“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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July is almost a week old and we haven’t had a quiz.
But we are about to rectify that right now.
Another twenty questions to wrap your brain around.
As usual, if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1. What is the world’s biggest island?
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Q. 2. In a speech on 5 March 1946 what did Winston Churchill say had descended over Europe?
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Q. 3. What city is known as ‘The Pearl of the Adriatic’ ?
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Q. 4. What is the official diameter of the center circle on a soccer pitch?
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Q. 5. What does the term ‘SAS’ refer to in terms of British Army Regiments?
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Q. 6. What famous American painter and illustrator’s best-known works include the ‘Willie Gillis’ series, ‘Rosie the Riveter’, ‘The Problem We All Live With’, ‘Saying Grace’, and the ‘Four Freedoms’ series?
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Q. 7. Where were the 2014 Winter Olympics held?
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Q. 8. Where will the 2016 Summer Olympics be held?
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Q. 9. Whose first novel was titled ‘Carrie’ ?
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Q. 10. What was the name given to the prosperous peasants in Russia who were violently repressed by Stalin?
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Q. 11. The famous ‘Stella Artois’ beer was originally brewed in which country?
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Q. 12. After World War Two (WWII) ended into how many sectors was the city of Berlin divided? (A point for the correct answer and bonus points if you can correctly name the countries in charge of the sectors.)
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Q. 13. What is the common name of the small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user’s web browser?
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Q. 14. In the well-known saying, what do ‘birds of a feather’ do?
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Q. 15. What fruit is a cross between a grapefruit, tangerine and orange?
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Q. 16. What is the name for the Eskimo people of Canada?
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Q. 17. We all know to our cost about the recent ‘financial crisis’, but in what year was the infamous ‘Wall Street Crash’ ?
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Q. 18. What are the two movies for which Jack Nicholson received the Best Actor Oscar?
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Q. 19. What is ‘blood sausage’ better known as in places like the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador?
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Q. 20. Who was ‘The Country Girl’ who after ‘High Noon’ went on to ‘Dial M for Murder’ and ‘To Catch a Thief’ before entering ‘High Society’ ?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1. What is the world’s biggest island?
A. 1. Greenland.
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Q. 2. In a speech on 5 March 1946 what did Winston Churchill say had descended over Europe?
A. 2. An Iron Curtain.
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Q. 3. What city is known as ‘The Pearl of the Adriatic’ ?
A. 3. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
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Q. 4. What is the official diameter of the center circle on a soccer pitch?
A. 4. 20 yards (18.3 metres).
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Q. 5. What does the term ‘SAS’ refer to in terms of British Army Regiments.
A. 5. Special Air Service.
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Q. 6. What famous American painter and illustrator’s best-known works include the ‘Willie Gillis’ series, ‘Rosie the Riveter’, ‘The Problem We All Live With’, ‘Saying Grace’, and the ‘Four Freedoms’ series
A. 6. Norman Rockwell.
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Q. 7. Where were the 2014 Winter Olympics held?
A. 7. In Sochi, Russia.
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Q. 8. Where will the 2016 Summer Olympics be held?
A. 8. The 2016 Summer Olympics, commonly known as Rio 2016, will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Q. 9. Whose first novel was titled ‘Carrie’ ?
A. 9. Stephen King.
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Q. 10. What was the name given to the prosperous peasants in Russia who were violently repressed by Stalin?
A. 10. Kulaks.
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Q. 11. The famous ‘Stella Artois’ beer was originally brewed in which country?
A. 11. Belgium.
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Q. 12. After World War Two (WWII) ended into how many sectors was the city of Berlin divided? (A point for the correct answer and bonus points if you can correctly name the countries in charge of the sectors.)
A. 12. There were four sectors, American, British, French and Soviet.
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Q. 13. What is the common name of the small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user’s web browser?
A. 13. It is called a ‘cookie’.
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Q. 14. In the well known saying, what do ‘birds of a feather’ do?
A. 14. They ‘flock together’.
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Q. 15. What fruit is a cross between a grapefruit, tangerine and orange?
A. 15. The ‘Ugli fruit’.
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Q. 16. What is the name for the Eskimo people of Canada?
A. 16. They are known as ‘Iniut’.
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Q. 17. We all know to our cost about the recent ‘financial crisis’, but in what year was the infamous ‘Wall Street Crash’ ?
A. 17. 1929.
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Q. 18. What are the two movies for which Jack Nicholson received the Best Actor Oscar?
A. 18. They were ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ and ‘As Good As It Gets’.
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Q. 19. What is ‘blood sausage’ better known as in places like the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador?
A. 19. It is better known as ‘Black Pudding’.
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Q. 20. Who was ‘The Country Girl’ who after ‘High Noon’ went on to ‘Dial M for Murder’ and ‘To Catch a Thief’ before entering ‘High Society’ ?
A. 20. Grace Kelly.
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I took a chance by taking this on Monday, …. and made it. Regarding Churchill’s speech, bonus points for the cities serving as the end points.
You got me on that one. I remember it was from the Baltic to the Adriatic but not the names of the cities. That would have been a tough question.
“From Stettin to Trieste”
Very good. It’s a sad day you don’t learn something. Today isn’t a sad day 🙂
Trieste is easy for me to remember … https://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/thank-you-elsa-for-your-trieste-story/ 🙂