I Think I’ll Call This One The Vestal Virgin Quiz.

July 20, 2015July 18, 2015 fasab Questions, Tests actors, actress, Allied military operation, artificial replacement, Asian, astronomical distance, Blue Bloods, capital, card game, city, country, currency, dartboard, Det Danny Reagan, DNA, dollar, Dominican Republic, education, Entertainment, galvanometer, General Abelargo L Rodriguez, general knowledge, General Mariano Escobedo, Geography, George Orwell, Germany, goddess Vesta, Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, history, international airports, John Wayne, last name, Laughable Lyrics, light years, Mammy Walton, mashed potatoes, math, maths, meal, measure, missing tooth, movies, nationality, Netherlands, nickles, novel, number, numbers, Olivia Walton, Operation Market Garden, place, Priestesses, questions, quiz, quizzes, Rio, Roman numeral, sausages, science, seasons, ship's captain, Shooter, sounding board, squirrels, star-packed movie, strings of a musical instrument, structure, support, surname, Tashkent, teeth, The Dong with a Luminous Nose, The Little Paris, The Quangle Wangle’s Hat, TV series, UK, Vestal Virgins, wedge, word, words, world war ii, ziganka

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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.

Q. 1. What number does the Roman numeral ‘D’ stand for?

Q. 2. What are the young of Squirrels called?

Q. 3. In which country are the Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake?

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?

Q. 5. What would a galvanometer be used to measure?

Q. 6. Whose “Laughable Lyrics” included “The Quangle Wangle’s Hat” and “The Dong with a Luminous Nose” ?

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?

Q. 8. Which astronomical distance is about 3.26 light years?

Q. 9. How many Vestal Virgins served as Priestesses of the goddess Vesta at any one time?

Q. 10. Tashkent is the capital of which one of the Asian “stans”?

Q. 11. By what name is a meal consisting of sausages and mashed potatoes better known as in the UK?

Q. 12. What is the currency used in the Dominican Republic?

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.)

Q. 14. What city is also known as ‘The Little Paris’ ?

Q. 15. What sort of structure is DNA?

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?

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?

Q. 18. What is a ‘ziganka’ and what nationality is it? (A point for each correct answer.)

Q. 19. ‘General Mariano Escobedo’ and ‘General Abelargo L Rodriguez’ are international airports in which country?

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’ ?

ANSWERS

Q. 1. What number does the Roman numeral ‘D’ stand for?

A. 1. 500.

Q. 2. What are the young of Squirrels called?

A. 2. Kittens

Q. 3. In which country are the Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake?

A. 3. Canada.

A. 4. Bridge.

Q. 5. What would a galvanometer be used to measure?

A. 5. Detecting and measuring small electric currents. (electricity).

Q. 6. Whose “Laughable Lyrics” included “The Quangle Wangle’s Hat” and “The Dong with a Luminous Nose” ?

A. 6. Edward Lear.

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.)

Q. 8. Which astronomical distance is about 3.26 light years?

A. 8. A parsec.

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).

Q. 10. Tashkent is the capital of which one of the Asian “stans”?

A. 10. Uzbekistan.

Q. 11. By what name is a meal consisting of sausages and mashed potatoes better known as in the UK?

A. 11. Bangers & Mash.

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’.

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))

Q. 14. What city is also known as ‘The Little Paris’ ?

A. 14. Bucharest.

Q. 15. What sort of structure is DNA?

A. 15. It is known as a ‘double helix’.

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.

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

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.

Q. 19. ‘General Mariano Escobedo’ and ‘General Abelargo L Rodriguez’ are international airports in which country?

A. 19. Mexico (in Monterrey and Tijuana respectively).

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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A Mish Mash Quiz Today.

June 22, 2015June 21, 2015 fasab Questions, Tests actresses, Alfred Pennyworth, almonds, Amazon, American Odyssey, art, Asia, Australian actor, Australian movie character, aviation sunglasses, ban, Bausch & Lomb, Bible, book, books of the New Testament, britain, cabbage, characters, China, city, Controversial, countries, country, creatures, currencies, devil on two sticks, dust, earth, education, Entertainment, Europe, fictional character, first, first names, flamboyant, food, former name, fruit cake, game, general knowledge, Geography, George Custer, group, headaches, history, internet users, irish, Japan, John Lennon, juggling, La Gioconda, largest American retailer of lingerie, last, legendary city, Lieutenant General John MacCready, literature, M A S H, M*A*S*H, medical equipment manufacturer, movie, movies, music, nature, nausea, new york, painting, Paul McCartney, pilots, Potato, questions, quiz, quizzes, Ring of Bright Water, Robin Hood, Sahara, science, Scotland, sport, sun rays, television, test, tests, The Beatles, The City Of Tigers, The Golden Girls, Timbuktu, town, traditional, transports, TV series, US Army Air Corps, USA, video, widow, wind

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Welcome to today’s quiz on the fasab blog.

Another challenging selection of questions for you.

And if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating.

Enjoy and good luck.

Q. 1. M*A*S*H was a famous book, movie and TV series, but what do the letters M A S H stand for?

Q. 2. Wind transports approximately how many millions of tonnes of dust from the Sahara to the Amazon every year?

a) 4 million tonnes b) 40 million tonnes c) 400 million tonnes

Q. 3. What city is known as ‘The City Of Tigers’ ? (HINT: it is not in Asia.)

Q. 4. ‘Ring of Bright Water’ is a book about which creatures?

Q. 5. This one is the name of a rich fruit cake decorated with almonds, a town in Scotland, and the last name of a comic Australian movie character. What is it?

