Apolyton Quiz V

[Zoid]

Answers posted at the bottom of the thread. Quiz closed

Damn, it´s getting hard to come up with good questions off the top of my head. Might have to buy a quiz book or something...

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1) What was actor Roy Rogers nickname?

2) Which of these are not a lenght measurement? Picometer, Manometer, Angstrom.

3) How many meters are there in a nautical mile?

4) If a viking talked about Vinland which part of the world was he referring to?

5) What is Arnold Schwarzeneggers middle name?

6) What is the muslim pilgrimage to Mecca called?

7) What are the two major branches of buddhism?

8) Who was the first to claim that the Earth rotated around the sun and not vice versa?

9) Who apart from Spencer Tracy is the only other actor to win an Academy Award for best actor two years running?

10) What is the connection between Emily Brontë and Kate Bush?

11) Where did the story in James Joyces Ulysses take place?

12) Of the current permanent members of the UN security council one country was not a member of the UN predecessor the League of Nations. Which one?

13) In what decade was the first football (soccer) match played in the English Football League?

14) What do you find in the center of our galaxy?

15) Who is the only american president who has been president for more than two terms?

16) Who took over as acting Prime Minister of Israel after Ariel Sharon?

17) What is the connection between actors Larry Hagman and Will Ferrel?

18) What island is the worlds second largest?

19) H2SO4 / H2O4S is the chemical formula for what acid?

20) If you´re walking around the Prado Gallery, what city are you in?

[Locutus]

Re: Apolyton Quiz V

Originally posted by Dr Zoidberg
2) Which of these are not a lenght measurement? Picometer, Manometer, Angstrom.

Manometer, that's a pressure measuring device.

3) How many meters are there in a nautical mile?

1850ish.

4) If a viking talked about Vinland which part of the world was he referring to?

Newfoundland.

6) What is the muslim pilgrimage to Mecca called?

Hadj.

7) What are the two major branches of buddhism?

Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana. I assume that's a trick question?

8) Who was the first to claim that the Earth rotated around the sun and not vice versa?

Some old Greek guy from Samos (3rd c. BC), forgot his name. Aristophonos or something?

12) Of the current permanent members of the UN security council one country was not a member of the UN predecessor the League of Nations. Which one?

USA.

13) In what decade was the first football (soccer) match played in the English Football League?

1880s?

15) Who is the only american president who has been president for more than two terms?

Roosevelt (forgot the initials, but the one who was pres during WWII, not his brother or whatever he was who was pres ~30 years earlier).

16) Who took over as acting Prime Minister of Israel after Ariel Sharon?

Olmert.

18) What island is the worlds second largest?

New Guinea, after Greenland.

19) H2SO4 / H2O4S is the chemical formula for what acid?

Don't know the English name but the Dutch one litterally translates to English as sulfur acid.

20) If you´re walking around the Prado Gallery, what city are you in?

Madrid.

[Lazerus]

19) Sulphuric acid

[Krill]

14) What do you find in the center of our galaxy?

A **** ton of matter?

[Lefty Scaevola]

14. Louis Farrakan*
















*a black a--hole

[Zkribbler]

Re: Apolyton Quiz V

Originally posted by Dr Zoidberg
Darn, tough questions but here goes:

1) What was actor Roy Rogers nickname?
Sly

2) Which of these are not a lenght measurement? Picometer, Manometer, Angstrom.
Manometer

3) How many meters are there in a nautical mile?
1500

4) If a viking talked about Vinland which part of the world was he referring to?
The New World, most probably Labrador and Massacusettes.

5) What is Arnold Schwarzeneggers middle name?
Mudd

6) What is the muslim pilgrimage to Mecca called?
The Hadj

7) What are the two major branches of buddhism?
Zen; ?

8) Who was the first to claim that the Earth rotated around the sun and not vice versa?
Bruno

9) Who apart from Spencer Tracy is the only other actor to win an Academy Award for best actor two years running?
Tom Hanks

10) What is the connection between Emily Brontë and Kate Bush?
?

11) Where did the story in James Joyces Ulysses take place?
Ireland

12) Of the current permanent members of the UN security council one country was not a member of the UN predecessor the League of Nations. Which one?
US

13) In what decade was the first football (soccer) match played in the English Football League?
?

14) What do you find in the center of our galaxy?
Gigantic black hole

15) Who is the only american president who has been president for more than two terms?
FDR

16) Who took over as acting Prime Minister of Israel after Ariel Sharon?
don't know, but i should

17) What is the connection between actors Larry Hagman and Will Ferrel?
They both worked in Hollywood

18) What island is the worlds second largest?
Madagascar

19) H2SO4 / H2O4S is the chemical formula for what acid?
Sulfuric Acid

20) If you´re walking around the Prado Gallery, what city are you in?
Florence, Italy

[KrazyHorse]

Re: Apolyton Quiz V

Originally posted by Dr Zoidberg

1) What was actor Roy Rogers nickname?

No clue

2) Which of these are not a lenght measurement? Picometer, Manometer, Angstrom.

A picometer is 10^-12 m, an angstrom is 10^-10 m and a manometer measures pressure

3) How many meters are there in a nautical mile?

Approximately 1850 meters to the nautical mile

4) If a viking talked about Vinland which part of the world was he referring to?

The current best guess is that he'd be talking about Newfoundland, but there is some wild speculation that it might have referred to any part of Northeastern North America as far south as Massachussets

5) What is Arnold Schwarzeneggers middle name?

Terminator

6) What is the muslim pilgrimage to Mecca called?

The Hajj

7) What are the two major branches of buddhism?

