Quizlings January

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Quizician is..


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What geographical feature separated the

province of Cisalpine Gaul, of which Julius

Caesar was the Governor and the home

territory in Italy that made up the main

Roman Republic?


4/96

Answer : The Rubicon!

"Crossing the Rubicon" means crossing thepoint of no return)


5/96

There are at least two countries in the world

that are named after their ruling family. Name

them?


6/96

Answer : Saudi Arabia and Liechtenstein


7/96

Which kind of people are never depicted in

the "Peanuts" cartoon strips?


8/96

Answer : Adults


9/96

Who is the only US actor to have ever received

the French equivalent of the OSCAR, which is

called a Cesar?


10/96

Answer : Adrien Brody


11/96

Which book was first published with the title

"My Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against

Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice."? (the author

didn't bother to write anything thereafter)


12/96

Answer : Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf


13/96

Which capital city did Frenchman Pierre

Charles L'Enfant design?


14/96

Answer : Washington DC


15/96

How did cricketer Michael Holding end up

getting the nickname ""Whispering Death"?


16/96

Answer : It was Dickie Bird who called him

'Whispering Death.' apparently he couldn't

hear Holding pass-by during the bowling run-

up and delivery.


17/96

This historic Dingareyber mosque is one of the

three mosques and 16 cemeteries and

mausoleums that record the history of this

ancient centre of Islamic learning. these

places are now under threat from Islamic

militants who recently acquired arms from the

Libyan civil-war conflict. Name the city?


18/96

Answer : Timbucktu (Mali)


19/96

Give me one word for "the accumulated

limestone exoskeletons of soft-bodied coral

polyps"


20/96

Answer : Corals


21/96

In fifteen races in the 2012 season, he was

involved in seven first-lap and one second-lap

incidents. Name this unfortunate F1 driver..


22/96

Answer : Romain Grosjean


23/96

What does the Kimberley certification process

ensure?


24/96

Answer : It ensures that your diamonds are

not 'conflict' diamonds


25/96

There are two countries in this world that are

doubly landlocked - Uzbekistan is one. Name

the other


26/96

Answer : Liechtenstein


27/96

You might find it on a Golf course or a shooter

might use it to launch his clay pigeons. A rude

person may ask to to keep it closed or you

could encounter it in your kitchen or even in

your Indian geography class. Any which way it

may catch you unawares. What is the good

word?


28/96

Answer : Trap


29/96

What is the lasting legacy of the marriage of

Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess

Therese which held in Munich on October 18,

1810 ?


30/96

Answer : Oktoberfest


31/96

The Lydians and the Medes were at war on 28

May in 585 B.C but abruptly gave up hostilities

and sued for peace. What prompted them to

do this?


32/96

Answer : the first dated solar eclipse caused so

much fear in the troops that they refused to

carry on the war


33/96

Belgrade's main airport was re-named in

2006, on the 150th birth anniversary of its

most famous son. What name does it now

carry?


34/96

Answer : Nikola Tesla


35/96

What connects one of the world's best known

entertainment centres, a luxury hotel in Las

Vegas, computational method, a car rally, the

star of 'The Love Bug,' and a Chevrolet 1970

model that was in production for almost four

decades?


36/96

Answer : Monte Carlo


37/96

When he realised that the French army officer

Alfred Dreyfus had been wrongly jailed on

spying charges, this author responded with an

open letter published in the 'L'Aurore'

newspaper in 1898. The author lost the

ensuing libel case but the furor it caused

eventually led to Dreyfus being acquitted.Name the author and the famous letter?


38/96

Answer : The author is Emile Zola and the

letter wasJ'accuse


39/96

Which American Abstract Expressionist

painter was known as 'Jack the Dripper?'


40/96

Answer : Jackson Pollock


41/96

One is a dance from the Scandinavian

countries inspired by Polish court dances and

named for Poland; the other is a very popular

ballroom and folk dance from Bohemia. Name

both ?


42/96

Answer : Polska and Polka


43/96

What annual award, instituted in 2009 bearsthe name of this sportsperson?


44/96

Answer : Puskas award ..its most beautiful

goal of the year award awarded by FIFA

annually


45/96

The US White House rejected the the petition

to begin construction of a Death Star by 2016

citing some three reasons including what it

called a 'fundamental flaw'. What flaw?


46/96

answer :"It can be exploited by a one-man

starship"


47/96

On 4 February 2008, to mark the 40th

anniversary of the song and NASA's 50th

anniversary this Beatles song was transmitted

into interstellar space in the direction of

Polaris. Which appropriately named song?


