“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Welcome to this week’s quiz.
Movies, math and mud do feature, as do many other topics.
Is it easy? Is it difficult? Depends on how many answers you know.
But don’t worry, if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating.
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: What is the official language of the United States of America?
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Q. 2: What bird has only two toes on each foot?
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Q. 3: On which river are the Victoria Falls to be found?
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Q. 4: What city is known as ‘Muddy York’ ?
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Q. 5: What type of creature is a Devil’s Coachhorse?
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Q. 6: The Lakota call it the Battle of the Greasy Grass. What do we know it better as?
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Q. 7: What town is also known worldwide as the “home of golf” ?
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Q. 8: The Bennet family appear in which famous Jane Austen novel?
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Q. 9: What is the mathematical series that starts 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 called?
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Q. 10: ‘Alopecia’ is a condition causing the loss of what from the body?
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Q. 11: What is the device, used mainly nowadays on small engines like those found on lawnmowers, that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine called?
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Q. 12: What is the usual color of copper sulphate?
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Q. 13: Which form of cloud has an anvil shape and is associated with heavy showers and storms?
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Q. 14: What is defined as “Any rock or soil material that has remained below 0°C continuously for two or more years” ?
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Q. 15: Which insect found in Africa is the host for the parasitic organism that causes sleeping sickness?
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Q. 16: An Astronomical Unit is the mean distance between which two bodies?
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Q. 17: How is the fossilized resin of coniferous trees from the Middle Tertiary period better known?
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Q. 18: Which son of a weaver was a major benefactor of public libraries throughout the UK and US?
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Q. 19: Where would you be in if you were at the Cresta Run? (A point each for correctly naming the town and the country.)
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Q. 20: In which movie did Humphrey Bogart say, “We’ll always have Paris” ?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: What is the official language of the United States of America?
A. 1: A bit of a trick question to start with, the United States has no official language.
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Q. 2: What bird has only two toes on each foot?
A. 2: An Ostrich.
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Q. 3: On which river are the Victoria Falls to be found?
A. 3: The Zambezi.
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Q. 4: What city is known as ‘Muddy York’ ?
A. 4: Toronto.
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Q. 5: What type of creature is a Devil’s Coachhorse?
A. 5: It is a Beetle.
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Q. 6: The Lakota call it the Battle of the Greasy Grass. What do we know it better as?
A. 6: We know it better as the Battle of Little Big Horn.
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Q. 7: What town is also known worldwide as the “home of golf” ?
A. 7: St. Andrews, Scotland.
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Q. 8: The Bennet family appear in which famous Jane Austen novel?
A. 8: Pride & Prejudice.
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Q. 9: What is the mathematical series that starts 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 called?
A. 9: A Fibonacci Series.
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Q. 10: ‘Alopecia’ is a condition causing the loss of what from the body?
A. 10: Hair.
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Q. 11: What is the device, used mainly nowadays on small engines like those found on lawnmowers, that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine called?
A. 11: A carburetor, or carburetor.
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Q. 12: What is the usual color of copper sulphate?
A. 12: Blue.
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Q. 13: Which form of cloud has an anvil shape and is associated with heavy showers and storms?
A. 13: Cumulonimbus.
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Q. 14: What is defined as “Any rock or soil material that has remained below 0°C continuously for two or more years” ?
A. 14: Permafrost.
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Q. 15: Which insect found in Africa is the host for the parasitic organism that causes sleeping sickness?
A. 15: The Tsetse fly.
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Q. 16: An Astronomical Unit is the mean distance between which two bodies?
A. 16: The earth and the sun.
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Q. 17: How is the fossilised resin of coniferous trees from the Middle Tertiary period better known?
A. 17: Amber.
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Q. 18: Which son of a weaver was a major benefactor of public libraries throughout the UK and US?
A. 18: Andrew Carnegie.
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Q. 19: Where would you be in if you were at the Cresta Run? (A point each for correctly naming the town and the country.)
A. 19: You would be in the winter sports town of St. Moritz, Switzerland.
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Q. 20: In which movie did Humphrey Bogart say, “We’ll always have Paris”?
A. 20: The line is from the fantastic movie ‘Casablanca’.
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