The Big Easy Quiz.

March 30, 2015March 29, 2015 fasab Questions, Tests A Whiter Shade of Pale, acronym, activity, archipelago, Au, Balearic Islands, best-known recording, British Government, capital city, city, color, constellation, country, courtier, created, dog family, eastern coast, education, electrical unit of resistance, element, Elizabethan England, Entertainment, explorer, famous battle, famous bicycle manufacturing company, Flemish giant, flowers, fought, four largest islands, gas, general knowledge, Geography, group, harebell, history, hunter, Iberian Peninsula, invented, jet engine, June 18 1815, largest, liquid phase, Long John Silver’s parrot, music, Name, nature, poet, politician, process, proper name, purling, questions, quiz, quizzes, ream, reduce accidents, roads, science, sculptures, sheets of paper, single, soldier, solid, spain, sport, spy, stars, state in the US, symbol, test, tests, The Big Easy, The Kiss, The Thinker, VOIP, western Mediterranean Sea, wild member, world’s first female Prime Minister, writer

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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.

Q. 1: What city is known as ‘The Big Easy’ ?

Q. 2: What color are the flowers of the ‘harebell’ ?

a) red b) green c) blue d) yellow

Q. 3: What is the name of the process in which a solid turns directly into a gas, without passing through the liquid phase?

Q. 4: What is the largest wild member of the dog family?

Q. 5: Which element has the symbol ‘Au’ ?

Q. 6: What is the electrical unit of resistance?

Q. 7: Who invented the jet engine in 1930?

Q. 8: How many sheets of paper are there in a ‘ream’ ?

Q. 9: It is called the ‘Hunter’ and consists of 3 stars, what is the proper name of this constellation?

Q. 10: What did the British government do on the roads in order to reduce accidents in 1925?

Q. 11: What is a ‘Flemish giant’ ?

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.)

Q. 13: If you were ‘purling’, what activity would you be doing?

Q. 14: Which famous battle was fought on June 18 1815?

Q. 15: In which country was the world’s first female Prime Minister elected in 1960?

Q. 16: What is the name of Long John Silver’s parrot?

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?

Q. 18: Who created the famous sculptures ‘The Thinker’ and ‘The Kiss’ ?

Q. 19: A lot of us now use it, but what does the acronym ‘VOIP’ stand for?

Q. 20: Which group’s best-known recording is the 1967 single ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ ?

ANSWERS

Q. 1: What city is known as ‘The Big Easy’ ?

A. 1: New Orleans is known as ‘The Big Easy’.

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.

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’.

Q. 4: What is the largest wild member of the dog family?

A. 4: The wolf.

Q. 5: Which element has the symbol ‘Au’ ?

A. 5: Gold.

Q. 6: What is the electrical unit of resistance?

A. 6: The ‘ohm’.

Q. 7: Who invented the jet engine in 1930?

A. 7: Frank Whittle.

Q. 8: How many sheets of paper are there in a ‘ream’ ?

A. 8: 500.

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’.

Q. 10: What did the British government do on the roads in order to reduce accidents in 1925?

A. 10: They painted white lines.

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.

A. 12: The four largest Balearic islands are Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera.

Q. 13: If you were ‘purling’, what activity would you be doing?

A. 13: You’d be knitting.

Q. 14: Which famous battle was fought on June 18 1815?

A. 14: The Battle of Waterloo.

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)

Q. 16: What is the name of Long John Silver’s parrot?

A. 16: Captain Flint.

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.

Q. 18: Who created the famous sculptures ‘The Thinker’ and ‘The Kiss’ ?

A. 18: Auguste Rodin.

Q. 19: A lot of us now use it, but what does the acronym ‘VOIP’ stand for?

A. 19: Voice Over Internet Protocol.

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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Oranges, Oceans And Olympics? – Oh, Oh, Oh, It Has To Be Quiz Day!

