A good mixture of easy, difficult and maybe one or two tricky questions for you today.
But if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: Was the color orange named after the fruit, or was the fruit named after the color orange?
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Q. 2: Approximately how much of the mass of our solar system does the Sun take up?
a) 59% b) 69% c) 79% d) 89% e) 99%
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Q. 3: What is the deepest part of the world’s oceans known as?
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Q. 4: What was the discovery that gave archaeologists the key to understanding modern Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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Q. 5: You’ve seen it hundreds of times at least, but how many stars surround the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo?
a) 12 b) 22 c) 32 d) 42
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Q. 6: Since the beginning of the modern Olympics, in 1896, what are the only two countries to have participated in every Games. (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 7: Who played detective Kojak in the long running TV series?
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Q. 8: Approximately how many bacteria are on each of your feet?
a) one thousand b) one million c) one billion d) one trillion
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Q. 9: What is the name of the lake situated on the border of Peru and Bolivia in the Andes Mountains? (You know it, it’s a very well known name.)
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Q. 10: What was the name of the New York Yankees baseball star who was once married to Marilyn Monroe?
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Q. 11: Which US state has the longest border with Canada?
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Q. 12: Lizzie Borden was an American woman, from Fall River, Massachusetts, who was famously accused of the axe murders of her father and stepmother. It was a famous case memorialized in a popular skipping-rope rhyme: “Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.” How long was her jail sentence?
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Q. 13: Without rearranging any of its letters, how many English language words can you make from the seven letter word “therein”? (You can have a point for each word you can make, so potentially a good score here!)
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Q. 14: They are now worth millions of dollars each and much sought after, but how many of his paintings did Vincent Van Gogh sell while he was alive?
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Q. 15: What is Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service better known as?
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Q. 16: South Africa is the only country with three official capitals, what are they? (A point for each correct answer, and a bonus point if you can correctly name all three.)
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Q. 17: What is a baby eel called?
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Q. 18: What is greater, the volume of the Earth’s moon OR the volume of the Pacific Ocean?
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Q. 19: Which US President pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason?
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Q. 20: Probably the most famous version is by Frank Sinatra, but who wrote the song “I Get A Kick Out Of You”?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: Was the color orange named after the fruit, or was the fruit named after the color orange?
A. 1: The color orange was named after the fruit.
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Q. 2: Approximately how much of the mass of our solar system does the Sun take up?
a) 59% b) 69% c) 79% d) 89% e) 99%
A. 2: The correct answer is e) 99%.
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Q. 3: What is the deepest part of the world’s oceans known as?
A. 3: The deepest part of the world’s oceans is known as the Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands.
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Q. 4: What was the discovery that gave archaeologists the key to understanding modern Egyptian hieroglyphs.
A. 4: The discovery of the Rosetta Stone finally provided the key to understanding modern Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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Q. 5: You’ve seen it hundreds of times at least, but how many stars surround the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo?
a) 12 b) 22 c) 32 d) 42
A. 5: The correct answer is b), there are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.
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Q. 6: Since the beginning of the modern Olympics, in 1896, what are the only two countries to have participated in every Games. (A point for each correct answer.)
A. 6: The only two countries to have participated in every modern Olympic Games are Greece and Australia.
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Q. 7: Who played detective Kojak in the long running TV series?
A. 7: Telly Savalas.
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Q. 8: Approximately how many bacteria are on each of your feet?
a) one thousand b) one million c) one billion d) one trillion
A. 8: There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
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Q. 9: What is the name of the lake situated on the border of Peru and Bolivia in the Andes Mountains? (You know it, it’s a very well known name.)
A. 9: It is called Lake Titicaca.
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Q. 10: What was the name of the New York Yankees baseball star who was once married to Marilyn Monroe?
A. 10: He was Joe DiMaggio.
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Q. 11: Which US state has the longest border with Canada?
A. 11: Alaska.
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Q. 12: Lizzie Borden was an American woman, from Fall River, Massachusetts, who was famously accused of the axe murders of her father and stepmother. It was a famous case memorialized in a popular skipping-rope rhyme: “Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.” How long was her jail sentence?
A. 12: She was acquitted and no one else has ever been charged with the murders.
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Q. 13: Without rearranging any of its letters, how many English language words can you make from the seven letter word “therein”? (You can have a point for each word you can make, so potentially a good score here!)
