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Post by Big Lin on Dec 14, 2009 22:09:01 GMT
Here's my attempt at a quiz on various subjects. Some questions are easy, some much harder.
Brain of the Board Quiz
A) History
1 Who was the first US President (OTHER than George Washington) NOT to have first been Vice-President? What office did he hold? (I point for the name and another point for his office.)
2 Which British Prime Minister FIRST said 'education, education, education?' (Clue - no, it WASN'T him!)
3 Who was the only foreign-born Chancellor of Germany?
4 Why was Sam Houston imprisoned during the US Civil War?
5 Who were: a) The Iron Duke; b) The Iron Chancellor; c) The Iron Lady?
6 Who was the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated? (An extra point if you can name his assassin!)
7 What was both a 'damn near-run thing' and 'won on the playing-fields of Eton?'
8 What naval battle saw the utter destruction of the Russian Fleet by the Japanese Navy?
9 What was the last time that a British army was defeated in battle by African troops?
10 Who was the first woman to run for the Presidency of the United States?
B) Politics:
1 What are the governing political parties in the following countries: a) Britain; b) the United States; c) Canada; d) Irish Republic; e) Germany; f) South Africa?
2 Of which countries are the following the national capitals: a) London; b) Ottawa; c) Canberra; d) Islamabad; e) Harare; f) Tirana; g) Manila?
3 Which island nation is only recognised as an independent country by one other nation? Who is the other country?
4 How many nations are presently members of the European Union?
5 Where would you find: a) A TD; b) A Congressman; c) An MEP?
6 Who is the current speaker of the House of Commons?
7 Which country was the last in Europe to allow women the vote?
8 Which US state was the first to allow women the vote?
9 Where would you find the following terrorist groups: a) The UDA; b) the TLL; c) ETA?
10 Who is the present First Minister of Northern Ireland?
C) Literature:
1 Who wrote: a) The Gilded Age; b) The Age of Innocence; c) Coming of Age in Samoa?
2 Who is the hero of the following novels: a) A Tale of Two Cities; b) The Charterhouse of Parma; c) The Betrothed?
3 Which countries invented the following poetic forms: a) sonnet; b) haiku; c) chant royal?
4 About which wars were the following novels written: a) War and Peace; b) All Quiet on the Western Front; c) For Whom the Bell Tolls; d) From Here to Eternity?
5 Fit the poets to their countries: a) Phyllis Wheatley; b) Firdausi; c) Bryan Merryman
6 A brief synopsis of a novel: name the book and its author. a) A day in Dublin; b) life in the workhouse and criminal activities in London; c) the friendship between a hillbilly and an African American
7 A famous rock has inspired works by three German poets. Name the authors and the poems.
8 In which country was Rudyard Kipling born?
9 Why did Prime Minister Winston Churchill have to publish his books as Winston S Churchill?
10 In which language did Geoffrey of Monmouth write 'The History of the Kings of Britain?'
D) Connections
What connects:
1 John Updike and Kris Kristoffersen
2 Charlie Dore and Erika Jong
3 Wallis Simpson and Blaise Pascal
4 Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison
5 Holly Johnson, Celine Dion and Jennifer Rush
6 What surname is shared by a former leader of the Irish Republic and a Victorian novelist?
7 What connects a former boxing champion, an Edwardian feminist and the London Underground network?
8 Elvis Presley, Nicholas Sarkozy and Les Ames
9 Ashley Cole, Tiger Woods and Phil Tufnell
10 A former Spanish leader, a football manager and Nostradamus
E) Philosophy: (Mike's set the questions for this one so don't blame me!)
1 By which philosopher did the citizens of what is now Kaliningrad formerly set their watches?
2 With which schools of philosophy would you associate the following philosophers: a) Rene Descartes; b) David Hume; c) Immanuel Kant; d) Georg Hegel; e) Roy Bhaskar
3 Who wrote: a) The Republic; b) The Monadology; c) The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics; d) Beyond Good and Evil
4 By what name is the philosophical school of Bertrand Russell generally known?
5 Who were the leading philosophers of the logical positivist school?
6 Who first put forward the ontological argument? What is its main argument?
7 Distinguish between: a) nominalism; b) conceptualism; c) realism
8 Who wrote: a) Leviathan; b) Treatise on Civil Government; c) The Social Contract
9 Who is regarded as being the founder of the 'common sense' school of philosophy
10 Which American philosophers are associated with the pragmatist school of philosophy
E) Sport
1 How many British boxers have been world heavyweight champion? An extra point for each one you can name.
2 Who were: a) the Manassa Mauler; b) the Louisville Lip; c) Raging Bull?
3 What unique record in baseball is held by the New York Mets?
4 Who gave his gold medal in the Winter Olympics to the silver medallist? When and why? Name both competitors. (One point each for the medallists, another for the year and another for the reason.)