July 28, 2014July 22, 2014 fasab Questions, Tests American woman, Andes Mountains, archaeologists, axe murders, baby eel, bacteria, baseball star, Bolivia, color, countries, country, crimes of treason, deepest part of the world's oceans, detective, discovery, Earth's moon, education, English language words, Entertainment, Fall River, father, feet, Frank Sinatra, fruit, games, general knowledge, Geography, history, I Get A Kick Out Of You, jail sentence, key to understanding, Kojak, lake, Lizzie Borden, longest border with Canada, married to Marilyn Monroe, mass of our solar system, Massachusetts, millions of dollars, modern Egyptian hieroglyphs, modern Olympics, mountain, movies, music, New York Yankees, official capitals, one billion, one million, one thousand, one trillion, Orange, Pacific Ocean, paintings, Paramount Pictures logo, pardoned, Peru, politics, posthumously, Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service, questions, quiz, Quiz Day, quizzes, Robert E Lee, science, skipping-rope rhyme, sought after, South Africa, space, sport, stars, stepmother, sun, television, therein, tv, TV series, US president, US state, Vincent Van Gogh, volume, wrote the song

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Welcome to another fasab quiz.

A good mixture of easy, difficult and maybe one or two tricky questions for you today.

But if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!

Enjoy and good luck.

Q. 1: Was the color orange named after the fruit, or was the fruit named after the color orange?

Q. 2: Approximately how much of the mass of our solar system does the Sun take up?

a) 59% b) 69% c) 79% d) 89% e) 99%

Q. 3: What is the deepest part of the world’s oceans known as?

Q. 4: What was the discovery that gave archaeologists the key to understanding modern Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Q. 5: You’ve seen it hundreds of times at least, but how many stars surround the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo?

a) 12 b) 22 c) 32 d) 42

Q. 6: Since the beginning of the modern Olympics, in 1896, what are the only two countries to have participated in every Games. (A point for each correct answer.)

Q. 7: Who played detective Kojak in the long running TV series?

Q. 8: Approximately how many bacteria are on each of your feet?

a) one thousand b) one million c) one billion d) one trillion

Q. 9: What is the name of the lake situated on the border of Peru and Bolivia in the Andes Mountains? (You know it, it’s a very well known name.)

Q. 10: What was the name of the New York Yankees baseball star who was once married to Marilyn Monroe?

Q. 11: Which US state has the longest border with Canada?

Q. 12: Lizzie Borden was an American woman, from Fall River, Massachusetts, who was famously accused of the axe murders of her father and stepmother. It was a famous case memorialized in a popular skipping-rope rhyme: “Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.” How long was her jail sentence?

Q. 13: Without rearranging any of its letters, how many English language words can you make from the seven letter word “therein”? (You can have a point for each word you can make, so potentially a good score here!)

Q. 14: They are now worth millions of dollars each and much sought after, but how many of his paintings did Vincent Van Gogh sell while he was alive?

Q. 15: What is Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service better known as?

Q. 16: South Africa is the only country with three official capitals, what are they? (A point for each correct answer, and a bonus point if you can correctly name all three.)

Q. 17: What is a baby eel called?

Q. 18: What is greater, the volume of the Earth’s moon OR the volume of the Pacific Ocean?

Q. 19: Which US President pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason?

Q. 20: Probably the most famous version is by Frank Sinatra, but who wrote the song “I Get A Kick Out Of You”?

ANSWERS

Q. 1: Was the color orange named after the fruit, or was the fruit named after the color orange?

A. 1: The color orange was named after the fruit.

Q. 2: Approximately how much of the mass of our solar system does the Sun take up?

a) 59% b) 69% c) 79% d) 89% e) 99%

A. 2: The correct answer is e) 99%.

Q. 3: What is the deepest part of the world’s oceans known as?

A. 3: The deepest part of the world’s oceans is known as the Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands.

Q. 4: What was the discovery that gave archaeologists the key to understanding modern Egyptian hieroglyphs.

A. 4: The discovery of the Rosetta Stone finally provided the key to understanding modern Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Q. 5: You’ve seen it hundreds of times at least, but how many stars surround the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo?

a) 12 b) 22 c) 32 d) 42

A. 5: The correct answer is b), there are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.

Q. 6: Since the beginning of the modern Olympics, in 1896, what are the only two countries to have participated in every Games. (A point for each correct answer.)

A. 6: The only two countries to have participated in every modern Olympic Games are Greece and Australia.

Q. 7: Who played detective Kojak in the long running TV series?

A. 7: Telly Savalas.

Q. 8: Approximately how many bacteria are on each of your feet?

a) one thousand b) one million c) one billion d) one trillion

A. 8: There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

Q. 9: What is the name of the lake situated on the border of Peru and Bolivia in the Andes Mountains? (You know it, it’s a very well known name.)

