Can You Handle The Quiz?

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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Hi and welcome to another week.

Today’s quiz has a few questions that I think you will find quite challenging, plus one or two that you should breeze through with ease.

But the only way to find out is to have a go.

And remember, as always, if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!

Enjoy and good luck.

Q. 1: What goes up and down, but still remains in the same place?

Q. 2: Who directed both JFK and Nixon?

Q. 3: Before being harvested and sold, an individual cranberry must bounce at least how many inches high to make sure they aren’t too ripe?

a) 2 inches b) 3 inches c) 4 inches d) 5 inches

Q. 4: What World War II British naval intelligence officer wrote the children’s story ‘Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang’?

Q. 5: Who is the only US President who was never elected as either President or Vice President?

Q. 6: The ‘H-3’ and the ‘H-4’, built in 1757 and 1759 were mechanical wonders. Who constructed them both and what were they used for? (A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you get them both correct.)

Q. 7: What does the term ‘Cornucopia’ mean?

Q. 8: To nearest 1000, in the year 1800 how many wild turkeys were there in Turkey?

Q. 9: The two oldest universities in Europe are both found in which country?

a) France b) England c) Italy d) Greece

Q. 10: Who was the tallest President of the United States and who was the shortest? (A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you get them both correct.)

Q. 11: In which 1949 movie did Sir Alec Guinness famously play the role of eight different members of the D’Ascoyne family?

Q. 12: Who won this year’s (2014) Formula One World Driver’s Championship and what was his nationality? (A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you get them both correct.)

Q. 13: ‘Fionn mac Cumhaill’, ‘Bergrisar’, ‘Daityas’, ‘Patagons’ and ‘Nephilims’ are all examples of what?

Q. 14: What does ‘IMAX’, as in the large screen IMAX Cinemas stand for?

Q. 15: Which boxer’s first professional fight was against Tunney Hunsaker, Police Chief of Fayetteville, West Virginia, on October 29, 1960?

Q. 16: Which Portuguese-born navigator was the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean?

Q. 17: Who was the first Twitter user to reach 20 million followers?

Q. 18: Which martial art takes its name from the Japanese for ‘way of the sword’?

Q. 19: What color is ‘Absynth’?

Q. 20: Which popular singer and movie star had a ‘secret love’ in 1954 and in which famous movie did it feature? (A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you get them both correct.)

ANSWERS

Q. 1: What goes up and down, but still remains in the same place?

A. 1: Stairs!

Q. 2: Who directed both JFK and Nixon?

A. 2: Oliver Stone.

Q. 3: Before being harvested and sold, an individual cranberry must bounce at least how many inches high to make sure they aren’t too ripe?

a) 2 inches b) 3 inches c) 4 inches d) 5 inches

A. 3: The correct answer is c) 4 inches.

Q. 4: What World War II British naval intelligence officer wrote the children’s story ‘Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang’?

A. 4: Ian Fleming, much better known as author of the James Bond novels.

Q. 5: Who is the only US President who was never elected as either President or Vice President?

A. 5: Gerald R Ford, who became the 40th Vice-President when Spiro Agnew resigned the position and who subsequently became the 38th President of the USA, when he took over the job after Richard M Nixon resigned.

A. 6: John Harrison. H-3 and H-4 were the first successful maritime chronometers.

Q. 7: What does the term ‘Cornucopia’ mean?

A. 7: Literally ‘Horn of Plenty’, used as a symbol of abundance.

Q. 8: To nearest 1000, in the year 1800 how many wild turkeys were there in Turkey?

A. 8: The correct answer is ‘None’, the wild turkey it is a native North American bird.

Q. 9: The two oldest universities in Europe are both found in which country?

a) France b) England c) Italy d) Greece

A. 9: Many people think it is England with the famous Oxford and Cambridge Universities, but the correct answer is c) Italy. Parma (1065 AD) and Bologna (1119 AD)

Q. 10: Who was the tallest President of the United States and who was the shortest? (A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you get them both correct.)

A. 10: Abraham Lincoln was the tallest at 6′ 4″, and James Madison was the shortest at 5′ 4″.

Q. 11: In which 1949 movie did Sir Alec Guinness famously play the role of eight different members of the D’Ascoyne family?

A. 11: Kind Hearts and Coronets.

Q. 12: Who won this year’s (2014) Formula One World Driver’s Championship and what was his nationality? (A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you get them both correct.)

A. 12: Lewis Hamilton who is British.

Q. 13: ‘Fionn mac Cumhaill’, ‘Bergrisar’, ‘Daityas’, ‘Patagons’ and ‘Nephilims’ are all examples of what?

A. 13: Giants.

Q. 14: What does ‘IMAX’, as in the large screen IMAX Cinemas stand for?

A. 14: IMAX stands for ‘Image Maximum’.

Q. 15: Which boxer’s first professional fight was against Tunney Hunsaker, Police Chief of Fayetteville, West Virginia, on October 29, 1960?

