I hope you are ready to try these challenging questions.
As usual if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q 1: We’ve all eaten M&Ms, but what do the two Ms stand for?
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Q 2: On the back of a $1 bill, what is in the center?
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Q 3: Who wrote ‘High Adventure’, about a spectacular mountain climb?
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Q 4: During World War II American factories produced approximately how many military aircraft?
a) 200,000 b) 300,000 c) 400,000 d) 500,000
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Q 5: Captain Cook discovered which island in the pacific in 1777?
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Q 6: Who was assassinated at Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968?
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Q 7: What is the name of Elvis Presley’s home and where is it located? (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q 8: What name is given to a flat stretch of land within a river valley, which is the remnant of an earlier flood plain, when the river was at a higher level?
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Q 9: What is the name of the new TV series, starring John Malkovich, about the pirate Blackbeard?
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Q 10: What war ended with the fall of Saigon and in what year did it end? (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q 11: Which country lies to the north of Austria and the south of Poland?
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Q 12: Plus or minus 30 minutes, what was the Concorde’s record flight time from New York to London?
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Q 13: Who was responsible for the Green Car Crash in 1963?
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Q 14: What team thrashed Brazil by 7 goals to 1 in this year’s soccer World Cup semi-finals?
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Q 15: Who wrote about a fictional, diminutive, humanoid race called ‘Hobbits’ who inhabit the lands of Middle-earth?
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Q 16: The normal wing beat frequency of the annoying mosquito is what?
a) 6 beats per sec. b) 60 beats per sec. c) 600 beats per sec. d) 6,000 beats per sec.
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Q 17: ‘Cebuano’, ‘Fula’, ‘Gujarati’ and ‘Kannada’ are all examples of what?
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Q 18: What Oscar winning movie is based on the trials and tribulations of Harold Abraham and Eric Liddell?
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Q 19: Now a chance for some mega points. There are 13 official countries in the world which have a capital city beginning and ending with the same letter. (I don’t expect anyone to get them all, but have a point for each one you can name correctly. (names in the English language)).
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Q 20: Who said you could “call me Al” in 1986?
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ANSWERS
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Q 1: We’ve all eaten M&Ms, but what do the two Ms stand for?
A 1: The two Ms in M&Ms stand for Mars & Murrie’s, named after Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie who started producing M&M’s exclusively for the military during WWII.
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Q 2: On the back of a $1 bill, what is in the center?
A 2: ONE.
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Q 3: Who wrote ‘High Adventure’, about a spectacular mountain climb?
A 3: Sir Edmund Hilary, the first man to climb Mount Everest.
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Q 4: During World War II American factories produced approximately how many military aircraft?
a) 200,000 b) 300,000 c) 400,000 d) 500,000
A 4: The correct answer is b), American factories produced approximately 300,000 military aircraft during WWII.
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Q 5: Captain Cook discovered which island in the pacific in 1777?
A 5: Christmas Island.
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Q 6: Who was assassinated at Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968?
A 6: Martin Luther King jnr.
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Q 7: What is the name of Elvis Presley’s home and where is it located? (A point for each correct answer.)
A 7: The name of Elvis Presley’s home is Graceland and it is located in Memphis, Tennessee (3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard to be precise.)
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Q 8: What name is given to a flat stretch of land within a river valley, which is the remnant of an earlier flood plain, when the river was at a higher level?
A 8: It is called a River Terrace.
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Q 9: What is the name of the new TV series, starring John Malkovich, about the pirate Blackbeard?
A 9: Crossbones.
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Q 10: What war ended with the fall of Saigon and in what year did it end? (A point for each correct answer.)
A 10: The Vietnam War ended with the fall of Saigon. on 30 April 1975.
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Q 11: 4. Which country lies to the north of Austria and the south of Poland?
A 11: The Czech Republic.
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Q 12: Plus or minus 30 minutes, what was the Concorde’s record flight time from New York to London?
A 12: 2 hours. 55 minutes. 15 seconds.
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Q 13: Who was responsible for the Green Car Crash in 1963?
A 13: The Green Car Crash is Andy Warhol’s most famous painting. It was sold at auction on May 16, 2007 for $71.7m (£42.3m).
