Hey there, it's finally time to give you all the answers from last Wednesday's Pub Quiz. Once again we had a great turnout, an amazing crowd and a most triumphant evening! Special shout out to Pete Kosmider-Jones for the original accents round, check out his medical English blog if you've got the time. Congratulations once again to the winners, No Name. If you haven't done so already, be sure to like the Rabbitfire page to keep informed about the next quiz. We'll see you all in the New Year!
Around the World
1. What is the most common first name in the world?
(MOHAMMED)
2. Put the following cities in order from furthest west to east:
Reno, Nevada; Los Angeles, California; Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon
(PORTLAND/SEATTLE/RENO/LOS ANGELES)
3. Staying in America, where after all it is Thanksgiving tomorrow. Legend has it the first feast was celebrated by the Pilgrims together with chief Massosoit and 90 other male members of the Wampanoag tribe. Tell me what year it was, plus or minus a quarter century.
(1621)
4. More about that meal. 102 pilgrims had made the journey to America aboard the Mayflower but 45 of them died the first winter. Can you guess how many Pilgrim women were there for the first thanksgiving, I sure hope they didn't have to do all the cooking for the 90 natives and the Pilgrim men.
(4)
5. As you may know, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of every November. This year it falls quite late in the month and happens to occur during another important festival that also changes dates and happens to start quite early this year. This coincidence is so rare that it won't happen again for another 79,043 years. Can you tell me which religious holiday beginning at sunset tonight will be in progress when Thanksgiving is celebrated this year.
(HANUKKAH)
6. Most banks machines here in Poland offer the helpful function of offering the choice of using English. Can you tell me though, what is the only bank in the world that offers ATM customers the ability to do their transactions in Latin?
(THE VATICAN BANK)
7. Not counting the continental land masses of the Americas, Afro-Eurasia, Antartica and Australia, Greenland is the largest island in the world at 840,000 square miles, 3X the size of Texas. Tell me, what is the 3rd largest island in the world? And, I'll give you a hint, it's a six letter word ending in O.
(BORNEO)
8. This Pacific island nation's flag has equal horizontal bands of royal blue and scarlet red. There is an equilateral triangle on the left with a golden sun in the center surrounded by three golden yellow stars. What makes this flag unique however is that it is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war. The blue portioin in flown on top in time of peace and the red portion is at the top in war time. Judging by the recent news, it's unfortunate for them there's no war against climate change. What Pacific island country's flag am I describing?
(THE PHILIPPINES)
Round 2 - Music Round
1. Loser - Beck
2. Novocaine for the soul - Eels
3. Rock the Kasbah - The Clash
4. Rock me Amadeus - Falco
5. Shut up and let me go - Ting Tings
6. It must be love - Madness
7. Sheila take a bow - The Smiths
8. All these things that I have done - The Killers
Round 3 - Trivial Trivia
1. What word is the antonym of synonym?
(Antonym)
2. Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders. Agrophobia is the fear of public places. But what is gyrophobia?
(Fear of Women)
3. What is the current global fertility rate?
a) 1.5 b) 2.0 c) 2.5 d) 3.0
(c - 2.5)
4. Americans call it a faucet. What is it called in Britain?
(tap)
5. According to a recently published health report, what are the two biggest causes of disability in the world?
(1 - back pain ; 2 - depression)
6. Who married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten on November 10, 1947?
(Queen Elizabeth II)
7. Where would a Vietnamese deposit his dong?
(a bank)
8. How many months are named after men and what are they?
(2 - July and August)
Round 4 - Eponymous Words
An eponym is a person or thing, whether real or fictional, after which a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named. Louis Braille gave us the eponym of the Braille word system created by him for use by the blind.
1. This character from Voltaire's Candide spawned an eponymous attitude or philosophy best summed up in his words "All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." Please name the character who indoctrinated young Candide with the philosophy that everything that happens, no matter how calamitous or tragic, is for the best.
(Dr. Pangloss)
2. A type of radioactive metallic element, a stately dance popular in the 18th - 19th centuries, and an elaborate overdress worn by fashionable ladies of the aristocracy in the 18th century all derive their name from what country?
(Poland)
3. A crass, uncultured person preoccupied with material things and devoid of transcendental values may be called by this name, which derives from an ancient Middle-Eastern civilization.
(Philistine)
4. Named for a British Prime Minister, this tea is flavoured with bergamot oil, the bergamot is an aromatic citrus fruit that is grown in Italy. It was a "hot" item in Star Trek: The Next Generation".
(Earl Grey)
5. Surprisingly, the name of this device derives from that of a French physician who proposed a painless and private form of capital punishment equal for all classes as an interim step towards completely banning the death penalty. However, it remained his country's standard form of judicial execution up until it's banning in 1981.
(Guillotine)
6. This Charles Dickens character from A Christmas Carol has become an eponym for a stingy and miserly person.
(Scrooge)
7. A neurological syndrome, characterized by altered perceptions of body image and visual illusions, was named after this character from children's literature.
(Alice in Wonderland)
8. Jonathan Swifts novel "Gulliver's Travels gave us a treasure trove on eponyms including Lilliputian, from the miniature island nation in the South Pacific which refers to anything small or, in a more pejorative sense, small-mindedness or pettiness. It also gave the world a term which means a brutish, crude, ignorant person but is now more often used in reference to an Internet giant.
(Yahoo)
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