This quiz is over and Joshua Kreitzer makes an impressing win!
I'm kind of content with this quiz - only one stumper, and no question
that everyone knew. Rather different people knew different things
(or at least guess better on different things).
Here are the full results:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total
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Joshua K - 1 1 1 1 - 1 - 1 1 1 1 9
Dan T 1 - 1 - - 1 - - 1 1 - - 5
Pete G - - - 1 - - - - 1 1 1 - 4
Dan B - - - - 1 - - - - - 1 1 3
Mark B - - - - 1 - - - - 1 1 - 3
Gregg S - - 1 - - - - - - - 1 - 2
Here are the correct answers:
1. BYD, also known as Build Your Dreams, is the world's largest
manufacturer of what type of product?
Electric Vehicles.
Yes, they have overtaken Tesla in this field.
2. Up to 1960 how many of the Summer Olympics had been hosted by a city
outside Europe?
Three. St Louis 1904, Los Angeles 1932 and Melbourne 1956.
After 1960 there have been a lot more of them. Tokyo in 1964, Mexico City
in 1968, Montréal in 1976 and so one.
3. The catalogue of which popular artist includes two studio albums of
which the first word in the title is "Born"?
Bruce Springsteen. The albums are "Born to Run" and "Born in the USA".
4. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus have assumed the duties as the head
of the interim government in which country?
Bangladesh.
He stepped in when the incumbent Prime Minister had to flee after
large-scale protests.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 together with Grameen Bank
which he founded in 1983.
5. If you are going to Varanasi, which river may you be looking into to
soak yourself into?
Ganges.
Although, you are probably only looking into it if you are Hindu. I
think that for myself prefer to swim in water that is a little more clean.
6. Which is the only country to have taken at least one medal in every
Summer and Winter Olympics since 1908?
Sweden.
I will have to admit that I did zero research on my own for this question.
I rely on articles in Swedish news papers, which observed this fact
after Finland's failure to win any medal in the Paris Olympics, leaving
us alone with the streak.
As for how come that some other countries that usually wins a lot of medals
do not qualify, I guess that depends on the boycotts of the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.
7. Which city of religious importance was known as Yathrib until around
AD 627 when tradition has it that the ruler of the city forbade this
name?
Medina.
Not unexpecedly, Mecca was a popular answer. But Muhammed was not back in
Mecca until 629, so that was a clue. At least no one answered Varanasi. :-)
8. In which country are you most likely to find speakers of Mordvinian,
a Finnish-Ugric language?
Russia.
A somewhat unexpected stumper. If you hear of a Finnish-Ugric language
you have never heard of before, you can be almost sure that it's spoken
in Russia. There are a quite a couple of them there.
I learnt just before I posted the quiz that Mordvinian is no longer
considered a single language, but rather Mordvinic is a small language
group consisting of Erzya and Moksha, previously considered dialects.
But apparently, they are not mutually intelligible.
9. The world's most recent national capital is Nusantara. It is in fact
so recent that it has not been inaugurated yet. It was slated to happen
on Aug 17th, but it was postponed due to delays in construction. So the
old capital that faces the risk of sinking is still the capital for some
time. The name Nusantara can roughly be translated into English as
"outer islands". Of which country is Nusantara becoming the capital?
Indonesia.
It's located on Borneo, which is an outer island in relation to Java.
Yes, Bali, as suggested by one entrant is even more outer. However, it
is not a country. :-)
10. Which well-known artist has recently taken place in the US Capitol
representing Arkansas as a statue?
Johnny Cash.
11. Francis Ford Coppola is hitting the screen with his recent
"Megalopolis", a title directly may make you think of a file from 1927
by which director?
Fritz Lang. His film was name "Metropolis".
12. Look at the picture http://privat.sommarskog.se/2000/Stora/05.JPG.
This is outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Who is the artist
behind this puppy?
Jeff Koons.
I will need to confess I did not know this myself, until I looked it
when preparing the quiz. Had it been an artist I never heard of it,
I would have looked for another picture.
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