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Old 01-30-2007, 04:34 AM   #1
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Quiz Questions - Please Help!

Please can you help me get some quiz questions together for a friend of mine? She's having a rotten time of it at the moment, and as she's in Kenya there's pretty much nothing I can do to help.

It is her turn to provide questions for the weekly quiz (next week) and if I can email her some good ones she won't have to trawl the internet from a Kenyan internet cafe. I will be looking myself, but at least I know any I get here will be quality assured

Thanks in advance.
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Old 01-30-2007, 04:44 AM   #2
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Old 01-30-2007, 05:04 AM   #3
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Old 01-30-2007, 06:09 AM   #4
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Godamnit, Godamnit, Godamnit, I had about 20 questions listed and lost the post.

OK, here's some off the wall stuff.

Who's the leader of the club, that's made for you and me? Mickey Mouse

What is the hottest place on Earth? El Azizia, Libya - 136F (57.8 C) Sept. 13, 1922

What is the coldest place on Earth? Vostok, Antarctica, -129 F (-89 C) July 21, 1983.

Where is the worlds highest waterfall? Angel Falls in Venezuela - 3,212 feet (979 meters).

What is the largest volcano? Mauna Loa, Hawaii rises more than 50,000 feet (9.5 miles or 15.2 kilometers) above its base, in the ocean

What is the highest mountain? Mt. Everest - 29,035 feet (nearly 9 kilometers) above sea level.

Where is the lowest dry point on Earth? The shore of the Dead Sea is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) below sea level.

What is the longest river? Nile River - 4,160 miles (6,695 kilometers) long.

What's the driest place on Earth? Arica, Chile - 0.03 inches (0.76 millimeters) of rain per year. It would take a century to fill a coffee cup.

What is the wettest place on Earth? Lloro, Colombia averages 523.6 inches/year, or more than 40 feet (13 meters).

What percentage of the world’s water is in the oceans? About 97 percent.

Which Earth ocean, is the largest? Pacific - 64 million square miles (165 million square kilometers). Average depth of 2.4 miles (3.9 kilometers).

How much surface area does Earth contain? 196,950,711 square miles (510,100,000 square kilometers).

What is the largest lake in the world? By size and volume, the Caspian Sea.

What's the deepest place in the ocean? Greatest known depth is 36,198 feet (6.9 miles or 11 kilometers) at the Mariana Trench.

What is the fastest surface wind ever recorded? "Regular" wind, 231 mph (372 kph), A tornado in Oklahoma, clocked at 318 mph (513 kph).

What is the world’s largest desert? Sahara. Antarctica technically tops this category.

What is the world’s deepest lake? Lake Baikal, Siberia is 5,712 feet (1.7 kilometers) deep.

What is the world’s largest island? Greenland covers 840,000 square miles (2,176,000 square kilometers).

How much would seas rise if the Antarctic Ice Sheet melted? 220 feet, or the height of a 20-story building. UN worst-case scenario -- seas could jump 3 feet (1 meter) by 2100.

Where are the highest tides? Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia, tides can range 38.4 feet (11.7 meters).

How much gold has been discovered worldwide to date? 193,000 metric tons (425 million pounds).

What North American plant can live for thousands of years? The creosote bush, has been shown by radiocarbon dating to have lived since the birth of Christ. Some of these plants may endure 10,000 years, scientists say

What % of the world’s fresh water is stored as glacial ice? About 70 percent or 60 years of the entire globe's rainfall.

What's the most common mineral in Earth's crust. Feldspar.

What's the best cure for everything? Chocolate
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Old 01-30-2007, 07:57 AM   #5
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Check out some of the quiz threads around here. The music trivia thread comes to mind.
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Old 01-30-2007, 08:42 AM   #6
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Bruce, as suspected you are a bearded angel - thank you

Spexx, I checked the music quiz, but I think the questions are pretty specialist for a local pub quiz. I might send some of them & let her decide...
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Old 01-30-2007, 08:43 AM   #7
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Old 01-30-2007, 08:54 AM   #8
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What are the rules for this quiz? Can the quiz takers use the internet? If so, they will find the answers in this thread.