Q. 6. In which country is the legendary city of Timbuktu? (If you have been following the TV series American Odyssey you’ll know this one.)

Q. 7. A multi-point question. What currencies are used in the following countries?

a) USA b) Britain c) Japan d) Europe e) China

Q. 8. What percentage of internet users quit waiting for a video to load after 10 seconds?

a) 10% b) 20% c) 30% d) 40% e) 50% f) 60%

Q. 9. What were the first names of the four main characters of the long running and highly successful TV series ‘The Golden Girls’ ? (Bonus points if you can also correctly name the actresses who played them.)

Q. 10. In 1929, US Army Air Corps Lieutenant General John MacCready asked Bausch & Lomb, a New York-based medical equipment manufacturer, to create aviation sunglasses that would ban the sun rays and reduce the headaches and nausea experienced by his pilots. What name were they given?

Q. 11. “The devil on two sticks” is a former name for which juggling-like game?

Q. 12. What are the four largest countries on Earth by area? (A point for each you name correctly and a bonus point if you get them in the correct order, starting with the largest.)

Q. 13. What is the painting, ‘La Gioconda’, more usually known as?

Q. 14. What is the name of the traditional Irish potato and cabbage dish?

Q. 15. What is the name of John Lennon’s widow?

Q. 16. With whom is the fictional character ‘Alfred Pennyworth’ associated?

Q. 17. Who is the largest American retailer of lingerie?

Q. 18. In the Bible what are the names of the first and last books of the New Testament?

Q. 19. What was the name of the flamboyant and controversial Australian actor who starred in many movies during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s and played characters like ‘Robin Hood’ and ‘George Custer’?

Q. 20. What was the name of the group that Paul McCartney went on to form in 1970 after The Beatles split up?

ANSWERS

Q. 1. M*A*S*H was a famous book, movie and TV series, but what do the latters M A S H stand for?

A. 1. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.

Q. 2. Wind transports approximately how many millions of tonnes of dust from the Sahara to the Amazon every year?

a) 4 million tonnes b) 40 million tonnes c) 400 million tonnes

A. 2. The correct answer is b) 40 million tonnes.

Q. 3. What city is known as ‘The City Of Tigers’ ? (HINT: it is not in Asia.)

A. 3. It’s Oslo, Norway. (Apparently because the city was referred to as ‘Tigerstaden’ (the City of Tigers) by the author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson around 1870, due to his perception of the city as a cold and dangerous place.

Q. 4. ‘Ring of Bright Water’ is a book about which creatures?

A. 4. Otters.

Q. 5. This one is the name of a rich fruit cake decorated with almonds, a town in Scotland, and the last name of a comic Australian movie character. What is it?

A. 5. It is ‘Dundee’.

Q. 6. In which country is the legendary city of Timbuktu? (If you have been following the TV series American Odyssey you’ll know this one.)

A. 6. Mali, Africa.

Q. 7. A multi-point question. What currencies are used in the following countries?

a) USA b) Britain c) Japan d) Europe e) China

A. 7. a) Dollar b) Pound c) Yen d) Euro e) Yuan Renminbi

Q. 8. What percentage of internet users quit waiting for a video to load after 10 seconds?

a) 10% b) 20% c) 30% d) 40% e) 50% f) 60%

A. 8. The correct answer is e) 50%.

A. 9. They were Dorothy Zbornak (played by Bea Arthur); Rose Nylund (played by Betty White); Blanche Devereaux (played by Rue McClanahan); and Sophia Petrillo (played by Estelle Getty).

A. 10. They were called Ray Ban.

Q. 11. “The devil on two sticks” is a former name for which juggling-like game?

A. 11. Diabolo.

Q. 12. What are the four largest countries on Earth by area? (A point for each you name correctly and a bonus point if you get them in the correct order, starting with the largest.)

A. 12. 1) Russia 2) Canada 3) United States 4) PR China

Q. 13. What is the painting, ‘La Gioconda’, more usually known as?

A. 13. The Mona Lisa.

Q. 14. What is the name of the traditional Irish potato and cabbage dish?

A. 14. Colcannon.

Q. 15. What is the name of John Lennon’s widow?

A. 15. Yoko Ono.

Q. 16. With whom is the fictional character ‘Alfred Pennyworth’ associated?

A. 16. He is butler to Bruce Wayne, aka Batman.

Q. 17. Who is the largest American retailer of lingerie?

A. 17. Victoria’s Secret.

Q. 18. In the Bible what are the names of the first and last books of the New Testament?

A. 18. They are the book of Matthew and the book of Revelation.

A. 19. He was Errol Flynn.

Q. 20. What was the name of the group that Paul McCartney went on to form in 1970 after The Beatles split up?

A. 20. It was called ‘Wings’, have a taste….

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Columbia, Switzerland, North Korea And Mongolia. What A Collection Of Facts!

May 5, 2015May 4, 2015 fasab Factoids, Unusual average size home, Bada Bing strip club, beheaded the Mongolian envoy, born on the same day, Brazil, budget, burned down, cappuccino, Colombia, Ed White, education, Entertainment, EVA, fact, facts, first American to conduct a spacewalk, first man to die working on the Hoover Dam, founder of North Korea, Gemini 4 mission, Genghis Khan, go-go bar, Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, information, Iran's population, Italians, J G Tierney, J G Tierney’s son, Kim Il-Sung, last man died working on the Hoover Dam, Lodi, Lord of the Rings trilogy, lowest crime rates in the world, mercury in milk, most liberal gun laws of any country, movies, New Jersey, nobody knows, Pacific Ocean, patent for fire hydrants, patent office, Persians, platinum, policy on pesticides in food, pre-Mongol levels, Satin Dolls, second largest economy in South America, somebody knows, Switzerland, The Hobbit, The Sopranos, Titanic sank, TV series, US Food and Drug Administration, War on Drugs, zero tolerance

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What a collection of facts indeed and not one of them about Cinco de Mayo. How I resisted that I’, not sure. Maybe next year???

