“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Welcome to another week and another fasab quiz.
Today is the usual random mixture of questions, including as the title suggests, some about pioneers, people and places.
If you get stuck you can find the answers as usual waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: Which US state is nick-named the ‘Empire State’ ?
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Q. 2: What sort of creature is a ‘serval’ ?
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Q. 3: What city is known as the ‘Capital of the Alps’ ?
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Q. 4: What African tribe represents a letter in the phonetic alphabet?
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Q. 5: What color are the flowers of the laburnum tree?
a) red b) yellow c) blue d) cream
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Q. 6: Which chemical element has the symbol ‘Fe’ ?
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Q. 7: What is the only bird capable of flying all day without flapping its wings?
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Q. 8: How many sides does a rhombus have?
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Q. 9: Which small shark is also known as a ‘rock-eel’ or ‘rock Salmon’ ?
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Q. 10: What is the capital of the Falkland Islands?
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Q. 11: How many balls are on a snooker table at the start of play?
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Q. 12: In physics, what letter is used to represent the constant that is equal to “9.80665 metres per second squared” ?
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Q. 13: Who was the United States’ ‘Action Man’ ?
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Q. 14: What name was given to the women who campaigned to have the vote in the first two decades of the 20th century?
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Q. 15: What was the fishing dispute between Britain and Iceland during the 1960s and 1970s popularly known as?
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Q. 16: Founded in 1413, what is Scotland’s oldest university?
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Q. 17: Who pioneered vaccination as a means of inoculating against smallpox?
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Q. 18: SS Archimedes was an appropriately named ship which was the world’s first to use what form of propulsion?
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Q. 19: Julia Margaret Cameron was an early pioneer of which art form?
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Q. 20: For which Henrik Ibsen play, first performed in 1876, did Edvard Grieg compose the instrumental music?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: Which US state is nick-named the ‘Empire State’ ?
A. 1: New York.
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Q. 2: What sort of creature is a ‘serval’ ?
A. 2: A Wildcat.
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Q. 3: What city is known as the ‘Capital of the Alps’ ?
A. 3: Grenoble.
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Q. 4: What African tribe represents a letter in the phonetic alphabet?
A. 4: Zulu, representing the letter ‘Z’.
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Q. 5: What color are the flowers of the laburnum tree?
a) red b) yellow c) blue d) cream
A. 5: The correct answer is b) yellow.
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Q. 6: Which chemical element has the symbol ‘Fe’ ?
A. 6: Iron.
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Q. 7: What is the only bird capable of flying all day without flapping its wings?
A. 7: The Albatross.
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Q. 8: How many sides does a rhombus have?
A. 8: A rhombus has 4 sides.
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Q. 9: Which small shark is also known as a ‘rock-eel’ or ‘rock Salmon’ ?
A. 9: Dogfish.
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Q. 10: What is the capital of the Falkland Islands?
A. 10: Port Stanley.
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Q. 11: How many balls are on a snooker table at the start of play?
A. 11: 22. (15 reds, 1 yellow, 1 green, 1 brown, 1 blue, 1 pink, 1 black and the cue ball.)
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Q. 12: In physics, what letter is used to represent the constant that is equal to “9.80665 metres per second squared” ?
A. 12: It is the letter ‘G’ (constant is Earth’s gravity pull, the acceleration of free fall)
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Q. 13: Who was the United States’ ‘Action Man’ ?
A. 13: He was called ‘G.I. Joe’.
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Q. 14: What name was given to the women who campaigned to have the vote in the first two decades of the 20th century?
A. 14: They were known as ‘Suffragettes’.
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Q. 15: What was the fishing dispute between Britain and Iceland during the 1960s and 1970s popularly known as?
A. 15: It was known as ‘The Cod War’.
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Q. 16: Founded in 1413, what is Scotland’s oldest university?
A. 16: It is the University of St Andrews.
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Q. 17: Who pioneered vaccination as a means of inoculating against smallpox?
A. 17: Edward Jenner.
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Q. 18: SS Archimedes was an appropriately named ship which was the world’s first to use what form of propulsion?
A. 18: A Screw Propeller.
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Q. 19: Julia Margaret Cameron was an early pioneer of which art form?
A. 19: Photography.
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Q. 20: For which Henrik Ibsen play, first performed in 1876, did Edvard Grieg compose the instrumental music?
A. 20: Peer Gynt.
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