“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Hello and welcome to the latest fasab quiz.
I’ve called it the “Vestal Virgin Quiz”, you’ll find out why later, but even if you’re not a vestal virgin please feel free to take part.
As usual you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1. What number does the Roman numeral ‘D’ stand for?
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Q. 2. What are the young of Squirrels called?
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Q. 3. In which country are the Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake?
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Q. 4. This word can mean a card game, a structure spanning a river or other chasm, the place where you usually find a ship’s captain, an artificial replacement of a missing tooth or teeth, or a thin, fixed wedge or support raising the strings of a musical instrument above the sounding board. What is it?
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Q. 5. What would a galvanometer be used to measure?
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Q. 6. Whose “Laughable Lyrics” included “The Quangle Wangle’s Hat” and “The Dong with a Luminous Nose” ?
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Q. 7. What was the name of the star-packed movie depicting World War II’s ‘Operation Market Garden’, an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany?
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Q. 8. Which astronomical distance is about 3.26 light years?
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Q. 9. How many Vestal Virgins served as Priestesses of the goddess Vesta at any one time?
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Q. 10. Tashkent is the capital of which one of the Asian “stans”?
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Q. 11. By what name is a meal consisting of sausages and mashed potatoes better known as in the UK?
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Q. 12. What is the currency used in the Dominican Republic?
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Q. 13. How many movies did John Wayne star in with the word ‘Rio’ in their title? (A bonus point for each one you can name correctly.)
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Q. 14. What city is also known as ‘The Little Paris’ ?
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Q. 15. What sort of structure is DNA?
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Q. 16. What is the name of the main actress who played ‘Olivia Walton’ (Mammy Walton) in seasons 1 thru 7 of the long running TV series?
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Q. 17. If you multiplied the number in the title of George Orwell’s most famous novel, by the highest number you can score on a dartboard with one dart, and divide that total by the number of nickels in a dollar, what number would you be left with?
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Q. 18. What is a ‘ziganka’ and what nationality is it? (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 19. ‘General Mariano Escobedo’ and ‘General Abelargo L Rodriguez’ are international airports in which country?
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Q. 20. What is the surname or last name of the actors who played the ‘Shooter’ and ‘Det. Danny Reagan’ in the TV series ‘Blue Bloods’ ?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1. What number does the Roman numeral ‘D’ stand for?
A. 1. 500.
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Q. 2. What are the young of Squirrels called?
A. 2. Kittens
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Q. 3. In which country are the Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake?
A. 3. Canada.
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Q. 4. This word can mean a card game, a structure spanning a river or other chasm, the place where you usually find a ship’s captain, an artificial replacement of a missing tooth or teeth, or a thin, fixed wedge or support raising the strings of a musical instrument above the sounding board. What is it?
A. 4. Bridge.
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Q. 5. What would a galvanometer be used to measure?
A. 5. Detecting and measuring small electric currents. (electricity).
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Q. 6. Whose “Laughable Lyrics” included “The Quangle Wangle’s Hat” and “The Dong with a Luminous Nose” ?
A. 6. Edward Lear.
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Q. 7. What was the name of the star-packed movie depicting World War II’s ‘Operation Market Garden’, an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany?
A. 7. A Bridge Too Far. (The cast included Dirk Bogarde, Ryan O’Neal, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell and Liv Ullmann.)
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Q. 8. Which astronomical distance is about 3.26 light years?
A. 8. A parsec.
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Q. 9. How many Vestal Virgins served as Priestesses of the goddess Vesta at any one time?
A. 9. The correct answer is ‘six’ (although they served along with 6 in training and 6 retired ones as tutors).
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Q. 10. Tashkent is the capital of which one of the Asian “stans”?
A. 10. Uzbekistan.
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Q. 11. By what name is a meal consisting of sausages and mashed potatoes better known as in the UK?
A. 11. Bangers & Mash.
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Q. 12. What is the currency used in the Dominican Republic?
A. 12. It is the Dominican Peso (DOP), although you can have the point if you just said ‘peso’.
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Q. 13. How many movies did John Wayne star in with the word ‘Rio’ in their title? (A bonus point for each one you can name correctly.)
A. 13. The correct answer is three (Rio Grande (1950), Rio Bravo (1959) and Rio Lobo (1970))
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Q. 14. What city is also known as ‘The Little Paris’ ?
A. 14. Bucharest.
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Q. 15. What sort of structure is DNA?
A. 15. It is known as a ‘double helix’.
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Q. 16. What is the name of the main actress who played ‘Olivia Walton’ (Mammy Walton) in seasons 1 thru 7 of the long running TV series?
A. 16. Michael Learned.
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Q. 17. If you multiplied the number in the title of George Orwell’s most famous novel, by the highest number you can score on a dartboard with one dart, and divided that total by the number of nickels in a dollar, what number would you be left with?
A. 17. 5952. (1984 x 60) = 119040 / 20 = 5952
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Q. 18. What is a ‘ziganka’ and what nationality is it? (A point for each correct answer.)
A. 18. A ‘ziganka’ is a Russian country dance.
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Q. 19. ‘General Mariano Escobedo’ and ‘General Abelargo L Rodriguez’ are international airports in which country?
A. 19. Mexico (in Monterrey and Tijuana respectively).
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Q. 20. What is the surname or last name of the actors who played the ‘Shooter’ and ‘Det. Danny Reagan’ in the TV series ‘Blue Bloods’ ?
A. 20. Walberg, specifically Mark Walberg in ‘Shooter’ and his older brother Donnie Walberg in ‘Blue Bloods’.
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