But today it’s facts that somebody knows and facts that nobody knows.

But at least after you read today’s post you will know the facts that nobody knows, except that then somebody will know them.

Enough of that, here they are.

Enjoy.

Nobody knows who owns the patent

for fire hydrants because the patent office

in which the records were being held burned down.

You could fit all the platinum every mined

into an average size home.

During the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965,

Ed White became the first American

to conduct a spacewalk.

The EVA started over the Pacific Ocean

near Hawaii and lasted 23 minutes,

ending over the Gulf of Mexico.

Colombia is estimated to be the

second largest economy in South America,

right behind Brazil.

When the Persians beheaded the Mongolian envoy,

Genghis Khan retaliated by killing nearly 90% of their population.

According to some estimates, Iran’s population didn’t

reach its pre-Mongol levels until the mid-1900s.

Kim Il-Sung, the founder of North Korea,

was born on the same day that the Titanic sank.

It wasn’t really a great day, was it?

The first man to die working on the Hoover Dam

was killed on December 20 1922.

He was J G Tierney.

The last man to die working on the Hoover Dam

was killed on December 20 1935.

He was J G Tierney’s son.

Italians don’t usually drink

cappuccino after 11 AM.

The term ‘Zero tolerance’ was first used

by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

in referring to their policy on pesticides

in food items (e.g. no mercury in milk).

It was later attributed to the famous

War on Drugs by strictly applying

the law in problem areas.

The Bada Bing strip club location used throughout

the hit TV series ‘The Sopranos’

is actually a go-go bar in Lodi, NJ, called Satin Dolls.

Switzerland has some of the most

liberal gun laws of any country,

with 2.3 to 4.5 million guns in

a population of 8 million.

It also has one of the lowest

crime rates in the world.

The budget for the two “The Hobbit” movies

is almost twice the budget of

the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

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Facts From Guppies To Genghis Khan. What More Could You Ask?

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Another random selection of facts.

Guppies and Genghis Khan are here, but so are lots of others.

Hope you find something you like.

Enjoy.

There are 12 imaginary languages

in the Lord of the Rings

Under medieval law, animals could

be tried and sentenced for crimes,

as if they were people.

There are records of farm animals being

tried for injuring or killing people.

Although John Mahoney played Kelsey Grammer’s

father in the great TV series ‘Frasier’,

he is only 15 years older than Kelsey.

The Aztec capital city was called ‘Tenochtitlan’

and it was located in the middle of a lake.

At the time of its discovery by Europeans,

it was bigger than most European cities,

had its own garbage collection and

was said to be very clean.

Today the same place is known as Mexico City

and the lake is mostly drained.

Disney’s ‘Main Street’ and ‘Tomorrowland’

are set in two very special astronomical years.

Main Street is set in 1910 and

Tomorrowland is set in 1986,

these years coincide with

Haley’s Comet appearance.

Probably one of the world’s most widely

distributed and popular freshwater

aquarium fish species is the ‘guppy’,

sometimes also known as the

‘million fish’ or ‘rainbow fish’.

It was named in honor of

Robert John Lechmere Guppy,

a British naturalist who sent specimens

of the species from Trinidad to the

Natural History Museum in London.

Some scholars believe that Genghis Khan

was responsible for up to 40 million deaths.

Some of his campaigns involved killing all

members of a society – men, women, and children,

Up until the early 1930s,

if you were ‘cool’ you were feeling chilly.

However during the jazz era the word ‘cool’

became slang for fashionable in jazz circles,

tenor saxophonist Lester Young is largely

said to have popularized it.

How cool is that?

Those who suffer from type 2 diabetes

are often symptom-free,

meaning they don’t even know that they’ve got it.

This type of diabetes is normally picked up

during eye exams as it could be seen as small

haemorrhages from leaking blood vessels

at the back of the eye.

Edgar Allen Poe once wrote a book called

“The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.”

It was about four shipwreck survivors

who were adrift on a raft for several days

before deciding to eat the cabin boy

whose name was Richard Parker.

Not long after, in 1884, a ship called the Mignonette

ended up sinking and leaving only four survivors.

They decided to eat the cabin boy.

His name was Richard Parker.

If you were a

Flatulence Smell Reduction Underwear Maker

your job would be engineering underwear

that reduces the typically unpleasant post-fart odor.

According to an interview with George Lucas,

R2-D2 and C-3PO were originally called A-2 and C-3.

R2-D2 was designed by Ralph McQuarrie

and co-developed by John Stears

but actually built by Tony Dyson,

who ran his own studio called

The White Horse Toy Company in the UK.

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A Few Of Today’s Facts Really Stink.

