“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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For those of you who find the title a little obscure Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport is one of the best-known and most successful songs from Australia, inspired by Harry Belafonte’s calypsos, it is about an Australian stockman on his deathbed.
It also provides a handy link to question one.
As for this and the rest of the questions, 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 a young kangaroo called?
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Q. 2. The temple complex of Angkor Wat is situated in which country?
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Q. 3. What is commonly used in a rectifier to convert alternating current to direct current?
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Q. 4. Which creature gives birth to the largest young?
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Q. 5. What do you call the peninsular leisure/entertainment destination found in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, New York?
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Q. 6. What is a bathometer?
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Q. 7. Cobnuts and filberts come from what species of tree?
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Q. 8. What country is surrounded by Kzahkstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China?
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Q. 9. About which bird did Percy Bysshe Shelley write ‘Hail to Thee, blithe spirit!’?
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Q. 10. Who wrote the play ‘Blithe Spirit’ which took its title from Shelley’s poem?
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Q. 11. What is a ‘cattle grid’ (UK/Ireland), a ‘stock grid’ (Australia), or a ‘cattle guard’ (America) used for?
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Q. 12. What recently deceased actor was ‘Doctor Zhivago’ in the 1965 movie?
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Q. 13. What nationality was ‘Doctor Zhivago’?
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Q. 14. ‘Old Man’s Beard’ and ‘Traveller’s Joy’ are names for a variety of which flower?
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Q. 15. What is manufactured by the Haber process?
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Q. 16. Which novel opens: “It was 348 years, six months and 19 days ago today that the citizens of Paris were awakened by the pealing of all the bells in the triple precincts of the City, the University and the Town”; and who wrote it? (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 17. What are the names of the first and the fifth planets in our solar system?
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Q. 18. No battle was fought here, yet, it was the turning point of the American Revolutionary War and is now commemorated as a National Park. What is its name and in which state is it located? (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 19. Who won the Ladies Singles Championship at Wimbledon 2015?
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Q. 20. This word can mean the name of a beverage made from fruit juice and soda water, part of the name of a well-known vegetable, a sport, or the act of silencing or suppressing – what is it?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1. What is a young kangaroo called?
A. 1. Joey.
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Q. 2. The temple complex of Angkor Wat is situated in which country?
A. 2. Cambodia.
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Q. 3. What is commonly used in a rectifier to convert alternating current to direct current?
A. 3. A ‘Diode’.
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Q. 4. Which creature gives birth to the largest young?
A. 4. Blue Whale – 8 metres and 2,700 kg at birth. In the first 7 to 8 months they reach 16 metres and weigh about 21,000 kg.
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Q. 5. What do you call the peninsular leisure/entertainment destination found in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, New York?
A. 5. It is called ‘Coney Island’.
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Q. 6. What is a bathometer?
A. 6. It is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel. You can have the point if you said depth gage or something to measure depth of water.
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Q. 7. Cobnuts and filberts come from what species of tree?
A. 7. From the Hazel tree.
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Q. 8. What country is surrounded by Kzahkstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China?
A. 8. Kyrgzstan.
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Q. 9. About which bird did Percy Bysshe Shelley write ‘Hail to Thee, blithe spirit!’?
A. 9. A skylark (in To a Skylark).
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Q. 10. Who wrote the play ‘Blithe Spirit’ which took its title from Shelley’s poem?
A. 10. Noël Coward.
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Q. 11. What is a ‘cattle grid’ (UK/Ireland), a ‘stock grid’ (Australia), or a ‘cattle guard’ (America) used for?
A. 11. It is used as a barrier that allows vehicles to pass, but not cattle.
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Q. 12. What recently deceased actor was ‘Doctor Zhivago’ in the 1965 movie?
A. 12. Omar Sharif.
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Q. 13. What nationality was ‘Doctor Zhivago’?
A. 13. Russian.
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Q. 14. ‘Old Man’s Beard’ and ‘Traveller’s Joy’ are names for a variety of which flower?
A. 14. The Clematis.
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Q. 15. What is manufactured by the Haber process?
A. 15. Ammonia.
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Q. 16. Which novel opens: “It was 348 years, six months and 19 days ago today that the citizens of Paris were awakened by the pealing of all the bells in the triple precincts of the City, the University and the Town”; and who wrote it? (A point for each correct answer.)
A. 16. Notre Dame de Paris (also known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo
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Q. 17. What are the names of the first and the fifth planets in our solar system?
A. 17. The first is Mercury (the smallest, now Pluto has been demoted) and the fifth is Jupiter (the largest).
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Q. 18. No battle was fought here, yet, it was the turning point of the American Revolutionary War and is now commemorated as a National Park. What is its name and in which state is it located? (A point for each correct answer.)
A. 18. It is Valley Forge located approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania.
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Q. 19. Who won the Ladies Singles Championship at Wimbledon 2015?
A. 19. Serena Williams.
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Q. 20. This word can mean the name of a beverage made from fruit juice and soda water, part of the name of a well-known vegetable, a sport, or the act of silencing or suppressing – what is it?
A. 20. Squash.
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