Quiz I - Answers
Odd One Out
1. Green, Yellow or Black? Black – is not one of the colours of the rainbow
2. Oliver Twist, Barnaby Rudge or Uriah Heep? Uriah Heep – the other two are eponymous heroes of Dickens novels.
3. Auk, Guillemot or Bustard? Bustard – the auk and guillemot are sea birds.
4. Peseta, GB Pound or Guilder? GP Pound – it has not been replaced by the euro.
5. Nou Camp, San Siro or Twickenham? Twickenham – a rugby stadium. The others are football stadiums.
6. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens or Jim Reeves? Jim Reeves – all three died in plane crashes, but Holly and Valens were in the same plane.
7. Bronze, Gold or Silver? Bronze – it’s an alloy, the others are pure metals.
8. Happy, Angry or Sleepy? Angry – the others are the names of two of Snow White’s Seven dwarfs.
True or False
9. 100 degrees Centigrade is equivalent to 202 degrees Fahrenheit. False – 100 degrees C = 212 degrees F.
10. Richard Burton never won an Oscar. True
11. 576 halved six times is 8. False. It is 9.
12. Turkey borders Afghanistan. False. Iran lies between them. Fa
13. A bantling is a songbird. False. It is a disparaging word for a young child.
14. Jaggery could be used in cooking. True. It is a type of coarse, dark sugar.
15. Washing soda is sodium carbonate. True.
16. 97 doubled is more than 392 halved. False. It is 194 compared with 196.
Do You Know
17. the main ingredient of taramasalata? Cod roe
18. the national airline of Portugal? TAP
19. the alternative name for saxifrage? London Pride
20. what kind of fruit is Beauty of Bath? Apple
21. the world’s smallest state? Vatican City
22. how many books are in the Old Testament? 39
23. which city hosted the 1928 summer Olympics? Amsterdam
24. the common name of the star Sirius? The Dog Star
Opposite Attraction – unscramble the letters in the phrases to form two words that are opposites of each other
25. POLO SCENE - OPEN CLOSE
26. LEASE TURF - TRUE FALSE
27. GROWTH RING - RIGHT WRONG
28. KNIT HITCH - THICK THIN
29. CRAFT KNOB - BACK FRONT
Logical – See if you can solve the mini problems in your head before writing anything down.
30. QUIZ, VIXEN and JACKET are the words that have just been placed on the board by three Scrabble-playing friends. The word played by Robin was shorter than that of the player who currently has 115 points. If the player on 131 points played a longer word than Jamie, who is not the player currently scoring 102, then what word was played by Brian, and how many points does he have?
JACKET, Brian, 131 points; VIXEN, Jamie, 115 points; QUIZ, Robin, 102 points.
31. Phil, Chris and Allan are taking swimming lessons. Each one is in a different class: beginner, intermediate or advanced. Today all three boys exasperated their instructor by having a little too much fun. The boy (not Chris) who was told off for sitting on the bottom of the pool is a better swimmer than Phil, who is not the beginner whose misdemeanor was jumping in. Who got into trouble for splashing the other swimmers, and in which class is each boy?
Phil was told off for splashing. Chris, beginner, jumping in; Phil, intermediate, splashing; Allan, advanced, sitting on the bottom.
32. Three hopeful visitors to the Antiques Roadshow threw their objets d’art in the bin on the way out, after discovering that the items, supposedly from the 17th, 18th and 19th century, were actually worthless. The 18th century painting was not the item dismissed as ‘fake’. If the ‘cheap reproduction’ vase had been claimed to be older than the object ruined by ‘vandalistic restoration’, then how old was the jewellery said to be, and what was wrong with it?
Jewellery, 19th century, fake. Painting, 18th century, vandalistic restoration. Vase, 17th century, cheap reproduction.
Odd One Out
1. Green, Yellow or Black? Black – is not one of the colours of the rainbow
2. Oliver Twist, Barnaby Rudge or Uriah Heep? Uriah Heep – the other two are eponymous heroes of Dickens novels.
3. Auk, Guillemot or Bustard? Bustard – the auk and guillemot are sea birds.
4. Peseta, GB Pound or Guilder? GP Pound – it has not been replaced by the euro.
5. Nou Camp, San Siro or Twickenham? Twickenham – a rugby stadium. The others are football stadiums.
6. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens or Jim Reeves? Jim Reeves – all three died in plane crashes, but Holly and Valens were in the same plane.
7. Bronze, Gold or Silver? Bronze – it’s an alloy, the others are pure metals.
8. Happy, Angry or Sleepy? Angry – the others are the names of two of Snow White’s Seven dwarfs.
True or False
9. 100 degrees Centigrade is equivalent to 202 degrees Fahrenheit. False – 100 degrees C = 212 degrees F.
10. Richard Burton never won an Oscar. True
11. 576 halved six times is 8. False. It is 9.
12. Turkey borders Afghanistan. False. Iran lies between them. Fa
13. A bantling is a songbird. False. It is a disparaging word for a young child.
14. Jaggery could be used in cooking. True. It is a type of coarse, dark sugar.
15. Washing soda is sodium carbonate. True.
16. 97 doubled is more than 392 halved. False. It is 194 compared with 196.
Do You Know
17. the main ingredient of taramasalata? Cod roe
18. the national airline of Portugal? TAP
19. the alternative name for saxifrage? London Pride
20. what kind of fruit is Beauty of Bath? Apple
21. the world’s smallest state? Vatican City
22. how many books are in the Old Testament? 39
23. which city hosted the 1928 summer Olympics? Amsterdam
24. the common name of the star Sirius? The Dog Star
Opposite Attraction – unscramble the letters in the phrases to form two words that are opposites of each other
25. POLO SCENE - OPEN CLOSE
26. LEASE TURF - TRUE FALSE
27. GROWTH RING - RIGHT WRONG
28. KNIT HITCH - THICK THIN
29. CRAFT KNOB - BACK FRONT
Logical – See if you can solve the mini problems in your head before writing anything down.
30. QUIZ, VIXEN and JACKET are the words that have just been placed on the board by three Scrabble-playing friends. The word played by Robin was shorter than that of the player who currently has 115 points. If the player on 131 points played a longer word than Jamie, who is not the player currently scoring 102, then what word was played by Brian, and how many points does he have?
JACKET, Brian, 131 points; VIXEN, Jamie, 115 points; QUIZ, Robin, 102 points.
31. Phil, Chris and Allan are taking swimming lessons. Each one is in a different class: beginner, intermediate or advanced. Today all three boys exasperated their instructor by having a little too much fun. The boy (not Chris) who was told off for sitting on the bottom of the pool is a better swimmer than Phil, who is not the beginner whose misdemeanor was jumping in. Who got into trouble for splashing the other swimmers, and in which class is each boy?
Phil was told off for splashing. Chris, beginner, jumping in; Phil, intermediate, splashing; Allan, advanced, sitting on the bottom.
32. Three hopeful visitors to the Antiques Roadshow threw their objets d’art in the bin on the way out, after discovering that the items, supposedly from the 17th, 18th and 19th century, were actually worthless. The 18th century painting was not the item dismissed as ‘fake’. If the ‘cheap reproduction’ vase had been claimed to be older than the object ruined by ‘vandalistic restoration’, then how old was the jewellery said to be, and what was wrong with it?
Jewellery, 19th century, fake. Painting, 18th century, vandalistic restoration. Vase, 17th century, cheap reproduction.