April 14, 2015April 12, 2015 fasab Factoids, Unusual "o" sound in French, access tunnels, airplanes, amphibious four-wheel drive off-roader, arms get shorter, Aztecs, bad job, Beckton Gas Works, bike, Boeing 747 mounted with an anti-missile defense system, Breath Odor Evaluator, Dog Breath Sniffer, dogs, East London, education, Entertainment, Europeans, excrement, experimented, fact, facts, Finland, focusing ability, fourteenth century, Full Metal Jacket, general population, German Wehrmacht, get older, highway 8, hit by a truck, immune system function, information, inhabitants, Jeffires Tubes, kidneys, lens in the eyes, London, lungs, major battle scenes, medieval London, Mexica, mint and toothpaste companies, most numerous amphibious car in history, National Institutes of Health, need glasses, NIH, prop master, reading, reproduction and support for the heart, Sherborne Lane, Shiteburn Lane, shoot down enemy missiles, smelling bad breath, Stanley Kubrick, star trek, stink, supplements with vitamin A, sweet potato baked in the skin, Swimming Car, The Enterprise, TV series, twin brother, Type 166, US Air Force, Vietnam, Vision, vitamin A, Volkswagen Schwimmwagen, Waffen-SS, Walter M Jeffries, WWII, YAL-1 Airborne Laser

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Sorry, but today a few of the facts really do stink.

But you might find them interesting nonetheless.

I hope so anyway.

So here they are.

Enjoy.

There are 13 ways to spell

the “o” sound in French.

Oh?

In the TV series Star Trek,

The Enterprise’s often seen access tunnels

that they called ‘Jeffries Tubes’

were named after original series

prop master Walter M Jeffries.

Vitamin A is important for vision,

the immune system function,

reproduction and support for the

heart, lungs and kidneys.

According to National Institutes of Health (NIH),

around 28%–37% of the general population

take supplements with vitamin A,

however,

just one sweet potato baked in the skin

has 28,058 international units (IU) of

vitamin A per serving,

which is 561% of the daily recommended value.

In 2002, a man was hit by a truck in Finland

as he was trying to cross highway 8 on his bike.

2 hours later his twin brother was also hit by a truck

while trying to cross highway 8 on his bike.

They died within 1.5 km of each other, 2 hours apart.

The US Air Force once experimented with a

Boeing 747 mounted with an anti-missile defense system

that they hoped could track and shoot down

enemy missiles from hundreds of miles away.

Technically called the YAL-1 Airborne Laser

the project was eventually cancelled.

The Aztecs are the Aztecs at all.

The name Aztec was actually made up by Europeans,

the name they called themselves was the ‘Mexica’.

It is estimated that the inhabitants

of medieval London, both human and animal,

produced fifty tons of excrement a day.

As a matter of fact, during the fourteenth century,

Sherborne Lane in East London was so disgusting

that it was officially known as Shiteburn Lane.

The reason around 99% of the population

tend to need glasses, especially for reading,

as they get older is not because

their arms get shorter, but because

the lens in the eyes slowly loses

its focusing ability with age.

Translated as the “Swimming Car”,

the Volkswagen Schwimmwagen is an

amphibious four-wheel drive off-roader,

used extensively by the German Wehrmacht

and the Waffen-SS during WWII.

The Type 166 is the most numerous and

mass-produced amphibious car in history.

Think you have a bad job?

It could be worse.

You could be a Breath Odor Evaluator.

These are people hired by mint and

toothpaste companies to keep smelling

bad breath until the minty freshness appears.

But these people have it made

compared to Dog Breath Sniffers,

who do the same job, only for dogs.

Phew!!!

Stanley Kubrick hated traveling and

was a little afraid of airplanes.

For that reason,

even though set mostly in Vietnam,

Full Metal Jacket was fully shot in London.

The abandoned Beckton Gas Works that were used

to shoot the major battle scenes are still there today.

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November’s Quizzes Begin Here.

November 3, 2014November 3, 2014 fasab Questions, Tests actors, alloy, apple, art, artist, artists, atmospheric gases, bird, boys, capital, characters, Chemical Element, chemistry, cherry, chicken's oysters, children, Chinese Checkers, Chinese Chequers, city, continental land mass, copper, country, distilled, doctor, education, Entertainment, famous, feet, game, general knowledge, Geography, girls, grape, highest melting point, history, island, lightning, locations, marble, matchstick men, math, mathematics, maths, metal, meters, modern Olympic Games, movie, movies, nature, nautical mile, NCIS, New Zealand, normal pressure, Northern Hemisphere, Orange, pictures, pills, populous, proportion, questions, quiz, quizzes, Random, rapid expansion, rock, school, science, sculptors, sister-in-law, spin-off series, strawberry, students, study of birds, television, test, tests, The Equalizer, tin, TV series, US city, vintage gamers, whiskey, yards

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First Monday of November and the first quiz of November.

It may be a different month but the format remains the same. Twenty random questions to test you general knowledge.

And as usual, if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!

Enjoy and good luck.

Q. 1: How are you related to the sister-in-law of your dad’s only brother?

Q. 2: There has been a TV series and a movie named “The Equalizer”, which actors played the leading characters in each?

Q. 3: What are the names the capital city of New Zealand and its most populous city and on which island are they situated? (A point for each correct answer.)

Q. 4: If a doctor gave you 5 pills and asked you to take 1 pill every 30 minutes, how many hours would it take you to consume all the pills?

Q. 5: In what country was the game ‘Chinese Checkers’ (or ‘Chinese Chequers’) invented?

Q. 6: What are the three main types of Whiskey, defined by how they are distilled?

Q. 7: Where were the first modern Olympic Games held?

Q. 8: If 5/8 of the children in a school are boys and the school consists of 2400 students, how many girls are there?

Q. 9: How many meters, yards or feet are there in a ‘nautical mile’?

Q. 10: ‘Marble’ is a form of which type of rock?

Q. 11: Where would you find a chicken’s ‘oysters’?

Q. 12: In what US city was the original TV series ‘NCIS’ based, and what are the locations for the two spin-off series? (A point for each correct answer.)