A. 15: Cassius Clay. (Sorry, but you do not score a point if you only said ‘Muhammad Ali’, he did not change his name until 15 years later after converting to Sunni Islam in 1975.)

Q. 16: Which Portuguese-born navigator was the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean?

A. 16: Ferdinand Magellan (1480 – 1521).

Q. 17: Who was the first Twitter user to reach 20 million followers?

A. 17: Lady Gaga.

Q. 18: Which martial art takes its name from the Japanese for ‘way of the sword’?

A. 18: Kendo.

Q. 19: What color is ‘Absynth’?

A. 19: Green.

A. 20: Doris Day and the movie was Calamity Jane.

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon – What It Means To Be Governed.

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I had intended to indulge myself today with a bit of a Sunday Sermon about the increasing intrusiveness of government.

But then I found a quote from a Frenchman named Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and I decided to let him use my pulpit on this occasion.

He didn’t know about the “En ess a” snoopers who have been listening to our phone calls, reading our emails, and spying on the leaders of nations that are supposed to be friends and allies of the United States, because he was speaking about what it means to be governed more than two hundred years ago.

Nevertheless, his words ring eerily true.

Nothing, it seems, has changed.

In fact today’s technology has made things far worse.

This is what he had to say all those years ago….

To be governed is to be

watched over,

inspected,

spied on,

directed,

legislated at,

regulated,

docketed,

indoctrinated,

preached at,

controlled,

assessed,

weighed,

censored,

(and) ordered about,

by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue.

To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction,

noted,

registered,

enrolled,

taxed,

stamped,

measured,

numbered,

assessed,

licensed,

authorized,

admonished,

forbidden,

reformed,

corrected,

(and) punished.

It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be

placed under contribution,

trained,

ransomed,

exploited,

monopolized,

extorted,

squeezed,

mystified,

(and) robbed;

Then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be

repressed,

fined,

despised,

harassed,

tracked,

abused,

clubbed,

disarmed,

choked,

imprisoned,

judged,

condemned,

shot,

deported,

sacrificed,

sold,

betrayed;

and, to crown all,

mocked,

ridiculed,

outraged,

(and) dishonoured.

That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

The man knew what he was talking about.

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, (1809 – 1865) was a French politician, the founder of Mutualist philosophy, an economist and a libertarian socialist. He was the first person to declare himself an anarchist and is among its most influential theorists. He is considered by many to be the “father of anarchism”. He became a member of the French Parliament after the revolution of 1848, whereupon and thereafter he referred to himself as a federalist.

(Bio source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon )

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Are You Up For A Challenge? – It’s The Monday Quiz.

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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

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.

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?

Q. 2: Who was assassinated in Dallas on 24 November 1963?

Q. 3: Who was known as ‘The Serpent of the Nile’?

Q. 4: How many amendments have their been to the US Constitution?

Q. 5: For which event of 1872 is the name of Captain Briggs remembered?

Q. 6: What was abolished by France in 1981, The Netherlands in 1982, Australia in 1985 and New Zealand in 1989?

Q. 7: How many colored squares are on a Rubik cube?

Q. 8: A famous Irish novelist and poet, he was born in 1882 and died in 1941, who was he?

Q. 9: Who directed the movie ‘Jurassic Park’?

Q. 10: What famous IT company launched a clothing line in 1986?

Q. 11: Which great Carthegian general crossed the Alps in 218?

Q. 12: For how many years did the famous ‘Pony Express’ operate in America?

Q. 13: On what date in 1883 did France officially present the Statue of Liberty to the US?

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).

Q. 15: Who had 7 members of a rival gang killed on St Valentines day 1929?

Q. 16: Who or what is the Presidential retreat ‘Camp David’ named after?

Q. 17: Who said “Read my lips, no new taxes”?

Q. 18: What was the name of the domestic videocassette tape recorder system introduced by Sony in 1975?

Q. 19: Which famous Arab / Israeli war took place in 1973?

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?

ANSWERS

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!)

Q. 2: Who was assassinated in Dallas on 24 November 1963?

A. 2: Lee Harvey Oswald.

Q. 3: Who was known as ‘The Serpent of the Nile’?

A. 3: Cleopatra.

Q. 4: How many amendments have their been to the US Constitution?

A. 4: 27.

Q. 5: For which event of 1872 is the name of Captain Briggs remembered?

A. 5: He Was The Captain Of The Marie Celeste.

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.

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.)

Q. 8: A famous Irish novelist and poet, he was born in 1882 and died in 1941, who was he?

A. 8: James Joyce.

Q. 9: Who directed the movie ‘Jurassic Park’?

A. 9: Steven Spielberg.

Q. 10: What famous IT company launched a clothing line in 1986?

A. 10: Apple.

Q. 11: Which great Carthegian general crossed the Alps in 218?

A. 11: Hannibal.

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.

