Chocolate, yoghurt and a lot more make up today’s questions.
So why not pour yourself a cup of coffee too and have a go?
As usual, if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: What are the names of the two famous Star Wars robots?
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Q. 2: How many muscles does your body use to balance itself when you are standing still?
a) 100 b) 200 c) 300 d) 400 e) 500
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Q. 3: What is the name of the largest and oldest chocolate company in the U.S.?
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Q. 4: ‘tcby’ now means ‘The Country’s Best Yogurt’ but what did the letters ‘tcby’ originally stand for?
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Q. 5: Who was the leader of the Macedonian Empire?
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Q. 6: Time to rack up a lot of points, what were the names of the six principal actors in the long running hit TV series ‘Friends’? (Bonus points if you can also correctly name the characters they played.)
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Q. 7: What is the name generally used for the traditional curved blade Japanese sword?
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Q. 8: Recently they seem to be trying to put it back up again, but in what year was the Fall of the Iron Curtain?
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Q. 9: Approximately how many pieces of ‘space junk’ are orbiting around Earth?
a) over 4,000 b) over 6,000 c) over 8,000 d) over 10,000
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Q. 10: There’s a new one out this year, but how many ‘Planet Of The Apes’ based movies have there been? (Bonus points if you can name them and even more bonus points if know the years they were released.)
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Q. 11: Which two rivers meet at Khartoum to make the Nile?
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Q. 12: Who, in 2012, became the first person to break the sound barrier, unprotected and under his own power?
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Q. 13: During World War II approximately how many tanks were produced by American factories?
a) 59,000 b) 69,000 c) 79,000 d) 89,000 e) 99,000
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Q. 14: Who is the current Prime Minister of Canada?
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Q. 15: Isadora Duncan, known as the mother of modern dance, was killed in an unusual way, how?
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Q. 16: What is the recommended standard recreational diving limit for ordinary divers?
a) 20 meters b) 30 meters c) 40 meters d) 50 meters
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Q. 17: In Las Vegas, what is the name of the ancient Egyptian themed hotel with a pyramid shaped casino?
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Q. 18: What was the name of the mythical Roman god of war?
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Q. 19: Who was ‘Dr Frasier Crane’ and his brother ‘Dr Niles Crane’? (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 20: What musician is known as “The Boss” and what was the name of the band he played with? (A point for each correct answer.)
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: What are the names of the two famous Star Wars robots?
A. 1: The two famous Star Wars robots are called 3CP0 and R2D2.
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Q. 2: How many muscles does your body use to balance itself when you are standing still?
a) 100 b) 200 c) 300 d) 400 e) 500
A. 2: Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
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Q. 3: What is the name of the largest and oldest chocolate company in the U.S.?
A. 3: The largest and oldest chocolate company in the U.S. is Hershey’s. Founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1894, this company produces over one billion pounds of chocolate products every year.
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Q. 4: ‘tcby’ now means ‘The Country’s Best Yogurt’ but what did the letters ‘tcby’ originally stand for?
A. 4: The letters ‘tcby’ originally stood for ‘This Can’t Be Yogurt’, but the name was changed after the company was sued by a rival company called ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt’.
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Q. 5: Who was the leader of the Macedonian Empire?
A. 5: Alexander the Great.
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Q. 6: Time to rack up a lot of points, what were the names of the six principal actors in the long running hit TV series ‘Friends’? (Bonus points if you can also correctly name the characters they played.)
A. 6: The six ‘Friends’ were Jennifer Aniston as ‘Rachel Green’; Courteney Cox as Monica Geller; Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay; Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani; Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing; and David Schwimmer as Ross Geller.
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Q. 7: What is the name generally used for the traditional curved blade Japanese sword?
A. 7: The traditional curved blade Japanese sword is called a ‘Katana’.
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Q. 8: Recently they seem to be trying to put it back up again, but in what year was the Fall of the Iron Curtain?