A. 9: It is called Lake Titicaca.

Q. 10: What was the name of the New York Yankees baseball star who was once married to Marilyn Monroe?

A. 10: He was Joe DiMaggio.

Q. 11: Which US state has the longest border with Canada?

A. 11: Alaska.

A. 12: She was acquitted and no one else has ever been charged with the murders.

A. 13: There are ten English language words that can be made out of the word “therein” without rearranging any of its letters: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.

Q. 14: They are now worth millions of dollars each and much sought after, but how many of his paintings did Vincent Van Gogh sell while he was alive?

A. 14: Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, the Red Vineyard at Arles.

Q. 15: What is Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service better known as?

A. 15: QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline.

Q. 16: South Africa is the only country with three official capitals, what are they? (A point for each correct answer, and a bonus point if you can correctly name all three.)

A. 16: South Africa’s three official capitals are Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein.

Q. 17: What is a baby eel called?

A. 17: A baby eel is called an elver.

Q. 18: What is greater, the volume of the Earth’s moon OR the volume of the Pacific Ocean?

A. 18: Bit of a trick question here. The volume of the Earth’s moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

Q. 19: Which US President pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason?

A. 19: Gerald Ford.

Q. 20: Probably the most famous version is by Frank Sinatra, but who wrote the song “I Get A Kick Out Of You”?

A. 20: Cole Porter. Sorry Frank but this is MY favorite version….

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Did You Know? Another Fifteen Fabulous Fasab Facts!

November 19, 2013November 16, 2013 fasab Factoids, Unusual Al Gore, Alameda County, Alcatraz, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, alternative punishment, Aluminum, America, Austin, birds, British company, California, capstone, Chicago, coal residue, community service, consecutive vice presidents, couch potato, cover her newborn’s face, Dick Cheney, dogfight, dogs barking, drive away evil spirits, earth, Ecuador, education, educational, elected, Entertainment, eyes, fact, factoid, facts, female traffic offenders, first Kermit, flavors, form of probation, Funeral March of a Marionette, furnaces, Guatemala, highest spot on the Earth, incarcerated, Indian food, information, invented accidentally, Jim Henson, Joe Biden, Leavenworth, legal property, Mayan tradition, midair, Misc, Miscellaneous, modeling compound, Moon, Mt Chimborazo, Mt Everest, Neo, oblate spheroid, old coat, originally named, Pilot, Ping-Pong balls, plane, plane’s engine, Play-Doh, Random, Robert Armstrong, Robert Stroud, silver, skyscraper, spooky theme song, stall, stars, Texas, The Birdman of Alcatraz, The Matrix, trademarked, trivia, two terms, wallpaper cleaner, Washington Monument, Waterloo, Wild Wild West, Will Smith, Worcestershire sauce, WWI

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Fifteen fabulous and very random facts.

I don’t know how much of this information you retain, probably not that much if you’re like me, but hopefully you enjoy reading them all the same.

Here we go….

The city of Austin, Texas,

was originally named “Waterloo.”

The term “couch potato”

is the legal property of Robert Armstrong,

who trademarked it in 1976.

(I wonder where he got the energy?)

Al Gore (1992, 1996),

Dick Cheney (2000, 2004)

and Joe Biden (2008, 2012)

are the first three consecutive vice presidents

to be elected to two terms.

Worcestershire sauce was invented accidentally

when a British company was trying to recreate

the flavors in Indian food.

The term “dogfight” originated during WWI.

The pilot had to turn off the plane’s engine from time to time

so it would not stall when the plane turned quickly in the air.

When a pilot restarted his engine midair, it sounded like dogs barking.

Jim Henson said he made the first Kermit

out of his mom’s old coat.

He used Ping-Pong balls for eyes.

The concept of community service as a form of probation

originated in Alameda County, California, in 1966.

It was first used as an alternative punishment for female traffic offenders.

The name “The Birdman of Alcatraz” is not strictly accurate

because Robert Stroud was allowed to keep birds

when he was incarcerated at Leavenworth,

not when he was transferred to Alcatraz.

Will Smith turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix.

Instead he starred in Wild Wild West.

Mayan tradition dictated that a mother

should cover her newborn’s face for the first year of life

in order to drive away evil spirits.

