“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Well maybe not just so easy a quiz as all that. You’ll find out below, and why I called it that too.
All the usual mixture of questions are here.
And as usual if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: What city is known as ‘The Big Easy’ ?
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Q. 2: What color are the flowers of the ‘harebell’ ?
a) red b) green c) blue d) yellow
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Q. 3: What is the name of the process in which a solid turns directly into a gas, without passing through the liquid phase?
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Q. 4: What is the largest wild member of the dog family?
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Q. 5: Which element has the symbol ‘Au’ ?
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Q. 6: What is the electrical unit of resistance?
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Q. 7: Who invented the jet engine in 1930?
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Q. 8: How many sheets of paper are there in a ‘ream’ ?
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Q. 9: It is called the ‘Hunter’ and consists of 3 stars, what is the proper name of this constellation?
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Q. 10: What did the British government do on the roads in order to reduce accidents in 1925?
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Q. 11: What is a ‘Flemish giant’ ?
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Q. 12: The Balearic Islands are an archipelago of Spain in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. You get a point if you can name any of the four largest islands that make up this group. (If you can correctly name more than one, give yourself a bonus point for each.)
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Q. 13: If you were ‘purling’, what activity would you be doing?
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Q. 14: Which famous battle was fought on June 18 1815?
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Q. 15: In which country was the world’s first female Prime Minister elected in 1960?
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Q. 16: What is the name of Long John Silver’s parrot?
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Q. 17: This is the name of a famous bicycle manufacturing company, the capital city of a state in the US, and of a writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer in Elizabethan England, what is it?
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Q. 18: Who created the famous sculptures ‘The Thinker’ and ‘The Kiss’ ?
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Q. 19: A lot of us now use it, but what does the acronym ‘VOIP’ stand for?
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Q. 20: Which group’s best-known recording is the 1967 single ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ ?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: What city is known as ‘The Big Easy’ ?
A. 1: New Orleans is known as ‘The Big Easy’.
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Q. 2: What color are the flowers of the harebell?
a) red b) green c) blue d) yellow
A. 2: The correct answer is c) blue.
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Q. 3: What is the name of the process in which a solid turns directly into a gas, without passing through the liquid phase?
A. 3: The process is called ‘sublimation’.
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Q. 4: What is the largest wild member of the dog family?
A. 4: The wolf.
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Q. 5: Which element has the symbol ‘Au’ ?
A. 5: Gold.
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Q. 6: What is the electrical unit of resistance?
A. 6: The ‘ohm’.
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Q. 7: Who invented the jet engine in 1930?
A. 7: Frank Whittle.
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Q. 8: How many sheets of paper are there in a ‘ream’ ?
A. 8: 500.
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Q. 9: It is called the ‘Hunter’ and consists of 3 stars, what is the proper name of this constellation?
A. 9: It is ‘Orion’s belt’.
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Q. 10: What did the British government do on the roads in order to reduce accidents in 1925?
A. 10: They painted white lines.
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Q. 11: What is a ‘Flemish giant’ ?
A. 11: I’m tempted to give you a point if you said “A big Belgian’ but I won’t. You get the point if you said a Flemish giant was a Rabbit.
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Q. 12: The Balearic Islands are an archipelago of Spain in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. You get a point if you can name any of the four largest islands that make up this group. (If you can correctly name more than one, give yourself a bonus point for each.)
A. 12: The four largest Balearic islands are Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera.
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Q. 13: If you were ‘purling’, what activity would you be doing?
A. 13: You’d be knitting.
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Q. 14: Which famous battle was fought on June 18 1815?
A. 14: The Battle of Waterloo.
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Q. 15: In which country was the world’s first female Prime Minister elected in 1960?
A. 15: Sri Lanka (or Ceylon as it was then – the woman in question being Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike)
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Q. 16: What is the name of Long John Silver’s parrot?
A. 16: Captain Flint.
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Q. 17: This is the name of a famous bicycle manufacturing company, the capital city of a state in the US, and of a writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer in Elizabethan England, what is it?
A. 17: It is ‘Raleigh’. Raleigh is a famous bicycle manufacturing company, Raleigh is the capital city of North Carolina, and the famous Elizabethan was Sir Walter Raleigh.
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Q. 18: Who created the famous sculptures ‘The Thinker’ and ‘The Kiss’ ?
A. 18: Auguste Rodin.
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Q. 19: A lot of us now use it, but what does the acronym ‘VOIP’ stand for?
A. 19: Voice Over Internet Protocol.
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Q. 20: Which group’s best-known recording is the 1967 single ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ ?
A. 20: Procol Harum. (Here it is….)
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