I used to stick a trivia question at the bottom of calendars I would send out to my department. Unfortunately, I would keep the answers in a separate location, and I don't have them any longer. If a particular question seems intriguing to you, then you can always Google the answer. Sorry.

July is Cell Phone Courtesy Month. Roughly how many wireless handsets are sold annually worldwide?

According to this year’s state of marshmallow Peeps survey, what male celebrity most resembles marshmallow Peeps? (I think this one was Drew Carey)

What non-word, supposedly meaning “density,” was inadvertently included in Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition? (answer: "Dord" which was short for "D" or "d" as an editor's note for where to include the word "density")

May is National Egg Month. According to the American Egg Board, how many eggs are produced in the US each year?

Who is the only U.S. President to be issued a patent?

Which of the following is not an actual name of a crayon color: Red, Granny Smith Apple, Tickle Me Pink, Periwinkle, Tumbleweed, Macaroni and Cheese, Purple Mountain’s Majesty, Cinnamon Bun?

How many drops are in a gallon? (I was amazed that a drop is an actual defined unit of measurement)

What was the subject of the 1957 BBC April fools prank?

What significant technological event happened a century ago on Independence Day 1903?

What did Herb Peterson invent in 1971?

Which “Lucy” is the famous caveman, Australopithecus afarensis, named after?

Who placed the aluminum cap at the apex of the Washington Monument on December 6, 1884?

According to legend, what will a girl, sitting before a mirror at midnight on Halloween, eating an apple and brushing her hair, see?

What feature of the Sunday paper made its first appearance on November 18, 1894?

According to Victorian British tradition, what will your future hold if you find a button in your Christmas pudding?
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Old 01-30-2007, 09:43 AM   #9
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The quiz is a low tech pub quiz of mostly ex-pats in a Kenyan bar. So Googleable questions are more than welcome.
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Old 01-30-2007, 10:03 AM   #10
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for brits in kenya:

1. Do cocnuts migrate?
2. What is the airspeed velocity of an African Swallow?
3. What do you do with a witch?(this should have them all shouting, but you need the first two questions to put them in the right frame of mind)
4. what is your quest?
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Old 01-30-2007, 10:42 AM   #11
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LJ this isn't a newbie quiz.
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Old 01-30-2007, 02:10 PM   #12
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Tougher when you have to come up with a name to match the deed or deed to match the name?

Ivan IV (the Terrible) 1547 --- 1st Tsar of Russia.

Queen Mary I (Bloody Mary) 1553 --- 1st reigning queen of England.

Sofinisba Anguissola 1559 --- 1st woman artist to gain prominence as a painter.

Virginia Dare 1587 --- 1st child born in the American colonies, on August 18th, on what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

James Cook 1773 --- 1st person to cross Antarctic Circle.

Marquis d'Arlandes & Pilatre de Rozier 1783 --- 1st humans to fly. They were airborne in a hot-air balloon for 20 minutes, in Paris, on Nov. 21.

André-Jacques Garnerin 1797 --- 1st parachute jump. Dropped from about 6,500 ft. over Monceau Park in Paris in a 23-ft.-diameter parachute made of white canvas with a basket attached (Oct. 22).

Count de Grisley 1799 --- 1st magician to perform the trick of sawing a woman in half .

Sam Patch 1829 --- 1st first known person to survive the jump off of Niagara Falls.

Queen Victoria 1837 --- 1st English monarch to live in Buckingham Palace.

Tim Hyer 1841 --- 1st recognized boxing (fisticuffs) champion.

Antoinette de Correvont 1843 --- 1st professional woman photographer. In 1843 she opened a Daguerreotype studio in Munich.

Jean François "Blondin" Gravelet 1859 --- 1st person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

Jules Leotard 1859 --- world's 1st flying trapeze circus act. Performed at the Cirque Napoleon in Paris, without safety nets.

Sir John Alexander McDonald 1867 --- 1st Prime Minister of Canada.

Louis De Geer 1874 --- 1st US Prime Minister of Sweden

Wilhelm Steinitz 1886 --- world's 1st chess champion.

