As promised, here is the fun quiz. I made it rather difficult with fun cryptic questions which are meant to make your head blowup. Don't worry about that. You have two weeks and I'll accept answers until Tuesday, the
21st of April
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Question ONE
You should all be familiar with this, there's a fun map and you're supposed to match the numbers to the appropriate letters. 1 mark for each correct answer
A. The person for whom the British anthem "God Save the King" was written for lived here for a good part of his life
B. More than half of all coal miners in the European Union work here
C. At one point in time, the Pope was a feudal overlord of this state
D. Where would you find one of these operating?
E. Amongst their exploits, people from here were responsible for a group of nuns "cutting their noses to spite their faces" - literally
F. This location features in Jules Verne's
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
G. The world was divided between two monarchs here
H. Colonists left this place armed with hats, wigs and combs with a third of the nation's liquid capital to colonise Panama
I. This monument is in Moscow but it commemorates an event elsewhere. Where did this event happen?
J. This was the base of a target of a Crusade who "..condemned the use of all things material, prohibited marriage, encouraged suicide..."
Question TWO
There will be a whole bunch of questions. 1 mark for each correct answer
I - This country has had the dubious honour of being conquered by the Italians, French, Dutch, Germans and even Scots. (1 mark)
II - Whose last words were "Kiss me, Hardy", and what happened to the person's body immediately after? (2 marks)
III - Incense, burnt snail and oyster shells and dried bits of animal. These are the ingredients in what ancient Greek recipe? (1 mark)
IV - An incident in Okinawa in 1945 resulted in 12 US Pacific Fleet vessels sunk, 36 US Naval personnel dead and 100 injured. What's so unusual about those deaths, and what was the event? (2 marks)
V - The biggest sore losers in the football world is probably Colombia. After their loss to the United States in the 1994 World Cup, they even shot defender Andrés Escobar to death. Why did he get this punishment? (1 mark)
VI - Where can you obtain a copy of the British Constitution? (1 mark)
VII - Who made the first vending machine, and what was it used for? (2 marks)
Question THREE
Again, another bunch of questions but there is a connection. 10 marks for determining the connection between all five questions, which are worth 2 marks each
I - A railway engineer by profession, he eventually became a Colonel in Paraguay and gave the Brazillians and Argentines a very bloody nose in the War of the Triple Alliance. Who is he?
II - Charles Dickens once described this MP as having "... a brain slightly damaged and, quite unintentionally, the most amusing man in the House."
III - Fiji is famous in Australia and NZ for its many coups d'etat. However, another nation has the honour of having had 20 (twenty) coups d'etats since 1975. What is this nation?
IV - Origen is an early church father - what is he most well-known for?
V - What is the theory that links the eruption of an Indonesian volcano to amongst other things, the rise of Islam, the migration of the Avar to Europe, the rise of the Turks, the decline of Britain and Teotihuacan, the reunification of China and the rise of Buddhism in Japan.
And for a disproportionate amount of marks (10 in all), what connects all of these answers?
Question FOUR
Here is a whole pile of philosophers' pictures. Name all of them (1 point each), and for 20 points find the connection between them. Hint: Think Sport
So that should total up to 69 points.
Have fun!
What made him stand out from the other Church fathers would probably be another way to put it.