The practice is still carried out in rural Guatemala.

The modeling compound Play-Doh started out in the 1950s

as a wallpaper cleaner for coal residue.

Sales began to fall as coal was used less frequently in furnaces,

but the owner’s sister-in-law, a preschool teacher,

suggested it be used as a children’s toy.

The 100-ounce pyramid-shaped capstone on top of

the Washington Monument is made of aluminum.

At the time it was placed (December 6, 1884)

it was the largest aluminum object cast.

In those days aluminum was very hard to produce

and was worth as much as silver.

Chicago is America’s skyscraper capital.

The city has more 1,000-foot tall buildings

than any other U.S. city.

If we define the “highest spot on the Earth”

as that which is closest to the moon, stars, etc.,

then Mt. Chimborazo in Ecuador is an

incredible 1.5 miles higher than Mt. Everest

due to the oblate spheroid shape of the earth.

(Y’all clumb the wrong mountain boyz!)

The spooky theme song for Alfred Hitchcock Presents

is titled “Funeral March of a Marionette.”

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Is It Just Me, Or Are There Any Other Anagrams Of Em?

October 24, 2013October 21, 2013 fasab comedy, Humour, Language, Puns adverts, allure, amusing, an unknown species, anagrams, bad jokes, break, carpet, CCTV, cleaned me out, colonic irrigation, Comedy, Derelict Theatre, dinosaur, doctor, dog, dug up, dumped my girlfriend, dwarf, endowment, Entertainment, extraterrestrial, financial adviser, fishing for compliments, fools, fossil arm, funny, headline, Hollywood, Huge Grant, Humor, Humour, incontinence hotline, injured, jokes, judge, leaving me, local paper, Mexican, missus, Natural History Museum, obsession, phew, pitched a tent in the garden, Pitiful Terrier, play on words, pool, pun, pun day, puns, relief, ringing, robots, sex cells, showers, Silicon Carne, silly jokes, Spanish television channel, stars, stunned, stupid jokes, Taser gun, thesaurus, throw, try my patients, ventriloquist's dummy, word play, word plays, X and Y chromosomes, young

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No, it’s not just me.

Loads of people like puns and pun day.

Here’s another one.

Enjoy!

If you’re fishing for compliments

it’s best to use allure.

I just pitched a tent in the garden.

Surprised myself how far I could throw it.

I was telling a friend that I made a

ventriloquist’s dummy out of some old carpet.

“Any good?” he queried.

“Nah, it’s ruggish,” I replied.

I was stunned to find my Taser gun was still switched on.

I shouldn’t have dumped my girlfriend after

overhearing her making fun of my poor endowment.

Turned out she was a financial adviser

I’ve been using X and Y chromosomes in my

adverts recently since, after all, sex cells…

Last night I looked up at the stars and thought:

“It’s crap being a dwarf in Hollywood.”

When I was young, I used to think CCTV was

a very positive Spanish television channel.

I’ve got an injured extraterrestrial in my shed.

He’s missing an eye.

I’ve called him Alen.

My dog’s been sitting in the corner, feeling

sorry for himself, for three days.

I knew I shouldn’t have bought a Pitiful Terrier

I saw a headline in the local paper:

“Huge Grant Saves Derelict Theatre”.

I thought: That was nice of him.

I’m a doctor. My wife’s a judge.

She knows how to try my patients.

My missus says she is leaving me because of my obsession with pool.

“Come on love”, I said. “Give me a break”.

I thought I’d dug up an unknown species

of dinosaur in my back garden.

Excitedly I phoned the Natural History Museum,

but it turned out to be a fossil arm.

I’ve taken thousands of showers over the years.

Never been caught once.

A friend asked me if I knew any words that could describe relief.

I told him I know a phew

I bought a new thesaurus today.

It’s nothing to write house about.

I went for a colonic irrigation today,

then got hit with a huge $659 bill.

It really cleaned me out.

I phoned up the incontinence hotline today and

the lady on the other end asked where I’m ringing from.

I said, “From the waist down.”

What do Mexican Robots Eat?

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Hubble, Bubble, Toil And…………..Some Really Great Photographs!