William Kemmler 1890 --- 1st criminal to be executed by electrocution (in Auburn Prison, Auburn, N.Y., Aug. 6)

Queen Isabella of Spain 1893 --- 1st woman to appear on a US postage stamp.

Edmund Barton 1900 --- 1st Prime Minister of Australia.

Charlotte Cooper 1900 --- 1st woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal (for tennis).

Annie Taylor 1901 --- 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She was aged 64 years at the time.

Vida Goldstein 1902 --- 1st woman in the British Empire to run for a national office. She ran for the Australian Senate when women there got the right to vote in all federal elections.

Maurice Garin 1903 --- 1st Tour de France winner.

Alexander Winton 1903 --- set the 1st land speed record in car racing. Set at Daytona Beach, his speed was 68.18 mph.

May Sutton Brandy 1904 --- 1st American woman to win the ladies singles tennis championship at Wimbledon.

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1905 --- 1st "actual" British prime minister. Until the 18th century, the monarch's most senior minister could hold any of a number of titles; usually either First Lord, Lord Chancellor, Lord Privy Seal, or one of the Secretaries of State. During the late 18th Century, the term "prime minister" came to be used. In 1905, the title was officially recognized by King Edward VII.

Theodore Roosevelt 1906 --- 1st American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It was for helping mediate an end the Russo-Japanese War.

Ferenc Szisz 1906 --- Winner of the 1st Grand Prix held at Le Mans, France. The Romanian driver drove a Renault.

Thomas E. Selfridge 1908 --- 1st airplane fatality. Selfridge, a Lt.in the US Army Signal Corps, was in a group evaluating the Wright plane at Fort Myer, Va. He was up 75 ft. with Orville Wright when the propeller hit a bracing wire and was broken, throwing the plane out of control, killing Selfridge and seriously injuring Wright (Sept. 17).

Baroness Raymonde de la Roche 1910 --- 1st licensed woman pilot. (of France, who learned to fly in 1909, received ticket No. 36 on March 8.)

Roald Amundsen - Norwegian explorer 1911 --- 1st man to reach the South Pole, beating out an expedition led by Robert F. Scott.

Marie Sklodowska Curie 1911 --- 1st person ever to win two Nobel Prizes. Her first was in Physics (1903) and the second in Chemistry (1911.)

Alice Hyde 1911 --- 1st winner of the "Miss World" beauty pageant. She was 17.

Harriet Quimby 1911 --- 1st US woman pilot. (A magazine writer, got ticket No. 37, making her the second licensed female pilot in the world. She was also the 1st woman to fly across the English Channel. She flew from Dover, England and landed at Hardelot, France, in a Blériot monoplane(April 16). She was later killed in a flying accident over Dorchester Bay during a Harvard-Boston aviation meet on July 1, 1912. )

Arthur R. Eldred 1912 --- 1st boy to reach the rank of Eagle Scout -- the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America program. He was of Oceanside, NY.

Jeannette Rankin 1916 --- 1st woman elected to US congress. (Montana) Only legislator to vote against both WW I and WW II.

Rosika Schwimmer 1918 --- the world's 1st woman ambassador. She was appointed the Hungarian ambassador to Switzerland.

Margaret Gorman 1921 --- 1st Miss America. She was 16 and 30-25-32.

Henry Sullivan 1923 --- 1st American to swim across the English Channel.

Gertrude Ederle 1926 --- 1st American woman to swim the English Channel. It took her 14 hours and 39 minutes. (She broke the existing men's record.)

Al Jolson 1927 --- lead role in the 1st talking motion picture, "The Jazz Singer."

Charles Lindbergh 1927 --- 1st man to fly solo across the Atlantic.

Norma Talmadge 1927 --- 1st footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater (now Mann's Chinese Theater.)

Ellen Church 1930 --- 1st airline hostess. She served passengers flying between San Francisco, California and Cheyenne, Wyoming on United Airlines.

Jackie Mitchell - baseball pitcher 1931 --- 1st woman in organized baseball. She was signed by the Chattanooga Baseball Club at the age of 19.