A. 13: There are ten English language words that can be made out of the word “therein” without rearranging any of its letters: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
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Q. 14: They are now worth millions of dollars each and much sought after, but how many of his paintings did Vincent Van Gogh sell while he was alive?
A. 14: Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, the Red Vineyard at Arles.
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Q. 15: What is Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service better known as?
A. 15: QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline.
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Q. 16: South Africa is the only country with three official capitals, what are they? (A point for each correct answer, and a bonus point if you can correctly name all three.)
A. 16: South Africa’s three official capitals are Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein.
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Q. 17: What is a baby eel called?
A. 17: A baby eel is called an elver.
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Q. 18: What is greater, the volume of the Earth’s moon OR the volume of the Pacific Ocean?
A. 18: Bit of a trick question here. The volume of the Earth’s moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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Q. 19: Which US President pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason?
A. 19: Gerald Ford.
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Q. 20: Probably the most famous version is by Frank Sinatra, but who wrote the song “I Get A Kick Out Of You”?
A. 20: Cole Porter. Sorry Frank but this is MY favorite version….
If you know about history, geography, politics, technology, music, movies, cars and a lot of other stuff then you should do okay.
And as always, if you get stuck , you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: Who or what is a ‘FLOTUS’?
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Q. 2: Most of you will have heard of the company called ‘3M’ but what do the three ‘M’s stand for?
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Q. 3: Everyone has heard about the Titanic and probably seen at least one of the movies depicting its fateful inaugural voyage, but to which shipping line did the Titanic belong?
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Q. 4: What waterway did Britain buy a share of in 1875?
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Q. 5: In 1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was assassinated by which male member of his family?
a) son b) grandson c) nephew d) father
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Q. 6: What are the terms ‘Hi-Fi’ and ‘Wi-Fi’ abbreviations of? (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 7: In 1935, British engineer Robert Watson-Watt was working on a ‘death ray’ that would destroy enemy aircraft using radio waves. What did he invent instead?
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Q. 8: General Leopoldo Galtieri was president of which South American country in 1981 and 1982?
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Q. 9: When did the construction of the Berlin Wall begin and in what year was it demolished? (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 10: What makes of car were featured in the following movies? (A point for each correct answer, and a bonus point if you get them all correct.)
a) Herbie, The Love Bug b) Back To The Future
c) Smokey And The Bandit d) Bullitt
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Q. 11: In which year did South Africa have its first all-race elections?
a) 1990 b) 1992 c) 1994 d) 1996
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Q. 12: One of the best television mini-series ever made was the western ‘Lonesome Dove’, but what were the names of the two lead characters and who were the actors who played them? (A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you get all four names correct.)
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Q. 13: Held by Cuban athlete Javier Sotomayor, what is the current Men’s High Jump World Record?
a) 2.37 m b) 2.39 m c) 2.41 m d) 2.45 m e) 2.47 m
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Q. 14: ‘Operation Barbarossa’ was the codename used by the Germans for their plans to invade which country in 1941?
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Q. 15: What is considered to be the hottest desert in North America? (A bonus point if you know in which State it is located.)
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Q. 16: Who was ‘Mork’ and who was ‘Mindy’ in the hit TV sitcom ‘Mork & Mindy’ originally broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC? (A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you can name both correctly.)
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Q. 17: From which country did Norway secure its independence in 1905?
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Q. 18: Approximately how many rifles did American factories produce during World War II?
a) 1 million b) 3 million c) 5 million d) 7 million e) 9 million
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Q. 19: It is the name of a hybrid between a mandarin and a sweet orange and Winston Churchill’s wife, what is it?
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Q. 20: Who was ‘Talking To The Moon’ in 2011?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: Who or what is a ‘FLOTUS’?
A. 1: FLOTUS is the First Lady Of The United States, or currently Mrs Obama.
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Q. 2: Most of you will have heard of the company called ‘3M’ but what do the three ‘M’s stand for?
A. 2: ‘3M’ is an abbreviation of ‘Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing’.
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Q. 3: Everyone has heard about the Titanic and probably seen at least one of the movies depicting its fateful inaugural voyage, but to which shipping line did the Titanic belong?
A. 3: The name is mentioned in the movies, it is the White Star Line.
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Q. 4: What waterway did Britain buy a share of in 1875?