48/96

Answer :Across the Universe by the Beatles


49/96

South Africa now has 11 official languages.

Which of them, which may be part of a

scrabble player's arsenal, would Nelson

Mandela claim as his mother-tongue?


50/96

Answer : Xhosa


51/96

London's Globe theatre ran a festival last year

presenting Shakespeare's plays in various

'languages' - Lithuanian, Hip-hop, Swahili, sign

language etc. How many 'languages'

precisely?


52/96

answer : 37 languages..for there are 37 plays

by Shakespeare


53/96

Why did the addition of a character called

Kami to the South African version of Sesame

Street (Takalani Sesame) in 2002 create news?


54/96

Answer : this character is HIV+


55/96

If you want your pizza served 'al taglio,' how

do you want it?


56/96

Answer : Served by the slice


57/96

Which College football team is nicknamed the

Fighting Irish?


58/96

Answer : Notre Dame


59/96

Logo for what?


60/96

Answer : The Burning Man festival


61/96

What was Russian Admiral Fabian Gottlieb

von Bellingshausen the first to do(the year

was 1821)?


62/96

Answer : First to sight land at the Antartic


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answer : The two pictures are respectively the

map of the Virgin Islands and a depiction of

the Martyrdom of Saint Ursula

The Islands are named for the saint


65/96

He was an outstanding baseball player. He

opened a sporting goods shops after his

retirement and developed it into one of the

largest sporting good franchises in the world.

His misplaced sense of patriotism also led him

to create a fabricated history of baseball - to

deny any links to the British game of roundersand cricket, he claimed that the Civil War hero

Abner Doubleday invented the game.Who?


66/96

Answer : Spalding


67/96

If you were sporting a 'peruke' what would

your profession most likely be?


68/96

Answer : A Judge its a wig


69/96

Which Indonesian island lends it name to a

large member of the Varanidae family?


70/96

Answer : Komodo


71/96

This small Spanish town, a town that saw the co-

existence of three religions and home to several artists(including the one who painted this) was declared aWorld Heritage site in the 1980's. Name the townwhich is depicted in this painting and name the painter


72/96

Answer : Toledo / the painter is El Greco


73/96

perfect dip for your tortilla chips, though I

would prefer salsa sauce myself. name the

sauce and the fruit it is primarily made from..


74/96

Answer : Guacamole made from Avocados


75/96

Quote from which influential 1976 book, "Weneed a name for the new replicator, a noun thatconveys the idea of a unit of culturaltransmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme'

comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want amonosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hopemy classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviatemimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, itcould alternatively be thought of as being related

to 'memory', or to the French word mme. Itshould be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'?


76/96

Answer : The Selfish Gene


77/96

What do you call this style of kitchen where

there are working spaces on both sides?


78/96

Answer : Galley style


79/96

The tenth day of the month of Muharram is a

major observance for Shia Muslims as it marks

the martyrdom of Muhammad's grandson,

Hussain ibn Ali. What is the observance calledin Iran, Turkey and most Arab countries?


80/96

Answer : Ashura


81/96

Symbol of which nation?


82/96

Answer : Scotland


83/96

Which countries have more Portuguese

speakers than Portugal (Brazil is one..there are

two more)?


84/96

Answer : Mozambique and Angola


85/96

Which US state existed as a monarchy for

almost 88 years over the 18th and 19th

centuries?


86/96

Answer : Hawaii


87/96

What was leased to Great Britain in 1898 for

99 years?


88/96

Answer : Hong Kong


89/96

Which famous German automobile designer,

better known for another iconic car, designed

the Volkswagen Beetle under a directive from

Adolf Hitler?


90/96

Answer : Ferdinand Porsche


91/96

To make this dish you need to stuff a chicken

into a duck and then stuff that into a turkey.

What is the dish called?


92/96

Answer : Turducken


93/96

Also called an 'Aerosol Bomb,' or a 'fuel-air

explosive' this fearful weapon uses an

explosive that sets fire to the air above its

target, then sucks the oxygen out of the airleading any survivor to die from asphyxiation.

Accidental coal dust explosions in mines work

similarly. what is such a bomb called?


94/96

Answer : Thermobaric


95/96

In a dream, the King was ordered to carve a deityfrom a log he would find washed up on the seashore. The king found a mysterious old carpenterto carve the deity, but the carpenter insisted that

he not be disturbed while he was working. Theking waited anxiously outside his room, but aftersome time, all sound stopped. The impatient kingwas worried and opened the doors - only to findthe deity half-finished and the carpenter gone!

Where will you find this half-finished deity,today?


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Answer : Jagannath in Puri

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