5 Who were the youngest ever British Olympic competitors?
6 Put the nickname to the cricketer: a) Fiery Freddie; b) The Cat; c) Goose; d) Guy the Gorilla; e) Irongloves (one point for each correct answer.)
7 Which member of the British Royal Family is an Olympic medallist?
8 How many times did Steve Redgrave win Olympic gold medals?
9 Which US football team's supporters are known as Cheeseheads?
10 What former boxing champion shares a surname with an architect?
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Post by mikemarshall on Dec 22, 2009 21:51:04 GMT
Are none of our members even going to attempt this quiz?
No one expects a perfect score but there are karma points available for the winner.
Please, ladies and gentlemen, give it your best efforts!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Dec 22, 2009 22:40:57 GMT
Gosh Mike! The temptation to google up the answers is great! I know the answer to 3 ) and a few others, but i'd flunk the test as a whole, unless i cheat!
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Post by mikemarshall on Dec 22, 2009 22:55:57 GMT
I think the second question in history is likely to defeat almost everyone. Even Lin and I did not know it until a few days ago when we read a contemporary writer castigating the politician of HIS day for using that particular expression!
Even so, I would imagine that around half of the questions are very easy and another third or so only modest in their difficulty!
I am quite certain, for instance, that you, Anna, will know the answer to at least one of my philosophy questions!
I doubt if google would help with the most fiendish question of all, the 'education education education' quote!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Dec 22, 2009 23:13:58 GMT
I think the second question in history is likely to defeat almost everyone. Even Lin and I did not know it until a few days ago when we read a contemporary writer castigating the politician of HIS day for using that particular expression! Even so, I would imagine that around half of the questions are very easy and another third or so only modest in their difficulty! I am quite certain, for instance, that you, Anna, will know the answer to at least one of my philosophy questions! I doubt if google would help with the most fiendish question of all, the 'education education education' quote! I'm pretty bad at labeling the philosopers. I know Bertrand Russel is associated with agnosticism and probably a number of other schools of philosophy.The Ontological Argument is the argument for the existence of God based on the human ability to envision a Supreme Being. 10 probably includes William James Bryan and pragmatists like myself tend to avoid being overly intellectual.
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Dec 23, 2009 5:21:41 GMT
As far as history goes the iron chancellor was Bismarck, the iron lady Thatcher ( ? ).. no idea, who the Iron Duke was. Hitler was the foreign born chancellor in Germany, btw a true nazi would call Austria, Ostmark, a German province. I know the Russian fleet was destroyed in the Russo-Japanese war, but can't name the battle. I could take some educated guesses on the other history questions, but i don't get a good score overall. I'm somewhat familiar with the German Peasants Uprising, which was cruelly crushed in a battle just north of where i live. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants'_War We could have had democracy early here had the Peasants won.
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Post by Liberator on Dec 23, 2009 6:20:06 GMT
It's just plain overwhelming! The Iron Duke was Arthur Wellesly, Duke of Wellington. The Austrian Adolf Hitler made himself German Chancellor. I think the First World War was a 'Damned close thing won on the playing fields of Eton'.
There are others. Kipling was born in 'India', probably modern Pakistan, but actually lived little of his life there and Geffroy de Monmouth wrote in mediaeval French. Switzerland awarded women the vote some time between 1972 and 1975.
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Post by Big Lin on Dec 23, 2009 12:56:40 GMT
Thanks for participating. Fighters for Freedom, you have got four right and one wrong; Anna, you've got three right and Mike's given you a point for one of your philosophy answers although you've only got it partly right. It's Christmas so we're trying to be full of the spirit of fun and love!
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Post by lonewolf on Dec 23, 2009 14:50:07 GMT
Okay, I'll do history because I hate politics.