A. 8: The Iron Curtain fell in 1989.
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Q. 9: Approximately how many pieces of ‘space junk’ are orbiting around Earth?
a) over 4,000 b) over 6,000 c) over 8,000 d) over 10,000
A. 9: The correct answer is c) over 8,000.
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Q. 10: There’s a new one out this year, but how many ‘Planet Of The Apes’ based movies have there been? (Bonus points if you can name them and even more bonus points if know the years they were released.)
A. 10: There have been eight planet of the apes movies so far, ‘Planet of the Apes’ (1968); ‘Beneath the Planet of the Apes’ (1970); ‘Escape from the Planet of the Apes’ (1971); ‘Conquest of the Planet of the Apes’ (1972); ‘Battle for the Planet of the Apes’ (1973); ‘Planet of the Apes’ (2001); ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ (2011); and ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ (2014).
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Q. 11: Which two rivers meet at Khartoum to make the Nile?
A. 11: It’s easier than you think, the two rivers that meet at Khartoum to make the Nile are the White & Blue Niles.
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Q. 12: Who, in 2012, became the first person to break the sound barrier, unprotected and under his own power?
A. 12: Felix Baumgartner became the first person to break the sound barrier, unprotected and under his own power. In his record breaking stunt he reached speeds of up to 834 mph.
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Q. 13: During World War II approximately how many tanks were produced by American factories?
a) 59,000 b) 69,000 c) 79,000 d) 89,000 e) 99,000
A. 13: The correct answer is d) 89,000.
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Q. 14: Who is the current Prime Minister of Canada?
A. 14: Stephen Harper.
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Q. 15: Isadora Duncan, known as the mother of modern dance, was killed in an unusual way, how?
A. 15: Isadora Duncan was pulled from the vehicle in which she was a passenger and violently slammed against the road when her long scarf got caught in the wheel. Her neck was broken and she died on impact.
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Q. 16: What is the recommended standard recreational diving limit for ordinary divers?
a) 20 meters b) 30 meters c) 40 meters d) 50 meters
A. 16: The correct answer is b) 30 Meters (98 feet), the average depth at which nitrogen narcosis symptoms begin to appear in adults.
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Q. 17: In Las Vegas, what is the name of the ancient Egyptian themed hotel with a pyramid shaped casino?
A. 17: It’s called the ‘Luxor’.
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Q. 18: What was the name of the mythical Roman god of war?
A. 18: Mars.
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Q. 19: Who was ‘Dr Frasier Crane’ and his brother ‘Dr Niles Crane’? (A point for each correct answer.)
A. 19: They were Kelsey Grammar and David Hyde Pierce from the wonderful hit TV sitcom ‘Frasier’.
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Q. 20: What musician is known as “The Boss” and what was the name of the band he played with? (A point for each correct answer.)
A. 20: In the music world “The Boss” is Bruce Sprigsteen and he played with the E Street Band.
As the turmoil continues in the Ukraine so too does the pissing contest between Presidents Obama and Putin.
When Obama imposed economic sanctions against Russia he must have known that there would be some kind of retaliation.
But he probably also knew that this would be unlikely to have a dramatic affect on the United States.
It was one of those gambits that politicians use when they want to appear to be concerned and doing something, yet at the same time really doing little or nothing.
Of course, always wanting to claim the high moral ground, Obama and his henchmen put pressure on their European Union allies to do likewise.
They buckled under and on this occasion did the bidding of Obama, but in their case the consequences may be felt a lot more.
And when they do start to feel the pinch the big question will be how long Obama can hold this coalition together – especially since America has spent the last few years spying on these ‘friends’, tapping their phones, reading their emails, and treating them like enemies!
Putin’s response has been predictable and potentially a lot more substantial in its impact than America’s opening salvo. Putin has banned the import of food from the European Union, the United States, Canada, Norway and Australia.
Whilst the US, Canada and Australia are too remote to feel much of the pain, some European nations, like Germany, for example, will feel it a lot more. Germany does substantial trade with Russia, accounting for 13% of Germany’s GDP.