April 10, 2013 fasab Factoids, Inspirational, Photos, Uncategorized, Unusual ambient light, ant nebula, Area 51, carina nebula, cat's eye nebula, centaur usa, colliding galaxies, crab nebula, double cluster, eagle nebula, eagle nebuls pillars of creation, edge on galaxy, education, enigmatic cloud, Entertainment, exploration, galaxies, galaxy, helix nebula, hubble, Hubble photographs, Hubble Space Telescope, Las Vegas, light, lights in houses, Misc, Miscellaneous, monocerotis, Moon, music, Musings, N90, nebula, Nevada desert, Orion Nebula, Personal Writing, photographs, photography, photos, pillars of creation, planets, Random, red spider nebula, science, space, spiral galaxy, star, stars, Stephan's qintet of galaxies, street lights, tarantula nebula, technology, telescope, telescopes, Things I love, Thoughts, Twilight Zone, twilight zone music, Universe

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When I was a kid one of the things I loved to do was to go over to my cousin’s house at night during the winter months when it was dark. He lived out in the country on a farm – and he had a telescope. It wasn’t an expensive one, but it was a lot better than anything I, or any of my friends, had so to me it was great.

Many evenings we spent looking at the moon and the stars. It fascinated me then and it fascinates me to this day.

I never did get a telescope of my own. For one thing anything decent was always a lot more than I could afford when I was a kid and for another as I grew up so did the town where I lived. To the extent that there was so much ambient light from street lights, lights in houses and buildings etc., that there was very little left to see.

When I was in Las Vegas I did make a few trips well out into the Nevada desert which provided some fantastic results. You really have no idea just how many stars are out there until you can view them from somewhere very remote. (BTW, I think what I saw were all stars, but with Area 51 and all that, you’re never really sure. Cue some Twilight Zone music!)

So how much better would it be if you had telescope actually out there in space?

Well for the past few years we have, and it’s a LOT better as you will see.

But enough of an intro from me. There are other bloggers who can write with much more knowledge and passion about these things, such as Alex at Things I love, so I’ll sign off and let you look at some of the Hubble photographs that I though were worth sharing.

And whether you believe in Creation or that it is all the chaotic result of a big fart that came from nowhere, enjoy the wonder and beauty of what is out there.

enigmatic cloud hubble — enigmatic cloud

red spider nebula hubble — red spider nebula

tarantula nebula hubble — tarantula nebula

Stephan's quintet of galaxies hubble — Stephan’s quintet of galaxies

colliding galaxies hubble — colliding galaxies

cats eye nebula hubble — cats eye nebula

eagle nebula pillars of creation hubble — eagle nebula pillars of creation

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A Little Surprise Test For Easter

March 26, 2013 fasab Tests, Uncategorized, Unusual ancient fertility ritual, Anglo-Saxon goddess, answers, Asian country, bejewelled Easter eggs, cake, city, color, Current Events, donkey, Easter, Easter island, Easter lilies, Easter parade, education, english, Entertainment, Fat Tuesday, first person to speak to Jesus, german, goldsmith, Good Friday agreement, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jesus buried, Mardi Gras, Misc, Miscellaneous, month, new york, Ostern, painting, Pancake day, President's wife, Pysanka, quiz, quizzes, Random, risen from the dead, Semana Santa, stars, test, tests, the cross, tomb, Tsars of Russia, United States, Urbi et Orbi, White House Easter Egg Roll, world

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Okay, its Easter time again, Semana Santa some call it, so how about taking a little test to see how much you know about it?

Here we go.

Good luck and as usual the answers are given waaaaaaay down below – but NO cheating!

Enjoy.

Q 1: On what street in New York does the city’s famous Easter parade take place?

Q 2: Which month is the English and German names for Easter or Ostern associated with?

Q 3: From which Anglo-Saxon goddess do we derive the name Easter?

Q 4: The Good Friday agreement, signed on Good Friday 1998, is also named after which city?

Q 5: Who was the first person to speak to Jesus after he had risen from the dead?

Q 6: Every Easter who gives his ‘Urbi et Orbi’ to the world?

Q 7: The customary act of painting what, is known as Pysanka?

Q 8: What color was the cloak that Jesus wore when he went to the cross?

Q 9: Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday and Pancake Day are also known as what?

Q 10: Name any of the main stars of Easter Parade (1948)?

Q 11: Until 1941, from which Asian country were most Easter lilies exported to the United States?

Q 12: The White House Easter Egg Roll was inaugurated by which President’s wife?

