How did you enjoy my quiz questions last time?
Here is the second batch that I wrote for my charity newsletter. See how you get on this time. There are a couple of UK-specific question in there, but I left them in just to confound any UK readers! As always, just for fun, answers below.
Questions
| 1. | Complete the sequence: Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, … |
| 2. | In what year was Margaret Thatcher first elected Prime Minister? |
| 3. | After the Good Friday Agreement, what was the pair of Martin McGuiness and Ian Paisley commonly known as, by the media? |
| 4. | In which US state is Mount Rushmore? |
| 5. | Staying in the USA, which city is The Big Easy? |
| 6. | What is the main alcoholic ingredient of a Cuba Libre cocktail? |
| 7. | If you flew for 12 hours from Heathrow, where would you likely end up? New York, Sydney, Cape Town or Madrid? (A bonus point if you said Heathrow!) |
| 8. | What did Little Jack Horner pull out? |
| 9. | We are hearing a bit about North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at the moment, but when did he become their leader? |
| 10. | Which country’s flag is this:  |
Answers
| 1. | Scooby Doo! |
| 2. | 1979 |
| 3. | The Chuckle Brothers |
| 4. | South Dakota |
| 5. | New Orleans |
| 6. | Rum |
| 7. | Cape Town. Sydney is at least 19 hours, while Madrid and New York are “just” 2½ hours and 8 hours, respectively. |
| 8. | A plum |
| 9. | December, 2011 |
| 10. | Greece |
Mister Bump 
Aha I knew 2! Rum and Greece 🙂 I guessed Sydney but that was wrong. Fun questions 🙂
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Can you imagine, 19hrs on an airplane? Why does it not surprise me that you knew about rum 😆
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Haha 🙂 I flew to Australia once to meet up with Pierre (we were just dating!) and I flew over 24 hours I think. And before Pierre I had a Cuban fling, so I was there at the source of the Cuba Libre 😀
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I think anything Caribbean would get me thinking “rum”. And some of my Jamaican friends – they drink dark rum, and lots of it! I used to fly quite regularly between London and JFK – put me off flying ever again! You’ve very brave flying that far for someone you just met.
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I was nervous too!! I just hoped he would be at the airport to pick me up.
He was there with a rose 🙂
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Was gonna say, at least you knew he was keen 😆 And vice versa!
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That was sure a confirmation of our relationship 🙂 No turning back after such a move!
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I knew most of these. Wasn’t clear on Margaret Thatcher was elected and didn’t know the one about the Good Friday accords. As for the 12-hour flight from Heathrow, I thought either Los Angeles or San Francisco, but those look more like 11 hr 15 min. For an extra 15 minutes, you could be in Hong Kong; London to Singapore is close to 13 hours. A lot of those flights go over the top of the world, which is why Juneau, Alaska is only 10 hr 39 min. I miss my travel days sometimes…
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I remember the flights to JFK went up over the Arctic. But American distances…we’d go over Newfoundland and think “almost there”, and still have another 3 hours in the air!
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The 48 contiguous states are roughly the size of Australia. Alaska is a little over half the size of the lower 48 (it’s huge).
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Glad you gave the answers, otherwise I would have had a guilty conscience looking them up to be sure.
No. 2 I knew because just yesterday I was watching a BBC documentary about Maggie Thatcher
No. 7 I guessed as I flew to New York once and it was only a 7 hour journey
No. 8 I knew from my childhood days of nursery rhymes
No. 9 – I did not know the exact year, but remember it happening when the other one kicked the bucket and all the Koreans were having a public crying session.
10. I knew it was the Greek flag.
Otherwise I would have been looking up the answers in Internet, but I do enjoy a good general knowledge quiz.
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It’s always good to include nursery rhymes, I think. A lot of the Age UK clients are grandparents so they tend to be hot on kiddie things. Me, I have to look all that stuff up.
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Little Jack Horner sat in a corner eating his Christmas pie.
He stuck in a thumb and pulled out a plum and said,
“What a good boy am I
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Bravo! Since you’re so good, here is a sneak preview of another: Little Tommy Tucker, Sings for his supper, What shall we give him?… What did he get?
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I knew “Big Easy” although I had no clue which state contains Mt. Rushmore (bad American me 😦 ) and I knew rum was in a Cuba Libre (which, unless I’m mistaken is a rum & coke with lime in it), I knew Scooby Doo and the plum (#8), but the rest? Posers, real mind benders. Great job! 😀
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I wonder how it is that all the women know the liquor? 🤣🤣🤣
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This is me guessing, not googling:
Is it Scrappy-doooooo?
2.1979?
Beavis And Butthead? Laurel And Hardy?
Colorado?
Miami?
Rum? Tequilla?
Cape Town – I think
A posie?
9.2013? No idea!
Finland?
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Oooops – Jack will be appalled that I did not recognise the Greece flag!
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Finland is the same blue, but just a horiz/vert cross I think. I chose Greece because it is somewhere a lot of them might have been. I went there once – my very first holiday abroad! Enjoyed it but never been back.
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Beavis and Butthead? Bear in mind that this quiz was aimed at Age UK clients! 🤣🤣🤣 But some of your others are pretty close, if not spot on! Well done, brainbox!
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The only one I would have gotten right there would have been question number 7 …. 🤔
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Hahaha you’ve got an unfair advantage, there though 🙂 you are Cape Town aren’t you?
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