“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Last quiz for February already.
How are you quizzers doing this year?
Scores don’t matter though, as long as you enjoy doing the quizzes.
Usual format today, general knowledge, geography, history, science, nature and even a little music.
Varying degrees of difficulty, but if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: What city is known as the ‘Peace Capital’ of the world?
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Q. 2: What is the only gemstone to be composed of one single element?
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Q. 3: What type of monkey possesses a blood factor that is shared with humans and was the first type of monkey launched into space?
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Q. 4: If the ‘DC’ in Washington DC was actually Roman Numerals, what number would it represent?
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Q. 5: What term is given to a territory which is part of a country but is surrounded by other countries so it is physically separate from the rest of the country?
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Q. 6: The ‘First Battle of Bull Run’ and the ‘Battle of Edgehill’ were the first battles of which wars? (A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you answer both correctly.)
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Q. 7: What is the title of the head of the Church of England?
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Q. 8: What is the home of a Beaver called?
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Q. 9: Which famous action painter was nicknamed ‘Jack the Dripper’ ?
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Q. 10: Orbiting 35,900km above the equator, what term is given to satellites that remain above the same point on the Earth’s surface in their orbit?
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Q. 11: In which city are the Petronas Towers, formerly the world’s highest building?
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Q. 12: What name is given to the condition created by too much bile in the bloodstream that causes a distinct yellowing of the skin?
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Q. 13: What do 1,000 ‘gigabytes’ make?
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Q. 14: Where was a speed record of 11.2mph set in 1972?
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Q. 15: Of which republic are ‘English’, ‘Malay’, ‘Mandarin Chinese’ and ‘Tamil’ the four official languages?
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Q. 16: Which Ray Bradbury novel, also made into a famous movie, opens “It was a pleasure to burn”?
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Q. 17: The name of the human-like inhabitants of the land of the Houyhnhnms, discovered by Captain Lemuel Gulliver in 1711, has become one of the best known names in the modern business world, what is it?
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Q. 18: Among other meanings this word as a noun can mean a large wading bird, or a device for lifting and moving heavy weights, and as a verb it can mean to stretch out one’s neck, especially to see better – what is the word?
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Q. 19: ‘JAT’ airways is the national carrier of which country?
a) Switzerland b) Serbia c) Senegal d) Somalia
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Q. 20: Who sang about an ‘Uptown Girl’ in 1983?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: What city is known as the ‘Peace Capital’ of the world?
A. 1: Geneva, Switzerland.
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Q. 2: What is the only gemstone to be composed of one single element?
A. 2: Diamond.
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Q. 3: What type of monkey possesses a blood factor that is shared with humans and was the first type of monkey launched into space?
A. 3: The Rhesus monkey.
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Q. 4: If the ‘DC’ in Washington DC was actually Roman Numerals, what number would it represent?
A. 4: DC in Roman Numerals is 600.
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Q. 5: What term is given to a territory which is part of a country but is surrounded by other countries so it is physically separate from the rest of the country?
A. 5: An Exclave.
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Q. 6: The ‘First Battle of Bull Run’ and the ‘Battle of Edgehill’ were the first battles of which wars? (A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you answer both correctly.)
A. 6: The American and English Civil Wars respectively.
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Q. 7: What is the title of the head of the Church of England?
A. 7: He is called the ‘Archbishop of Canterbury’.
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Q. 8: What is the home of a Beaver called?
A. 8: A ‘Lodge’.
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Q. 9: Which famous action painter was nicknamed ‘Jack the Dripper’ ?
A. 9: Jackson Pollock.
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Q. 10: Orbiting 35,900km above the equator, what term is given to satellites that remain above the same point on the Earth’s surface in their orbit?
A. 10: Geostationary.
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Q. 11: In which city are the Petronas Towers, formerly the world’s highest building?
A. 11: Kuala Lumpur.
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Q. 12: What name is given to the condition created by too much bile in the bloodstream that causes a distinct yellowing of the skin?
A. 12: Jaundice.
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Q. 13: What do 1,000 ‘gigabytes’ make?
A. 13: A ‘Terabyte’.
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Q. 14: Where was a speed record of 11.2mph set in 1972?
A. 14: On the Moon (by John Young of Apollo 16 driving the Lunar Rover!)
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Q. 15: Of which republic are ‘English’, ‘Malay’, ‘Mandarin Chinese’ and ‘Tamil’ the four official languages?
A. 15: Singapore.
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Q. 16: Which Ray Bradbury novel, also made into a famous movie, opens “It was a pleasure to burn” ?
A. 16: Fahrenheit 451.
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Q. 17: The name of the human-like inhabitants of the land of the Houyhnhnms, discovered by Captain Lemuel Gulliver in 1711, has become one of the best known names in the business world, what is it?
A. 17: They were called Yahoos.
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Q. 18: Among other meanings this word as a noun can mean a large wading bird, or a device for lifting and moving heavy weights, and as a verb it can mean to stretch out one’s neck, especially to see better – what is the word?
A. 18: The word is ‘crane’.
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Q. 19: ‘JAT’ airways is the national carrier of which country?
a) Switzerland b) Serbia c) Senegal d) Somalia
A. 19: The correct answer is b) Serbia.
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Q. 20: Who sang about an ‘Uptown Girl’ in 1983?
A. 20: Billy Joel.
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