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Quiz 2019 Number 13
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Set by Mel Kinsey
A quiz about Caribbean Islands
Comprise around sixty semi-tropical Caribbean islands, ranging in size from the largest, Tortola, to tiny uninhabited islets. Capital is Road Town. British Virgin Islands
A new overseas collectivity of France that came into being on February 22, 2007. St Martin
Guadaloupe
The most populous country in the Caribbean. Known as 'Pearl of Antilles.' Cuba
An island nation located in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean with two major islands. Columbus landed on his second voyage in 1493 and named one of the islands after a church in Seville, Spain. The English pop band Duran Duran shot the video for their 1980s hit "Rio" here. Antigua and Barbuda
Barbados
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Quiz 2019 Number 14
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A Quiz on Sculpture & Sculptors
Set by Mel Kinsey
Henry Moore
2/ American sculptors Duane Henson and George Segal are associated with which art movement? Pop Art
Winged Victory of Samothrace (or) Nike of Samothrace
4/ Salvador Dalí created several works of surrealistic art including a special telephone with which creature for a handle.? Lobster (Lobster Telephone)
5/ Artist Nathan Sawaya whose work is featured in the exhibition with the title "THE ART OF THE BRICK" works with which material? LEGO blocks
6/ Michelangelo's masterpiece Moses complete with horns was part of which larger ensemble? Tomb of Pope Julius II
7/ The famous armless Venus statue, one of the most recognized works of Greek sculpture, was discovered in 1820 on which island? Milos (hence Venus de Milo)
8/ Which sculptor of Venezuelan heritage is known for her distinctive box-faces? Marisol Escobar
9/ In Rodin's The Walking Man, called as his most incomplete figure, which body parts are missing?
Head and arms
10/ Where can you see the best known work of American sculptor Daniel Chester French?
Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
11/ Grinling Gibbons an English-sculptor specialized in which material? Wood
Alberto Giacometti
Manneken Pis in Brussels
The Little Mermaid in Copenhagan
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Quiz 2019 Number 15
A Geograpgical Quiz
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Set by Mel Kinsey
1/ The mighty Himalayas take the cake as far as the list of highest mountains goes; so, what is the highest peak outside of this range?
Mount Aconcagua, in the Andes
2/What gorge in the Ngorongoro area of Tanzania is considered the seat of humanity after the discovery of the earliest known specimens of modern man? Olduvai Gorge
3/Upon seeing which stunning South American geographic feature did Eleanor Roosevelt reportedly say "Poor Niagara"? Iguazu Falls
4/The Shatt al-Arab waterway constitutes a part of the border between which countries? Iran and Iraq
5/ What is also known as Qomolangma or Sagarmatha or Chomolungma in the native tongues of the people around it?
Mount Everest
6/ Jarbah island in the Mediterranean Sea is a popular tourist place which is said to be so idyllic that one forgets all sense of time there. This is attested by Homer who called it as what in his Odyssey?
Land of the lotus-eaters
7/ Which beautiful geographic feature can be shaped as Crescentic, Linear, Star, Dome, Parabolic, Longitudinal, Transverse and Reversing? Sand dunes
8/ Which country became the first sovereign state of the 21st century when Indonesia relinquished control on it in May 2002?
East Timor
9/ Three of the ten largest islands in the world belong to which country? Canada - with Baffin (5th largest), Victoria (9th largest) and Ellesmere (10th largest)
10/ What is the largest country in the world without permanent rivers? Saudi Arabia
11/ Which national capital is the only city entirely built in the 20th century to be considered a World Heritage Site by UNESCO?
Brasilia
12/ Which Peruvian city was the historic capital of the sun-worshipping Inca empire? Cusco
13/ What is the geographic and historical term for the Western Asian peninsula which comprises about two-thirds of Turkey?
Anatolia, also known as Asia Minor
14/ After Russia, what is the second largest country in area amongst the former Soviet republics?
Kazakhstan It is the 9th largest country in the world
15/ Which tiny landlocked European country, also the smallest German-speaking country in the world, has bordering countries that are also landlocked? Liechtenstein
16/ The city of DeKalb, Illinois is credited as the first manufacturing site of what 'restraining' invention that revolutionized ranching in the US? Barbed wire
17/ Flemish Cap, an area of shallow waters in the north Atlantic east of Newfoundland and Labrador is featured in which 2000 film as the final fishing grounds for Billy Tyne (George Clooney) and his crew?
The Perfect Storm
18/ Established in 1974 in a self-governing territory, which is the largest national park in the world with an area of 972,000 sq kms (375,000 square miles)? Northeast Greenland National Park
19/ Among US states with the highest number of national parks, California and Alaska come in first with 8 each. Which state comes next with 5 of them? Utah
With Arches, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands and Zion
20/ The erstwhile Yugoslavia was broken up into seven countries. Can you name them?
