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Good Luck, It's Quiz Day!
November 18, 2013 November 16, 2013 fasab Questions, Tests	6th century BC, Academy Award for best actor, Acropolis, American, American town, Athens, Baron von Richthofen, Boris Becker, celestial equator, Charles Laughton, city, Clark Gable, country, cover of the Rolling Stone, Coward of the County, Dr Hook, education, educational, Elvis, Entertainment, fighter squadron, general knowledge, Geoffrey Chaucer, Geography, George Washington, history, James Stewart, John Lennon, knowledge, leader, letter, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mick Jagger, Misc, Miscellaneous, movie, movies, music, National Velvet, nationality, nickname, no apprehension, North America, Northern Exposure, Ozzy Osbourne, Perfect Day, pilgrims, poet, President Kaudu, Prince Guatama Siddhartha, question, questions, quiz, quizzes, Rastafari, religion, Sitting Bull, Soul Man, Spencer Tracy, sport, spring, sun, synonym, tales, television, Temple, tennis player, test, tests, The Lion of Judah, tribe, trivia, tv, TV series, Walk On The Wild Side, William Wordsworth, World War I, Zorba
Another Monday, another quiz to start the week.
As usual the answers are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below – but NO cheating!
Enjoy, and good luck!
Q. 1: Who sang 'Coward of the County' in 1980?
Q. 2: Of which Native American tribe was Sitting Bull a member?
Q. 3: Which temple stands on the Acropolis in Athens?
Q. 4: Who was the first man to win the Academy Award for best actor two years in a row?
a) Clark Gable
b) James Stewart
c) Charles Laughton
d) Spencer Tracy
Q. 5: What nickname was given to Baron von Richthofen's fighter squadron in World War I?
Q. 6: Of which country has President Kenneth Kaudu been the leader?
Q. 7: In which fictional American town or city was the TV series Northern Exposure set?
Q. 8: What nationality is tennis player Boris Becker?
Q. 9: Which religion was founded by Prince Guatama Siddhartha in the 6th century BC?
Q. 10: What was the nationality of Zorba in the movie and who played him?
Q. 11: What is the name of Ozzy Osbourne's wife?
Q. 12: Where were Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims going as they told their tales?
Q. 13: In Rastafari, who is known as 'The Lion of Judah'?
Q. 14: What term is given to the point in spring when the sun's path crosses the celestial equator, so that day and night are of approximately equal length?
Q. 15: The composer Ludwig van Beethoven and the poet William Wordsworth were both born in the same year. Which year was it?
Q. 16: On the 7th of January 1785, George Washington became the first man in North America to send which kind of letter?
Q. 17: Who was the young star of 'National Velvet' in 1945?
Q. 18: Although its name is a synonym for 'no apprehension', which massive revolutionary invention, first introduced in 1906, instilled fear all over the world?
Q. 19: Who was the first person to appear on the cover of the Rolling Stone?
a) Dr Hook
b) Elvis
c) John Lennon
d) Mick Jagger
Q. 20: This 'Soul Man' took a 'Walk On The Wild Side' and then had a 'Perfect Day'. Who was he?
A. 1: Kenny Rogers
Q. 2: Of which American tribe was Sitting Bull a member?
A. 2: Lakota Sioux.
A. 3: The Parthenon.
A. 4: d) Spencer Tracy (1937 for Captains Courageous and 1938 for Boys Town)
A. 5: 'Flying Circus' or 'Richthofen's Circus'.
Q. 6: Of which country has President Kaudu been the leader?
A. 6: Zambia.
A. 7: Cicely, Alaska.
A. 8: German.
A. 9: Buddhism.
A. 10: Greek, and he was played by Anthony Quinn.
A. 11: Sharon.
A. 12: Canterbury.
A. 13: Haile Selassie (the First).
A. 14: The vernal equinox.
A. 15: 1770.
A. 16: An 'Air Mail'. Using a balloon. The letter was addressed to no one but was to be given to the owner of the property on which the balloon landed.
A. 17: Elizabeth Taylor.
A. 18: The Dreadnought battleship.
A. 19: c) John Lennon.
A. 20: Lou Reed, those are the names of his songs that made it in the charts.
Another Month, Another Fact Filled Tuesday
October 1, 2013 September 29, 2013 fasab Factoids	10th century, 1953, Ace Kolmar, Air Force, Aldous Huxley, America's 50th anniversary, American, Anthropomorphic Test Device, artist, aspirin, assassination, AT&T, authors, automobile industry, board game, Burma, C S Lewis, Candy Land, Charles Laughton, Charlie Chaplin, Chemotherapy, chocolate, choice facts, Clooney, computer crime, computer hackers, corpse, crash test dummy, cucumbers, deaf people, died, Doug Ross, doves, drugs, E/R, Ed Sullivan Show, education, educational, ejection seats, Eleanor Abbott, Elvis Presley, er, extort money, fact, facts, farmer, foolish person, formal ceremonies, George Clooney, grandson, great-grandson, hair follicles, hazelnuts, host, Ian Murphy, information, Interesting Facts, Italian pastry maker, jay, jaywalker, John Adams, John F Kennedy, July 4th 1826, killed, king, King Louis XIV, King Theinhko, Kit Kat bar, Kit Kat Club, logo, London, longest reigning ruler of Europe, Louis XV, mechanics, Misc, Miscellaneous, Mount Everest, naïve, November 22nd 1963, Nutella, parallel rows, peak, pedestrian, Philo Farnsworth, phone system, plowing, polio, political enemies, Random, random facts, rapidly dividing cells, reburied under concrete, ring-neck doves, robbers, scanning, sign in their sleep, signature, Sir Edmund Hillary, slang term, son, stolen, street signs, successor, Swiss, television pioneer, Thomas Jefferson, throne, traffic signals, trivia, Walt Disney, weddings, West End, white homing pigeons, white willow tree, WWII
What better way to start October than by arming yourselves with a few choice facts?
