The Big Quiz Copied Over
The Uni. of Waikato has sent this year's quiz. I scored 94 1/2 out of 100 last year which wasn't good enough for aplace but I was very happy with it.
I don't think I have put all the answers we have here I will also copy the post that gives the still unanswered questions
1. WHO OR WHAT LINKS RADIOLOGISTS, GROCERS AND PARATROOPERS?
They all share the same patron saint - Michael the Archangel - Somali
2. WHY MIGHT YOU WEAR RED SPOTS AFTER COMPLETING A STRENUOUS CLIMB?
The red polka dot jersey is awarded to the best rider of the mountain stages of the Tour de France - Somali
3. WHAT CONNECTS ALFRED HILL WITH A MILKMAN?
Benny Hill's real name was Alfred Hawthorn Hill and he had a UK Number One song about Ernie the Fastest Milkman in the West = Somali
4. WHO OR WHAT LINKS EMPEROR CONSTANTINE TO NAPOLEON?
Constantine's mother was Helen, Napoleon died on St. Helen -Haxson
5. WHERE WOULD YOU BE IF YOU WERE ON THE TRAIL AFTER NGUYEN TAT THANH?
Nguyen Tat Thanh is the birth name of Ho Chi Minh. That would mean Vietnam - Haxson
6. WHICH BLOOMER IS CONNECTED WITH ALCOHOL REHABILITATION CLINICS?
Betty Ford. She is the former First Lady (USA) who founded some alcoholic rehabilitation clinics in USA. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Ann Bloomer - Brch1
7. WHICH PIE MEASURED 27.864 CENTIMETRES?
8. WHY IS A VARIANT OF THE TUNE THOU BONNIE WOOD OF CRAIGIELEA HEARD OFTEN IN AUSTRALIA?
It was the tune that the words of Banjo Patterson's poem Waltzing Matilda was combined with to form the famous Australian song - Miss Chicken
9. WHAT IS IT THAT WALKS ON FOUR LEGS IN THE MORNING, ON TWO AT NOON, ON THREE IN THE EVENING? WHO IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE ASKED THIS QUESTION AND WHO ANSWERED IT?
The answer to the question is ia human (child, grown up and old) It was the question of the Sphinx. It was answered by Oedipus. - Brch1 and Haxson
10. WHY MIGHT YOU BE COLD IN NIVOSE?
Nivose was the month of snow on the French Revolutionary calendar. - Miss Chicken
11. IF IT WAS 12 YEARS FOR 1, 59 FOR 3 AND 10 FOR 4, WHAT WAS IT FOR 2?
12. WHAT STARTED WITH 51 AND NOW HAS 189 (AS AT 31/12/2000)?
Number of countries in the United Nations - Haxson
13. WHAT LASTED 19.32 SECONDS IN 1996?
Michael Johnson's world record 200m run in the Olympic Games in Atlanta, USA. - Haxson
14. WHAT LINKS JOHN STEINBECK, GEORGETTE HEYER AND OGDEN NASH?
15. WHICH VERY LARGE ISLAND COMES BETWEEN TE WAI POUNAMU (SOUTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND) AND TE IKA A MAUI (NORTH ISLAND, NZ)?
16. IF EUGENIE IS 6, ZARA IS 10 AND DAVINA IS 19, WHO IS 14?
Sarah, Sarah Armstrong-Jones. 14th In Line to throne. - Miss Chicken
17. WHAT CONNECTS A WISP TO A WALK?
Snipes do. Both words can be used as a collective noun for a group of snipes = Miss Chicken
18. WHAT BEGAN ON 29 JANUARY 1856?
The Victoria Cross was founded that date - Haxson
19. IF 9 IS 375 PARTS PER THOUSAND AND 14 IS 585, WHAT IS 22 AND WHY?
916. 22 carat gold is 916 parts per thousand - Haxson
20. WHAT STATUS DO THE VATICAN AND SWITZERLAND SHARE?
Neither belong to the United Nations - Haxson
21. WHAT DO MOHAMMED BEDJAOUI, AWN SHAWKAT AL-KHASAWNEH AND ABDUL G. KOROMA HAVE IN COMMON?
All Judges at the International Court of Justice. - Jim Gamma
22. IF FRANCE IS 6.55957, GERMANY IS 1.95583 AND THE NETHERLANDS IS 2.20371, WHAT IS ITALY?
1936.27. Conversion rate of the Euro to local currency - Miss Chicken
23. IF OTAGO IS 1869, CANTERBURY IS 1873 AND AUCKLAND IS 1883, WHAT IS WELLINGTON?
OTAGO UNIVERSITY founded 1869
UNIV. of CANTERBURY founded 1873
UNIV. of AUCKLAND founded 1883
VICTORIA UNIV. of WELLINGTON founded 1899
So Wellington = 1899 - Jim Gamma
24. IF IT IS 2.9 AT 5 FEET, 9.3 AT 50 AND 13.2 AT 100, WHAT IS IT AT 500?
25. WHO WROTE THE FOLLOWING: “UNCLE JACK IS SENDING YOU TO AUSTRALIA. AUSTRALIA! I’D SOONER DIE”?
Cecily. I don’t think you will require neckties. Uncle Jack is sending you to Australia.
