“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Time to test yourself with the weekly fasab quiz.
Another twenty random questions, with the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below.
But please, NO cheating!
Good luck and enjoy.
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Q. 1: Which epic Hollywood film was the most expensive movie made during the 1960s?
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Q. 2: Polynesia means ‘many islands’. What does Melanesia mean?
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Q. 3: Which Beatles song title is mentioned in Don McLean’s hit song ‘American Pie’?
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Q. 4: Which female tennis player won a record 62 Grand Slam titles?
a) Billie Jean King
b) Steffi Graf
c) Martina Navratilova
d) Margaret Smith Court
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Q. 5: What was unusual about the Roman Senator Incitatus?
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Q. 6: What two countries signed the so called ‘Pact of Steel’ on May 22, 1939?
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Q. 7: Who travels from Spain to the Netherlands by steamboat in late November?
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Q. 8: In what prison drama movie, based on a Steven King book, does Morgan Freeman play a starring role?
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Q. 9: The scientific name for which animal is ‘Ursus arctos horribilis’?
a) Grizzly bear
b) Great White shark
c) Grey wolf
d) Killer whale
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Q. 10: What was the name of the German engineer who invented the first rotary engine?
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Q. 11: Formerly called ‘Tsaritsyn’ and then ‘Stalingrad’, what is it called today?
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Q. 12: Lutz, Axel and Camel are terms associated with what sport?
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Q. 13: What is the name for a treat with currants squashed between two thin, oblong biscuits/cookies?
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Q. 14: Name the French cartoon skunk that is madly in love with a reluctant cat?
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Q. 15: What is an ice hockey puck made from?
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Q. 16: On the Voyager 1 spacecraft there is a golden record with greetings in different languages and a collection of various Earth sounds. There is also a 90 minute recording of music from many cultures. Which two composers appear the most on this record?
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Q. 17: The name of which popular US band from the 1970s is an aboriginal expression used to describe an extremely cold evening?
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Q. 18: Which four of the following seven Grand Slam winners were leftys?
a) Rod Laver
b) Jimmy Connors
c) Bjorn Borg
d) John McEnroe
e) Martina Navratilova
f) Boris Becker
g) Pancho Gonzales
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Q. 19: What is the name for a Google search query consisting of exactly two words (actual words found in a dictionary) without quotation marks, that returns exactly one hit?
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Q. 20: Which catchy hit song beginning with the words “Once upon a time there was a tavern” is an English version of a melancholic Russian gypsy song?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: Which epic Hollywood film was the most expensive movie made during the 1960s?
A. 1: Cleopatra
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Q. 2: Polynesia means ‘many islands’. What does Melanesia mean?
A. 2: Black islands
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Q. 3: Which Beatles song title is mentioned in Don McLean’s hit song ‘American Pie’?
A. 3: Helter Skelter (“Helter Skelter in the summer swelter”)
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Q. 4: Which female tennis player won a record 62 Grand Slam titles?
a) Billie Jean King
b) Steffi Graf
c) Martina Navratilova
d) Margaret Smith Court
A. 4: d) Margaret Smith Court
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Q. 5: What was unusual about the Roman Senator Incitatus?
A. 5: Incitatus was a horse.
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Q. 6: What two countries signed the so called ‘Pact of Steel’ on May 22, 1939?
A. 6: Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
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Q. 7: Who travels from Spain to the Netherlands by steamboat in late November?
A. 7: Sinterklaas / Santa Claus / St. Nicholas
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Q. 8: In what prison drama movie, based on a Steven King book, does Morgan Freeman play a starring role?
A. 8: The Shawshank Redemption
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Q. 9: The scientific name for which animal is ‘Ursus arctos horribilis’?
a) Grizzly bear
b) Great White shark
c) Grey wolf
d) Killer whale
A. 9: a) Grizzly bear
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Q. 10: What was the name of the German engineer who invented the first rotary engine?
A. 10: Wankel (the Wankel Rotary engine)
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Q. 11: Formerly called Tsaritsyn and then Stalingrad, what is it called today?
A. 11: Volgograd
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Q. 12: Lutz, Axel and Camel are terms associated with what sport?
A. 12: Figure skating
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Q. 13: What is the name for a treat with currants squashed between two thin, oblong biscuits/cookies?
A. 13: Garibaldi
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Q. 14: Name the French cartoon skunk that is madly in love with a reluctant cat?
A. 14: Pepe le Pew
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Q. 15: What is an ice hockey puck made from?
A. 15: Rubber
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Q. 16: On the Voyager 1 spacecraft there is a golden record with greetings in different languages and a collection of various Earth sounds. There is also a 90 minute recording of music from many cultures. Which two composers appear the most on this record?
A. 16: Bach and Beethoven
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Q. 17: The name of which popular US band from the 1970s is an aboriginal expression used to describe an extremely cold evening?
A. 17: Three Dog Night.
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Q. 18: Which four of the following seven Grand Slam winners were leftys?
a) Rod Laver
b) Jimmy Connors
c) Bjorn Borg
d) John McEnroe
e) Martina Navratilova
f) Boris Becker
g) Pancho Gonzales
A. 18: a) Rod Laver
b) Jimmy Connors
d) John McEnroe
e) Martina Navratilova
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Q. 19: What is the name for a Google search query consisting of exactly two words (actual words found in a dictionary) without quotation marks, that returns exactly one hit?
A. 19: A ‘Googlewhack’. Published googlewhacks are short-lived, since when published to a web site, the new number of hits will become at least two, one to the original hit found, and one to the publishing site.
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Q. 20: Which catchy hit song beginning with the words “Once upon a time there was a tavern” is an English version of a melancholic Russian gypsy song?
A. 20: Those Were The Days
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I got 12 out of the 20 this morning, but the grizzly bear one was a complete guess. 🙂
And….I know nothing about tennis!
12 is a very good score for these. Thanks for trying them out. I’m sure the Voyager question was one of your 12 🙂
Absolutely 😀
Time to get back in the saddle, so I figure this is as good a place as any …. 🙂 …. and getting the same score as Alex is quite the feat!
Welcome back, I’m honored you started your return here. Hope you had a nice break from the blogsphere.
And the same score as Alex is always impressive, well done.
Not too good – total fail on the sports and music questions, except American Pie. Any idea what arctos means in Latin? I knew Ursus/Ursa was bear, so that was a given, but arctos (and I emphasize this) SOUNDS like “arctic”, making me wonder about the grizzly tag. (Paused there to look up arctos via a translator – call it a synonym for “bear” or “arctic” or a synonym for “ferocious” – dang Romans, no wonder they went extinct! 😉 )
Well funny you should say that, the same word had me thinking polar bears rather than grizzly so I had to look it up to and apparently as you sat arctos is Latin for bears. It’s a strange world!.
Great song. Wonderful lyrics. Sort of a melodic sadness.
Well described. Glad you enjoyed it.
Only 6 out of 20 because I don’t follow tennis, but good questions!
Thanks for taking part, well done.
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