Q. 13: A related question to the previous one, what do the letters ‘NCIS’ stand for?

Q. 14: Approximately what proportion of the continental land mass is located in the Northern Hemisphere?

Q. 15: Which chemical element has the highest melting point at normal pressure?

Q. 16: What artist was famous for his paintings of matchstick men?

Q. 17: What is the study of birds called?

Q. 18: What metal, often used by sculptors, is an alloy of copper and tin?

Q. 19: What is produced by the rapid expansion of atmospheric gases suddenly heated by lightning?

Q. 20: Finally one for all you vintage gamers, where did you find cherry strawberry orange apple grape bird?

ANSWERS

Q. 1: How are you related to the sister-in-law of your dad’s only brother?

A. 1: She’s your mom.

Q. 2: There has been a TV series and a movie named “The Equalizer”, which actors played the leading characters in each?

A. 2: Edward Woodward in the TV series and Denzil Washington in the recent movie.

Q. 3: What are the names the capital city of New Zealand and its most populous city and on which island are they situated? (A point for each correct answer.)

A. 3: Wellington is the capital of New Zealand and Auckland is its most populous city with approximately 1.4 million inhabitants. Both are situated on the North Island.

Q. 4: If a doctor gave you 5 pills and asked you to take 1 pill every 30 minutes, how many hours would it take you to consume all the pills?

A. 4: 2 hours. You took the first pill as soon as the doctor gave them to you.

Q. 5: In what country was the game ‘Chinese Checkers’ (or ‘Chinese Chequers’) invented?

A. 5: Germany (in 1892, called Stern-Halma, a variation of earlier American game Halma.

Q. 6: What are the three main types of Whiskey, defined by how they are distilled?

A. 6: They are ‘Scotch’, ‘Irish’ and ‘Bourbon’.

Q. 7: Where were the first modern Olympic Games held?

A. 7: They were held in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England in 1850 and annually for a while afterwards, inspiring the Athens Olympiad of 1896 and the Olympic movement. (You get a point if you said ‘England’ and three points if you knew the exact location.)

Q. 8: If 5/8 of the children in a school are boys and the school consists of 2400 students, how many girls are there?

A. 8: 900 (If 5/8 of the children in a school are boys, then 3/8 of the children in that school are girls. (5/8 + 3/8 = 1) 3/8 of 2400 = 3/8 * 2400 = 900)

Q. 9: How many meters, yards or feet are there in a ‘nautical mile’?

A. 9: A nautical mile is a unit of distance that is approximately one minute of arc measured along any meridian and by international agreement has been set at 1,852 metres exactly, or approximately 2,025 yards or 6,076 feet.

Q. 10: ‘Marble’ is a form of which type of rock?

A. 10: Limestone.

Q. 11: Where would you find a chicken’s ‘oysters’?

A. 11: Chicken Oysters are two small, round pieces of dark meat on the back of poultry near the thigh. Some regard the “oyster meat” to be the most flavorful and tender part of the bird, while others dislike the taste and texture.

Q. 12: In what US city was the original TV series ‘NCIS’ based, and what are the locations for the two spin-off series? (A point for each correct answer.)

A. 12: The original NCIS TV series was set in Washington DC and the spin-off shows are set in Los Angeles and New Orleans.

Q. 13: A related question to the previous one, what do the letters ‘NCIS’ stand for?

A. 13: They stand for ‘Naval Criminal Investigative Service’.

Q. 14: Approximately what proportion of the continental land mass is located in the Northern Hemisphere?

A. 14: Approximately two-thirds.

Q. 15: Which chemical element has the highest melting point at normal pressure?

A. 15: ‘Tungsten’ is the chemical element with the highest melting point, at 3687 K (3414 °C, 6177 °F)[4] making it excellent for use as filaments in light bulbs. The often-cited carbon does not melt at ambient pressure but sublimes at about 4000 K; a liquid phase only exists above pressures of 10 MPa and estimated 4300–4700 K.

Q. 16: What artist was famous for his paintings of matchstick men?

A. 16: Laurence Stephen Lowry, better known as ‘L.S. Lowry’ (Nov 1st 1887 to Feb 23rd 1976).

Q. 17: What is the study of birds called?

A. 17: The study of birds is called ‘Ornithology’.

Q. 18: What metal, often used by sculptors, is an alloy of copper and tin?

A. 18: Bronze.

Q. 19: What is produced by the rapid expansion of atmospheric gases suddenly heated by lightning?

A. 19: Easier than you thought, it’s ‘thunder’.

Q. 20: Finally one for all you vintage gamers, where did you find cherry strawberry orange apple grape bird?

A. 20: Pac Man. Want to have a go?

http://www.knowledgeadventure.com/games/pac-man/

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It’s The Fasab Fact Feature.

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Yes, time for some more facts to feature here at the fasab blob.

Hope you find something interesting in this selection.

Enjoy.

Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man

all have seven neck vertebra.

There have been many legends about the Northern Lights.

Some North American Inuit tribes call the aurora „aqsarniit“

(meaning “football players”) thinking it is the spirits of the dead

playing football with a head of a walrus.

The feeling you get when something is so cute

you can’t help but want to squeeze it

is called “cute aggression”.

The Ivory Coast is by far the world’s leading producer of cocoa beans.

About 37 percent of all the cocoa beans in the world come from here.

On a dewy morning, if you look at your shadow in the grass,

the dew drops shine light back to your eye creating a halo

called a heilgenschein (German for halo.)