Algernon. Australia! I’d sooner die.
Act II of The Important of Being Ernest (Part 1) by Oscar Wilde - Miss Chicken
26. WHO SAID “WHEN SEAGULLS FOLLOW A TRAWLER, IT IS BECAUSE THEY THINK SARDINES WILL BE THROWN INTO THE SEA”?
Eric Cantona - Jim Gamma who was he?
27. WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF “WHEN WAR IS DECLARED, TRUTH IS THE FIRST CASUALTY”? WHO SAID OR WROTE IT?
It was said by Arthur Ponsonby (British M.P.) in his book "Falsehood in wartime" (1928, about propaganda lies during WW1) - Haxson
28. HOW DID A SWISS ENGINEER MAKE THINGS STICK IN THE 1956?
Velcro. The Velcro inventor was George de Mestral. He patented the invention in 1955, therefore would have been using it in 1956 - Brch1
29. IN WHAT VISIBLE WAY DOES INDONESIA RESEMBLE MONACO?
Their flags are identical - Haxson
30. WHICH AUSTRALIAN GOVERNOR BECAME A BLACKSMITH?
Jimmy Governor went on a murderous rampage in 1900. Thomas Keneally wrote about Jimmy, but changed his surname, in the book 'The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith' which was later made into a film. - Miss Chicken
31. WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN A SWAN, TWINS AND HELEN?
Zeus, in the form of a swan, coupled with Leda. This union resulted in two eggs. Each egg gave birth to a pair of twins; Castor and Pollux (the Dioscuri), and Helen and Clytemnestra - Haxson
32. WHO OR WHAT CONNECTS THE ELEMENTS ERBIUM, TERBIUM AND LANTHANUM?
C. G. Mosander was the first one to isolate these elements - Haxson
33. WHAT FOLLOWS IN THIS SEQUENCE; 2001, 2007, 2018, 2029, _, _ AND WHY?
2035. They all have the exact same calendar. Their years are the same. - Miss Chicken
34. JEAN PAUL SARTRE AND BORIS PASTERNAK DID WHAT IN COMMON?
They both declined the Nobel Prize in Literature. (Pasternak was forced to it by the Soviet government) - Haxson and Jim Gamma
35. WHO SAID: "YOU MIGHT VERY WELL THINK THAT. I COULDN'T POSSIBLY COMMENT"?
It was the catchphrase of Machiavellian chief whip Francis Urquhart in Michael Dobbs's novel 'House of Cards'
36. WHO WROTE: "MOM AND POP WERE JUST A COUPLE OF KIDS WHEN THEY GOT MARRIED. HE WAS 18, SHE WAS 16, AND I WAS 3"?
William Dufty
Billie Holliday's autobiography, "Lady Sings the Blues," was written for her by William Dufty, and is best remembered for its opening sentence: "Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married; he was 18, she was 16 and I was three."
Dufty wrote it, but Billie said it.- Miss Chicken
37. ON WHICH HISTORIC OCCASION WAS THE PHRASE "WHAT GOD HAS WROUGHT" USED, AND BY WHOM?
38. WHERE DOES YELLOW JASMINE FOLLOW JUNIPER AND A FLOWERING PEACH?
They are the names of holes on the US Masters golf course in Augusta.
39. WHAT FIVE-SIDED LINK EXISTS BETWEEN A HATPIN AND A KEYHOLE?
40. WHY DID THE DARKENING ECLIPTIC CAUSE SOME PENGUINS TO BECOME ANGRY IN THE 1940S?
"The 1944 Autumn number of the Australian experimental literary magazine Angry Penguins was largely devoted to the work of the newly-discovered poet Ern Malley, who had died of Graves' disease at the tragically early age of twenty-five. The editor, Max Harris, wrote a long and enthusiastic introduction to the sixteen poems that made up Mr Malley's life work, which the author had titled "The Darkening Ecliptic". Harris was later prosecuted by the South Australian police for publishing obscene writing - Mr Malley's poems were judged to be obscene by the court, largely on the evidence of a Detective Vogelsang - and convicted." - Haxson
41. WHAT WORD CONNECTS SUGAR, STONE, JACK AND SLASH?
42. WHO OR WHAT LINKS TOUCANS WITH CHATSWORTH AND FIVE POUNDS?
43. WHICH EDOUARD, A CROSSBREED, SAILED FROM REUNION TO FRANCE IN 1817?
[/b]The tradition is that 'Rose Edouard', the first Bourbon rose, was the result of an accidental cross involving an old China rose, probably 'Old Blush', with an old Damask rose, probably 'Quarte Saisons'. The cross supposedly happened on the Isle of Bourbon, a small island in the southern Indian Ocean due East of Madagascar. The problem with this tradition is that 'Rose Edouard' was also well established in Calcutta when it was discovered on the Isle of Bourbon.