A. 4: The Suez Canal.
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Q. 5: In 1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was assassinated by which male member of his family?
a) son b) grandson c) nephew d) father
A. 5: Answer c) his nephew.
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Q. 6: What are the terms ‘Hi-Fi’ and ‘Wi-Fi’ abbreviations of? (A point for each correct answer.)
A. 6: ‘Hi-Fi’ and ‘Wi-Fi’ are abbreviations of ‘High Fidelity’ and ‘Wireless Fidelity’.
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Q. 7: In 1935, British engineer Robert Watson-Watt was working on a ‘death ray’ that would destroy enemy aircraft using radio waves. What did he invent instead?
A. 7: Robert Watson-Watt’s ‘death ray’ evolved into RADAR, otherwise known as ‘radio detection and ranging’.
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Q. 8: General Leopoldo Galtieri was president of which South American country in 1981 and 1982?
A. 8: Argentina.
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Q. 9: When did the construction of the Berlin Wall begin and in what year was it demolished? (A point for each correct answer.)
A. 9: Construction of the Berlin Wall began in 1961 (August 13th) and it was demolished in 1989.
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Q. 10: What makes of car were featured in the following movies? (A point for each correct answer, and a bonus point if you get them all correct.)
a) Herbie, The Love Bug b) Back To The Future
c) Smokey And The Bandit d) Bullitt
A. 10: a) Herbie, The Love Bug featured a Volkswagen Beetle
b) Back To The Future featured a DeLorean DMC-12
c) Smokey And The Bandit featured a Pontiac Trans Am
d) Bullitt featured a Ford Mustang GT fastback
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Q. 11: In which year did South Africa have its first all-race elections?
a) 1990 b) 1992 c) 1994 d) 1996
A. 11: The correct answer is c) 1994.
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Q. 12: One of the best television mini-series ever made was the western ‘Lonesome Dove’, but what were the names of the two lead characters and who were the actors who played them? (A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you get all four names correct.)
A. 12: The two lead characters in the Lonesome Dove TV miniseries were ‘Captain Augustus “Gus” McCrae’, played by Robert Duvall, and ‘Captain Woodrow F. Call’, played by Tommy Lee Jones.
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Q. 13: Held by Cuban athlete Javier Sotomayor, what is the current Men’s High Jump World Record?
a) 2.37 m b) 2.39 m c) 2.41 m d) 2.45 m e) 2.47 m
A. 13: The correct answer is d) 2.45 m (8 ft 1/2 in), achieved in Salamanca, Spain on July 27th 1993.
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Q. 14: ‘Operation Barbarossa’ was the codename used by the Germans for their plans to invade which country in 1941?
A. 14: It was the codename for their plans to invade Russia.
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Q. 15: What is considered to be the hottest desert in North America? (A bonus point if you know in which State it is located.)
A. 15: The Mojave Desert, located primarily in southeastern California is considered to be the hottest desert in North America.
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Q. 16: Who was ‘Mork’ and who was ‘Mindy’ in the hit TV sitcom ‘Mork & Mindy’ originally broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC? (A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you can name both correctly.)
A. 16: The series starred Robin Williams as Mork and Pam Dawber as Mindy McConnell.
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Q. 17: From which country did Norway secure its independence in 1905?
A. 17: Sweden.
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Q. 18: Approximately how many rifles did American factories produce during World War II?
a) 1 million b) 3 million c) 5 million d) 7 million e) 9 million
A. 18: The correct answer is d) approximately 7 million rifles were produced in American factories during WWII.
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Q. 19: It is the name of a hybrid between a mandarin and a sweet orange and Winston Churchill’s wife, what is it?
How often have you seen “The Opportunity Of A Lifetime” pop up on the internet or in your email?
This time it’s different, though.
This time it’s true!
Well, sort of.
Because this is your chance to own what is possibly the stupidest dog in the world.
And it won’t cost you anything either, we’re giving him away to the first good home
FOR FREE!!!
If you are stupid, and you want a companion at least as stupid as you are, if not more so, this is the perfect dog for you.
His name is ‘Scotty’, (and, yes, I have asked to be “beamed up” several times), but don’t let the name put you off.
You can call him anything you like, ‘Rover’, ‘Patch’, ‘Lassie’, ‘Monday’, ‘Tuesday’, ‘Wednesday’, ‘November’, or whatever, because it’s all the same to him – this dog is so dumb he doesn’t even know his own name.
