“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Quite a mixture of questions today.
Some are easy, some are difficult, and some should be easy but I have a feeling they may turn out to be quite difficult too!
As usual the answers are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please, NO cheating.
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: You’ve seen it hundreds if not thousands of times, so how many milk bottles are standing on the porch when Fred Flintstone puts out the cat?
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Q. 2: Who was assassinated in Dallas on 24 November 1963?
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Q. 3: Who was known as ‘The Serpent of the Nile’?
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Q. 4: How many amendments have their been to the US Constitution?
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Q. 5: For which event of 1872 is the name of Captain Briggs remembered?
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Q. 6: What was abolished by France in 1981, The Netherlands in 1982, Australia in 1985 and New Zealand in 1989?
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Q. 7: How many colored squares are on a Rubik cube?
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Q. 8: A famous Irish novelist and poet, he was born in 1882 and died in 1941, who was he?
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Q. 9: Who directed the movie ‘Jurassic Park’?
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Q. 10: What famous IT company launched a clothing line in 1986?
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Q. 11: Which great Carthegian general crossed the Alps in 218?
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Q. 12: For how many years did the famous ‘Pony Express’ operate in America?
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Q. 13: On what date in 1883 did France officially present the Statue of Liberty to the US?
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Q. 14: Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock had one of the most celebrated and successful collaborations of any actor/director pair in history. Name as many of their movies as you can (and you get a point for each correct answer).
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Q. 15: Who had 7 members of a rival gang killed on St Valentines day 1929?
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Q. 16: Who or what is the Presidential retreat ‘Camp David’ named after?
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Q. 17: Who said “Read my lips, no new taxes”?
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Q. 18: What was the name of the domestic videocassette tape recorder system introduced by Sony in 1975?
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Q. 19: Which famous Arab / Israeli war took place in 1973?
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Q. 20: In the long running hit television series ‘Magnum P.I.’, what was the character name of the ex-British Army Officer who looked after the estate in which Magnum lives?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: You’ve seen it hundreds if not thousands of times, so how many milk bottles are standing on the porch when Fred Flintstone puts out the cat?
A. 1: One. (You should have known that!)
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Q. 2: Who was assassinated in Dallas on 24 November 1963?
A. 2: Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Q. 3: Who was known as ‘The Serpent of the Nile’?
A. 3: Cleopatra.
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Q. 4: How many amendments have their been to the US Constitution?
A. 4: 27.
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Q. 5: For which event of 1872 is the name of Captain Briggs remembered?
A. 5: He Was The Captain Of The Marie Celeste.
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Q. 6: What was abolished by France in 1981, The Netherlands in 1982, Australia in 1985 and New Zealand in 1989?
A. 6: The Death Penalty.
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Q. 7: How many colored squares are on a Rubik cube?
A. 7: 54 (A cube has 6 sides and there are 9 colored squares per side.)
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Q. 8: A famous Irish novelist and poet, he was born in 1882 and died in 1941, who was he?
A. 8: James Joyce.
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Q. 9: Who directed the movie ‘Jurassic Park’?
A. 9: Steven Spielberg.
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Q. 10: What famous IT company launched a clothing line in 1986?
A. 10: Apple.
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Q. 11: Which great Carthegian general crossed the Alps in 218?
A. 11: Hannibal.
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Q. 12: For how many years did the famous ‘Pony Express’ operate in America?
A. 12: The ‘Pony Express’ only lasted a single year before the transcontinental telegraph made the route obsolete.
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Q. 13: On what date in 1883 did France officially present the Statue of Liberty to the US?
A. 13: 4th July.
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Q. 14: Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock had one of the most celebrated and successful collaborations of any actor/director pair in history. Name as many of their movies as you can (and you get a point for each correct answer).
A. 14: Cary Grant appeared in 4 Hitchcock movies, ‘Suspicion’ in 1941; ‘Notorious’ in 1946; ‘To Catch A Thief’ in 1955; and ‘North By North-West’ in 1959.
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Q. 15: Who had 7 members of a rival gang killed on St Valentines day 1929?
A. 15: Al Capone.
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Q. 16: Who or what is the Presidential retreat ‘Camp David’ named after?
A. 16: Presidential retreat Camp David is named after Dwight Eisenhower’s grandson.
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Q. 17: Who said “Read my lips, no new taxes”?
A. 17: George Bush.
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Q. 18: What was the name of the domestic videocassette tape recorder system introduced by Sony in 1975?
A. 18: Betamax.
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Q. 19: Which famous Arab / Israeli war took place in 1973?
A. 19: The Yom Kippur war.
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Q. 20: In the long running hit television series ‘Magnum P.I.’, what was the character name of the ex-British Army Officer who looked after the estate in which Magnum lived?
A. 20: Jonathan Quayle Higgins III, but ‘Higgins’ will get you a point.
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fasab 
13 for me!
Very good score. Some difficult questions in there especially #1 🙂
Only 6 today, I could only think of North by Northwest by Cary Grant.
You got the best movie of the lot in my opinion.