First of all congratulations to the Seattle Seahawks who won their first Super Bowl by crushing the Denver Broncos 43-8, in a rather one-sided game yesterday.
Today it’s the super quiz and this won’t be so easy.
Yes, another random selection of questions, a lot of which will set you a challenge I think.
As usual if you get stuck the answers can be found waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: Who won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of an anthropophagus?
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Q. 2: The Komodo dragon takes its name from as island in which country?
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Q. 3: Which car company built the classic ‘1962 250 GT Berlinetta Boxer’ automobile?
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Q. 4: Name the country from which the soup ‘Gazpacho’ originated?
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Q. 5: Name the fictional detective associated with ‘Miss Felicity Lemon’?
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Q. 6: In which famous movie would you find a robot called ‘Marvin’?
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Q. 7: ‘Winter’, ‘Secret’, ‘Dirty’, ‘Pastry’, ‘Cola’, ‘Pig’, ‘Honey’, ‘Football’, ‘Rif’ and ‘Cod’ are all examples of what?
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Q. 8: What sauce is made from the plant ‘Armorica rusticana’?
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Q. 9: Which of these is a comic character who appears in three plays by Shakespeare?
a) Rifle b) Musket c) Pistol
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Q. 10: Rather appropriately for this month, the following line ‘February made me shiver‘ is found in which song?
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Q. 11: Contestants from which South American country have won the most Miss Universe titles?
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Q. 12: Which of these actors has won the most Best Actor Oscars?
a) Tom Hanks b) Kevin Spacey c) Daniel Day Lewis d) Jeff Bridges
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Q. 13: John James Audubon is famous for his paintings of what?
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Q. 14: Which large sea in the south-western Pacific Ocean is named after a German?
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Q. 15: ‘Monique Delacroix’ was the mother of which debonair hero?
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Q. 16: What is the name and the color of Jim Henson’s most famous creation?
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Q. 17: This word is the name for a magnificent palace, a variety of apple and a person or thing without equal, what is it?
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Q. 18: Name the movie in which Michael Caine plays ‘Lt Gonville Bromhead’?
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Q. 19: What does a woman raise and hold up in a ‘Pabana’?
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Q. 20: Which very famous soothing English song uses the melody from Mozart’s ‘Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman’?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: Who won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of an anthropophagus?
A. 1: Anthony Hopkins in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, an anthropophagus is a cannibal.
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Q. 2: The Komodo dragon takes its name from as island in which country?
A. 2: Indonesia. (Probably because of the name a lot of people guess Japan.)
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Q. 3: Which car company built the classic ‘1962 250 GT Berlinetta Boxer’ automobile?
A. 3: Ferrari.
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Q. 4: Name the country from which the soup ‘Gazpacho’ originated?
A. 4: Spain. (You also get a point if you said Portugal.)
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Q. 5: Name the fictional detective associated with ‘Miss Felicity Lemon’?
A. 5: Hercule Poirot.
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Q. 6: In which famous movie would you find a robot called ‘Marvin’?
A. 6: ‘A Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’.
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Q. 7: ‘Winter’, ‘Secret’, ‘Dirty’, ‘Pastry’, ‘Cola’, ‘Pig’, ‘Honey’, ‘Football’, ‘Rif’ and ‘Cod’ are all examples of what?
A. 7: They are all names of different wars.
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Q. 8: What sauce is made from the plant ‘Armorica rusticana’?
A. 8: Horseradish.
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Q. 9: Which of these is a comic character who appears in three plays by Shakespeare?
a) Rifle b) Musket c) Pistol
A. 9: c) Pistol. (Pistol (fict) is a follower of Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor. He is married to Mistress Quickly, and is a soldier in conflict with Fluellen, in Henry V.)
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Q. 10: Rather appropriately for this month, the following line ‘February made me shiver‘ is found in which song?
A. 10: American Pie (Don McLean).
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Q. 11: Contestants from which South American country have won the most Miss Universe titles?
A. 11: Venezuela (6, in 1979, 1981, 1986, 1996, 2008 and 2009).
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Q. 12: Which of these actors has won the most Best Actor Oscars?
a) Tom Hanks b) Kevin Spacey c) Daniel Day Lewis d) Jeff Bridges
A. 12: c) Daniel Day Lewis
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Q. 13: John James Audubon is famous for his paintings of what?