1. James Madison 2. Tony Blair 3. Adolf Hitler 4. Not sure, but it might have been because he refused to pledge allegiance to the Confederate States and was against seceding from the Union. 5. A. Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington. B. Otto Von Bismarck C. Margaret Thatcher. 6. Spencer Perceval his assassin was John Bellingham. 7. I have no idea 8. Battle of Tsushima 9. Do you mean white Boers or black Africans? 10. Victoria Woodhull
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Post by Big Lin on Dec 24, 2009 11:29:27 GMT
Lonewolf, you've got most of them right - 1 point on a two-pointer, 4 on a one-pointer, and 3 on a 3-pointer.
Would it help members if I said WHICH questions they'd got right?
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Post by Big Lin on Dec 24, 2009 11:30:07 GMT
By the way, in response to your question about question 9, I meant black Africans.
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Post by clemiethedog on Feb 16, 2010 20:35:57 GMT
good Grief! I might 33% of these!
A) History
1 James Madison, who served as secretary of state under Jefferson.
2 Gladstone?
3 Adolf Hitler, who was born in Austria
4 He got into a fight in Washington. It was political, during the Jackson times. It had something to do with Indian Removal (Houston was more enlightened than the skinheads in charge).
5 Who were: a) the Duke of Wellington; b) Otto von Bismarck; c) Margret Thatcher
6 Perceval, don't know the assassin.
7 Battle of Waterloo
8 Dunno
9 Dunno
10 Someone in the 1870s, her name escapes me.
B) Politics:
1 What are the governing political parties in the following countries: a) Labour; b) 41 Republicans; c) Progressive Conservatives; d) Fianna; e) CDU; f) ANC
2 Of which countries are the following the national capitals: a) UK; b) Canada; c) Australia; d) Pakistan; e) Zimbabwe; f) Dunno,; g) the Philippines
3 No idea
4 25?
5 Where would you find: a) no idea; b) US congress; c) no idea
6 No idea
7 Switzerland
8 Wyoming
9 They all suck. No idea.
10 No idea. Just know the party.
C) Literature:
1 Who wrote: a) Mark Twain; b) Don’t know; c) Margret Mead
2 Can't say
3 Dunno
4 About which wars were the following novels written: a) France vs. Russia; b) WWI; c) the Spanish Civil War; d) WWII, Pearl Harbor
5 No answer
6 none
7 none
8 India
9 He liked his middle name
10 Latin?
D) Connections
What connects:
1 Attended Oxford
2 No idea
3 Married a monarch?
4 Presidents who fought in the War of 1812
5 Each sold a bunch of records
6 Fitzgerald
7 I'd like to know this one
8 Drove a truck for a living?
9 No idea
10 Nostradamus was an average doctor, at best.
E) Philosophy: (Mike's set the questions for this one so don't blame me!)
1 Not a clue
2 With which schools of philosophy would you associate the following philosophers: a) Dunno; b) Empiricism; c) don't know; d) I've heard of this guy, idealism?; e) don't know
3 Who wrote: a) Plato; b) don't know; c) Aristotle?; d) Nietzsche
4 He was a mathematician, right? Analytics?
5 not even going to try
6 no idea.
7 no way
8 Who wrote: a) some biblical figure; b) John Locke c) some French guy
9 no idea
10 dunno
E) Sport
1 Lennex Lewis
2 a) Jack Dempsy; b) Muhammad Ali Lip; c) Jake Lamatta
3 They lost 120 games in a single season
4 dunno
5 dunno
6 none of the above, sorry.
7 Princess Anne. She was a horsewoman, correct?
8 two?
9 the Green Bay Packers.
10 Wright?
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Post by Big Lin on Feb 17, 2010 10:30:59 GMT
I'd forgotten all about this competition. Thanks for reminding me, Clemie.
You've actually got more right than anyone else so you're now officially Brain of the Board!
(To be honest I've forgotten the answer to one of the questions myself but luckily there's an answer that's come up recently so I'll pretend that was my answer all along!)
Here's the questions with the correct answers (plus my one cheat!)