Your brain continues to develop until your late 40s.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records,

the largest sausage was made by J.J. Tranfield on behalf of

Asda Stores Plc, at Sheffield, United Kingdom in October 2000.

With a length of 36.75 miles (59.143 kilometers),

it’s almost the width of Rhode Island.

The McKinley Building on the American University campus

has been used for the development of several hazardous products,

such as Mustard Gas and preliminary work on the Manhattan Project.

The government used the McKinley Building because of its unusual architecture.

If there would be any type of large explosion inside the building,

the building would implode onto itself, containing any lethal gas or nuclear material.

The building now houses the Physics Department.

There is a language in Botswana that

consists of 5 primary click sounds

Window washer Chris Saggers was working on the 22nd floor of the

Salford Tower Blocks in Britain when he fell off of his scaffold,

plunging down 220 feet, and landing on top of a car.

Miraculously, after the fall, he simply stood up and told the on lookers “I’m fine”.

A medical exam revealed that Saggers’ only injury was a broken elbow.

The last NASCAR driver to serve jail time for

running moonshine was Buddy Arrington.

Born in 1921 in Connecticut, Haroutune Krikor Daghlian, Jr was

an Armenian American physicist who worked for the Manhattan Project

(research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs).

He accidentally irradiated himself in August, 1945, during a critical mass

experiment at the remote Omega Site facility in New Mexico.

He died just 25 days later.

All porcupines float in water.

Woodward Ave in Detroit, Michigan

carries the designation M-1, named so

because it was the first paved road anywhere.

The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati

wore a band-aid in every episode.

Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.

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Chocolate And Yoghurt, Just Two Of The Questions This Quiz Day!

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Welcome to Quiz Day on the fasab blog.

Chocolate, yoghurt and a lot more make up today’s questions.

So why not pour yourself a cup of coffee too and have a go?

As usual, if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!

Enjoy and good luck.

Q. 1: What are the names of the two famous Star Wars robots?

Q. 2: How many muscles does your body use to balance itself when you are standing still?

a) 100 b) 200 c) 300 d) 400 e) 500

Q. 3: What is the name of the largest and oldest chocolate company in the U.S.?

Q. 4: ‘tcby’ now means ‘The Country’s Best Yogurt’ but what did the letters ‘tcby’ originally stand for?

Q. 5: Who was the leader of the Macedonian Empire?

Q. 6: Time to rack up a lot of points, what were the names of the six principal actors in the long running hit TV series ‘Friends’? (Bonus points if you can also correctly name the characters they played.)

Q. 7: What is the name generally used for the traditional curved blade Japanese sword?

Q. 8: Recently they seem to be trying to put it back up again, but in what year was the Fall of the Iron Curtain?

Q. 9: Approximately how many pieces of ‘space junk’ are orbiting around Earth?

a) over 4,000 b) over 6,000 c) over 8,000 d) over 10,000

Q. 10: There’s a new one out this year, but how many ‘Planet Of The Apes’ based movies have there been? (Bonus points if you can name them and even more bonus points if know the years they were released.)

Q. 11: Which two rivers meet at Khartoum to make the Nile?

Q. 12: Who, in 2012, became the first person to break the sound barrier, unprotected and under his own power?

Q. 13: During World War II approximately how many tanks were produced by American factories?

a) 59,000 b) 69,000 c) 79,000 d) 89,000 e) 99,000

Q. 14: Who is the current Prime Minister of Canada?

Q. 15: Isadora Duncan, known as the mother of modern dance, was killed in an unusual way, how?

Q. 16: What is the recommended standard recreational diving limit for ordinary divers?

a) 20 meters b) 30 meters c) 40 meters d) 50 meters

Q. 17: In Las Vegas, what is the name of the ancient Egyptian themed hotel with a pyramid shaped casino?

Q. 18: What was the name of the mythical Roman god of war?

Q. 19: Who was ‘Dr Frasier Crane’ and his brother ‘Dr Niles Crane’? (A point for each correct answer.)

Q. 20: What musician is known as “The Boss” and what was the name of the band he played with? (A point for each correct answer.)

ANSWERS

Q. 1: What are the names of the two famous Star Wars robots?

A. 1: The two famous Star Wars robots are called 3CP0 and R2D2.

Q. 2: How many muscles does your body use to balance itself when you are standing still?

a) 100 b) 200 c) 300 d) 400 e) 500

A. 2: Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

Q. 3: What is the name of the largest and oldest chocolate company in the U.S.?

A. 3: The largest and oldest chocolate company in the U.S. is Hershey’s. Founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1894, this company produces over one billion pounds of chocolate products every year.

Q. 4: ‘tcby’ now means ‘The Country’s Best Yogurt’ but what did the letters ‘tcby’ originally stand for?

A. 4: The letters ‘tcby’ originally stood for ‘This Can’t Be Yogurt’, but the name was changed after the company was sued by a rival company called ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt’.

Q. 5: Who was the leader of the Macedonian Empire?

A. 5: Alexander the Great.

Q. 6: Time to rack up a lot of points, what were the names of the six principal actors in the long running hit TV series ‘Friends’? (Bonus points if you can also correctly name the characters they played.)

A. 6: The six ‘Friends’ were Jennifer Aniston as ‘Rachel Green’; Courteney Cox as Monica Geller; Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay; Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani; Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing; and David Schwimmer as Ross Geller.