Amelia Earhart 1932 --- 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman. (traveling from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Ireland in approximately 15 hours)

Marie, Cecile, Yvonne, Emilie and Annette Dionne 1934 --- 1st quintuplets to survive infancy. They were born near Callender, Ontario to Oliva and Elzire Dionne.

Horton Smith 1934 --- won the 1st Masters Golf Tournament under the magnolia trees of Augusta National in Georgia.

Lettie Pate Whitehead 1934 --- 1st American woman to serve as a director of a major corporation, The Coca-Cola Company.

Franklin D. Roosevelt 1939 --- 1st US president to speak on television. (Spoke at the opening session of the New York World's Fair on April 30, 1939.)

Glenn Miller 1941 --- Received the 1st gold record ever awarded to a recording artist.

Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini 1946 --- 1st canonized American saint.

Trygve Lie - Norwegian socialist 1946 --- 1st Secretary General of United Nations.

Chuck Yeager 1947 --- 1st person to break the sound barrier by flying faster than the speed of sound. (On October 14, 1947, he flew a Bell X-1 rocket at 670 mph in level flight.)
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Old 01-30-2007, 02:17 PM   #13
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Florence Chadwick 1951 --- 1st woman to have swum across the English Channel in each direction.

George (Christine) Jorgenson 1952 --- recipient of the world's 1st sex-change operation. Danish artist Einar Wegener underwent a sex change operation in Berlin March 5, 1930. He assumed the identity of Lili Elbe, and had ovaries implanted. It is speculated that Wegener was actually a hermaphrodite, and the credit for first sex change usually is given to Christine.

Patricia McCormick 1952 --- 1st professional woman bullfighter. She got herself two bulls in the contest held in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Jacqueline Cochrane 1953 --- 1st woman to fly faster than speed of sound. (She piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour.)

Elizabeth II 1953 --- 1st monarch to have a televised coronation.

Sir Edmund Hillary 1953 --- 1st recorded climb of Mt. Everest.

Sir Roger Bannister 1954 --- 1st person recorded to run a mile race in under four minutes. He broke the four minute barrier at Imey Road, Oxford on the 6 May. His time was 3 minutes 59.4 seconds.

Laika, the dog 1957 --- 1st living creature to orbit the earth. Aboard the Soviet satellite, Sputnik 2.

Julia Child 1958 --- 1st woman designated a full-fledged "Chef."

Sirimavo Bandaraneike 1960 --- 1st woman to be elected the head of state. She became the president of Sri Lanka. (Following her were Indira Gandhi of India in 1966 and Golda Meir of Israel in 1969.)

Antonio Abertondo 1961 --- 1st person to swim the English Channel non-stop in both directions.

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin 1961 --- 1st human in space, 1st human to orbit Earth.

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova - Russian cosmonaut 1963 --- 1st woman in space.

Golda Meir 1964 --- 1st Jewish female prime minister, and 1st female prime minister of Israel.

Jerrie Mock 1964 --- 1st around-the-world solo flight by a woman.

Peter Sellers 1964 --- 1st male to appear on the cover of "Playboy" magazine.

Alexei Arkhovich Leonov 1965 --- 1st human to walk in space.

Amber Dean Smith 1965---1st ever nude centrefold girl when in 1965 at the age of 19 years she was crowned 'Pet Of The Year' by Penthouse magazine.

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi 1966 --- 1st woman prime minister of India.

Christiaan Barnard - heart surgeon 1967 --- performed the 1st human heart transplant.

Louis Washkansky 1967 --- 1st human heart transplant recipient. He lived 18 days with the new heart.

Ruth Eisemann-Schier 1968 --- 1st woman placed on the FBI's Most Wanted List (for kidnaping, extortion, and other crimes.)

Neil Armstrong 1969 --- 1st man to walk on the moon.

Barbara Jo Rubin 1969 --- 1st woman jockey to win a race in North America. She was riding Cohesian, at Charlestown Race Course in West Virginia.

