“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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What better way to start of the week than with a quiz?
Okay, okay, so there are better ways, but this is the way we’re doing it here.
I think some of the questions are pretty tough this week, but if you are up for a challenge please have a go at them.
As always the answers are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but NO cheating!
Enjoy.
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Q 1: From what animal do we get Catgut?
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Q 2: What country has more lakes that the rest of the world combined?
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Q 3: What is the collective noun for a group of Unicorns, should such a thing exist?
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Q 4: How many of each ‘clean’ animal did God tell Noah to take into the Ark?
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Q 5: How many people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th?
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Q 6: What is the name that means “Craft of the Wise Ones”?
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Q 7: What is printed on the tablet being held by the Statue of Liberty?
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Q 8: The largest Groundhog Day celebration is held in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, made famous by the film of that name starring Bill Murray and Andie McDowell. But what date is Groundhog Day?
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Q 9: By what name is the Tooth Fairy known in Mexico?
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Q 10: What former U.S. president worked as a lifeguard in his youth at a beach near Dixon, Illinois and saved over 77 lives?
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Q 11: What was the only commercial aircraft that able to break the sound barrier?
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Q 12: They were originally called Baby Gays. What do we know them better as?
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Q 13: What were the first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph? (Now you know this, even you think you don’t)
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Q 14: What disease killed over 20 million people worldwide in 1918?
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Q 15: Used in US English to describe a student in the second year of study at high school or university, what does the word “sophomore” literally mean?
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Q 16: The British call them a fruit machine, but what are they known as elsewhere?
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Q 17: What US State is known as “Land of Enchantment”?
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Q 18: The Tibetans call it Chomolungma. What do we know it better as?
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Q 19: The vast majority of people, male and female, have a Glabella, but what is it?
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Q 20: The largest library in the world is located in Washington D.C. What is its name?
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ANSWERS
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Q 1: From what animal do we get Catgut?
A 1: Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
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Q 2: What country has more lakes that the rest of the world combined?
A 2: Canada has more lakes that the rest of the world combined.
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Q 3: What is the collective noun for a group of Unicorns, should such a thing exist?
A 3: A group of Unicorns is called a blessing.
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Q 4: How many of each ‘clean’ animal did God tell Noah to take into the Ark?
A 4: According to Genesis 7:2, God told Noah to take 14 of each kind of ‘clean’ animal in to the ark.
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Q 5: How many people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th?
A 5: Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.
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Q 6: What is the name that means “Craft of the Wise Ones”?
A 6: Witchcraft
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Q 7: What is printed on the tablet being held by the Statue of Liberty?
A 7: July IV, MDCCLXXVI
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Q 8: The largest Groundhog Day celebration is held in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, made famous by the film of that name starring Bill Murray and Andie McDowell. But what date is Groundhog Day?
A 8: Groundhog Day is on February 2nd
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Q 9: By what name is the Tooth Fairy known in Mexico?
A 9: In Mexico the Tooth Fairy is known as the Tooth Mouse, which takes the tooth and leaves treasures in its place
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Q 10: What former U.S. president worked as a lifeguard in his youth at a beach near Dixon, Illinois and saved over 77 lives?
A 10: Ronald Reagan
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Q 11: What was the only commercial aircraft that able to break the sound barrier?
A 11: The Anglo-French manufactured “Concorde”.
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Q 12: They were originally called Baby Gays. What do we know them better as?
A 12: Q-Tip Cotton Swabs
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Q 13: What were the first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph? (Now you know this, even if you think you don’t)
A 13: The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, “Mary had a little lamb.”
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Q 14: What disease killed over 20 million people worldwide in 1918?
A 14: The flu pandemic of 1918 killed over 20 million people
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Q 15: Used in US English to describe a student in the second year of study at high school or university, what does the word “sophomore” literally mean?
A 15: “wise moron.”
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Q 16: The British call them a fruit machine, but what are they known as elsewhere?
A 16: A slot machine.
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Q 17: What US State is known as “Land of Enchantment”?
A 17: New Mexico is known as the “Land of Enchantment”
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Q 18: The Tibetans call it Chomolungma. What do we know it better as?
A 18: Mount Everest
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Q 19: The vast majority of people, male and female, have a Glabella, but what is it?
A 19: The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella
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Q 20: The largest library in the world is located in Washington D.C. What is its name?
A 20: The Library of Congress
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fasab 
I’m mortified 4/20. My unicorn collective is a stampede! Great quiz 🙂
BTW, in Australia slot machines are called pokies (that was one of my 4 correct answers 🙂 )
Good for you for trying it. I did say it was a difficult one. I love the term “pokies” maybe that will be a future question 🙂
Under 50% this week.
It was a tough one.
Only 8, all in the 2nd half except for the date on the Statue of Liberty. OUCH! (Unless you consider #10 to be in the first half – which I guess it is. Dixon was VERY proud of its’ son in the 1980s, and made sure the rest of the state heard about it ALL THE DANG TIME! 😀 )
And please, PLEASE tell me why we need a term for the space between your eyebrows? I mean, the only time it’s important is when there’s hair there, and the term “unibrow” is just so much easier!
You make a good point, there are far too many words already and yet we keep adding to the total instead of deleting. And so we have a word for the space between eyebrows which is probably only ever used in quizzes!!!
Only 5 of 20 today. I knew Canada had more lakes than anywhere else, Groundhog Day is Feb. 2, the influenza pandemic, slot machines & the Library of Congress. I thought it said something about being a gift from France on the tablet at the Statue of Liberty & I thought Edison’s first words were something about “Come here, I need you.”
You didn’t do too bad at all. That was a tough bunch of questions.
Wow, some of these were tough! And no, I apparently did not know the first words Edison spoke into the phonograph. Only 6 out of 20 for me.
I think you did okay considering that this was a tough lot, but we dare to go where no one has gone before 😉 .