Q. 7: What is the name generally used for the traditional curved blade Japanese sword?

A. 7: The traditional curved blade Japanese sword is called a ‘Katana’.

Q. 8: Recently they seem to be trying to put it back up again, but in what year was the Fall of the Iron Curtain?

A. 8: The Iron Curtain fell in 1989.

Q. 9: Approximately how many pieces of ‘space junk’ are orbiting around Earth?

a) over 4,000 b) over 6,000 c) over 8,000 d) over 10,000

A. 9: The correct answer is c) over 8,000.

Q. 10: There’s a new one out this year, but how many ‘Planet Of The Apes’ based movies have there been? (Bonus points if you can name them and even more bonus points if know the years they were released.)

A. 10: There have been eight planet of the apes movies so far, ‘Planet of the Apes’ (1968); ‘Beneath the Planet of the Apes’ (1970); ‘Escape from the Planet of the Apes’ (1971); ‘Conquest of the Planet of the Apes’ (1972); ‘Battle for the Planet of the Apes’ (1973); ‘Planet of the Apes’ (2001); ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ (2011); and ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ (2014).

Q. 11: Which two rivers meet at Khartoum to make the Nile?

A. 11: It’s easier than you think, the two rivers that meet at Khartoum to make the Nile are the White & Blue Niles.

Q. 12: Who, in 2012, became the first person to break the sound barrier, unprotected and under his own power?

A. 12: Felix Baumgartner became the first person to break the sound barrier, unprotected and under his own power. In his record breaking stunt he reached speeds of up to 834 mph.

Q. 13: During World War II approximately how many tanks were produced by American factories?

a) 59,000 b) 69,000 c) 79,000 d) 89,000 e) 99,000

A. 13: The correct answer is d) 89,000.

Q. 14: Who is the current Prime Minister of Canada?

A. 14: Stephen Harper.

Q. 15: Isadora Duncan, known as the mother of modern dance, was killed in an unusual way, how?

A. 15: Isadora Duncan was pulled from the vehicle in which she was a passenger and violently slammed against the road when her long scarf got caught in the wheel. Her neck was broken and she died on impact.

Q. 16: What is the recommended standard recreational diving limit for ordinary divers?

a) 20 meters b) 30 meters c) 40 meters d) 50 meters

A. 16: The correct answer is b) 30 Meters (98 feet), the average depth at which nitrogen narcosis symptoms begin to appear in adults.

Q. 17: In Las Vegas, what is the name of the ancient Egyptian themed hotel with a pyramid shaped casino?

A. 17: It’s called the ‘Luxor’.

Q. 18: What was the name of the mythical Roman god of war?

A. 18: Mars.

Q. 19: Who was ‘Dr Frasier Crane’ and his brother ‘Dr Niles Crane’? (A point for each correct answer.)

A. 19: They were Kelsey Grammar and David Hyde Pierce from the wonderful hit TV sitcom ‘Frasier’.

Q. 20: What musician is known as “The Boss” and what was the name of the band he played with? (A point for each correct answer.)

A. 20: In the music world “The Boss” is Bruce Sprigsteen and he played with the E Street Band.

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It’s The Quiz!

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It’s the quiz again.

Time to test your knowledge of a wide range of subjects including geography, history, politics, music, movies, sport… even space!

And a lot of muli-pointers to give you the chance of building up a good score.

As usual if you get stuct you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!

Enjoy and good luck.

Q. 1: What side of the road do you drive on in Japan, is it on the right (like the USA) or on the left (like Britain)?

Q. 2: Who won this year’s (2014) Gentlemans and Ladies Singles titles at the world famous Wimbledon Tennis Tournament in England? (A point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you get both correct.)

Q. 3: What is the most distant human-made object from Earth?

Q. 4: What is the automobile that began as a project between Swatch and Mercedes most commonly known as?

Q. 5: In the days when countries took control of other nations and territories overseas they were called Empires. Which country at one time controlled the largest Empire in the world (in terms of land area)?

Q. 6: There are twelve buttons on a touch tone phone. What two symbols bear no digits?

Q. 7: In which branch of the armed forces did William Hitler, a nephew of Adolf Hitler, serve during World War II?

Q. 8: One chocolate chip can give you enough energy to walk approximately how many feet?

a) 50 feet b) 100 feet c) 150 feet d) 200 feet

Q. 9: Plus or minus ten, The Bahamas consists of approximately how many islands?

Q. 10: How many ‘Terminator’ movies have there been to date (2014)? (Bonus points if you can name them and the year they were released.)

Q. 11: Who were the magician duo, known for their magic with big cats, who became the most successful and best known entertainers in Las Vegas?

Q. 12: How many US Presidents have been assassinated? (A bonus point for each that you can name and even more points if you know where the assassinations took place and the names of the assassins.)

Q. 13: If you added the number of players in a basket ball team, the number of players in an American football team, the number of players in a soccer team and the number of players in a rugby union team, what would be the total?

Q. 14: Famous as Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, who was he?

Q. 15: What is the collective name for the 26 self-governing districts into which Switzerland is divided?

Q. 16: The month of August falls within which two Zodiac signs?

Q. 17: What was the name of the unexpected hit TV series about an unlikely duo who cook methamphetamine?

Q. 18: Who is the current Prime Minister of Israel?

Q. 19: Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited is currently owned by whom?

Q. 20: What song by the group Queen made it to number 1 in the British charts twice, in 1976 and 1991?

ANSWERS

Q. 1: What side of the road do you drive on in Japan, is it on the right (like the USA) or on the left (like Britain)?

A. 1: In Japan you must drive on the left side of the road.

A. 2: In the 2014 Wimbledon tennis tournament Novak Djokovic was the winner of the Gentlemen’s Singles and Petra Kvitova was the winner of the Ladies’ Singles.