Elizabeth P. Hoisington 1970 --- 1st female general in the US armed forces. She was appointed to the post of director of the Women's Army Corps.

Fran Phillips 1971 --- 1st woman to set foot on the North Pole, on April 5th.

Mark Spitz - US swimmer 1972 --- 1st athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals.

Junko Tabei 1975 --- 1st woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.

Louise Brown 1978 --- 1st test tube baby. (Lancastershire, England)

John Paul the Second (Karol Wojtyla) 1978 --- 1st Pole to become pope. 1998 --- 1st pope to visit Cuba. (Jan. 21-25)

Diana Nyad 1979 --- 1st person to swim from the Bahamas to Florida.

Margaret Thatcher 1979 --- Britain's 1st female prime minister.

Sandra Day O'Connor 1981 -- 1st female US Supreme Court justice.

Barney Clark 1982 -- 1st recipient of a permanent artificial heart, on Dec. 2. He lived until March 23, 1983.

Bruce Springsteen 1983 --- 1st US music CD artist - "Born in the USA" released March 1983

Joan Benoit 1984 --- winner of the 1st women's Olympic marathon at the Summer Games, held in Los Angeles.

Libby Riddles 1985 --- 1st woman to win the Iditarod, Alaska's 1,135-mile Anchorage-to-Nome dog sled race. She completed the course in 18 days, twenty minutes and seventeen seconds.

Wilma Mankiller 1985 --- 1st woman to lead a major American Indian tribe. She was elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Corazon Aquino 1986 --- 1st woman President of the Philippines. She was later the 1st Philippine president not to seek a second term.

Mary Lund 1986 --- 1st female recipient of an artificial heart.

Kofi Annan 1987 --- 1st black Secretary General of the United Nations.

Kurt Browning 1988 --- 1st figure skater to land a quadruple jump in competition.

Justin Fashanu 1988 --- a top soccer player in Britain, reveals that he is gay. He is the 1st athlete in a team sport to come out during his athletic career.

Aileen Wuornos 1992 --- 1st female serial killer in America. In 1992 she was charged with the shooting of five middle-aged men she met on highways by hitch hiking. She confessed to shooting seven men in self-defence and was eventually executed on 9th October 2002. Lethal Intent, the Aileen 'Lee' Wuornos story

Akebono (Chadwick Haheo Rowan) 1993 --- 1st non-Japanese yokozuna (sumo wrestler.)

Kim Campbell 1993 --- 1st female Prime Minister of Canada.

Barbara Harmer 1993 --- 1st woman to pilot the Concorde (March 25th.)

Dolly, the lamb 1996 --- 1st cloned mammal.

McCaughey septuplets, Kenneth Robert, Alexis May, Natalie Sue, Kelsey Ann, Nathan Roy, Brandon James, and Joel Steven
1997 --- 1st surviving set of septuplets. Conceived as the result of fertility drugs, they were born in Des Moines, Iowa on November 19, 1997.

Craig Breedlove 1998 --- 1st person to break the sound barrier in a car, at Lake Bonneville, UT, with a trap speed of over 760 MPH.

Elizabeth Ann Oliver 1998 --- 1st woman to have her baby's birth broadcast live over the Internet. (June 16)

Abdurrahman Wahid 1999 --- 1st elected president of Indonesia (on October 20, 1999).

Vonetta Flowers 2002 --- 1st black female US athlete to win a gold medal in a Winter Olympics. She wins in the women's bobsleigh event on February 19th.

Steve Fossett 2002 --- 1st balloonist to fly solo around the world when he landed in Australia on 4th July 2002.

Anousheh Ansari 2006 --- 1st female "space tourist," on September 18, 2006, she paid $20 million to ride on the Russian Soyuz TMA-9 capsule. also: 1st Iranian in space and 1st Muslim woman in space.

.....to name a few.
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Old 01-30-2007, 02:31 PM   #14
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I'm pretty sure xoB is ready to propose. DAYm!

Ok, hot stuff (meaning, of course, oxB), what is the % difference between 35% and 83%?

(sorry, SG, don't mean to hijack the thread but I think xoB has it all wrapped up!)
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