Quiz - Week 22 Questions and Answers

 

For those of you who follow the blog and joined in with the Quiz on Tuesday I promised that on Fridays you would have the answers. 

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1. Art and Literature

1. In Beatrix Potter’s books, what kind of animal was Jeremy Fisher?

A frog

2. Which famous Latin phrase has been popularly translated as ‘seize the day’?

Carpe diem

3. Whose autobiography is entitled I don’t mean to be rude, but…

Simon Cowell

4. At which number on Baker Street did Sherlock Holmes live?

221B

5. Who created the famous character of Tracey Beaker?

Jacqueline Wilson

2. True or false

1. The reverse of the Nobel Peace Prize, shows three naked men, standing with their hands on each other’s shoulders.

True

2. Centipedes always have 100 feet.

False

3. Mount Olympus on Mars, is taller than Mount Everest.

True – Mount Olympus is approximately 22km tall, Mount Everest is only 8,848 m

4. The world’s oldest known tree is over 9000 years old.

True – In 2008 a tree calculated to be 9550 years old was found in Sweden

5. Muscle turns to fat if you stop exercising.

False – muscle cells and fat cells are two different types of cell.

3. Science and Nature

1. What does RAM stand for, when describing computer hardware?

Random-Access Memory

2. What term is used for one-billionth of a second?

A nanosecond

3. Which is the primary bodily organ affected by hepatitis?

Liver

4. What type of fruit is a ‘Norfolk Beefing’?

An apple

5. Nitrous Oxide is the correct scientific name for what?

Laughing gas

4. Words

Words borrowed from other languages. I will give you a description of the word, including the country it comes from – you tell me which word is being described or translated.

1. A German word meaning ‘lightning’, which we use to describe a rapid action.

Blitz

2. A French phrase to describe a social blunder.

Faux pas

3. A German word meaning a counterpart or double

Doppelgänger

4. An Italian word meaning hard, loud or strong but we use it as to describe a developed characteristic strength

Forte

5. An Arabic word which literally means ‘prince of the sea’. We use it to describe a naval rank.

Admiral

5. Geography

Which island group includes Tenerife and Lanzarote?

The Canary Islands

2. In which English county would you find Stratford-Upon-Avon?

Warwickshire

3. ‘ET’ is the international car registration code for  which country?

Egypt

4. Which is the largest country in Scandinavia?

Sweden

5. There are 4 motorways in Kent, what are they? Point each

M25 (The London orbital motorway, numbered clockwise from Dartford around London to Thurrock. (The Dartford Crossing between Thurrock and Dartford is not classified as a motorway, being the A282.)), M2 (From Strood to Faversham) , M20 (Linking the M25 at Swanley to Folkestone)  and M26 (A short link between the M25 at Sevenoaks and the M20 before Maidstone)

6. General Knowledge

1. In the nursery rhyme ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’, where was the queen?

In the parlour (eating bread and honey)

2. In ‘Back To The Future’, Marty McFly travelled back in time – to which year?

1955

3. Mount Rushmore has sculpted heads of four American Presidents; which ones?

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson

4. How many pieces does each player begin with in a game of chess?

16

5. What would be the traditional gift for a twelfth wedding anniversary?

Silk

Bonus: If pound coins were introduced in 1983, In which year did the Bank of England £1 note stop being legal tender?

1988 (£1 coins were introduced in 1983 and the last £1 note was printed in 1984, but they were legal tender until 1988. Scottish £1 notes remain legal tender today.)