Just for fun, answers below. The next batch of questions I released for the Age UK Lockdown newsletter. Hardly anything UK-specific this week so I am expecting everybody to do brilliantly!
Questions
1.
I have a leaky garden tap. The tap leaks twice as much every day, and I put a (n empty) bucket under it. After 5 days, the bucket was full. After how many days would it have been half-full?
2.
Who played the title role in The Godfather (1972)?
3.
What type of animal is a mountain chicken?
4.
What tax was introduced by Henry VIII in 1535?
5.
What is the female of a goose called?
6.
On 19th August 1968, Soviet tanks rolled into which country?
7.
Tropic of Cancer – north or south of the equator?
8.
Ag is the chemical symbol for ….?
9.
The velocipede was an early type of what?
10.
“I could be handy mending a fuse, when your lights have gone” – which song?
Answers
1.
4 days (thanks, F) Think backwards. The bucket fills with twice as much water each day, so if, on Day #5, it is full, it must have been half-full on Day #4, a quarter of Day #3, an eighth on Day #2, a sixteenth on Day #1 etc.
2.
Marlon Brando. Do they get any easier than this? 🤣
3.
A frog! They live on a couple of islands in the Caribbean (Montserrat and Dominica) and are one of the world’s largest frogs.
4.
A Beard Tax.
5.
Just a goose. A male is called a gander, but a female is just called a goose!
6.
Czechoslovakia
7.
north
8.
Silver.
9.
A bicycle.
10.
When I’m 64, by The Beatles.
How’d you do? Easy Peasy, huh? Do you deserve a pat on the back or a kick up the ass?
Blimey! I think those questions are really hard. But then I am a numpty.
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Oh, no, I always try to make some of them, at least, really easy. A fail, then?
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No not a fail. It’s me! Lol. Total idiot! Ha!
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amazing work
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thank you, anything I did not know already was easy enough to find on the web. If you look of standard “pub quiz” sites, a couple of these seem to be standard questions. I essentiAlly collated them.
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In 1698, Emperor Peter I of Russia instituted a beard tax to bring Russian society in line with Western European models. To enforce the ban on beards, the tsar empowered police to forcibly and publicly shave those who refused to pay the tax.
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I wonder how long these taxes lasted?
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Brother!! What questions! 😮 !! I know #10, but that’s about the only one. And you thoughtfully provided the answers any how. Good for you! 🙂
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You knew Brando, surely?
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Questions
1. 4 days?
Robert De Niro?
Goat?
Tax on windows?
I thought a gander was male, and a female was just a goose? Not sure!
Poland?
North
Silver?
Bike?
Coldplay – Fix you
(I actually have no idea…that’s just a random guess)
Lots of my answers are guesses.
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Oooh looked at your answers – I think maths and geography are still my strengths!
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I’m impressed!
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Eish Haibo Wena… again I only got one. Just more proof that the title Dr doesn’t mean jack!!!!!
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I only knew that cancer is above Capricorn because of my 5th grade teacher!
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Brando I thought was quite well known, but it just goes to show, you;re too young!
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When I was at uni, people doing PhDs and post-Docs were usually the ones who couldn’t get proper jobs 🤣
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