Brain of the Board Quiz
A) History
1 Who was the first US President (OTHER than George Washington) NOT to have first been Vice-President? What office did he hold? (I point for the name and another point for his office.) James Madison, Secretary of State
2 Which British Prime Minister FIRST said 'education, education, education?' (Clue - no, it WASN'T him!) Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister 1894-95
3 Who was the only foreign-born Chancellor of Germany? Adolf Hitler
4 Why was Sam Houston imprisoned during the US Civil War? He opposed the secession of Texas so the Confederates imprisoned him
5 Who were: a) The Iron Duke; b) The Iron Chancellor; c) The Iron Lady? Wellington, Bismarck, Margaret Thatcher
6 Who was the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated? (An extra point if you can name his assassin!) Spencer Perceval, (Prime Minister) John Bellingham (assassin)
7 What was both a 'damn near-run thing' and 'won on the playing-fields of Eton?' Battle of Waterloo
8 What naval battle saw the utter destruction of the Russian Fleet by the Japanese Navy? Tshushima
9 What was the last time that a British army was defeated in battle by African troops? Islandwanha, 1879
10 Who was the first woman to run for the Presidency of the United States? Victoria Woodhull
B) Politics:
1 What are the governing political parties in the following countries: a) Britain; b) the United States; c) Canada; d) Irish Republic; e) Germany; f) South Africa? Labour, Democrats, Progressive Conservatives, Fianna Fail, CDU (Christian Democrats), ANC (African National Congress)
2 Of which countries are the following the national capitals: a) London; b) Ottawa; c) Canberra; d) Islamabad; e) Harare; f) Tirana; g) Manila? United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Albania, Philippines
3 Which island nation is only recognised as an independent country by one other nation? Who is the other country? Republic of North Cyprus, recognised only by Turkey.
4 How many nations are presently members of the European Union? 27
5 Where would you find: a) A TD; b) A Congressman; c) An MEP? In the Dail (the Parliament of the Irish Republic), House of Representatives, the European Parliament
6 Who is the current speaker of the House of Commons? John Bercow
7 Which country was the last in Europe to allow women the vote? Switzerland
8 Which US state was the first to allow women the vote? Wyoming
9 Where would you find the following terrorist groups: a) The UDA; b) the TLL; c) ETA? Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Spain
10 Who is the present First Minister of Northern Ireland? Peter Robinson
C) Literature:
1 Who wrote: a) The Gilded Age; b) The Age of Innocence; c) Coming of Age in Samoa? Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Margaret Mead
2 Who is the hero of the following novels: a) A Tale of Two Cities; b) The Charterhouse of Parma; c) The Betrothed?Sydney Carton, Fabrizio, Renzo
3 Which countries invented the following poetic forms: a) sonnet; b) haiku; c) chant royal? Italy, Japan, France
4 About which wars were the following novels written: a) War and Peace; b) All Quiet on the Western Front; c) For Whom the Bell Tolls; d) From Here to Eternity? Napoleonic War between Russia and France in 1812, WWI, Spanish Civil War, World War II
5 Fit the poets to their countries: a) Phyllis Wheatley; b) Firdausi; c) Bryan Merryman - Britain, Iran, Ireland
6 A brief synopsis of a novel: name the book and its author. a) A day in Dublin; b) life in the workhouse and criminal activities in London; c) the friendship between a hillbilly and an African American. Ulysses, Oliver Twist, Huckleberry Finn
7 A famous rock has inspired works by three German poets. Name the authors and the poems. The Lorelei, Heinrich Heine; The Lorelei, Clemens Brentano; The Lorelei, Friedrich Eichendorff
8 In which country was Rudyard Kipling born? India
9 Why did Prime Minister Winston Churchill have to publish his books as Winston S Churchill? Because there was already an American writer called Winston Churchill when his first book was published so the future Prime Minister had to add the S to his surname
10 In which language did Geoffrey of Monmouth write 'The History of the Kings of Britain?' Latin
D) Connections
What connects:
1 John Updike and Kris Kristoffersen - Couples; Updike's book and Kristoffersen's song
2 Charlie Dore and Erika Jong - Fear of Flying; Dore's song and Jong's book
3 Wallis Simpson and Blaise Pascal - Pascal said 'the heart has its reasons' and Wallis Simpson used that as the title of her autobiography
4 Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison Both fought in the 1812-1815 war against Britain
5 Holly Johnson, Celine Dion and Jennifer Rush - The Power of Love; Johnson was the main man in Frankie Goes to Hollywood whose third single was called that; Rush and Dion both recorded a DIFFERENT song with the same title, The Power of Love
6 What surname is shared by a former leader of the Irish Republic and a Victorian novelist? Michael Collins (first Prime Minister of the Irish Free State) and Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone, The Woman in White)
7 What connects a former boxing champion, an Edwardian feminist and the London Underground network? Tyson - Mike Tyson the boxer, Leonora Tyson the suffragette, charles Tyson Yerkes who started building the tube network!
