“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Summer is beckoning but not before you try another fasab quiz.
Twenty more random questions to test your knowledge.
As usual if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: How many leaves are there on a shamrock?
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Q. 2: It is the name of a region in Western Europe, a unique language, a close fitting bodice and a common form of the ball game Pelota. What is it?
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Q. 3: What nationality was the first person to reach the North Pole alone and on foot?
a) Finnish b) English c) Norwegian d) Swedish
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Q. 4: Which mode of transport did Christopher Cockerell invent in the 1950’s?
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Q. 5: What word links a herb or other small vegetable growth, the buildings, equipment, etc., of a company or an institution, or a shot in snooker where the cue ball hits a red ball which hits another red ball to make it go into a pocket?
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Q. 6: What city in the United States of America is known as the “City of Oaks” because of the many oak trees that line the streets in the heart of the city.
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Q. 7: What is a female bear called?
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Q. 8: Gävleborg, Gotland and Uppsala are among the counties of which country?
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Q. 9: In which Olympic sport are there ‘Normal Hill’ and ‘Large Hill’ events?
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Q. 10: In Greek mythology who went in search of the ‘Golden Fleece’ ? (You get a point for the name of the leader, the name given to his followers and two bonus points for the name of their ship.)
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Q. 11: What color originates from a famous 16th Century Italian painter and what color is it? (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 12: Which English city has more than 100 miles of canal?
a) London b) Birmingham c) Manchester
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Q. 13: Which empire ruled most of India and Pakistan in the 16th and 17th centuries?
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Q. 14: What writer created the famous Baker Street detective?
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Q. 15: Which black and white bird has the scientific name ‘Pica pica’ ?
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Q. 16: What is the name given to that part of the North Atlantic bounded by the Gulf Stream on the west, the North Atlantic Current on the north, the Canary Current on the east, and the North Equatorial Current on the south.
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Q. 17: If you added together all the voting seats in the US Senate and House of Representatives, how many idiots could sit down?
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Q. 18: Name the star of the movie ‘Taken’.
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Q. 19: What company, still in existence, was at one time the largest landowner in the world, having 15% of the land in North America?
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Q. 20: Finally a chance to beef up that points score. What were the eight original tokens used in the board game ‘Monopoly’ ? (A point for each correct answer and two bonus points if you get all eight correct.)
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: How many leaves are there on a shamrock?
A. 1: Three (3).
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Q. 2: It is the name of a region in Western Europe, a unique language, a close fitting bodice and a common form of the ball game Pelota. What is it?
A. 2: Basque.
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Q. 3: What nationality was the first person to reach the North Pole alone and on foot?
a) Finnish b) English c) Norwegian d) Swedish
A. 3: The correct answer is c) Norwegian. He was Børge Ousland and he walked there by himself in 1994.
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Q. 4: Which mode of transport did Christopher Cockerell invent in the 1950’s?
A. 4: The Hovercraft.
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Q. 5: What word links a herb or other small vegetable growth, the buildings, equipment, etc., of a company or an institution, or a shot in snooker where the cue ball hits a red ball which hits another red ball to make it go into a pocket?
A. 5: A ‘plant’.
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Q. 6: What city in the United States of America is known as the “City of Oaks” because of the many oak trees that line the streets in the heart of the city.
A. 6: Raleigh, North Carolina, is known as the “City of Oaks”.
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Q. 7: What is a female bear called?
A. 7: A ‘sow’.
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Q. 8: Gävleborg, Gotland and Uppsala are among the counties of which country?
A. 8: Sweden.
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Q. 9: In which Olympic sport are there ‘Normal Hill’ and ‘Large Hill’ events?
A. 9: Ski jumping.
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Q. 10: In Greek mythology who went in search of the ‘Golden Fleece’ ? (You get a point for the name of the leader, the name given to his followers and two bonus points for the name of their ship.)
A. 10: His name was ‘Jason’, his followers were the ‘Argonauts’, and the name of their ship (after which the followers were named) was the Argo.
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Q. 11: What color originates from a famous 16th Century Italian painter and what color is it? (A point for each correct answer.)
A. 11: Titian, a brownish-orange color.
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Q. 12: Which English city has more than 100 miles of canal?
a) London b) Birmingham c) Manchester
A. 12: The correct answer is b) Birmingham.
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Q. 13: Which empire ruled most of India and Pakistan in the 16th and 17th centuries?
A. 13: The Mughal Empire.
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Q. 14: What writer created the famous Baker Street detective?
A. 14: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, his creation was Sherlock Holmes.
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Q. 15: Which black and white bird has the scientific name ‘Pica pica’ ?
A. 15: The (Common) Magpie.
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Q. 16: What is the name given to that part of the North Atlantic bounded by the Gulf Stream on the west, the North Atlantic Current on the north, the Canary Current on the east, and the North Equatorial Current on the south.
A. 16: It is called the Sargasso Sea.
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Q. 17: If you added together all the voting seats in the US Senate and House of Representatives, how many idiots could sit down?
A. 17: 535 (100 + 435).
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Q. 18: Name the star of the movie ‘Taken’.
A. 18: Liam Neeson.
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Q. 19: What company, still in existence, was at one time the largest landowner in the world, having 15% of the land in North America?
A. 19: Hudson’s Bay Company.
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Q. 20: Finally a chance to beef up that points score. What were the eight original tokens used in the board game ‘Monopoly’ ? (A point for each correct answer and two bonus points if you get all eight correct.)
A. 20: Wheelbarrow, Battleship, Racecar, Thimble, Old-style shoe (or boot), Scottie dog, Top hat, Iron.
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