“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Welcome to another week and to another quiz.
The usual random selection of subjects and difficulties.
And 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: What does ‘VSOP’ stand for on a bottle of Brandy?
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Q. 2: What country has not fought in a war since 1815?
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Q. 3: What ethnic group was largely responsible for building most of the early railways in the U.S. West?
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Q. 4: What animal is the symbol of the World Wildlife Fund?
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Q. 5: Which is the only country in the world which has the Bible on its national flag?
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Q. 6: What is the total if you add the number of months with thirty-one days to the number of months that have twenty-eight days?
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Q. 7: What does the term ‘Prima Donna’ mean in Opera?
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Q. 8: What is a ‘Portuguese Man o’ War’?
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Q. 9: What color is orange blossom?
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Q. 10: People who are ‘color blind’ cab detect some colors but have difficulty distinguishing between two in particular, what are they?
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Q. 11: What is the three dimensional image created by laser beams called?
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Q. 12: Who was the first U.S. President to adopt the informal version of his first name?
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Q. 13: Organic chemistry is the study of materials that must contain which element?
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Q. 14: What famous and influential Theologian claimed he could drive away the devil with a fart?
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Q. 15: What is the liquid inside a coconut called?
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Q. 16: In which month is the ‘October Revolution’ celebrated in Russia?
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Q. 17: What are the next three prime numbers after 37?
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Q. 18: This one is the name of a flower and the colored part of the eye, what is it?
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Q. 19: What bird features in the poem, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
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Q. 20: Named after the characters in the Tin Tin cartoon series, how many people were in the band The Thompson Twins?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: What does ‘VSOP’ stand for on a bottle of Brandy?
A. 1: Very Superior Old Pale.
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Q. 2: What country has not fought in a war since 1815?
A. 2: Switzerland.
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Q. 3: What ethnic group was largely responsible for building most of the early railways in the U.S. West?
A. 3: The Chinese.
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Q. 4: What animal is the symbol of the World Wildlife Fund?
A. 4: Giant Panda.
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Q. 5: Which is the only country in the world which has the Bible on its national flag?
A. 5: Dominican Republic.
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Q. 6: What is the total if you add the number of months with thirty-one days to the number of months that have twenty-eight days?
A. 6: The answer is 19. Seven months have 31 days (January, March, May, July, August, October and December) and of course all twelve months have 28 days!
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Q. 7: What does the term ‘Prima Donna’ mean in Opera?
A. 7: Leading Female Opera Singer.
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Q. 8: What is a ‘Portuguese Man o’ War’?
A. 8: It is a sea-dwelling jellyfish-like invertebrate. Strangely though, the Portuguese never had a warship called a Man o’ War, and the Portuguese name for the jellyfish-like creature is Caravela Portuguesa, referring to an earlier Portuguese sailing ship design used for exploration in the 15-16th Centuries.
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Q. 9: What color is orange blossom?
A. 9: White.
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Q. 10: People who are ‘color blind’ cab detect some colors but have difficulty distinguishing between two in particular, what are they?
A. 10: They are the primary colors Red & Green.
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Q. 11: What is the three dimensional image created by laser beams called?
A. 11: A Hologram.
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Q. 12: Who was the first U.S. President to adopt the informal version of his first name?
A. 12: Jimmy Carter.
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Q. 13: Organic chemistry is the study of materials that must contain which element?
A. 13: Carbon.
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Q. 14: What famous and influential Theologian claimed he could drive away the devil with a fart?
A. 14: Martin Luther.
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Q. 15: What is the liquid inside a coconut called?
A. 15: It is called Coconut water. (Coconut milk, popularly thought to be the liquid inside a coconut, is made from the flesh of the coconut.)
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Q. 16: In which month is the ‘October Revolution’ celebrated in Russia?
A. 16: November. (Come on, it was never going to be that obvious!)
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Q. 17: What are the next three prime numbers after 37?
A. 17: They are all in the forties 41, 43 and 47.
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Q. 18: This one is the name of a flower and the colored part of the eye, what is it?
A. 18: Iris.
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Q. 19: What bird features in the poem, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
A. 19: An Albatross.
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Q. 20: Named after the characters in the Tin Tin cartoon series, how many people were in the band The Thompson Twins?
A. 20: Three. Here they are….
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