Q 13: In whose tomb was Jesus buried?

Q 14: Which goldsmith produced bejewelled Easter eggs for the Tsars of Russia?

Q 15: Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and was greeted by cheering crowd on which day?

Q 16: Which type of cake is traditionally made at Easter?

Q 17: Easter island is a territory of which country?

Q 18: In which country do boys traditionally throw buckets of water over girls at Easter time as part of an ancient fertility ritual?

ANSWERS

Q 1: On what street in New York does the city’s famous Easter parade take place?

A 1: 5th Avenue

Q 2: Which month is the English and German names for Easter or Ostern associated with?

A 2: April

Q 3: From which Anglo-Saxon goddess do we derive the name Easter?

A 3: Eostre

Q 4: The Good Friday agreement, signed on Good Friday 1998, is also named after which city?

A 4: The Belfast Agreement

Q 5: Who was the first person to speak to Jesus after he had risen from the dead?

A 5: Mary Magdalene

Q 6: Every Easter who gives his ‘Urbi et Orbi’ to the world?

A 6: The Pope

Q 7: The customary act of painting what, is known as Pysanka?

A 7: Eggs

Q 8: What color was the cloak that Jesus wore when he went to the cross?

A 8: Purple

Q 9: Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday and Pancake Day are also known as what?

A 9: Shrove Tuesday

Q 10: Name any of the main stars of Easter Parade (1948)?

A 10: Judy Garland and Fred Astaire

Q 11: Until 1941, from which Asian country were most Easter lilies exported to the United States?

A 11: Japan

Q 12: The White House Easter Egg Roll was inaugurated by which President’s wife?

A 12: James Madison (Dolley Madison)

Q 13: In whose tomb was Jesus buried?

A 13: Joseph of Arimathea

Q 14: Which goldsmith produced bejewelled Easter eggs for the Tsars of Russia?

A 14: Peter Carl Fabergé

Q 15: Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and was greeted by cheering crowd on which day?

A 15: Palm Sunday

Q 16: Which type of cake is traditionally made at Easter?

A 16: Simnel cake

Q 17: Easter island is a territory of which country?

A 17: Chile

Q 18: In which country do boys traditionally throw buckets of water over girls at Easter time as part of an ancient fertility ritual?

A 18: Poland

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CLASSIFIED: For Your Eyes Only, Part Thirteen!!!!!!!!!!!!!

February 2, 2013February 2, 2013 fasab CLASSIFIED, comedy, dogs, Humour, Pets, Uncategorized, Unusual ads, advertisements, adverts, Amana washer, American flag, amusing, bachelor, Berkeley, body, bowels, bowls, bowotox, bowtox, boxing, bra, bra store, bras, burns toast, butt cream, butter cream, califorina, California, Campbell's, cardio, cardio kick boxing, Chile, classified ad, classified ads, classified advertisements, classified adverts, classifieds, clean, Comedy, cupcake, cupcakes, dinner, dog, dogs, dryer, Entertainment, fish, fish dinner, fools, for sale must sell, funny, German Shepherd, gym, Holcross, holcross pullets, Humor, Humour, lay, lenten fish dinner, lifetime, microwavable, microwave, Misc, Miscellaneous, misprints, mistakes, morons, newspaper, newspaper classifieds, nudist, nudist colony, People, pointers, pole, pullets, puppies, puppy, Random, Sauvignon Blanc, sell, shapers, stars, stupid, stupid dog, stupid people, stupidity, sweat shirt, t shirt, Thoughts, toast, toaster, washed, washer, washer dryer, white wine, wine

german Shepherd, puppy, puppies, “Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Today Part Thirteen of our look at the Classified Ads that turned out a little bit differently than originally planned.

Verification in print that stupidity is alive and well.

Enjoy!

