There are only one “open to public” diamonds mine in the world. Were it?
Answer: Arkansas, U.S.A
 
19. Who found the first diamond in South Africa in 1866/1867?
Answer: 15 year old Erasmus Jacobs on the banks of the Orange River on his father’s farm.
 
20. What is the Kimberley Process?
Answer: It is a scheme that was set up to prevent the trade in diamonds that fund conflict.
 
21. Roman Mythology believed Diamonds were?
Answer: Splinters from the Stars
 
22. Greek Mythology believed Diamonds were?
Answer: Tears of the gods.
 
23. Diamonds are the Gem for what year of Marriage?
Answers: 19th and 60th
 
24. Diamonds are the Birth stone for what Month?
Answer: April
 
25. Why do we wear engagement rings on the 3 finger of the left hand?
Answer:  Egyptians believed that the vein in that finger ran directly to the heart.
 
26. What Nationality buys the most gem quality Diamonds?
Answer: Americans buy 50%, there for the largest Diamond market
 
27. Why are Diamonds called “ice”?
Answer: They rob the body of Warmth when touched.
 
28. 80% of Diamonds mined are used for what purpose?
Answer: Industrial use.
 
29. Where is the Majority of Diamonds mined today?
Answer: Africa
 
30. In what religion do uncut or flawed diamonds carry bad luck?
Answer: Hindu
 
31. The Hope Diamond began its history with a French merchant in the 1600’s. Where does it reside today?
Answer: Smithsonian, U.S.A
 
32. The first diamond engagement ring was given in 1477 by?
Answer: Archduke Maximillian of Austria to Mary of Burgundy.
 
33. Name the Actress that won the Best Actress Oscar (1999) her father Bruce, purchased a 40 carat Diamond Necklace ($160’000) to congratulate her. 
Answer: Gwyneth Paltrow
 
34. Name the largest Diamond rough ever mined?
Answer: Cullinan
 
35. What was the weight of the largest Diamond rough ever Mined?
Answer: 3’106 carats (the Cullinan).
 
36. Where is the Current home of the Cullinan Diamond?
Answer: Tower of London, It is Part of the English Crown Jewels.
 
37. Diamonds Are Forever was a famous Bond movie starring what Actor as bond?
Answer: Sean Connery
 
38. Lucy in the sky with Diamonds was a famous song, written by?
Answer: Sir Paul McCartney
 
39. Which company had a limited edition of Jeans with Studded Diamonds selling for $4000 a pair?
Answer: Gucci
 
40. In Coventry during WW2 Italian POWs were often called Diamond Italians. Why?
Answer: Because of the big diamonds shaped patches sown onto their trousers.