Selection of questions posted in January 2013 from http://www.facebook.com/groups/Quizlings/

1. Quizlings – January 2013 Part 2
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Quizlings/

2. Quizician is………………………..

3. • What geographical feature separated the
province of Cisalpine Gaul, of which Julius
Caesar was the Governor and the home
territory in Italy that made up the main
Roman Republic?

4. • Answer : The Rubicon!
• "Crossing the Rubicon" means ‘crossing the
point of no return)

5. • There are at least two countries in the world
that are named after their ruling family. Name
them?

6. • Answer : Saudi Arabia and Liechtenstein

7. • Which kind of people are never depicted in
the "Peanuts" cartoon strips?

8. • Answer : Adults

9. • Who is the only US actor to have ever received
the French equivalent of the OSCAR, which is
called a Cesar?

10. • Answer : Adrien Brody

11. • Which book was first published with the title
"My Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against
Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice."? (the author
didn't bother to write anything thereafter)

12. • Answer : Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”

13. • Which capital city did Frenchman Pierre
Charles L'Enfant design?

14. • Answer : Washington DC

15. • How did cricketer Michael Holding end up
getting the nickname ""Whispering Death"?

16. • Answer : It was Dickie Bird who called him
'Whispering Death.' apparently he couldn't
hear Holding pass-by during the bowling run-
up and delivery.

17. • This historic Dingareyber mosque is one of the
three mosques and 16 cemeteries and
mausoleums that record the history of this
ancient centre of Islamic learning. these
places are now under threat from Islamic
militants who recently acquired arms from the
Libyan civil-war conflict. Name the city?

18. • Answer : Timbucktu (Mali)

19. • Give me one word for "the accumulated
limestone exoskeletons of soft-bodied coral
polyps"

20. • Answer : Corals

21. • In fifteen races in the 2012 season, he was
involved in seven first-lap and one second-lap
incidents. Name this unfortunate F1 driver..

22. • Answer : Romain Grosjean

23. • What does the Kimberley certification process
ensure?

24. • Answer : It ensures that your diamonds are
not 'conflict' diamonds

25. • There are two countries in this world that are
doubly landlocked - Uzbekistan is one. Name
the other

26. • Answer : Liechtenstein

27. • You might find it on a Golf course or a shooter
might use it to launch his clay pigeons. A rude
person may ask to to keep it closed or you
could encounter it in your kitchen or even in
your Indian geography class. Any which way it
may catch you unawares. What is the good
word?

28. • Answer : Trap

29. • What is the lasting legacy of the marriage of
Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess
Therese which held in Munich on October 18,
1810 ?

30. • Answer : Oktoberfest

31. • The Lydians and the Medes were at war on 28
May in 585 B.C but abruptly gave up hostilities
and sued for peace. What prompted them to
do this?

32. • Answer : the first dated solar eclipse caused so
much fear in the troops that they refused to
carry on the war

33. • Belgrade's main airport was re-named in
2006, on the 150th birth anniversary of its
most famous son. What name does it now
carry?

34. • Answer : Nikola Tesla

35. • What connects one of the world's best known
entertainment centres, a luxury hotel in Las
Vegas, computational method, a car rally, the
star of 'The Love Bug,' and a Chevrolet 1970
model that was in production for almost four
decades?

36. • Answer : Monte Carlo

37. • When he realised that the French army officer
Alfred Dreyfus had been wrongly jailed on
spying charges, this author responded with an
open letter published in the 'L'Aurore'
newspaper in 1898. The author lost the
ensuing libel case but the furor it caused
eventually led to Dreyfus being acquitted.
Name the author and the famous letter?

38. • Answer : The author is Emile Zola and the
letter was J'accuse

39. • Which American Abstract Expressionist
painter was known as 'Jack the Dripper?'

40. • Answer : Jackson Pollock

41. • One is a dance from the Scandinavian
countries inspired by Polish court dances and
named for Poland; the other is a very popular
ballroom and folk dance from Bohemia. Name
both ?

42. • Answer : Polska and Polka

43. • What annual award, instituted in 2009 bears
the name of this sportsperson?

44. • Answer : Puskas award ..its ‘most beautiful
goal of the year’ award awarded by FIFA
annually

45. • The US White House rejected the the petition
to begin construction of a Death Star by 2016
citing some three reasons including what it
called a 'fundamental flaw'. What flaw?

46. • answer :"It can be exploited by a one-man
starship"

47. • On 4 February 2008, to mark the 40th
anniversary of the song and NASA's 50th
anniversary this Beatles song was transmitted
into interstellar space in the direction of
Polaris. Which appropriately named song?