A. 13: Birds. (An original copy of his book ‘Birds of America’ sold in London at Sotheby’s for a record £7,321,250 (approximately $11.5 million) on 6 December 2010.)
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Q. 14: Which large sea in the south-western Pacific Ocean is named after a German?
A. 14: The Bismarck Sea.
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Q. 15: ‘Monique Delacroix’ was the mother of which debonair hero?
A. 15: James Bond.
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Q. 16: What is the name and the color of Jim Henson’s most famous creation?
A. 16: Kermit the Frog and he is green.
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Q. 17: This word is the name for a magnificent palace, a variety of apple and a person or thing without equal, what is it?
A. 17: Nonsuch.
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Q. 18: Name the movie in which Michael Caine plays ‘Lt Gonville Bromhead’?
A. 18: Zulu.
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Q. 19: What does a woman raise and hold up in a ‘Pabana’?
A. 19: Her skirt. The Pabana (or Peacock dance) is a solemn and stately Spanish dance.
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Q. 20: Which very famous soothing English song uses the melody from Mozart’s ‘Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman’?
Whether we realize it or like it, the advent of the internet has changed all our lives. From power users like myself to just casual users, things are a lot different from how they used to be.
There are, of course, negatives like the increase of spam, fraud, pornography and so forth, but by and large the impact of the internet has been a positive one.
It has made finding information much quicker and easier.
It has given us better and cheaper communication possibilities such as Skype.
It has revolutionized shopping for millions of people.
And it has spawned new social interaction platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, and not forgetting blogging sites such as WordPress, allowing people to find groups and individuals all over the world with similar interests to their own.
But perhaps the greatest thing that the internet has achieved is to give freedom for ordinary people to say what they want to say and have that reach a much bigger audience than would have hitherto been possible without having to spend vast sums of money trying to do it.
Unfortunately, however, that freedom is the one thing that governments cannot tolerate. Hell bent on control, they see the freedom that the internet provides as a threat to their power. And slowly but relentlessly they are chipping away at that freedom.
In China there is no pretense or deceit. The government there controls the internet and that’s just how it is.
However in the West, as they always do, governments create smokescreens to hide their real objectives. They read our private emails and listen to our private phone calls in secret, only reluctantly admitting to it when they are exposed by a whistleblower such as Edward Snowden, last seen leaving Hong Kong and heading for Moscow.
And even when they are exposed they can’t tell the truth about what they are doing and why they are doing it. Invariably the excuse trotted out is “security issues”, in other words, they are doing what we don’t want them to do and invading our privacy, for our own good!
If governments expect the people to have confidence in them, then they in turn should show confidence in the people. That means doing their job properly and targeting people and groups that are a possible threat without treating everyone as a potential terrorist.
And it means being honest with their people.
Will that happen?
Not a chance!
As I said earlier the game isn’t about what is good for the people, the game is about control of the people. And a big part of that control is ensuring that the herd shall not be heard – if they have anything important to say that the government doesn’t want us to know!
It is a continual mystery to me why people who are so obviously dumb enter pressure competitions on television thinking they will win something. But they do try. And the only prize they get is to end up on blogs like this.
Get out the whipped cream and enjoy!
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Q: Name a car known by its initials
A: Corvette
Q: Name something you keep in a kitchen canister
A: Cans
Q: Name a reason a man might take his toupee off
A: To show off
Q: Name a state with good skiing
A: Florida
Q: Name a word that rhymes with “cookie”
A: Nookie
Q: If someone tells you a secret, how many people do you tell?
A: Five
Q: Name something you hope your husband never loses
A: His pants
Q: Name something most people have only one of
A: One set of grandparents
Q: Name a phrase starting with “Father”
A: Stepfather
Q: Name a fruit used in pies
A: Squash
Q: Name a holiday where stores are always busy
A: Monday
Q: Name a type of movie that best describes your love life
A: Exciting
Q: Name something that can be smooth or bumpy
A: Bread
Q: The country that has the best music to dance to, besides the US
A: Canada
Q: The one word people yell to their dog
A: “Here, boy!”
Q: An occasion when a church might have standing room only.
A: New Year’s Eve
Q: Name a three letter word children first learn to spell
A: Not
Q: Name a country starting with “B”
A: Bostonia
Q: One of Oprah’s favorite people
A: Regis Kelly
Q: Name something a woman buys to spice up the romance at home
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