“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Strange how these things happen, but today’s quiz seems to feature camels.
Not to worry though, there is the usual random selection of questions to go along with that so you may do okay anyway.
As usual if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating.
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: Which Ocean goes to the deepest depths?
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Q. 2: What kind of animal is a ‘St Lucia Parrot’?
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Q. 3: What is the common name of the stir-fried rice noodle dish commonly served as a street food or as meal in Thai restaurants.
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Q. 4: Each year the Moon moves away from the Earth by what distance?
(a) two inches (b) two feet (c) two yards (d) two miles?
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Q. 5: What do you call a triangle with two equal sides and equal opposite angles?
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Q. 6: Where is the world’s largest aquarium located?
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Q. 7: What continent do camels originally come from?
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Q. 8: And on which continent do you find the most camels today?
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Q. 9: What are the first and the last letters of the Greek Alphabet? (You need both answers to score a point.)
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Q. 10: What does the chemical symbol ‘U’ represent?
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Q. 11: What word is used to describe someone who is neither left handed nor right handed, but can use both hands with equal ease?
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Q. 12: What type of insect is a ‘Spanish fly’?
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Q. 13: What is 61 degrees Fahrenheit in degrees Celsius?
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Q. 14: What allegedly happened to British scientist Sir Isaac Newton that made him think about his theory of universal gravitation?
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Q. 15: The sum of two numbers is 53 and their difference is 9. What are the two numbers?
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Q. 16: What two creatures are on the Australian coat of arms?
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Q. 17: What planet in our solar system has the strongest surface winds?
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Q. 18: What are sticks of blackboard chalk made from?
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Q. 19: What is the wizard called ‘Olórin’ from ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ better known as?
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Q. 20: How many colors are there in the rainbow?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: Which Ocean goes to the deepest depths?
A. 1: The Pacific Ocean.
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Q. 2: What kind of animal is a ‘St Lucia Parrot’?
A. 2: It’s a Parrot, from St Lucia. You coulda guessed it!
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Q. 3: What is the common name of the stir-fried rice noodle dish commonly served as a street food or as meal in Thai restaurants.
A. 3: It is called Pad Thai.
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Q. 4: Each year the Moon moves away from the Earth by what distance?
(a) two inches (b) two feet (c) two yards (d) two miles?
A. 4: The correct answer is (a) two Inches.
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Q. 5: What do you call a triangle with two equal sides and equal opposite angles?
A. 5: It is known as an ‘Isosceles Triangle’.
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Q. 6: Where is the world’s largest aquarium located?
A. 6: At Disney World’s Epcot Center in Florida.
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Q. 7: What continent do camels originally come from?
A. 7: North America, not Africa.
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Q. 8: And on which continent do you find the most camels today?
A. 8: Australia.
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Q. 9: What are the first and the last letters of the Greek Alphabet? (You need both to score a point.)
A. 9: Alpha and Omega.
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Q. 10: What does the chemical symbol ‘U’ represent?
A. 10: Uranium.
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Q. 11: What word is used to describe someone who is neither left handed nor right handed, but can use both hands with equal ease?
A. 11: Ambidextrous.
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Q. 12: What type of insect is a ‘Spanish fly’?
A. 12: It is a ‘Beetle’.
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Q. 13: What is 61 degrees Fahrenheit in degrees Celsius?
A. 13: This is one of the easy ones to remember, just reverse the numbers, 61 degrees Fahrenheit is 16 degrees Celsius.
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Q. 14: What allegedly happened to British scientist Sir Isaac Newton that made him think about his theory of universal gravitation?
A. 14: The story goes that an apple fell on his head.
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Q. 15: The sum of two numbers is 53 and their difference is 9. What are the two numbers?
A. 15: 22 and 31.
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Q. 16: What two creatures are on the Australian coat of arms?
A. 16: A Kangaroo and an Emu.
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Q. 17: What planet in our solar system has the strongest surface winds?
A. 17: Neptune. (If you guessed ‘Uranus’ you don’t get a point but I like the way you think.)
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Q. 18: What are sticks of blackboard chalk made from?
A. 18: Gypsum (Calcium Sulphate).
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Q. 19: What is the wizard called ‘Olórin’ from ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ better known as?
A. 19: He is better known as ‘Gandalf’.
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Q. 20: How many colors are there in a rainbow?
A. 20: Seven. Known as the spectral colors they are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. What do you think, Peggy….
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