48. • Answer :‘Across the Universe’ by the Beatles

49. • South Africa now has 11 official languages.
Which of them, which may be part of a
scrabble player's arsenal, would Nelson
Mandela claim as his mother-tongue?

50. • Answer : Xhosa

51. • London's Globe theatre ran a festival last year
presenting Shakespeare's plays in various
'languages' - Lithuanian, Hip-hop, Swahili, sign
language etc. How many 'languages'
precisely?

52. • answer : 37 languages..for there are 37 plays
by Shakespeare

53. • Why did the addition of a character called
Kami to the South African version of Sesame
Street (Takalani Sesame) in 2002 create news?

54. • Answer : this character is HIV+

55. • If you want your pizza served 'al taglio,' how
do you want it?

56. • Answer : Served by the slice

57. • Which College football team is nicknamed the
‘Fighting Irish?’

58. • Answer : Notre Dame

59. • Logo for what?

60. • Answer : The Burning Man festival

61. • What was Russian Admiral Fabian Gottlieb
von Bellingshausen the first to do(the year
was 1821)?

62. • Answer : First to sight land at the Antartic

63. • What connects the two pictures?

64. • answer : The two pictures are respectively the
map of the Virgin Islands and a depiction of
the Martyrdom of Saint Ursula
• The Islands are named for the saint

65. • He was an outstanding baseball player. He
opened a sporting goods shops after his
retirement and developed it into one of the
largest sporting good franchises in the world.
His misplaced sense of patriotism also led him
to create a fabricated history of baseball - to
deny any links to the British game of rounders
and cricket, he claimed that the Civil War hero
Abner Doubleday invented the game.Who?

66. • Answer : Spalding

67. • If you were sporting a 'peruke' what would
your profession most likely be?

68. • Answer : A Judge – it’s a wig

69. • Which Indonesian island lends it name to a
large member of the Varanidae family?

70. • Answer : Komodo

71. • This small Spanish town, a town that saw the co-
existence of three religions and home to several artists
(including the one who painted this) was declared a
World Heritage site in the 1980's. Name the town
which is depicted in this painting and name the painter

72. • Answer : Toledo / the painter is El Greco

73. • perfect dip for your tortilla chips, though I
would prefer salsa sauce myself. name the
sauce and the fruit it is primarily made from..

74. • Answer : Guacamole – made from Avocados

75. • Quote from which influential 1976 book, "“We
need a name for the new replicator, a noun that
conveys the idea of a unit of cultural
transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme'
comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a
monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope
my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate
mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it
could alternatively be thought of as being related
to 'memory', or to the French word même. It
should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'”?

76. • Answer : The Selfish Gene

77. • What do you call this style of kitchen where
there are working spaces on both sides?

78. • Answer : Galley style

79. • The tenth day of the month of Muharram is a
major observance for Shia Muslims as it marks
the martyrdom of Muhammad's grandson,
Hussain ibn Ali. What is the observance called
in Iran, Turkey and most Arab countries?

80. • Answer : Ashura

81. • Symbol of which nation?

82. • Answer : Scotland

83. • Which countries have more Portuguese
speakers than Portugal (Brazil is one..there are
two more)?

84. • Answer : Mozambique and Angola

85. • Which US state existed as a monarchy for
almost 88 years over the 18th and 19th
centuries?

86. • Answer : Hawaii

87. • What was leased to Great Britain in 1898 for
99 years?

88. • Answer : Hong Kong

89. • Which famous German automobile designer,
better known for another iconic car, designed
the Volkswagen Beetle under a directive from
Adolf Hitler?

90. • Answer : Ferdinand Porsche

91. • To make this dish you need to stuff a chicken
into a duck and then stuff that into a turkey.
What is the dish called?

92. • Answer : Turducken

93. • Also called an 'Aerosol Bomb,' or a 'fuel-air
explosive' this fearful weapon uses an
explosive that sets fire to the air above its
target, then sucks the oxygen out of the air
leading any survivor to die from asphyxiation.
Accidental coal dust explosions in mines work
similarly. what is such a bomb called?

94. • Answer : Thermobaric

95. • In a dream, the King was ordered to carve a deity
from a log he would find washed up on the sea
shore. The king found a mysterious old carpenter
to carve the deity, but the carpenter insisted that
he not be disturbed while he was working. The
king waited anxiously outside his room, but after
some time, all sound stopped. The impatient king
was worried and opened the doors - only to find
the deity half-finished and the carpenter gone!
Where will you find this half-finished deity,
today?

96. • Answer : Jagannath in Puri