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This is the quiz set at the Ferry Meadows Rally.
Answers to follow in a few minutes as a reply on this post......
1. How many standard bottles of wine does a rehoboam bottle contain?
a. 8
b. 6
c. 4
2. The dessert, Pavlova, is named after what?
a. A town
b. A flower
c. A ballerina
3. King Henry VIII had 8 wives - how many of them did he execute?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 5
4. A Ptarmigan is a:
a. 14 lined poem in iambic pentameter
b. Bird
c. Stringed instrument of the middle ages
5. In the famous sci-fi funny, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, the character Wowbagger the Infinately Prolonged spent his immortal life doing what:
a. Sleeping
b. Insulting everyone in the universe in alphabetical order
c. Finding the perfect brownie recipe
6. What disease does the famous scientist, Stephen Hawking, suffer from?
a. Motor Neurone
b. Multiple Sclerosis
c. Cystic Fibrosis
7. Which of the following stunts did the band KLF NOT pull during their career?
a. Firing blank machine gun rounds into the audience of the 1992 BRIT music awards ceremony
b. Burning one million pounds
c. A piece of live performance art called 'Pissing in the Wind Whilst Thinking of Bob Dylan'
8. Cochineal is used to dye food red, what is it made from what?
a. A plant
b. A beetle
c. A mineral
9. Tom Cruise is a follower of what religion?
a. Buddhism
b. Paganism
c. Scientology
10. If travelling from London to Saigon by rail, how many times do you need to change trains?
a. 12
b. 8
c. 6
1. How many standard bottles of wine does a rehoboam bottle contain?
b - 6
2. The desert, Pavlova, is named after what?
c - A ballerina
3. King Henry VIII had 8 wives - how many of them did he execute?
a - 2
(Anne Boleyn and Kathryn Howard)
4. A Ptarmigan is a:
b - Bird
5. In the famous sci-fi funny, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, the character Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged spent his immortal life doing what:
b - Insulting everyone in the universe in alphabetical order
6. What disease does the famous scientist, Stephen Hawking, suffer from?
a - Motor Neurone
7. Which of the following stunts did the band KLF NOT pull during their career?
Trick question - KLF did all those things!
8. Cochineal is used to dye food red, what is it made from what?
b - A beetle
9. Tom Cruise is a follower of what religion?
c - Scientology
10. If traveling from London to Saigon by rail, how many times do you need to change trains?
c - 6
(Change 1 - Brussels, Belgium
Change 2 - Cologne, Germany
Change 3 - Moscow, Russia
Change 4 - Beijing, China
Change 5 - Dong Dang, Vietnam
Change 6 - Hanoi, Vietnam)
And the answers to this science based quiz are as follows:
A1: Sir J J Thomson.
A2: The femur or the thigh bone.
A3: -40C equals -40F.
A4: Benjamin Franklin.
A5: Nails are not connected with cartilages or blood vessels. While cutting, therefore, the nervous system is not affected.
A6: Sir Frank Whittle of England in 1937.
A7: Ratio of speed of the body to the speed of sound under similar conditions.
A8: Graphology.
A9: When radiation falling on an object is fully absorbed, it appears black.
A10: Sir Frederick Grant Banting & J J R Macleod.
A11: Tantalum, about 6000C.
A12: The gravitational pull in the hills is less than that at plains.
A13: Saturn's seventh, known as Titan (diameter 5680 km).
A14: Bats while flying, emit a set of short squeaks which are ultrasonic waves. These, after reflection from trees and buildings reach the ear of the bats and make them judge, by hearing the echo of the ultrasonic sound, the distance and direction of the obstacle in the air.
A15: Aluminum, 8.13% of the earth's crust by weight.
A16: It is made by salting the roe of sturgeon.
A17: The weight of the iron ball is more than the water it displaces, in case of the ship, it is opposite.
A18: Study of reptiles.
A19: A cluster of fixed stars in the heaven like Great Bear, Orion.
Quizzes are always easy when you know the answers!
I understand from everyone who got a paper copy that this was a tough one - so apologies for that, I had hoped it would be fun.
Keith is going to flog me later.
Pics to follow.
Hey.
Did a lot better than we thought. Maybe were not that thick after
Still got alot wrong though.
Put at least it boosted us up to know we do know something.
Bet we were the bottom though.
Kath
Hey.
Did a lot better than we thought. Maybe were not that thick after
Still got alot wrong though.
Put at least it boosted us up to know we do know something.
Bet we were the bottom though.
Kath
Hi Kath
One more correct answer and you would have tied for first!
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