QUIZTIME WITH MEIKE
Today we have another guest quizsetter. It's my friend Meike from Ludwigsburg, Germany. Her long-running blog is called "From My Mental Library". You can find it here. As usual, the answers will be given in the comments section.
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1) What is the tallest free-standing structure in Great Britain?
(a) Arqiva Tower (Emley Moor transmitting station)
(b) The Shard (Office block in London)
(c) Brighton i360 (Observation tower in Brighton, Sussex)
(d) Blackpool Tower (Constructed in the 1890s)
2) What is the African country of Swaziland now called?
(a) Zimbabwe (b) Egypt (c) Narnia (d) Eswatini
3) Meike asks, "How many cyber attacks against hospitals in Germany were officially registered in one single week in November 2020?"
(a) 29 (b) 295 (c) 2,950 (d) 29,500
4) What is gelotology?
(a) The study of the effects and uses of gelatine in food production.
(b) The study of rocks and how they form through
both volcanic and sedimentary activity.
(c) The study of laughter and its effects on the body,
from a psychological and physiological perspective.
(d) The study of icebergs, glaciers and ice sheets
5) Who is this woman? She was the first female artist to top the British pop charts with a self-penned song - back in 1978.
6) What was the longest song that the Swedish pop group ABBA ever released?
(a) "Eagle" (b) "Dancing Queen" (c) "Waterloo" (d) "Fernando"
7) Worldwide, which female artist has sold more records than any other?
8) What does the L in Samuel L. Jackson stand for?
(a) Leviticus (b) Leonard (c) Leroy (d) Luke
9) Which film star was born in 1921 in the USA, the eleventh of fifteen children of a poor family of immigrants from Lithuania. His birth name was Charles Dennis Buchinsky.
(a) Mickey Rooney (b) Charles Bronson
(c) Charlton Heston (d) Marlon Brando
10) What is this? (clue - it is thought to be 3750 years old and was unearthed in Germany in 1999)
(a) The Frankfurt Frisbee (b) The Dusseldorf Drum
(c) The Stuttgart Shield (d) The Nebra Sky Disc
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That's it folks! How did you do?
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