I'm assuming you're talking about the Mahayana/Theravada split

8) Who was the first to claim that the Earth rotated around the sun and not vice versa?

I don't know if anybody else did prior to him, but I'll guess Copernicus

9) Who apart from Spencer Tracy is the only other actor to win an Academy Award for best actor two years running?

Tom Hanks. Blech.

10) What is the connection between Emily Brontë and Kate Bush?

Who the **** is Kate Bush?

11) Where did the story in James Joyces Ulysses take place?

Dublin, Ireland, June 16 1904

12) Of the current permanent members of the UN security council one country was not a member of the UN predecessor the League of Nations. Which one?

USA! USA!

13) In what decade was the first football (soccer) match played in the English Football League?

Uh...1910s?

14) What do you find in the center of our galaxy?

I guess you're referring to the theory of the galactic black hole. That is far from certainty, at least AFAIK

15) Who is the only american president who has been president for more than two terms?

FDR

16) Who took over as acting Prime Minister of Israel after Ariel Sharon?

Current events? Ehud Olmert

17) What is the connection between actors Larry Hagman and Will Ferrel?

Who the **** is Larry Hagman?

18) What island is the worlds second largest?

That's a question of definitions. In order, the top three are (if you include Australia)
Australia
Greenland
New Guinea

19) H2SO4 / H2O4S is the chemical formula for what acid?

Sulfuric acid

20) If you´re walking around the Prado Gallery, what city are you in?

No clue. Milan?

[Krill]

8) Who was the first to claim that the Earth rotated around the sun and not vice versa?

galileo galilee, or however you spell it, if not noted by some greek...

13) In what decade was the first football (soccer) match played in the English Football League?

1880's, IIRC...

[:) Smiley]

Re: Apolyton Quiz V

Originally posted by Dr Zoidberg
Damn, it´s getting hard to come up with good questions off the top of my head. Might have to buy a quiz book or something...

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1) What was actor Roy Rogers nickname?

Hamburger

2) Which of these are not a lenght measurement? Picometer, Manometer, Angstrom.

Manometer is the length of a hand, and is used in Spanish speaking areas.

4) If a viking talked about Vinland which part of the world was he referring to?

The part his wine cellar is located in.

5) What is Arnold Schwarzeneggers middle name?

******

6) What is the muslim pilgrimage to Mecca called?

Getting trampled by large mobs.

7) What are the two major branches of buddhism?

The real kind, and the bull**** kind practiced by New Age westerners.

8) Who was the first to claim that the Earth rotated around the sun and not vice versa?

Some village idiot in prehistoric times. No one believed his claims though.

10) What is the connection between Emily Brontë and Kate Bush?

They're both female.

11) Where did the story in James Joyces Ulysses take place?

In Joyce's head.

13) In what decade was the first football (soccer) match played in the English Football League?

The same one in which the first football riots took place.

14) What do you find in the center of our galaxy?

God with laser beam eyes.

16) Who took over as acting Prime Minister of Israel after Ariel Sharon?

Az

17) What is the connection between actors Larry Hagman and Will Ferrel?

They are both male.

18) What island is the worlds second largest?

Mingapulco, or Rahcatraz, both are roughly the same size.

19) H2SO4 / H2O4S is the chemical formula for what acid?

Battery acid.

[duke o' york]

1) The Singing Cowboy.

[Zkribbler]

Re: Re: Apolyton Quiz V

Originally posted by Smiley
Getting trampled by large mobs.

That answer is SICK! Funny as heck, but sick, sick, sick!

[BlackCat]

10) What is the connection between Emily Brontë and Kate Bush?

Wuthering heights

[Provost Harrison]

Re: Apolyton Quiz V

1) What was actor Roy Rogers nickname?

Never heard of him

2) Which of these are not a lenght measurement? Picometer, Manometer, Angstrom.

Manometer, although nor is a picometer - it's picometre

3) How many meters are there in a nautical mile?

1600?

4) If a viking talked about Vinland which part of the world was he referring to?

Finland?

5) What is Arnold Schwarzeneggers middle name?

Reaganator?

6) What is the muslim pilgrimage to Mecca called?

Haj

7) What are the two major branches of buddhism?

Zen and Lamaism?

8) Who was the first to claim that the Earth rotated around the sun and not vice versa?

Heron

9) Who apart from Spencer Tracy is the only other actor to win an Academy Award for best actor two years running?

Nope.

10) What is the connection between Emily Brontë and Kate Bush?

Wuthering Heights

11) Where did the story in James Joyces Ulysses take place?

Dublin?

12) Of the current permanent members of the UN security council one country was not a member of the UN predecessor the League of Nations. Which one?

China?

13) In what decade was the first football (soccer) match played in the English Football League?

1890s?

14) What do you find in the center of our galaxy?

Black hole

15) Who is the only american president who has been president for more than two terms?

Franklin D Roosevelt

16) Who took over as acting Prime Minister of Israel after Ariel Sharon?

Can't remember...

17) What is the connection between actors Larry Hagman and Will Ferrel?

Dallas?

18) What island is the worlds second largest?

Madagascar

19) H2SO4 / H2O4S is the chemical formula for what acid?

Sulphuric acid.

20) If you´re walking around the Prado Gallery, what city are you in?

Madrid

[Krill]

[q=PH]Sulphuric acid.[/q]

Atlast, someone who spells the name like it ought to be spelled!!

[Zkribbler]

Re: Re: Apolyton Quiz V

Originally posted by KrazyHorse

Who the **** is Larry Hagman?

(1) "J.R." in the evening soap opera Dallas.
(2) Jeannie's master in the 60's sit com I Dream of Jeannie
(3) Mary "Peter Pan" Martin's son.