Yes, today’s quiz questions include a couple about fast birds.
That and a lot more to test your knowledge.
But don’t worry, if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, however NO cheating please!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1. What proportion of the items kept at the British Museum are actually on display?
a) 1% b) 10% c) 20% d) 30%
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Q. 2. What was the name of the world’s first supercomputer and in what year was it installed? (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 3. In what modern country was the Aztec empire based?
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Q. 4. What is the only animal with four knees?
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Q. 5. What town in Manitoba, Canada, and named after perhaps the most famous English politician of all time, is known as the “Polar Bear Capital of the World”?
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Q. 6. What word to describe a large group of islands that are located close together?
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Q. 7. Robert Southey wrote what famous children’s story in 1834?
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Q. 8. What country spans the greatest number of contiguous time zones, and how many? (You get a point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 9. What is the fastest running bird in the world?
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Q. 10. What does the acronym ‘UNICEF’ stand for?
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Q. 11. The names of how many countries in South America end in the letter ‘a’ ? (A point for the correct number and an additional point for each one you can name correctly.)
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Q. 12. What was the middle name of the founder of the store chain J C Penney?
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Q. 13. By ferry, approximately how long will it take you to reach Africa from Spain?
a) 30 minutes b) 1 hour c) 90 minutes d) 2 hours
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Q. 14. What nationality is the toy company ‘Lego’ ?
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Q. 15. What was the first sport to be pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
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Q. 16. What is the world’s largest retail chain store?
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Q. 17. In what country is the prime minister known by the name ‘Taoiseach’ ?
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Q. 18. What were the names of the Captains of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek – The Original Series and Star Trek – The Next Generation; and the actors who played them? (A point for each correct answer, so a total of four points up for grabs.)
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Q. 19. What woman holds the all-time world record for the 100 meter dash?
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Q. 20. How many ways did Paul Simon say there were to leave your lover?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1. What proportion of the items kept at the British Museum are actually on display?
a) 1% b) 10% c) 20% d) 30%
A. 1. The correct answer is a) 1%.
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Q. 2. What was the name of the world’s first supercomputer and in what year was it installed? (A point for each correct answer.)
A. 2. It was called the Cray-1 (you get the point if you said ‘Cray’), and was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States in 1976 at a cost of $8.8 million.
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Q. 3. In what modern country was the Aztec empire based?
A. 3. Mexico.
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Q. 4. What is the only animal with four knees?
A. 4. The elephant.
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Q. 5. What town in Manitoba, Canada, and named after perhaps the most famous English politician of all time, is known as the “Polar Bear Capital of the World”?
A. 5. It is the town of Churchill.
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Q. 6. What word to describe a large group of islands that are located close together?
A. 6. Archipelago.
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Q. 7. Robert Southey wrote what famous children’s story in 1834?
A. 7. “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”.
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Q. 8. What country spans the greatest number of contiguous time zones, and how many? (You get a point for each correct answer.)
A. 8. The correct answers are ‘Russia’ and it has ‘9’ time zones.
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Q. 9. What is the fastest running bird in the world?
A. 9. The fastest running bird is the Ostrich, which has been clocked at 97.5 kilometres per hour.
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Q. 10. What does the acronym ‘UNICEF’ stand for?
A. 10. The United Nations Children’s Fund.
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Q. 11. The names of how many countries in South America end in the letter ‘a’ ? (A point for the correct number and an additional point for each one you can name correctly.)
A. 11. There are 6 countries whose names end with the letter ‘a’, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana and Venezuela.
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Q. 12. What was the middle name of the founder of the store chain J C Penney?
A. 12. The founder of JC Penny had the very appropriate middle name of ‘Cash’.
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Q. 13. By ferry, approximately how long will it take you to reach Africa from Spain?
a) 30 minutes b) 1 hour c) 90 minutes d) 2 hours
A. 13. The correct answer is a) 30 minutes, they’re closer than you think.
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Q. 14. What nationality is the toy company ‘Lego’ ?
A. 14. Danish.
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Q. 15. What was the first sport to be pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
A. 15. Baseball.
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Q. 16. What is the world’s largest retail chain store?
A. 16. Wal-Mart.
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Q. 17. In what country is the prime minister known by the name ‘Taoiseach’ ?