His lack of knowledge is on such a vast scale I’m astounded the known Universe is expanding rapidly enough to contain it.
He doesn’t know how to sit. He doesn’t know how to stay. He doesn’t know how to come, or to stop, or to heel, or anything you can teach a normal dog to do.
He just doesn’t know anything.
And you won’t have to waste your time and money training him either, because this dog just cannot learn. Believe me I have done my best!
He is painfully stupid in at least the four different languages we have tried. He doesn’t speak English, nor does he hablar español, he hasn’t a clue how to parler francais, and you might as well try to speak klingon as sprechen Deutsch to him.
A big plus is that he is small and won’t eat you out of house and home. All you have to remember to do is buy cat food and not dog food and you’ll be fine. The cat beats him up every time he eats her food, but he doesn’t learn from that either. I don’t think he even knows he’s a dog.
The only one thing he has learned, is not to shit in the house, but in truth I think this has more to do with the fact that every time he tried he discovered he couldn’t with my toe up his arse.
He barks at strangers, which is good. And if he left it at that we wouldn’t mind.
But he also barks at people he knows, or rather, people he should know if he had the brains to remember who they were, which he hasn’t.
And some of the time he barks at nothing at all. It can go on for ages because, when he does bark at nothing, he must hear his own bark, think it’s another dog, and off he goes. Sometimes you can look at his face and watch him trying to figure it out.
“Woof!”
“Who said that? Grrrrr.”
“Woof!”
“There it is again!”
“Woof! Snarl.”
“WTF?”
“Woof! Woof! Woof!”
“There’s another dog here somewhere.”
“Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!”
And on it goes for a while, until it stops for no reason, the same way it started.
He also doesn’t know his left back leg belongs to him. When he notices it is there, he attacks it as if it is another animal trying to insert itself into his leg socket. I’ve seen other dogs chasing their tail, but this is just ridiculous.
Finally, every time the front gate is opened, he has taken to running down the street after bicycles and motorbikes – that he doesn’t know how to ride – and after cars and other vehicles – that he doesn’t know how to drive. What he would do with them if he ever caught one I just don’t know! Neither does he, but he does it anyway.
Somehow, and I find this rather incredible – and disappointing – he has always managed to find his way back home. I think it’s because he tries every other house on the way back and we are the only one silly enough to let him back in. I’ve told everyone to pretend they don’t know him when he turns up and he’ll just move on to the next house and then next, but they won’t listen to me.
So come on good people of the blogsphere, which of you is going to take advantage of this incredible opportunity of a lifetime?
You know how much I love dogs, I’ve said so before on this blog, but please get in touch as soon as you can and take this stupid dog off our hands before I crack up completely!
My father gave me a lot of good advice, and one of the things he told me many years ago was never to get a dog whose arsehole was bigger than its brain.
Another random set of questions, some quite easy, others rather difficult and a couple of tricky ones thrown in for good measure.
But there’s no pass mark and no pressure so why not give them a go?
And, as usual, if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please, NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: The name of which capital city is also contained in the title of a movie starring Frank Sinatra?
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Q. 2: What was the surname (last name) and the nicknames of the father and son who controlled Haiti from 1957 to 1986? (A point for each correct answer, so three points up for grabs.)
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Q. 3: On which mountain did Noah’s Ark come to rest as the Great Flood subsided?
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Q. 4: Who was the biggest selling female singer in America in the 1990s?
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Q. 5: There are many examples of countries in the world that are land-locked, that is surrounded by several other countries, but there are three countries that are completely surrounded by one other country only, a point for each that you can name and a bonus point if you can name all three.
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Q. 6: Why was Louise Brown famous in 1978?
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Q. 7: What is the longest river in Australia?
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Q. 8: In which well known movie would you find the robot or android known as ‘Ash’?
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Q. 9: In which country did the soup known as ‘Waterzooi’ originate?
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Q. 10: Two South American countries have no coastline, name them. (A point for each.)
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Q. 11: Who or what was ‘The African Queen’ in the movie of the same name?
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Q. 12: What does the yummy breakfast treat ‘Eggs Benedict’ consist of?
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Q. 13: Which Canadian newspaper magnate held important Government Offices in England during World War I and World War II?
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Q. 14: Who played ‘Herman Munster’ in the long running CBS Sitcom?
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Q. 15: Which former American President left behind an immortal souvenir – the teddy -which was named after him?