M. Bréon, the Director of the Botanical Gardens on the Isle Of Bourbon, discovered 'Rose Edouard' in 1817 growing in a local hedge row. Bréon then sent seeds from this find to a number of his friends in Paris. M. Jaques, the head gardener to the Duc d'Orleans, was one of the recipients. Jacques grew the seeds and named the most successful seedling from that batch, 'Bourbon Rose'.
From www.victorian-rose.org/Cl...ourbon.htm
Isle of Bourbon was later renamed "Réunion". - haxson[/b]
44. WHY IS 1870MM SIGNIFICANT FOR CILAOS ON THE ISLAND OF REUNION?
Most precipitation in 24 hours: 1870mm 15 to 16 March 1952. Cilaos, Reunion, Indian Ocean. - Jim Gamma and Haxson
45. WHAT WORK OF JOHN CAMPBELL AND CLAUD PATON BEGUN IN 1911 REMAINS UNFINISHED?
In 1911 John Campbell and Claude Ernest Paton won an architect competition with their design for the New Zealand Parliament building. Campbell also won fourth prize together with Charles Lawrence. Only the first stage of Campbell's design was completed. - Haxson
46. WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF SOMETHING ROTTEN HAPPENING TO THE SWANKERS?
The Swankers were a punk group who, after Johnny Rotten joined the band, changed their name to The Sex Pistols - Miss Chicken
47. HOW DID THE JET SET TAKE OFF WITH A TAMBOURINE?
The Jet Set (later The Byrds) recorded Dylan's 'Mr. Tambourine Man' in 1964.- Haxson
48. IF TURPENTINE IS 0.87, CHLOROFORM IS 1.489, AND ETHER IS 0.736, WHAT IS IT FOR CASTOR OIL?
0.96 (specific gravity based on water @ 15.6 °C) - Haxson
See www.hydrotechnik.co.uk/Downloads/macn_spec_gravinfo.pdf
49. HOW AND WHERE DID SCARBOROUGH, NEPTUNE AND SURPRIZE COME IN SECOND?
Ships of the 2nd Fleet to Australia = Miss Chicken
50. IF SODIUM IS YELLOW, LITHIUM IS CARMINE, AND SELENIUM IS BLUE, WHAT IS IT FOR TELLURIUM?
Greenish blue (The color a salt of the metal gives to a gas flame) - Haxson
51. WHAT COMES NEXT; 1.732, 2.236, 2.646, __?
51 is the number 3
square root of 3 is 1.732,
square root of 5 is 2.236,
square root of 7 is2.646,
square root of 9 is 3 - brch1 and Haxson
52. WHAT DO BROWN AND SHARPE, STUBS', AND WASHBORN AND MOEN HAVE IN COMMON?
53. WHAT DO ICELAND, SATIN AND DOG-TOOTH HAVE IN COMMON?
They are all types of minerals: Iceland Spar, Satin Spar and Dog-Tooth Spar. - Somali
54. WHAT CAN BE RAMPANT, DROP, HORSESHOE OR CORBELLED?
They are all types of arches - Miss Chicken and Haxson
55. WHAT DO JAMES COOK, SIMON BOLIVAR AND CECIL RHODES HAVE IN COMMON?
They were all freemasons - Miss Chicken
56. WHY MIGHT A. KAPLAN HAVE RECEIVED AN ORDINARY FANFARE?
"Fanfare for the Common Man" was written by Aaron Copland, and his surname was Anglicised from Kaplan. - Somali
57. SOMETHING CONNECTED WITH RAG SORTERS CAME TO PROMINENCE IN 2001. WHAT?
58. WHAT DO PERCIVAL POTT, THOMAS ADDISON AND MAURICE RAYNAUD HAVE IN COMMON?
Thay all have diseases named after them - Haxson
59. WHY WAS A YEAR TOO LONG FOR CHARLES TUPPER, JOHN NAPIER TURNER, AND KIM CAMPBELL?
They all served less than a year as PMs of Canada - Miss Chicken
60. WHY WERE CLINTON AND GORE NEVER MORE THAN 40KM (25 MILES) APART?
Gore and Clinton are towns near the southern end of South Island, NZ - Haxson and Miss Chicken
61. WHY MIGHT E. GONZALES HAVE BEEN PLEASED TO RETURN TO CARDENAS?
Elian Gonzales, a Cuban boy, was taken to the USA but was returned to his hometown of Cardenas when special forces rushed into the house he resided in in the USA - Jim Gamma
62. WHICH AMERICAN BUCCANEERS MIGHT HAVE HAD A CONNECTION TO RECENT REFUGEES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN?
Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a NFL team. Refugees, whose ship was sinking in the Inidian Ocean as picked up by a Swedish ship, the Tampa in 2001 - Miss Chicken
63. HOW WAS A REPUBLIC SAVED IN 1909?
A ship called the Republic was involved in a collision in 1909.
The rescue of the passengers of the Republic was the first major sea rescue where radio played an important role. - mIss Chicken
64. OF WHAT WAS WILLIAM HALL-JONES THE FIRST? First PM of New Zealand - Miss Chicken
65. WHAT DID BEETHOVEN ALGAR, LLEWELLYN HOOK AND HERB LILBURNE ALL ACCOMPLISH?
They were all captains of the New Zealand All Blacks - Miss Chicken
66. OF WHAT IS “THE VILLAGERS OF LITTLE HANGLETON STILL CALLED IT “THE RIDDLE HOUSE”, EVEN THOUGH IT HAD BEEN MANY YEARS SINCE THE RIDDLE FAMILY HAD LIVED THERE” THE FIRST SENTENCE?
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (Book 4)
67. WHERE DOES TASMAN LOOK DOWN ON MAGELLAN AND DRAKE?
68. WHERE WOULD YOU DRIVE FROM CI VIA DY TO EAU?
. In Africa. International traffic country codes. CI = Cote d'Ivore (Ivory Coast), DY = Benin and EAU = Uganda - Haxson
69. HOW DID SOSTRATOS HELP LIGHT THE WAY IN ANCIENT TIMES?
Sostratos was the architect who built the lighthouse of Alexandria. - Haxson
70. WHO HELPED CURE A HEADACHE IN 1853?
In 1853 Charles Frederic Gerhardt first synthesizes acetylsalicylic acid, the active substance in Aspirin. - Haxson
71. WHO MIGHT REPLY TO E4 WITH F5?
the chess player using black who uses Fred Defense
72. WHAT STRIKING RECORD DOES ROGER C. SULLIVAN HOLD?
73. WHEN AND HOW DID JELLICOE FOLLOW ISLINGTON AND LIVERPOOL?
Governors and Governor-Generals of New Zealand
Governors of New Zealand
Lord Islington, 1910 - 1912
Earl of Liverpool, 1912 - 1917
Governor-General of New Zealand
Earl of Liverpool, 1917 - 1920
Viscount Jellicoe1920 - 1924 - Miss Chicken
74. HOW AND WHERE DOES NORTHUMBERLAND COME BETWEEN ISLINGTON AND LIVERPOOL?
On a Monopoly board - Somali
75. WHAT LINKS ANAS CRECCA TO A FARMER AND A TOOMEY?
76. WHICH WORD LINKS MAP, BOX AND POND?
77. WHAT REMARKABLE UPS AND DOWNS OCCUR AT BURNCOAT HEAD IN NOVA SCOTIA?
The highest tides in the world have been recorded there - haxson
78. WHY HAS ERITRENO BEEN IN THE NEWS?
The Eritreno was a ship thought to be carrying child slaves; a ship bearing that name returned to port in April 2001, surprising officials with its cargo and its look - it had been repainted having been previously called Nordby. Instead of carrying hundreds of child slaves, the Etireno was carrying people of all ages, who seemed to be merely poor migrants looking for better lives. The authorities found 43 children, at most, who might have been slaves - Jim Gamma
79. WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT ABOUT CABO FROWARD?
Cape (Cabo) Froward is the southernmost point of the South America. - Haxson
Lat. S 53.54' Long. W 071.18'.
Cape Froward lies 100 km south of Punta Arenas, at the tip of the Brunswick Peninsula on the Strait of Magellan
80. WHAT SIGNIFICANCE DID THE NUMBER SIX HOLD FROM 1917 UNTIL 1967?
Re: The Big Quiz Copied Over
Haagen Dax of the terranbbs has answered one of the remaining questions.
Foot The length of a man's foot. A measure of length. From town to town, country to country, this measurement could differ, but as a rule a French Pied was equal to 12.8 English inches, while a Spanish Pie was 10.96 English inches
According to my calculations 27.864 cm = 10.97 inches. Close enough?
"Well, I wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."-- Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in HARVEY
Re: The Big Quiz Copied Over
15. WHICH VERY LARGE ISLAND COMES BETWEEN TE WAI POUNAMU (SOUTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND) AND TE IKA A MAUI (NORTH ISLAND, NZ)?
One of my friend have suggested that this might be the name of a very large ferry with 'ISLAND' in its name.
"Well, I wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."-- Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in HARVEY
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