A. 17. Ireland.
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Q. 18. What were the names of the Captains of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek – The Original Series and Star Trek – The Next Generation; and the actors who played them? (A point for each correct answer, so a total of four points up for grabs.)
A. 18. The correct answers are, Captain James T Kirk in the Original Series played by William Shatner, and Jean-Luc Picard in The Next Generation played by Patrick Stewart.
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Q. 19. What woman holds the all-time world record for the 100 meter dash?
A. 19. Florence Griffith-Joyner, aka “Flo-Jo” by her many fans, set the all-time world record in the 100-meter dash at 10.49 seconds set in 1988.
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Q. 20. How many ways did Paul Simon say there were to leave your lover?
Movies, math and mud do feature, as do many other topics.
Is it easy? Is it difficult? Depends on how many answers you know.
But don’t worry, if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating.
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: What is the official language of the United States of America?
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Q. 2: What bird has only two toes on each foot?
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Q. 3: On which river are the Victoria Falls to be found?
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Q. 4: What city is known as ‘Muddy York’ ?
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Q. 5: What type of creature is a Devil’s Coachhorse?
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Q. 6: The Lakota call it the Battle of the Greasy Grass. What do we know it better as?
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Q. 7: What town is also known worldwide as the “home of golf” ?
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Q. 8: The Bennet family appear in which famous Jane Austen novel?
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Q. 9: What is the mathematical series that starts 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 called?
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Q. 10: ‘Alopecia’ is a condition causing the loss of what from the body?
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Q. 11: What is the device, used mainly nowadays on small engines like those found on lawnmowers, that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine called?
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Q. 12: What is the usual color of copper sulphate?
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Q. 13: Which form of cloud has an anvil shape and is associated with heavy showers and storms?
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Q. 14: What is defined as “Any rock or soil material that has remained below 0°C continuously for two or more years” ?
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Q. 15: Which insect found in Africa is the host for the parasitic organism that causes sleeping sickness?
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Q. 16: An Astronomical Unit is the mean distance between which two bodies?
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Q. 17: How is the fossilized resin of coniferous trees from the Middle Tertiary period better known?
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Q. 18: Which son of a weaver was a major benefactor of public libraries throughout the UK and US?
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Q. 19: Where would you be in if you were at the Cresta Run? (A point each for correctly naming the town and the country.)
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Q. 20: In which movie did Humphrey Bogart say, “We’ll always have Paris” ?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: What is the official language of the United States of America?
A. 1: A bit of a trick question to start with, the United States has no official language.
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Q. 2: What bird has only two toes on each foot?
A. 2: An Ostrich.
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Q. 3: On which river are the Victoria Falls to be found?
A. 3: The Zambezi.
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Q. 4: What city is known as ‘Muddy York’ ?
A. 4: Toronto.
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Q. 5: What type of creature is a Devil’s Coachhorse?
A. 5: It is a Beetle.
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Q. 6: The Lakota call it the Battle of the Greasy Grass. What do we know it better as?
A. 6: We know it better as the Battle of Little Big Horn.
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Q. 7: What town is also known worldwide as the “home of golf” ?
A. 7: St. Andrews, Scotland.
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Q. 8: The Bennet family appear in which famous Jane Austen novel?
A. 8: Pride & Prejudice.
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Q. 9: What is the mathematical series that starts 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 called?
A. 9: A Fibonacci Series.
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Q. 10: ‘Alopecia’ is a condition causing the loss of what from the body?
A. 10: Hair.
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Q. 11: What is the device, used mainly nowadays on small engines like those found on lawnmowers, that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine called?
A. 11: A carburetor, or carburetor.
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Q. 12: What is the usual color of copper sulphate?
A. 12: Blue.
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Q. 13: Which form of cloud has an anvil shape and is associated with heavy showers and storms?
A. 13: Cumulonimbus.
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Q. 14: What is defined as “Any rock or soil material that has remained below 0°C continuously for two or more years” ?
A. 14: Permafrost.
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Q. 15: Which insect found in Africa is the host for the parasitic organism that causes sleeping sickness?
A. 15: The Tsetse fly.
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Q. 16: An Astronomical Unit is the mean distance between which two bodies?
A. 16: The earth and the sun.
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Q. 17: How is the fossilised resin of coniferous trees from the Middle Tertiary period better known?