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Q 14: What team thrashed Brazil by 7 goals to 1 in this year’s soccer World Cup semi-finals?
A 14: Germany, who went on to win the competition.
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Q 15: Who wrote about a fictional, diminutive, humanoid race called ‘Hobbits’ who inhabit the lands of Middle-earth?
A 15: J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Q 16: The normal wing beat frequency of the annoying mosquito is what?
a) 6 beats per sec. b) 60 beats per sec. c) 600 beats per sec. d) 6,000 beats per sec.
A 16: The correct answer is c) 600 beats per sec.
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Q 17: ‘Cebuano’, ‘Fula’, ‘Gujarati’ and ‘Kannada’ are all examples of what?
A 17: They are all examples of languages. Cebuano is from the Philippines; Fula from Cameroon and Nigeria; Gujarati from India and Pakistan; and Kannada from India.
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Q 18: What Oscar winning movie is based on the trials and tribulations of Harold Abraham and Eric Liddell?
A 18: ‘Chariots of Fire’ which tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice.
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Q 19: Now a chance for some mega points. There are 13 official countries in the world which have a capital city beginning and ending with the same letter. (I don’t expect anyone to get them all, but have a point for each one you can name correctly. (names in the English language)).
A 19: They are: Abuja (Nigeria), Accra (Ghana), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Andorra la Vella (Andorra), Ankara (Turkey), Apia (Samoa), Asmara (Eritrea), Astana (Kazakstan), Oslo (Norway), St. George’s (Grenada), St. John’s (Antigua and Barbuda), Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Warsaw (Poland).
Dumb was about the only word that could describe today’s lot of quiz show contestants, but even that wasn’t enough so I said it three times (and that went along with the video at the end, who was it said, I like it when a plan comes together).
So here you are.
Hope you find something to make you smile this Monday. I’m away to count me toes.
Enjoy!
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Q: Which American actor is married to Nicole Kidman
A: Forrest Gump.
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Q: On which street did Sherlock Holmes live?
A: Er . . .
Q: He makes bread .. .
A: Er . . .
Q: He makes cakes .. .
A: Kipling Street?
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Q: Which of these is a city in Germany: Hanoi, Hanover or Hangover?
A: Hanoi.
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Q: In what year was President Kennedy assassinated?
A: Erm .. .
Q: Well, let’s put it this way – he didn’t see 1964.
A: 1965?
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Q: What’s the Prince of Wales’s Christian name?
A: Err . . .
Q: Here’s a clue: he was married to Diana.
A: Err . . .
Q: It begins with a ‘C’.
A: No idea.
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Q: What was the name of Tony Blair’s chief spin-doctor who resigned last year?
A: Iain Duncan Smith.
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Q: Arrange these two groups of letters to form a word – CHED and PIT.
A:Chedpit.
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Q: How many toes would three people have in total?
A: 23.
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Q: I’m looking for an island in the Atlantic whose name includes the letter ‘e’.
A: Ghana.
Q: No, listen. It’s an island in the Atlantic Ocean.
A: New Zealand.
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Q: What is the world’s largest continent?
A: The Pacific
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Q: Name a film starring Bob Hoskins that is also the name of a famous painting by Leonardo Da Vinci.
A: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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Q: In which European city was the first opera house opened in 1637?
A: Sydney.
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Q: What was signed to bring World War I to an end in 1918?
A: Magna Carta.
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Q: What international brand shares its name with the Greek goddess of victory?
A: (after long deliberation): Erm, Kellogg’s?
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Q: Name a book written by Jane Austen.
A: Charlotte Bronte.
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Q: What is the name of the French-speaking Canadian state?
A: America?
A: Portugal?
A: Canada?
A: Mexico?
A: Italy?
A: Spain?
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Q: How many days in a leap year?
A: 253.
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Q: What is the county town of Kent?
A: Kentish Town?
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Q: Who wrote Lord of the Rings?
A: Enid Blyton
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Q: In which European country are there people called Walloons?
A: Wales.
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Q: Dizzy Gillespie is famous for playing . .. what?
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