The quizzes do March on and we are starting this month with a good mix of questions. Some you should get without too much difficulty and some you will have to think about for a while.
Oh yes, and one that I will be surprised if anyone gets the bonus points for. You’ll know it when you see it.
As usual if you do get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating.
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: ‘Solidarity’ was an important Trade Union in which country in the 1980s?
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Q. 2: In lawn bowls (and its indoor version), what is the target ball called?
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Q. 3: Which creature lives on mulberry leaves?
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Q. 4: In the USA what cities are known as the
a) Big D? b) Steel City? c) City of Brotherly Love? d) Emerald City?
(A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if get all four correct.)
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Q. 5: In relation to power what is the equivalent of 746 watts?
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Q. 6: What word denoted the new policy of openness adopted by Mikhail Gorbachev’s government in the Soviet Union?
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Q. 7: What well known pottery form takes its name from the Italian for “baked earth”?
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Q. 8: How long did Rip Van Winkle sleep for?
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Q. 9: What term is given to a piece of rock or metal from space that reaches the surface of the Earth?
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Q. 10: The suffix ‘stan’ is Persian for ‘place of’ or ‘country’. The names of seven countries end in ‘stan’, what are they? (You get a point for each one you can name correctly and five (yes, 5) bonus points if get them all correct.)
a) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ stan
b) _ _ _ _ _ _ stan
c) _ _ _ _ _ _ stan
d) _ _ _ _ stan
e) _ _ _ _ _ _ stan
f) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ stan
g) _ _ _ _ _ _ stan
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Q. 11: What color is the most-prized variety of jade?
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Q. 12: Whose theorem uses a 3, 4, 5 triangle?
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Q. 13: Piraeus serves as the port for which major city?
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Q. 14: Which insects communicate with one another by dancing?
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Q. 15: What was the name of Captain Nemo’s submarine?
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Q. 16: What creature is an ophidiophobe afraid of?
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Q. 17: In the US and the UK what is the name given to the government department responsible for formulating and recommending economic, financial, tax, and fiscal policies?
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Q. 18: Which of the 12 Zodiac signs start with the letter ‘L’ ?
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Q. 19: Which English politician, when told by Lady Nancy Astor that if he were her husband she’d put poison in his coffee, replied that if she were his wife he’d drink it?
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Q. 20: What popular song originated as the jingle “Buy the World a Coke” in the groundbreaking 1971 “Hilltop” television commercial for Coca-Cola? (A bonus point is available if you can also correctly name the group.)
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: ‘Solidarity’ was an important Trade Union in which country in the 1980s?
A. 1: Poland.
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Q. 2: In lawn bowls (and its indoor version), what is the target ball called?
A. 2: Jack.
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Q. 3: Which creature lives on mulberry leaves?
A. 3: The Silk worm.
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Q. 4: In the USA what cities are known as the
a) Big D? b) Steel City? c) City of Brotherly Love? d) Emerald City?
(A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if get all four correct.)
A. 4: The correct answers are
a) The Big D = Dallas
b) The Steel City = Pittsburgh
c) The City of Brotherly Love = Philadelphia
d) The Emerald City = Seattle
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Q. 5: In relation to power what is the equivalent of 746 watts?
A. 5: 746 watts is the equivalent of 1 horse power.
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Q. 6: What word denoted the new policy of openness adopted by Mikhail Gorbachev’s government in the Soviet Union?
A. 6: Glasnost.
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Q. 7: What well known pottery form takes its name from the Italian for “baked earth”?
A. 7: Terracotta.
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Q. 8: How long did Rip Van Winkle sleep for?
A. 8: Twenty years.
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Q. 9: What term is given to a piece of rock or metal from space that reaches the surface of the Earth?
A. 9: It is known as a ‘Meteorite’.
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Q. 10: The suffix ‘stan’ is Persian for ‘place of’ or ‘country’. The names of seven countries end in ‘stan’, what are they? (You get a point for each one you can name correctly and seven (yes, 7) bonus points if get them all correct.)
a) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ stan
b) _ _ _ _ _ _ stan
c) _ _ _ _ _ _ stan
d) _ _ _ _ stan
e) _ _ _ _ _ _ stan
f) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ stan
g) _ _ _ _ _ _ stan
A. 10: They are in alphabetical order,
a) Afghanistan
b) Kazakhstan
c) Kyrgyzstan
d) Pakistan
e) Tajikistan
f) Turkmenistan
g) Uzbekistan
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Q. 11: What color is the most-prized variety of jade?
A. 11: Green.
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Q. 12: Whose theorem uses a 3, 4, 5 triangle?
A. 12: Pythagoras.
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Q. 13: Piraeus serves as the port for which major city?
A. 13: Athens.
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Q. 14: Which insects communicate with one another by dancing?
A. 14: Bees.
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Q. 15: What was the name of Captain Nemo’s submarine?
A. 15: It was called the ‘Nautilus’.
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Q. 16: What creature is an ophidiophobe afraid of?