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Those Of A Nervous Disposition Should Look Away Now

January 9, 2013 fasab Humour, Medical, Phobias, Uncategorized, Unusual bad men, beaten, blindness, burglars, Chinese, Chinese culture, crosses, crucifix, darkness, decaying matter, defecation, dependence on others, dirt, eating, fear, fears, fecal matter, food, frighten, frightened, frogs, germs, ghosts, Halloween, hell, irrational, irrational fears, learning, left, left-handed, light flashes, long words, love play, mice, Moon, narrow things, Nervous Disposition, number five, number four, outer space, parents-in-law, People, phobia, phobias, places, quadraphobia, quadriplegic, quadriplegics, quadriplegiphobia, quintaphobia, radiation, radiophobia, railroads, ranidaphobia, rectal diseases, rectophobia, rectum, relatives, rhabdophobia, rhypophobia, rhytiphobia, rupophobia, Russians, russophobia, samhainophobia, sarmassophobia, Satan, satanophobia, scabies, scabiophobia, scare, scared, scatophobia, scelerophibia, school, sciaphobia, sciophobia, scoleciphobia, scolionophobia, scopophobia, scoptophobia, scotomaphobia, scotophobia, scriptophobia, selachophobia, selaphobia, selenophobia, seplophobia, sesquipedalophobia, severely criticized, severely punished, sexophobia, shadows, sharks, siderodromophobia, siderophobia, silly, sinistrophobia, sinophobia, sitiophobia, sitophobia, sleep, Snakephobia, snakes, soceraphobia, social phobia, society, sociophobia, somniphobia, sophophobia, soteriophobia, spacephobia, specters, spectrophobia, spermatophobia, spermophobia, spheksophobia, standing, stared at, stars, stasibasiphobia, stasiphobia, staurophobia, stenophobia, stigiophobia, stupid, stupidity, stygiophobia, suriphobia, symbolism, symbolophobia, symmetrophobia, symmetry, syngenesophobia, syphilis, syphilophobia, the opposite sex, train travel, trains, walking, wasps, worms, wrinkles, writing in public, x-rays

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Yes, those of a nervous disposition should indeed look away now, because today we have the penultimate list of irrational fears and phobias that seem to afflict certain members of the population. How and why they develop such curious mental afflictions I don’t. They are real to them, but foolish and amusing to the rest of us.

Today is ‘Q’, ‘R’ and ‘S’.

Enjoy.

Quadraphobia ……….fear of the number four.

Quadriplegiphobia ……….fear of quadriplegics or fear of becoming a quadriplegic.

Quintaphobia ……….fear of the number five.

Radiophobia ……….fear of radiation, x-rays.

Ranidaphobia ……….fear of frogs.

Rectophobia ……….fear of rectum or rectal diseases.

Rhabdophobia ……….fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.(wand)

Rhypophobia ……….fear of defecation.

Rhytiphobia ……….fear of getting wrinkles.

Rupophobia ……….fear of dirt.

Russophobia ……….fear of Russians.

Samhainophobia ……….fear of Halloween.

Sarmassophobia ……….fear of love play. (Malaxophobia)

Satanophobia ……….fear of Satan.

Scabiophobia ……….fear of scabies.

Scatophobia ……….fear of fecal matter.

Scelerophibia ……….fear of bad men, burglars.

Sciaphobia or Sciophobia or Sciaphobia ……….fear of shadows.

Scoleciphobia ……….fear of worms.

Scolionophobia ……….fear of school.

Scopophobia or Scoptophobia ……….fear of being seen or stared at.

Scotomaphobia ……….fear of blindness in visual field.

Scotophobia ……….fear of darkness. (Achluophobia)

Scriptophobia ……….fear of writing in public.

Selachophobia ……….fear of sharks.

Selaphobia ……….fear of light flashes.

Selenophobia ……….fear of the moon.

Seplophobia ……….fear of decaying matter.

Sesquipedalophobia ……….fear of long words.

Sexophobia ……….fear of the opposite sex. (Heterophobia)

Siderodromophobia ……….fear of trains, railroads or train travel.

Siderophobia ……….fear of stars.

Sinistrophobia ……….fear of things to the left or left-handed.

Sinophobia ……….fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.

Sitophobia or Sitiophobia ……….fear of food or eating. (Cibophobia)

Snakephobia ……….fear of snakes. (Ophidiophobia)

Soceraphobia ……….fear of parents-in-law.

Social Phobia ……….fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.

Sociophobia ……….fear of society or people in general.

Somniphobia ……….fear of sleep.

Sophophobia ……….fear of learning.

Soteriophobia ……….fear of dependence on others.

Spacephobia ……….fear of outer space.

Spectrophobia ……….fear of specters or ghosts.

Spermatophobia or Spermophobia ……….fear of germs.

Spheksophobia ……….fear of wasps.

Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia ……….fear of standing or walking. (Ambulophobia)

Staurophobia ……….fear of crosses or the crucifix.

Stenophobia ……….fear of narrow things or places.

Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia ……….fear of hell.

Suriphobia ……….fear of mice.

Symbolophobia ……….fear of symbolism.

Symmetrophobia ……….fear of symmetry.

Syngenesophobia ……….fear of relatives.

Syphilophobia ……….fear of syphilis.

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A Few More Random Questions

November 20, 2012November 20, 2012 fasab comedy, Humour, Questions, Uncategorized, Unusual alphabet soup, answers, antipasti, Comedy, conspiracy theorist, crash, cross-eyed, dyslexia, Easy Listening, Entertainment, expiration date, forest, funny, headline, helmets, Humor, Humour, hungry, illiterate people, kamikaze pilots, lips, lipstick, meteor showers, Misc, Miscellaneous, music, non-conformist, pasta, Psychic Wins Lottery, questions, Random, read, rush hour, slowest traffic, sour cream, stars, stealth bomber, swimming, time of day, whales

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

This seems to be the week of questions on the fasab blog. It wasn’t planned that way, sometimes things just happen coincidentally, although you would have a job on your hands trying to convince a conspiracy theorist about that.

On Sunday we had questions in the form of a test, yesterday some quiz show questions (although the stars were the answers) and today another selection of those questions most of us ignore, but when we see them we think, “Yeah, why didn’t I ever ask that?”.

So here is the latest batch for you to think about.

Enjoy.

Why is there an expiration date on my sour cream container?

Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips?

If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest and there is no one around, will it make a sound?

Why don’t you ever see the headline “Psychic Wins Lottery”?

Why is it that Easy Listening music is so hard to listen to?

Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Why can’t you be a non-conformist like everyone else?

If swimming is good for your shape, then why do the whales look the way they do?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

If you had everything, where would you put it?

Why are men’s and women’s shoe sizes different?

How do blind people know their stick is white?

Do stars clean themselves with meteor showers?

If you ate pasta and antipasti, would you still be hungry?

If you’re cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?

If most streets in Japan do not have any names how do you address a letter to someone?

If Tarzan was raised in the jungle by apes, why doesn’t he ever have a beard?

Before drawing boards were invented what was it people went back to?

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Another Selection Of Those Word Puzzles Called Anagrams.

September 30, 2012 fasab Anagrams, comedy, Humour, Language, Politics, Uncategorized, Unusual Adolf Hitler, anagram, anagrams, astronomer, astronomers, car, car spin, celebrities, Chairman Mao, Christian, Christmas, Cincinnati Reds, confessional, conversation, docile, Dolly Parton, domesticated, domesticated animals, Entertainment, fart, Frito Lay, funny, garbage man, hidden meaning, hidden meanings, Humor, Humour, ice, iceberg, ipod, Justin Timberlake, literature, march, Misc, Miscellaneous, Mitt Romney, Moon, oily fart, plastic surgery, politics, President, President Bush, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Princess Diana, Random, stars, stupid, surgery, tames, Titanic, titanic disaster, Washington, Western Union, wire, word puzzles

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Another selection of those word puzzles called anagrams. Some of the usual suspects are back, but with different takes on their name, and of course thee are a lot of new ones too.

Enjoy.

‘Dolly Parton’

Dynatrollop

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‘The Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor)’

Real pompous, petulant, high-class inbreed wretch waiting for E.R. throne.

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‘The Titanic disaster’

Death, it starts in ice

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‘Western Union’

No Wire Unsent

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‘The Cincinnati Reds’

Indecent Christian

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‘Confessional’

On scale of sin

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‘Princess Diana’

End is a car spin

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‘Astronomer’

Moon starer

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‘Astronomers’

No more stars

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‘Frito Lay’

Oily Fart

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‘Conversation’

Voices Rant On

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‘ipod lover’

Poor devil

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‘Justin Timberlake’

I’m a jerk but listen

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Mitt Romney for President

form prime intent, destroy

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‘Christmas’

Trims cash

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‘A Domesticated Animal’

Docile, as a man tamed it

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‘Garbage Man’

Bag manager

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‘President Bush of the USA’

A fresh one, but he’s stupid

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‘Adolf Hitler’

Heil, old fart!

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‘Chairman Mao’

I am on a march.

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