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Q. 16: Orson Welles stated of him that his movie ‘The General’ was “the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made.” Of whom was he speaking?
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Q. 17: According to Greek mythology whose box contained all the evils of the world?
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Q. 18: He was born in Poland and emigrated to Palestine in 1906. He became the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Who was he?
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Q. 19: Who wrote 2001 ‘A Space Odyssey’?
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Q. 20: What is the name of the largest river in Saudi Arabia?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: The name of which capital city is also contained in the title of a movie starring Frank Sinatra?
A. 1: Rome, Italy and the movie ‘Tony Rome’.
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Q. 2: What was the surname (last name) and the nicknames of the father and son who controlled Haiti from 1957 to 1986? (A point for each correct answer, so three points up for grabs.)
A. 2: Dr Francois Duvalier known as ‘Papa Doc’ (1957-1971) and his son Jean-Claude known as ‘Bébé Doc’ (1971-1986).
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Q. 3: On which mountain did Noah’s Ark come to rest as the Great Flood subsided?
A. 3: Mt. Ararat.
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Q. 4: Who was the biggest selling female singer in America in the 1990s?
A. 4: Mariah Carey.
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Q. 5: There are many examples of countries in the world that are land-locked, that is surrounded by several other countries, but there are three countries that are completely surrounded by one other country only, a point for each that you can name and a bonus point if you can name all three.
A. 5: Vatican City, and San Marino, both surrounded by Italy and Lesotho surrounded by South Africa.
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Q. 6: Why was Louise Brown famous in 1978?
A. 6: She was the world’s first test-tube baby.
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Q. 7: What is the longest river in Australia?
A. 7: The Murray River
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Q. 8: In which well known movie would you find the robot or android known as ‘Ash’?
A. 8: ‘Ash’ was the robot/android in the movie ‘Alien’.
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Q. 9: In which country did the soup known as ‘Waterzooi’ originate?
A. 9: Belgium.
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Q. 10: Two South American countries have no coastline, name them. (A point for each.)
A. 10: Bolivia and Paraguay.
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Q. 11: Who or what was ‘The African Queen’ in the movie of the same name?
A. 11: ‘The African Queen’ was a boat.
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Q. 12: What does the yummy breakfast treat ‘Eggs Benedict’ consist of?
A. 12: ‘Eggs Benedict’ consists of two halves of an English muffin, topped with ham or bacon, poached eggs, and Hollandaise sauce.
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Q. 13: Which Canadian newspaper magnate held important Government Offices in England during World War I and World War II?
A. 13: Lord Beaverbrook.
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Q. 14: Who played ‘Herman Munster’ in the long running CBS Sitcom?
A. 14: Fred Gwynne.
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Q. 15: Which former American President left behind an immortal souvenir – the teddy -which was named after him?
A. 15: Theodore Roosevelt
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Q. 16: Orson Welles stated of him that his movie ‘The General’ was “the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made.” Of whom was he speaking?
A. 16: Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton.
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Q. 17: According to Greek mythology whose box contained all the evils of the world?
A. 17: Pandora’s.
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Q. 18: He was born in Poland and emigrated to Palestine in 1906. He became the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Who was he?
A. 18: David Ben Gurion.
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Q. 19: Who wrote 2001 ‘A Space Odyssey’?
A. 19: Arthur C Clarke.
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Q. 20: What is the name of the largest river in Saudi Arabia?
A. 20: A bit of a tricky one to end with, there are no rivers in Saudi Arabia. Score a point if you said zero or none.
Month nine of 2013 and quiz number – I don’t know how many – but here’s another one anyway.
Usual random mixture and answers to be found waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please, NO cheating!
Enjoy.
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Q. 1: The name of which famous band is also the Aramaic word for ‘the father, my father’?
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Q. 2: Which popular beverage’s name is the German word for ‘to store’?
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Q. 3: Cruciverbalists get down sometimes when they get their meaning across. What are cruciverbalists?
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Q. 4: How many zeros are in one trillion when written out in numerical form?
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Q. 5: In which US City was the TV police show ‘Cagney and Lacy’ set?
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Q. 6: In which movies do each of the following play a missionary? (A point for each correct answer)
a. Katherine Hepburn
b. Jeremy Irons
c. Jack Hawkins
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Q. 7: In which fictional town did the ‘Flintstones’ live?