So here is a random selection of twenty totally unrelated pieces of information.
Because it's growing about half an inch a year,
a person climbing Mount Everest today
would have to go 27 inches further to reach the peak
than Sir Edmund Hillary did in 1953.
It is said that in 10th century Burma,
King Theinhko ate a farmer's cucumbers without permission.
The farmer killed the king and took the throne.
Walt Disney's famous "logo" signature wasn't really his;
it was designed by a staff artist.
John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22nd, 1963,
overshadowed the deaths of two prominent authors:
Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis.
Three months after Charlie Chaplin died
his corpse was stolen by two Swiss mechanics
in order to extort money from the family.
The robbers were captured and
Chaplin's body was found eleven weeks later.
To prevent further attempts,
he was reburied under concrete.
The Kit Kat bar got its name
from the Kit Kat Club in London's West End,
a joint famous for bringing dance-band music to the city in the 1920s.
Philo Farnsworth, an American television pioneer,
was inspired by a farmer's plowing of a field
– the parallel rows giving him the idea of 'scanning' a picture.
In the 1940s, Eleanor Abbott invented the board game Candy Land
as a diversion for children recovering from polio.
In early 1900s America, "jay" was a slang term
used to describe a naïve or foolish person.
Thus, when such a pedestrian decided to ignore traffic signals and street signs,
he or she was referred to as a "jaywalker."
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, once sworn political enemies
(though after retirement they became quite friendly),
both died on July 4th, 1826 (America's 50th anniversary).
Before aspirin was produced,
ailing patients chewed the bark of the white willow tree
(from which aspirin is derived)
to help alleviate fever and pain.
Those doves released at weddings and other formal ceremonies
are actually white homing pigeons.
True ring-neck doves are bred to be kept as pets
and rarely survive out of captivity.
Nutella was invented during WWII
when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate
to extend his chocolate ration.
King Louis XIV lived and ruled so long (72 yrs) that he is
not only the longest reigning ruler of Europe,
but his successor, Louis XV, was neither his son,
nor his grandson, but his great-grandson.
Contrary to popular belief, the crash test dummy
(proper name, Anthropomorphic Test Device)
was first developed, not the automobile industry,
but for the Air Force to test ejection seats.
Chemotherapy drugs are designed to kill any rapidly dividing cells.
Unfortunately, our hair follicles are some of the fastest-growing cells in the body,
which is why most cancer patients lose their hair during treatment.
Some deaf people sign in their sleep.
We all know that actor George Clooney
catapulted to fame as Doug Ross in the smash series ER,
which began in 1994.
However, 10 years earlier, Clooney starred as "Ace" Kolmar
in the ill-fated series E/R.
Ian Murphy is the king of the old-school computer hackers.
In 1981, he and three accomplices broke into the AT&T phone system
and changed its internal clocks so that customers
would get midnight discounts in midday,
while late-night callers got stuck with outrageous bills.
For the incident, Murphy became the first hacker
to be charged with a computer crime.
When Elvis Presley appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show,
Ed was recuperating from an arm injury
and the host was Charles Laughton.
September 9, 2012 September 26, 2012 fasab Anagrams, comedy, Humour, Language, Uncategorized, Unusual	A Christmas Carol, anagram, anagrams, breast implants, celebrities, Charles Laughton, Clint Eastwood, Dolly Parton, farts, first lady, hidden meaning, hidden meanings, homeland security, hunchback of Notre Dam, Lawrence of Arabia, Lee Harvey Oswald, liposuction, microsoft, plastic surgery, surgery, weapons of mass destruction, windows, word puzzles, world trade center, xp
I like anagrams. I think they can be quite clever and I enjoy both reading them and also making them too.
Other people believe that they have greater significance, revealing 'hidden' messages about the subject matter. That's as maybe.
The best ones, however, are both amusing and should have some link to the source word or phrase.
Here is a short selection. Some of them may surprise you.
'Liposuction surgery'
Incurs lousy ego-trip
'A Christmas Carol: The Movie'
Oh, a classic: heart-mover "Tim"
'Charles Laughton'
An actor? He'll gush!
'Clint Eastwood'
Old west action
'Dolly Parton'
Top? Only lard
'How the West was won'
What we shot we owns
'Lawrence of Arabia'
Albion warfare ace
'Plastic surgery'
Ugly star's price
'breast implants'
'Men's pal? Bra/tits.'
'lee harvey oswald'
Reveal who slayed
'hunchback of notre dam'
Fat, hunchbacked moron
'world trade centre'
Lewd terror act end
'weapons of mass destruction'
US team swoops. Finds no trace
'microsoft windows xp'
Worm downs PC, so fix it!
'microsoft operating systems'
Sorest gits scam money, profit
'moral majority'
Trim amoral joy
'homeland security'
Our decline's a myth
'first lady'
Idly farts