8 Elvis Presley, Nicholas Sarkozy and Les Ames - all three are gypsies 9 Ashley Cole, Tiger Woods and Phil Tufnell - I've forgotten what the original answer was but as all three have been unfaithful to their wives, of course, I'll pretend that WAS the answer!
10 A former Spanish leader, a football manager and Nostradamus - Franco - former dictator of Spain, Gianfranco Zola the manager of West Ham United, and Nostradamus made a prophecy about 'the ambassadors shall go out from the castle of Franco'
E) Philosophy: (Mike's set the questions for this one so don't blame me!)
1 By which philosopher did the citizens of what is now Kaliningrad formerly set their watches? Immanuel Kant
2 With which schools of philosophy would you associate the following philosophers: a) Rene Descartes; b) David Hume; c) Immanuel Kant; d) Georg Hegel; e) Roy Bhaskar rationalism, empiricism, transcendental idealism, absolute idealism, transcendental realism
3 Who wrote: a) The Republic; b) The Monadology; c) The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics; d) Beyond Good and Evil Plato, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche
4 By what name is the philosophical school of Bertrand Russell generally known? neutral monism
5 Who were the leading philosophers of the logical positivist school? Carnap, Schlick, Ayer
6 Who first put forward the ontological argument? What is its main argument? St Anselm; it attempts to prove the existence of God by saying that if a perfect being exists he could not be perfect without existence and therefore he must exist
7 Distinguish between: a) nominalism; b) conceptualism; c) realism - nominalists believe that what are called 'universals' such as good, truth and beauty are simply words and have no existence other than as descriptors; conceptualists believe that they exist as ideas or concepts within the mind; realists believe that they have an independent existence in a transcendental world
8 Who wrote: a) Leviathan; b) Treatise on Civil Government; c) The Social Contract Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
9 Who is regarded as being the founder of the 'common sense' school of philosophy Thomas Reid
10 Which American philosophers are associated with the pragmatist school of philosophy William James and John Dewey are the principal philosophers though a few more minor ones are also associated with it
E) Sport
1 How many British boxers have been world heavyweight champion? An extra point for each one you can name. Bob Fitzsimmons (back in the 1890s), Frank Bruno, Lennox Lewis, David Haye
2 Who were: a) the Manassa Mauler; b) the Louisville Lip; c) Raging Bull? Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali, Jake La Motta
3 What unique record in baseball is held by the New York Mets? Losing 120 games in a season
4 Who gave his gold medal in the Winter Olympics to the silver medallist? When and why? Name both competitors. (One point each for the medallists, another for the year and another for the reason.) Ulrich von Salkow gave his gold medal in the 1902 winter olympics to the British woman skater Madge Syers because he felt that she had beaten him and that only her sex had led the judges to give him the medal instead. After this they introduced separate contests for the women and Madge Syers won every one of them in sight for years!
5 Who were the youngest ever British Olympic competitors? Cicely Colledge and Megan Taylor, both aged 11 when they made their debut in the Winter Olympics. Both women went on to become World Champions
6 Put the nickname to the cricketer: a) Fiery Freddie; b) The Cat; c) Goose; d) Guy the Gorilla; e) Irongloves (one point for each correct answer.) Fred Truman, Phil Tufnell, Bob Willis, Ian Botham, Rodney Marsh 7 Which member of the British Royal Family is an Olympic medallist? Princess Ann, who won equestrian gold on Psalm in the 1972 Olympics
8 How many times did Steve Redgrave win Olympic gold medals? He won gold in five successive Olympic Games
9 Which US football team's supporters are known as Cheeseheads? Green Bay Packers
10 What former boxing champion shares a surname with an architect? Bob Foster (former light-heavyweight champ) and Sir Norman Foster (architect)
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Post by clemiethedog on Mar 3, 2010 14:24:40 GMT
"I'd forgotten all about this competition. Thanks for reminding me, Clemie.
"You've actually got more right than anyone else so you're now officially Brain of the Board!"
Woo Hoo! ;D Too cool. Thanks.
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Post by beth on Mar 3, 2010 23:10:26 GMT
Yea, Clemie!!! I think you should also be named the Brave and the Bold of the Bits for even attempting Lin's quiz. I'm grateful because it reminded her to give up the answers.
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Post by pumpkinette on Jul 11, 2010 14:09:40 GMT
"I'd forgotten all about this competition. Thanks for reminding me, Clemie. "You've actually got more right than anyone else so you're now officially Brain of the Board!" Woo Hoo! ;D Too cool. Thanks.
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