“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Time for another mid-week look at the papers and to savor a few more newspaper headline nightmares.
Hope at least a few of these make you smile.
Enjoy.
Oh yes, I nearly forgot – Good old Frasier! (You’ll see what I mean later.)
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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Another chance to pit your wits against the fasab quiz archives with another random set of twenty questions.
Although there are one or two very easy ones, I think quite a lot of them are difficult this time, but here’s your chance to prove me wrong.
As always the answers are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below – but NO cheating.
Enjoy and good luck!
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Q. 1: What does the http:// in web URLs stand for?
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Q. 2: What is the hood ornament on a Rolls Royce called?
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Q. 3: Which former president of the United States, in his college days, worked as a male model, and even appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan?
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Q. 4: In what country would you find the strangely named lakes “Titicaca” and “Poopo”?
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Q. 5: Sleeping through the winter is called “hibernation,” but what is the word that describes sleeping through hot and dry periods like summer?
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Q. 6: Members of the band “ZZ Top” are famous for their beards, but what was the surname of the only member who hadn’t got one?
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Q. 7: In 1918 the so-called “Spanish Flu” spread around the world killing tens of millions of people, but where did the outbreak start?
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Q. 8: Who was the only U.S. president never to sign a bill into law?
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Q. 9: On which continent are the 50 tallest mountains on Earth are all located? (This is easy if you think about it)
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Q. 10: Which world famous company’s name means “three oceans” in Japanese because the company’s founder wanted to sell his wares across the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans?
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Q. 11: How old was Albert Einstein, a genius if ever there was one, when he learned how to drive?
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Q. 12: What was the first ever registered domain name?
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Q. 13: What city is America’s skyscraper capital?
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Q. 14: Earlier this month the United States celebrated its birthday, but what is the only other country in the world to celebrate its birthday on July 4th?
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Q. 15: Who is O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois named after?
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Q. 16: The citizens of which country eat more donuts per capita than any other?
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Q. 17: What European country is the world’s leading exporter of false teeth?
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Q. 18: At more than 3.3 million square miles, what is the name of the world’s largest hot desert?
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Q. 19: We have all seen a Snellen Chart, but what is it?
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Q. 20: Possibly some of you have said “!#@%” when faced with a difficult question in this test, but what is the name for symbols such as “!#@%” that are used to indicate swearing in comic strips?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: What does the http:// in web URLs stand for?
A. 1: The http:// in web URLs stands for “Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.”
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Q. 2: What is the hood ornament on a Rolls Royce called?
A. 2: The Spirit of Ecstasy.
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Q. 3: Which former president of the United States in his college days, worked as a male model, and even appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan?
A. 3: Former president Gerald Ford wasn’t always gray-haired and paunchy — in his college days, he worked as a male model, and even appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan.
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Q. 4: In what country would you find the strangely named lakes “Titicaca” and “Poopo”?
A. 4: In Bolivia, South America.
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Q. 5: Sleeping through the winter is called “hibernation,” but what is the word that describes sleeping through hot and dry periods like summer?
A. 5: Sleeping through hot and dry periods like summer is called “estivation.”
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Q. 6: Members of the band “ZZ Top” are famous for their beards, but what was the surname of the only member who hadn’t got one?
A. 6: Ironically, the only member of ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
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Q. 7: In 1918 the so-called “Spanish Flu” spread around the world killing tens of millions of people, but where did the outbreak start?
A. 7: The so-called “Spanish Flu” of 1918 started at a military camp in Kansas before spreading around the world and killing millions.
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Q. 8: Who was the only U.S. president never to sign a bill into law?
A. 8: William Henry Harrison was the only U.S. president never to sign a bill into law — he died before having the opportunity.
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Q. 9: On which continent are the 50 tallest mountains on Earth are all located? (This is easy if you think about it)
A. 9: Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth is located in the Himalayas in Asia so since it has to be one of the 50 tallest mountains on Earth, they all have to be located in Asia.
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Q. 10: Which world famous company’s name means “three oceans” in Japanese because the company’s founder wanted to sell his wares across the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans?
A. 10: Sanyo means “three oceans” in Japanese.
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Q. 11: How old was Albert Einstein, a genius if ever there was one, when he learned how to drive?
A. 11: Albert Einstein never learned how to drive.
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Q. 12: What was the first ever registered domain name?
A. 12: The first registered domain name was symbolics.com. It was registered on March 15th, 1985.
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Q. 13: What city is America’s skyscraper capital?
A. 13: Chicago is America’s skyscraper capital. The city has more 1,000-foot tall buildings than any other U.S. city.
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Q. 14: Earlier this month the United States celebrated its birthday, but what is the only other country in the world to celebrate its birthday on July 4th?
A. 14: The only other country in the world to celebrate the United States’ birthday, July 4th, is Denmark.
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Q. 15: Who is O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois named after?
A. 15: O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois is named after Al Capone’s lawyer’s son, Lt. Cmdr. Butch O’Hare.
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Q. 16: The citizens of which country eat more donuts per capita than any other?
A. 16: Canadians eat more donuts per capita than any other country.
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Q. 17: What European country is the world’s leading exporter of false teeth?
A. 17: Liechtenstein is the world’s leading exporter of false teeth.
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Q. 18: At more than 3.3 million square miles, what is the name of the world’s largest hot desert?
A. 18: At more than 3.3 million square miles, the Sahara Desert is as large as the world’s next 20 largest hot deserts combined.
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Q. 19: We have all seen a Snellen Chart, but what is it?
A. 19: The eye test chart with the big ‘E’ on top is known as the Snellen Chart.
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Q. 20: Possibly some of you have said “!#@%” when faced with a difficult question in this test, but what is the name for symbols such as “!#@%” that are used to indicate swearing in comic strips?
A. 20: Symbols such as “!#@%” that are used to indicate swearing in comic strips are called grawlix.
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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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If its facts you want we have them!
So here is another selection.
If you can’t find something you don’t know in here then you know far too much.
Enjoy.
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“Kemo Sabe”, the name Tonto called The Lone Ranger
means “Soggy Shrub” in Navajo Indian.
The Tonto in Spanish means “a fool”.
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Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as medicine.
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Killer whales have such a good sense of touch
that if you dropped a pill into a bucket
and feed it to the orca
it would eat the fish and spit out the pill.
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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Knitted socks discovered in Ancient Egyptian tombs
have been dated back as far as the 3rd century AD.
Oh mummy!
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Larry Lewis ran the 100 yard dash in 17.9 seconds in 1969,
there by setting a new world’s record
for runners in the 100 years or older class.
He was 101.
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5% of Canadians don’t know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem,
but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
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7% of Americans don’t know the first 9 words of the American anthem,
but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
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85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
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99% of the solar system’s mass is concentrated in the sun.
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There is a company in Taiwan makes dinnerware
out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
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About 70% of Americans who go to college
do it just to make more money.
(The rest are just avoiding reality for four more years.)
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America once issued a 5-cent bill.
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The Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew named Cuitlahuac,
whose name meant “plenty of excrement.”
Now there’s revenge for you!
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Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of
their unwanted people without killing them
used to burn their houses down
– hence the expression “to get fired.”
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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland
because he doesn’t wear pants
– the little pecker!
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Marijuana is not as chemically addictive
as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today
is because in the 1930’s cotton growers lobbied against
hemp farmers whom they saw it as competition.
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Special playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII.
If captured, they could be soaked in water
and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
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The three best-known western names in China are
Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
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Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill,
‘If you were my husband, I would poison your coffee’.
To which Churchill replied,
‘If you were my wife, I would drink it’.
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