I just thought – throughout this crisis, Age UK Wiltshire have been printing a weekly Newsletter for clients, and I volunteered to set some quiz questions. I thought I’d share them here.
Bear in mind, they are for a UK audience, so some of them will be quite UK-specific.
I’ve tried to pitch some of them as really easy, some as head-scratching, but none are impossible. Questions that nobody can answer is not my idea of fun. And, one of my friends might recognise some of their maths questions, which I stole from her! Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
I must’ve done forty or fifty of these things but I’ll just post the first ten for now, and post some more another day. Answers below, this is just for fun.
Qurstions
| 1. | A grandmother has 6 grandchildren. Each grandchild was born 2 years apart, and the youngest is 10 years old. How old is the eldest? |
| 2. | Which soccer teams plays its home games at Carrow Road, in yellow and green, and is nicknamed the Canaries? |
| 3. | In which county is Stratford-upon-Avon? |
| 4. | In what one year did the following take place: West Side Story premiered, Elvis bought the mansion which became Graceland, and the hits included Blueberry Hill, All Shook Up and Wake Up Little Susie? |
| 5. | What is the longest river in the world? |
| 6. | In what year did the first stretch of the M1 motorway open? |
| 7. | Name the five Great Lakes of North America |
| 8. | Who was the Prime Minister at the start of the Suez crisis? |
| 9. | Which US city is served by JFK Airport? |
| 10. | A farmer has sheep and chickens in their barn. They count 26 feet, and there are 10 animals in total. How many of each animal do they have? |
Answers
| 1 | 20. |
| 2. | Norwich City |
| 3. | Warwickshire |
| 4. | 1957 |
| 5. | Nile |
| 6. | 1958 |
| 7. | Superior, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, Erie. |
| 8. | Anthony Eden |
| 9. | New York |
| 10. | 3 sheep 7 chickens |
I bet you knew them all, didn’t you?
Mister Bump 
None of the British ones. LOL
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Nope! I got the first one right. The second question stumped me. Then I started looking at the answers before the questions – which is cheating really, isn’t it!
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When I researched this, I foumd that the first stretch of motorway, period, was the M6 Preston bypass, in ’57.
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I did not peek (looked away as I scrolled to comments section)
3.Canada
5.Amazon
7. HOMES (huron, ontario, michigan, erie, and superior)
The one with the feet in the barn makes smoke come out of my ears.
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I knew you’d know the lakes because you’re right up there, aren’t you? But somebody didn’t (they might just have been fooling with me)
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I’m in the big mitten right in the middle of them all 🙂
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Longest Rivers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_length
Looking at the table, the longest four are the Nile, Amazon, Yangtze and Mississippi, and they are all within 200 miles of each other. So I guess it depends where you start counting!
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