A. 16: Snakes.
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Q. 17: In the US and the UK what is the name given to the government department responsible for formulating and recommending economic, financial, tax, and fiscal policies?
A. 17: Treasury.
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Q. 18: Which of the 12 Zodiac signs start with the letter ‘L’ ?
A. 18: They are Leo and Libra.
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Q. 19: Which English politician, when told by Lady Nancy Astor that if he were her husband she’d put poison in his coffee, replied that if she were his wife he’d drink it?
A. 19: Winston Churchill.
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Q. 20: What popular song originated as the jingle “Buy the World a Coke” in the groundbreaking 1971 “Hilltop” television commercial for Coca-Cola? (A bonus point is available if you can also correctly name the group.)
A. 20: “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony) by The New Seekers.
A few months ago, I can’t remember exactly without doing a search on the blog, I did a short series that I called ‘The Silly Name Game’. Unsurprisingly it featured people with silly names. And some of them were very silly indeed. Here are a couple of examples to get you in the mood.
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But names are inflicted on people. They don’t really get to choose them. If they are lucky the girls ease their pain by ditching a silly or embarrassing birth name for that of a husband, but the guys are stuck, unless they change the ones they get at birth by deed poll or some other official device.
However, as luck would have it, people don’t tend to find their own names humorous or unusual. Familiarity I suppose dulls the senses over the years.
But the question that puzzles me most is, why, when people do get to choose a name, like a name of a town, for example, do they choose something absolutely awful?
If you have never noticed or thought about that you have an opportunity now because this post is about towns that have been named rather badly by someone who really should have known better. Personally I think large amounts of either stupidity or alcohol (or perhaps a combination of both) may have had something to do with it.
How about a short story of love, betrayal, and revenge to end the week?
Enjoy.
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The divorce had just become final and she was preparing to remove all her remaining belongings from what had been “their” house.
On the first day, she sadly packed her belongings into boxes, crates and suitcases.
On the second day, she had the movers come and collect her things.
On the third day, she sat down for the last time at their beautiful dining-room table, by candle-light. She put on some soft background music, and feasted on a pound of shrimp, a jar of caviar, and a bottle of spring-water.
When she had finished, she went into each and every room and deposited a few half-eaten shrimps dipped in caviar into the hollow centre of the curtain rods.
Then she cleaned up the kitchen and left.
On the fourth day, her ex-husband came back to the house with his new girlfriend, and at first all was bliss.
Then, slowly, the house began to smell.
They tried everything; cleaning, mopping, and airing-out the place.
Vents were checked for dead rodents, and carpets were steam cleaned.
Air fresheners were hung everywhere.
Exterminators were brought in to set off gas canisters, during which time the two had to move out for a few days.
In the end they even paid to replace the expensive wool carpeting.
Nothing worked!
People stopped coming over to visit.
Repairmen refused to work in the house.
The maid quit.
Finally, the ex and his new girl couldn’t take the stench any longer, and decided they had to move.
But a month later – even though they’d cut their price in half – they couldn’t find a buyer for such a stinky house.
Word got out, and eventually even the local realtors refused to return their calls.
Finally, unable to wait any longer for a purchaser, they had to borrow a huge sum of money from the bank to buy a new place.
It was then that she called her ex-husband and asked how things were going.
He told her the saga of the rotting house.
She listened politely and said that she missed her old home terribly and would be willing to reduce her divorce settlement in exchange for having the house.
He was so desperate to get rid of the unsaleable house, that he agreed on a price that was only 1/10 th of what the house had been worth.
And because he knew she could have no idea how bad the smell really was, he wasn’t going to give her any time to visit the place again.
The deal was good only if she would sign the papers that very day!
She agreed.
Within two hours his lawyers delivered the completed paperwork which she duly signed.
A week later her ex-husband and his girlfriend stood smiling as they watched the moving company pack everything to take to their new home…….
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……and to spite the ex-wife, they even took the curtain rods too!
Yes, I really don’t know how they do it, but every week they do seem to get worse. Where these answers come from or why shall always be a mystery, but they are fun and that’s what we like here, especially on a Monday!
You gotta start the week with a smile 🙂
Enjoy.
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Q: The perfect temperature for an autumn day
A:87
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Q: An important city during colonial times
A:Virginia
A:New England
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Q: Name something parents yell at their kids to finish
A:“Get off that computer”
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Q: Name a movie people love to watch at Christmas
A:Snow White
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Q: Name a type of fruit found in tarts
A:Sweet tarts
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Q: Name something you buy by the set
A:Paper
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Q: Name something you buy in a larger size if you have a large family
A:Jeans
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Q: Name something a woman sees that would make her tell her husband to stop the car
A:A bicycle
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Q: The most you could afford to pay for a gallon of gas
A:$20
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Q: Name a way you would treat a pet like a human
A:Take it to the vet
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Q: Name something London is famous for
A:Pasta
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Q: Name a famous Australian
A:Peter Pan
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Q: The name of a famous sex symbol
A:Wilma
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Q: An invention that has replaced stairs
A:Wheel
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Q: Name something associated with the show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”
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