Russia, on the other hand, is rich in natural resources, and does not have to be dependent on anyone, so it is questionable just how far Obama can turn this economic screw and get away with it.
If the situation does escalate with further sanctions imposed against Russia, there is little doubt that Putin’s comeback would be, at the very least, to slow down the flow of cheap natural gas to the rest of Europe – always with the option of cutting it off altogether.
The EU’s reluctance to put the screws to Russia because of their dependency on it for the vast majority of their energy needs may well see the moral high ground coalition disintegrate and Obama left once again isolated and looking foolish.
(Except perhaps for Britain which will probably still tag along the way they did with the WMD deceit, because Britain doesn’t get it’s natural gas from the Russians and because British PM Cameron will do anything and everything for a photo opportunity and to look statesmanlike with an election looming there in a few months.)
Meantime Obama has once again taken on the appearance of the sheriff in Blazing Saddles!
I’ve said before that America is bad – that’s capital ‘B’, ‘A’ and ‘D’ – at foreign policy. The US Government should know this by now, I’m not the only one saying it. It is a well known fact all over the world – except in America which apparently doesn’t know very much about the rest of the world and also apparently isn’t going to learn any time soon.
There hasn’t been any time in history when America needed to take stock of what has happened and try to make a few friends out there in the big wide world rather than pissing everyone else off needlessly.
Sure if you’re the biggest and strongest on the field you can kick anyone around. But to what purpose when it’s just as easy to get people on your side. Most of the woes America faces, the rest of the world faces too. There’s more in common out there that you might at first think.
Cue the man who was going to bring in great change and had the power to do so. But, no, President Obama hasn’t changed a damn thing. He inherited a great big hole and he just jumped in there with his shovel and keeps on digging.
Worse, he has yet again allowed croneyism to take the place of innovation and good sense.
To help him he has given government positions to the biggest bunch of idiots that you could ever imagine.
Their first job it seems was to continue to piss off Europe. Hot on the heels of the NSA getting caught spying on German Chancellor Merkel, the U.S. Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, was caught in a phone call recording saying “F*** the EU”.
Yes, you read that correctly. And she did all this as she was discussing who should be in the new Ukrainian government.
Whoops! And Double Whoops!!
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Here it is if you want to hear it for yourselves.
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That’s the Secretary of State.
Now what about the Presidential appointeees, the Ambassadors.
You would think the main criteria for choosing your Ambassadors would be to get someone who has an in depth knowledge of the country where they will be posted. Someone well versed in the culture, history, politics etc. Someone who will fit in straight away and make a good impression on behalf of the American people.
Sound sensible?
Yes, of course it does.
Is it the way America chooses its Ambassadors?
No, of course it’s not.
America chooses its Ambassadors, not on ability, but rather on how much money they have raised for the President’s election or re-election campaign.
That’s what you call corruption in any other country. I’m not sure what it’s called in America but the consequences are plain and pathetic to be seen.
Nowhere better than in the most recent hearings for the ambassador positions.
In this lot of new Ambassadors we had Colleen Bell, a TV producer for a soap opera who was picked as the U.S. envoy to Hungary. Did she know anything about Hungary? No. She didn’t utter a word of sense, just relied on waffle and bluff.
The only thing that eased her humiliation was the new Ambassador to Norway who was so clueless he didn’t even know who was in Government there. He even called the Progress Party, which is part of Norway’s ruling coalition, a hate-spewing “fringe element.”
And last in these examples, but not least in terms of inability and unsuitability for the job, was Noah Bryson Mamet. He was the nominee for the Argentina ambassadorship despite the fact that he’d never even visited that country and can’t speak Spanish.
A couple of million dollars for Obama apparently goes a very long way to getting you the job of representing America on the world stage.
Incredible! And not in a good way.
I’ll give you the opportunity to hear Anderson Cooper’s take on it too.
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