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Rawdons Quiz this week

Posted Friday, January 26, 2007

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Rawdons Wednesday Quiz

Round 1

1. Mal de Mer is the French term for with ailment?

2. What type of animal is a caribou?

3. Who wrote the novel Gulliver's Travels?

4. What Age followed the Bronze Age?

5. What are parenthesis otherwise known as?

6. In Greek mythology who flew too close to the sun and fell to his death?

7. Who was the first person in space?

8. Who was the first person to circumnavigate the world?

Answers

1. Sea sickness
2. Reindeer
3. Jonathan Swift
4. Iron Age
5. Brackets
6. Icarus
7. Yuri Gagarin
8. Ferdinand Magellan

Round 2

1. What is a person who shoes horses called?

2. On which part of the body would you wear a deerstalker?

3. Who discovered Panama in 1503?

4. What is the art of decorative writing called?

5. In which European city is the International Court of Justice based?

6. What does a cartographer draw?

7. Which English city is the setting for TV's Inspector Morse?

8. Ursine relates to which large furry animals?

 

Answers

1. Farrier
2. The head
3. Christopher Columbus
4. Caligraphy
5. The Hague
6. Maps
7. Oxford
8. Bears

Round 3

1. Only one mammal can actually fly. Name it.

2. If you wanted to find a penguin at home which pole would you head for?

3. Which fish does caviar come from?

4. If you were racing in slalom, what would you be wearing?

5. The ESB's first generating station used the water of the Shannon River. Where on the Shannon was it built?

6. Who founded the Christian Brothers?

7. How is the output of an oil well measured?

8. When you buy things with a denarius where might you have been?

 

Answers

1. The Bat
2. South Pole
3. It is the roe of the sturgeon
4. Skis. It is a race down a slope with poles
5. At Ardnacrusha
6. Edmund Rice
7. In barrels
8. Ancient Rome

 

Round 4

1. On what day is Bastille day celebrated in France?

2. What was the nickname of German aviator Baron Von Richtofen?

3. What was the real name of the "Tin Lizzie"?

4. What is the fastest land animal?

5. What is the name given to the home of a beaver?

6. What do the initials VCR stand for?

7. What type of trees grew in the garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem?

8. In which American state is Fort Knox?

 

Answers

1. July 14th
2. The Red Baron
3. Model T Ford
4. Cheetah
5. Lodge
6. Video Casette Recorder
7. Olive Trees
8. Kentucky

 

Round 5

1. What did Stradivarius make?

2. A smack, a sloop, and a lugger are all types of what?

3. A young male horse is called a colt. What would his sister be called?

4. In Liscannor, Co Clare in 1841, a man called John Holland was born. He made a remarkable invention. What was it?

5. "Aloha!" is a greeting in which island?

6. The Suir, the Nore and the Barrow all end up in Waterford harbour. What are these three rivers known collectively as?

7. Who was Napoleon's wife?

8. Who did John F. Kennedy's widow marry?

 

 

Answers

1. Violins
2. They are all boats
3. A filly
4. A submarine
5. Hawaii
6. The three sisters
7. Josephine
8. Aristotle Onassis