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, and Kosovo
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Quiz 2019 Number 16
A Science Fiction Quiz
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Set by Mel Kinsey
1/ Which number is the answers to everything in Douglas Adams “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”? 42
2/ Which 1895 book talks about Eloi and Morlocks?
The Time Machine by H.G.Wells
3/ Which 1960 novel by Walter Miller is set in a Roman Catholic monastery after a devastating nuclear war and spans thousands of years as civilisation rebuilds itself? A Canticle for Leibowitz
4/ Which book by Robert Heinlein is about the adventures of Valentine Michael Smith? Stranger in a Strange Land
5/ The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham in which the protagonist wakes up to find the world strangely quiet inspired which zombie-fest film? 28 Days Later
6/ Pierre Boulle the author of The Bridge on the River Kwai also wrote which novel made into a Charlton Heston film, with a wicked twist ending? Planet of the Apes
7/ Probably the greatest work of Isaac Asimov, which ‘series’ is about a certain Hari Seldon who spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory?
The Foundation Series
8/ Which book by Carl Sagan was made into an equally good movie starring Jodie Foster and concerns extra-terrestrials contacting the earth? Contact
9/ Battlefield Earth, made into an atrocious movie starring John Travolta was written by who? L. Ron Hubbard
10/ Which 1985 classic by a Canadian author features Offred and explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain a hold in the world?
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
11/ Which 1961 novel by Stanislaw Lem that deals with the limitation of communication, was the subject of a 1972 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky as well as a 2002 remake featuring George Clooney? Solaris
12/ Which novel set in the 26th After Ford dystopia portrays an artificial society in which everything is programmed?
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
13/ Which prolific author is known for his several stories that were made into films, but his best novel probably is The Three Stigmata of palmer Eldritch? Philip K. Dick
14 Brian Aldis’s influential story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, was the basis for which Stanley Kubrick-developed Steven Spielberg film? A.I. Artificial Intelligence
15/ In which book by Ursula Le Guin is set on the planet of Gethen is there no gender? Left Hand of Darkness
16 Which 1984 novel, the defining work of cyberpunk was the winner of science-fiction’s ‘triple crown’ – the Nebula Award, the Philip K Dick Award and the Hugo Award?
Neuromancer by William Gibson
17/ Which classic work of dystopia takes its title from the purported fact that that ‘it is the temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns’? Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
18/ Which bona-fide classic, made into an equally classic film was expanded by its author from the short story The Sentinel?
2001: A Space Odyssey
19/ Which cult classic is set on the planet of Arrakis and concerns the quest for the spice Melange? Dune by Frank Herbert
20 / With Shikasta, which author and Nobel-laureate, best known for The Golden Notebook, dwelt into science fiction? Doris Lessing
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Quiz 2019 Number 17
A Quiz on the Nobel Prize
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Set by Mel Kinsey
1/ Who was the youngest Nobel Prize winner, in any catagory?
Malala Yousafzai aged 17 ( Peace Prize in 2014)
2/ Which two prizes were awarded posthumously?
Eric Axel Karfeldt (Literature in 1931) and Dag Hammarskjold (Peace in 1961)
3/ Which four people have won more than 1 prize?
Marie Curie (Physics 1903 & Chemistry in 1911)
Linus Pauling (Chemistry in 1954 & Peace in 1962)
John Bardeen (Physics in 1956 & 1972)
Frederick Sanger (Chemistry in 1958 & 1980)
4/ The prizes are awarded on which date, the anniversary of Nobel's death?
December 10th
5/ What is the maximum number of people a prize can be shared amomng? Three
6/ Who is the only UK Prime Minister to receive the prize?
Winston Churchill (for Literature in 1953)
7/ Who are the only Father and Son to share a prize?
William Henry Bragg and Willian Laurence Bragg (Physics in 1915)
8/ Which family has 5 prizes? The Curie's (Maire Curie won 2, her husband Pierre Curie won 1, Her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie won the Chemistry prize in 1935 and her second daughter was the director of UNICEF when it won the Peace prize in 1965)
9/ Who was the first woman to win the Literature prize? Selma Lagerlof (in 1909)
10/ Who was the first Asian to win in any catagory?
Rabindranath Tagore (Literature in 1913)
11/ Who is the only person to reject the Peace Prize? Le Duc Tho in 1973
12/ Who was the first woman to win the Peace prize? Bertha Vonn Suttner in 1905
13/ Who is the only person to reject the Literature prize? Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964
14/ Known as "The Father of the United Nations" which American won the 1945 Peace Prize? Cordell Hull
15/ The Nobel prizes are awarded in Stockholm, apart from the Peace prize which is awarded in which city? Oslo
16/ Who was the first American to win in any catagory
Theodore Roosevelt (Peace in 1906)