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Q. 8: Which modern means of transport now usually replaces the richly adorned but antiquated and impractical ‘Sedia Gestatoria’?
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Q. 9: Which two contributions to western tea culture were introduced by US tea merchants, one at the St. Louis world fair in 1904, the other in New York restaurants in 1908? (A point for each)
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Q. 10: Which sport legend was given the nickname ‘Le Crocodil’?
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Q. 11: A plot element in a movie is often called which one of the following?
a. Macbeth
b. Macduff
c. MacGuffin
d. Macleod
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Q. 12: Who began her show with the words ‘I was born in the Bronx in New York, in December 1941’?
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Q. 13: In Japan, what is a ‘Gaijin’?
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Q. 14: On a standard dart board, what is the lowest number that cannot be scored with a single dart?
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Q. 15: Which millionaire first introduced a free school milk program in Chicago to combat rickets?
a. Al Capone
b. Richard W. Sears
c. Hugh Hefner
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Q. 17: What was the name of Jacques Cousteau’s boat?
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Q. 18: Which chivalrous expression is closely associated with the sinking of the HMS Birkenhead in Febuary 1852?
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Q. 19: Who played ‘Blake Carrington’ in the TV series Dynasty and was also the voice of the ‘boss’ in Charlie’s Angels?
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Q. 20: Still used today, what is the very popular, though sometimes frightening Anglo Saxon word meaning ‘pledge’? Three letters
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: The name of which famous band is also the Aramaic word for ‘the father, my father’?
A. 1: Abba
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Q. 2: Which popular beverage’s name is the German word for ‘to store’?
A. 2: Lager.
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Q. 3: Cruciverbalists get down sometimes when they get their meaning across. What are cruciverbalists?
A. 3: Creators or lovers of crossword puzzles
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Q. 4: How many zeros are in one trillion when written out in numerical form?
A. 4: 12 (1,000,000,000,000)
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Q. 5: In which US City was the TV police show ‘Cagney and Lacy’ set?
A. 5: New York.
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Q. 6: In which movies do each of the following play a missionary? (A point for each correct answer)
a. Katherine Hepburn
b. Jeremy Irons
c. Jack Hawkins
A. 6: a. Katherine Hepburn in ‘The African Queen’
b. Jeremy Irons in ‘The Mission’
c. Jack Hawkins in ‘Zulu’
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Q. 7: In which fictional town did the ‘Flintstones’ live?
A. 7: Bedrock.
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Q. 8: Which modern means of transport now usually replaces the richly adorned but antiquated and impractical ‘Sedia Gestatoria’?
A. 8: The ‘Popemobile(s)’
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Q. 9: Which two contributions to western tea culture were introduced by US tea merchants, one at the St. Louis world fair in 1904, the other in New York restaurants in 1908? (A point for each)
A. 9: Ice tea (1904) and tea bags (1908)
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Q. 10: Which sport legend was given the nickname ‘Le Crocodil’?
A. 10: Rene Lacoste
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Q. 11: A plot element in a movie is often called which one of the following?
a. Macbeth
b. Macduff
c. MacGuffin
d. Macleod
A. 11: Answer c. it is called a MacGuffin
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Q. 12: Who began her show with the words ‘I was born in the Bronx in New York, in December 1941’?
A. 12: Rhoda.
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Q. 13: In Japan, what is a ‘Gaijin’?
A. 13: A foreigner. Gaijin means ‘outside person’.
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Q. 14: On a standard dart board, what is the lowest number that cannot be scored with a single dart?
A. 14: 23
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Q. 15: Which millionaire first introduced a free school milk program in Chicago to combat rickets?
a. Al Capone
b. Richard W. Sears
c. Hugh Hefner
A. 15: Answer a. Al Capone
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Q. 16: Which vegetable has the most calories?
A. 16: Avocado.
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Q. 17: What was the name of Jacques Cousteau’s boat?
A. 17: The Calypso.
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Q. 18: Which chivalrous expression is closely associated with the sinking of the HMS Birkenhead in Febuary 1852?
A. 18: ‘Women and children first’
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Q. 19: Who played ‘Blake Carrington’ in the TV series Dynasty and was also the voice of the ‘boss’ in Charlie’s Angels?
A. 19: John Forsythe
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Q. 20: Still used today, what is the very popular, though sometimes frightening Anglo Saxon word meaning ‘pledge’? Three letters
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