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(Message started by: THUDandBLUNDER on Apr 6^th, 2003, 1:44pm)

Title: Quick & Easy Quiz (Pass mark = 2/10)
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Apr 6^th, 2003, 1:44pm

1] How long was the Hundred Years War?

2] Where are Panama hats made?

3] Catgut comes from which animal?

4] Russians celebrate the October Revolution in which month?

5] A camel's hair brush is made from what?

6] After which animal are the Canary Islands named?

7] King George VI's first name was…..?

8] A purple finch is which colour?

9] Chinese gooseberries are from which country?

10] The Thirty Years War lasted how many years?

Title: Re: Quick & Easy Quiz (Pass mark = 2/10)
Post by KicksGenius on Apr 6^th, 2003, 1:52pm

[hide]1: 112 Years
2: Panama
3: Cat
4: October
5: Horse Hair
6: Canary
7: George
8: Violet
9: The People's Republic of China (The Island)
10: 27 Years[/hide]

(Not sure about 1: but I know it wasn't 100 years.)

Title: Re: Quick & Easy Quiz (Pass mark = 2/10)
Post by cho on Apr 6^th, 2003, 2:39pm

Okay, I'll show my ignorance and make some guesses.
[hide]1. 118 years
2. Brazil
3. Sheep
4. November
5. Horse hair
6. Dogs
7. Louis
8. Red
9. England
10. 30 years [/hide]

Title: Re: Quick & Easy Quiz (Pass mark = 2/10)
Post by Chronos on Apr 6^th, 2003, 6:40pm

2: Equador
3: Sheep
4: September (by the Gregorian calendar: It's Julian October)
6: Dogs

If two right is passing, does this mean that I get to skip ahead a grade?

Title: Re: Quick & Easy Quiz (Pass mark = 2/10)
Post by Icarus on Apr 6^th, 2003, 7:03pm

The October Revolution occured in November 1917. It is called the October Revolution because it occured in October by the Russian Calendar. Russia did not adopt the modern calendar, with its various leap year corrections, until after the Revolution. By this time Russian dates had slipped quite a bit from what is now standard.

And it is called a Camel Hair Brush, not camel's hair brush.
A camel's hair brush could be made of many different things, depending on what the camel's groomer bought or used. A Camel Hair Brush was a particular brand of hair brush (for people) circa 1900.

Title: Re: Quick & Easy Quiz (Pass mark = 2/10)
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Apr 7^th, 2003, 3:46am

MARKS

SickGenius: 0/10

Cho: 5/10

Chronos: 3/10

Title: Re: Quick & Easy Quiz (Pass mark = 2/10)
Post by BNC on Apr 7^th, 2003, 5:21am

1] How long was the Hundred Years War?
answer: [hide]116 years[/hide]
reason: [hide]100+16~=100 for extremely large values of 100[/hide]

2] Where are Panama hats made?
Answer: [hide] Ecuador, for over 300 years. In more recent years, they are also made in Hawaii (US), Costa Rica, and other parts of the world. [/hide]
Reason: [hide] They were once distributed through Panama.[/hide]

3] Catgut comes from which animal?
Answer: [hide] Sheep and Horses[/hide]
Reason: [hide] The cat in the word may have derived from kit, an old word for a small violin.[/hide]

4] Russians celebrate the October Revolution in which month?
Answer: [hide] November[/hide]
Reason: [hide] See prev posts[/hide]

5] A camel's hair brush is made from what?
Answer: [hide] A Camel hair brush can be made of ox, goat, squirrel, pony, or any variety of other natural animal hairs[/hide]
Reason: [hide] Camel is the name of the person who invented the Camel hair brush. [/hide]

6] After which animal are the Canary Islands named?
Answer: [hide] Dogs[/hide]
Reason: [hide] The islands were named by the Romans and so bore their Latin name: insulae canariae, or "island of dogs." The birds are named after the island, not the other way around.[/hide]

7] King George VI's first name was…..?
Answer: [hide] Albert[/hide]
Reason: [hide] Kings chose their "crown" name. Albert was his "given" name [/hide]

8] A purple finch is which colour?
Answer: [hide] Crimson[/hide]
Reason: [hide] I-have-no-idea!!!!! Hack, I didn't even know they were birds until a few moments ago -- I had to look it up![/hide]

9] Chinese gooseberries are from which country?
Answer: [hide] New Zealand, the U.S., Europe, and Chile. [/hide]
Reason: [hide] Chinese Gooseberries are native to China but are now grown commercially in other countries. In Chile, these fruits were initially called Chinese Gooseberries, but they are now more widely known as kiwis, which comes from the kiwi bird, the national bird of New Zealand. [/hide]

10] The Thirty Years War lasted how many years?
Answer: [hide]30 [/hide]
Reason: [hide] Duh![/hide]

Title: Re: Quick & Easy Quiz (Pass mark = 2/10)
Post by wowbagger on Apr 7^th, 2003, 8:41am

On the subject of the Thirty Years War I'd like to point out to the fact that it was a period of time during which a number of wars took place. Most of the (leading) Western European countries were involved, the main fighting took place in Germany, however. A sad example of what (supposedly) irreconcilable confessional contrasts can bring about :'(

The Thirty Years War began with the
[hide]Defenestration of Prague on May 23^rd 1618[/hide]
and ended with the
[hide] Peace of Westphalia on October 24^th 1648[/hide],
so it actually lasted [hide]longer than 30 years[/hide] if you consider the whole period as one war.

Title: Re: Quick & Easy Quiz (Pass mark = 2/10)
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Apr 7^th, 2003, 10:30am

Sheesh......and I thought it was easy. :o