Q. 13: On what date in 1883 did France officially present the Statue of Liberty to the US?

A. 13: 4th July.

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.

Q. 15: Who had 7 members of a rival gang killed on St Valentines day 1929?

A. 15: Al Capone.

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.

Q. 17: Who said “Read my lips, no new taxes”?

A. 17: George Bush.

Q. 18: What was the name of the domestic videocassette tape recorder system introduced by Sony in 1975?

A. 18: Betamax.

Q. 19: Which famous Arab / Israeli war took place in 1973?

A. 19: The Yom Kippur war.

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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Feeling Smart? Good, Coz It’s Quiz Day!

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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Another random selection of questions in today’s quiz.

This has become quite a long running feature on the fasab blog. I enjoy putting them together, I hope you all continue to enjoy trying them out.

As always you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below – but NO cheating!

Enjoy.

Q. 1: What is Bugs Bunny’s catchphrase?

Q. 2: Where in the USA is the Sonoma wine growing region?

Q. 3: Which sad word stems from the combined Greek words for goat and song?

Q. 4: In ‘Star Trek’, from which planet did Spock’s mother come?

Q. 5: Which animal is not a Chinese year?

a. Ox b. Crow c. Hare d. Goat

Q. 6: Who is the only American President to have served non-consecutive terms in office?

Q. 7: Thomas Selfridge was the first fatality in a plane crash. Who was the pilot?

Q. 8: In which American town or city was the ‘Little House On The Prairie’ TV series set?

Q. 9: If you saw ‘canard’ on a French Menu, what type of meat would be on offer?

Q. 10: Which historical character did Errol Flynn play in the 1941 movie ‘They Died With Their Boots On’?

Q. 11: Whose face is said to have launched a thousand ships?

Q. 12: Who directed ‘Jaws’, ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ and ‘ET’?

Q. 13: What are the three styles of port? (a point for each)

Q. 14: Which country has special tea houses and is famous for it’s elaborate tea ceremonies?

Q. 15: Jack Bauer and Aaron Pierce are the only two characters that have appeared in seven seasons of the TV series ‘24’. What does Aaron Pierce do for a living?

Q. 16: Alan Shepard was the first man to do what?

Q. 17: Plus or minus 10, what percentage of the life forms on earth live in the oceans and seas?

Q. 18: The car in the ‘Knightrider’ series was called ‘KITT’. What does this acronym stand for?

Q. 19: Who sucked apple sauce to become the first American to eat in space?

Q. 20: The Academy Award winning song ‘When You Wish Upon A Star’ was written for which classic 1940 movie?

ANSWERS

Q. 1: What is Bugs Bunny’s catchphrase?

A. 1: ‘Whats Up Doc?’

Q. 2: Where in the USA is the Sonoma wine growing region?

A. 2: California

Q. 3: Which sad word stems from the combined Greek words for goat and song?

A. 3: Tragedy

Q. 4: In ‘Star Trek’, from which planet did Spock’s mother come?

A. 4: Earth

Q. 5: Which animal is not a Chinese year?

a. Ox b. Crow c. Hare d. Goat

A. 5: b. Crow

Q. 6: Who is the only American President to have served non-consecutive terms in office?

A. 6: Grover Cleveland

Q. 7: Thomas Selfridge was the first fatality in a plane crash. Who was the pilot?

A. 7: Orville Wright

Q. 8: In which American town or city was the ‘Little House On The Prairie’ TV series set?

A. 8: Walnut Grove

Q. 9: If you saw ‘canard’ on a French Menu, what type of meat would be on offer?

A. 9: Duck

Q. 10: Which historical character did Errol Flynn play in the 1941 movie ‘They Died With Their Boots On’?

A. 10: General Custer

Q. 11: Whose face is said to have launched a thousand ships?

A. 11: Helen of Troy

Q. 12: Who directed ‘Jaws’, ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ and ‘ET’?

A. 12: Steven Spielberg

Q. 13: What are the three styles of port? (a point for each)

A. 13: Ruby, tawny and vintage

Q. 14: Which country has special tea houses and is famous for it’s elaborate tea ceremonies?

A. 14: Japan

Q. 15: Jack Bauer and Aaron Pierce are the only two characters that have appeared in seven seasons of the TV series ‘24’. What does Aaron Pierce do for a living?

A. 15: Secret Service agent

Q. 16: Alan Shepard was the first man to do what?

A. 16: Hit a golf ball on the moon

Q. 17: Plus or minus 10, what percentage of the life forms on earth live in the oceans and seas?

A. 17: Circa 90%

Q. 18: The car in the ‘Knightrider’ series was called ‘KITT’. What does this acronym stand for?

A. 18: Knight Industries Two Thousand

Q. 19: Who sucked apple sauce to become the first American to eat in space?

A. 19: John Glenn

Q. 20: The Academy Award winning song ‘When You Wish Upon A Star’ was written for which classic 1940 movie?

A. 20: Pinocchio