Q. 3: What is the most distant human-made object from Earth?

A. 3: The Voyager 1 spacecraft is the most distant human-made object from Earth.

Q. 4: What is the automobile that began as a project between Swatch and Mercedes most commonly known as?

A. 4: It is called the “SMART car”, an abbreviation of its original code name, the Swatch & Mercedes Art Car.

A. 5: Britain, whose Empire at one stage was 33.2 million km² (approximately 8.2 billion acres).

Q. 6: There are twelve buttons on a touch tone phone. What two symbols bear no digits?

A. 6: The star * and the hash # buttons have no digits.

Q. 7: In which branch of the armed forces did William Hitler, a nephew of Adolf Hitler, serve during World War II?

A. 7: Adolf Hitler’s nephew, William, served in the Navy during WWII – the U.S. Navy!

Q. 8: One chocolate chip can give you enough energy to walk approximately how many feet?

a) 50 feet b) 100 feet c) 150 feet d) 200 feet

A. 8: The correct answer is c) 150 feet.

Q. 9: Plus or minus ten, The Bahamas consists of approximately how many islands?

A. 9: The Bahamas consists of approximately 501 islands, give yourself a point if you said anything between 491 to 511.

Q. 10: How many ‘Terminator’ movies have there been to date (2014)? (Bonus points if you can name them and the year they were released.)

A. 10: There have been four ‘Terminator’ movies to date (2014); they are ‘The Terminator’ (1984); ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ (1991); ‘Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines’ (2003); and, ‘Terminator Salvation’ (2009). A fifth Terminator movie is in post production scheduled for release in 2015.

Q. 11: Who were the magician duo, known for their magic with big cats, who became the most successful and best known entertainers in Las Vegas?

A. 11: Siegfried and Roy.

A. 12: Four US Presidents have been assassinated: Abraham Lincoln, in Washington, D.C., on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth; James A. Garfield, also in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, July 2, 1881, by Charles J. Guiteau; William McKinley, in Buffalo, New York, on Friday, September 6, 1901, by Leon Czolgosz; and John F. Kennedy, in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald.

A. 13: The answer is 42 (5 + 11 + 11 + 15).

Q. 14: Famous as Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, who was he?

A. 14: He was James Garner, who sadly passed away on July 19, 2014.

Q. 15: What is the collective name for the 26 self-governing districts into which Switzerland is divided?

A. 15: They are called ‘Cantons’.

Q. 16: The month of August falls within which two Zodiac signs?

A. 16: The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).

Q. 17: What was the name of the unexpected hit TV series about an unlikely duo who cook methamphetamine?

A. 17: Breaking Bad. The show originally aired on the AMC network for five seasons, from January 20, 2008 to September 29, 2013.

Q. 18: Who is the current Prime Minister of Israel?

A. 18: Benjamin Netanyahu. (No points deducted if you get the spelling wrong.)

Q. 19: Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited is currently owned by whom?

A. 19: Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of BMW AG.

Q. 20: What song by the group Queen made it to number 1 in the British charts twice, in 1976 and 1991?

A. 20: “Bohemian Rhapsody”.

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Some Challenging Questions – It must Be Quiz Day!

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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Welcome to another Quiz Day on the fasab blog.

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.

Q 1: We’ve all eaten M&Ms, but what do the two Ms stand for?

Q 2: On the back of a $1 bill, what is in the center?

Q 3: Who wrote ‘High Adventure’, about a spectacular mountain climb?

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

Q 5: Captain Cook discovered which island in the pacific in 1777?

Q 6: Who was assassinated at Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968?

Q 7: What is the name of Elvis Presley’s home and where is it located? (A point for each correct answer.)

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?

Q 9: What is the name of the new TV series, starring John Malkovich, about the pirate Blackbeard?

Q 10: What war ended with the fall of Saigon and in what year did it end? (A point for each correct answer.)

Q 11: Which country lies to the north of Austria and the south of Poland?

Q 12: Plus or minus 30 minutes, what was the Concorde’s record flight time from New York to London?

Q 13: Who was responsible for the Green Car Crash in 1963?

Q 14: What team thrashed Brazil by 7 goals to 1 in this year’s soccer World Cup semi-finals?

Q 15: Who wrote about a fictional, diminutive, humanoid race called ‘Hobbits’ who inhabit the lands of Middle-earth?

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.

Q 17: ‘Cebuano’, ‘Fula’, ‘Gujarati’ and ‘Kannada’ are all examples of what?

Q 18: What Oscar winning movie is based on the trials and tribulations of Harold Abraham and Eric Liddell?

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)).

Q 20: Who said you could “call me Al” in 1986?

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ANSWERS

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.

Q 2: On the back of a $1 bill, what is in the center?

A 2: ONE.

Q 3: Who wrote ‘High Adventure’, about a spectacular mountain climb?

A 3: Sir Edmund Hilary, the first man to climb Mount Everest.

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.

Q 5: Captain Cook discovered which island in the pacific in 1777?

A 5: Christmas Island.

Q 6: Who was assassinated at Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968?

A 6: Martin Luther King jnr.

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.)

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.

Q 9: What is the name of the new TV series, starring John Malkovich, about the pirate Blackbeard?

A 9: Crossbones.

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.

Q 11: 4. Which country lies to the north of Austria and the south of Poland?

A 11: The Czech Republic.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Q 20: Who said you could “call me Al” in 1986?

A 20: Paul Simon.

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