A. 17: Amber.
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Q. 18: Which son of a weaver was a major benefactor of public libraries throughout the UK and US?
A. 18: Andrew Carnegie.
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Q. 19: Where would you be in if you were at the Cresta Run? (A point each for correctly naming the town and the country.)
A. 19: You would be in the winter sports town of St. Moritz, Switzerland.
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Q. 20: In which movie did Humphrey Bogart say, “We’ll always have Paris”?
A. 20: The line is from the fantastic movie ‘Casablanca’.
I missed marking my first year anniversary of this blog with an appropriate post and then not to be outdone by that, I also managed to miss the second year anniversary too. I guess I had other things on my mind at the time.
However this post marks another significant milestone in my blogging career, if I can call it that, because earlier today the fasab blog managed to push its way through the 100,000 page views threshold. Certainly a lot more than the humble beginnings when literally only a handful of people turned up!
I know it’s not a world shaking internet statistic, not even in the blogsphere either, but for me and this blog I think it is remarkable. Even more so since I have a tendency to sometimes write about people I know, so I can’t really publicize my blog via the usual “friends and family” route.
Before I started my blog I’d obviously heard about them, but I’d never even read one. I had a bit of time on my hands and I thought I would give it a go. As I’ve probably said before, I wasn’t really into social networking sites like “Myface” or “Spacebook” or whatever, not that there’s anything wrong with them if you like that sort of thing and many people I know do.
But I thought blogging might be my thing.
So I read blogs and I read about blogging and I created my own little niche of “Fighting Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”, which I found I was doing every day anyway, and mixed it with a bit of humor, politics and so forth – and here we are 100,000 views later, and counting.
It has been an interesting time.
Apart from a handful of hopefuls who think they’ll make a fortune out of it, I think most people are like me, blogging for themselves. But it is also very nice and very rewarding when other people stop by to read the posts and even better when they acknowledge them with a “like”, a “follow”, or a “comment”.
I am delighted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has visited the fasab blog and particularly those who have decided to follow whether on WordPress, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter, or whatever. Some bloggers and readers, who I like to call my “blog-friends” have become regulars here. I very much appreciate your support. I have tried to reciprocate by visiting your blogs too when time permits.
One or two others – who I have no doubt are thoroughly ashamed of themselves 🙂 – have fallen by the wayside, but most visitors I do not even know. Which brings me to another thing that I wasn’t expecting, and that was the variety of countries visitors come from. The bulk are from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and India – which is more or less what you could expect for an English language blog. But interestingly there have also been visitors from many other parts of Europe, South and Central America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa too. And all are very welcome.
So what does the future hold for the fasab blog?
I don’t exactly know the answer to that. Probably more puns, and factoids. Maybe a few more quizzes. Definitely the odd rant about things that annoy me (that’s a lot of things, the list grows every day!). But hopefully a lot of humor too.
A smile never does any harm – unless some big stupid bloke thinks you’re laughing at him – so prepare yourself for more.
My sincere thanks to everyone who has visited and who reads this.
And don’t forget the “Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy!”
Welcome to another selection of fasab’s facts for fun.
A more than random list of unusual facts that may come in handy some day. I wouldn’t count on it, but you never know. It has happened believe it or not!
So read on and enjoy.
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The only U.S. president to have been the head of a union
was Ronald Reagan,
a former president of the Screen Actors Guild.
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Just proving that not everybody is all bad,
“Pretty Boy” Floyd, one of America’s most notorious bank robbers,
was known for destroying mortgage papers,
consequently freeing hundreds of people from property debt.
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A man in China has kept himself alive with
a homemade dialysis machine for 13 years.
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Divorce is legal in every nation in the world
except in the Philippines and in Vatican City.
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In 1755 Benjamin Franklin organized the first
regular monthly mail packet service
between Falmouth, England, and New York,
and opened the first official post office in Canada
(in Halifax, Nova Scotia), to link Halifax with
the Atlantic colonies and the packet service to England.
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About half the geysers on Earth
are located in Yellowstone National Park.
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Your brain makes imaginary monsters when you stare in a mirror.
(Either that or you don’t look as good as you thought!)
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While most of it lies in Africa,
a small part of Egypt is located in Asia, as well.
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The White House has a variety of recreational facilities
available to its residents, including a tennis court, a jogging track,
swimming pool, movie theater, billiard room, and a bowling lane.
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