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October Quiz Answers

Here are the answers to this month’s six quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.

Classical & Ancient World

  1. What is the name of the home of the Greek Gods? Olympus
  2. Which body of the water was called mare nostrum by the Romans? Mediterranean
  3. Ask and Embla are the Norse equivalent to the Christian what? Adam and Eve
  4. What was the name of the Egyptian God of the Sun? Ra
  5. In Roman mythology, who is the goddess of the sewers? Cloacina
  6. Which word derives from the Latin for “sand” and originally denoted part of a Roman amphitheatre that was covered with sand to soak up the blood from combat? Arena

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.

This Month’s Poem

On The Ning Nang Nong
Spike Milligan

On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There’s a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can’t catch ’em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

Find this poem online at All Poetry

Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born in 19th Century

  1. Amadeo Modigliani
    Amadeo Modigliani; Reclining Nude
  2. Piet Mondrian
  3. Jacob Epstein
  4. George Braque
  5. Constantin Brâncusi
  6. Henry Moore
  7. Paul Klee
  8. Paul Nash
  9. Henri Matisse
  10. Auguste Rodin

October Quiz Questions

Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.

Classical & Ancient World

  1. What is the name of the home of the Greek Gods?
  2. Which body of the water was called mare nostrum by the Romans?
  3. Ask and Embla are the Norse equivalent to the Christian what?
  4. What was the name of the Egyptian God of the Sun?
  5. In Roman mythology, who is the goddess of the sewers?
  6. Which word derives from the Latin for “sand” and originally denoted part of a Roman amphitheatre that was covered with sand to soak up the blood from combat?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.

September Quiz Answers

Here are the answers to this month’s six quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.

Literature

  1. Which Tolstoy novel begins “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”? Anna Karenina
  2. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016? Bob Dylan
  3. Who wrote A Child’s History of England? Dickens, 1853
  4. Who succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in Nov 1850? Tennyson
  5. Apart from his novels, what is Anthony Trollope remembered for? Introduction of pillar boxes to UK
  6. Which two-word term was popularised by a 1948 Robert Heinlein novel of the same name, which inspired a science fiction franchise centring on a character named Tom Corbett? Space Cadet

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.

This Month’s Poem

A Modern Hiawatha
George A Strong

When he killed the Mudjokivis,
Of the skin he made him mittens,
Made them with the fur side inside,
Made them with the skin side outside.
He, to get the warm side inside,
Put the inside skin side outside;
He, to get the cold side outside,
Put the warm side fur side inside.
That’s why he put the fur side inside,
Why he put the skin side outside,
Why he turned them inside outside.

Find this poem online at Poetry Nook

Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Composers Born in 19th Century

  1. Bedrich Smetena
  2. Leoš Janacek
    Leoš Janacek
  3. Jean Sibelius
  4. Claude Debussy
  5. Sergei Prokofiev
  6. Carl Orff
  7. Richard Wagner
  8. Maurice Ravel
  9. Igor Stravinsky
  10. Erik Satie

September Quiz Questions

Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.

Literature

  1. Which Tolstoy novel begins “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”?
  2. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016?
  3. Who wrote A Child’s History of England?
  4. Who succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in Nov 1850?
  5. Apart from his novels, what is Anthony Trollope remembered for?
  6. Which two-word term was popularised by a 1948 Robert Heinlein novel of the same name, which inspired a science fiction franchise centring on a character named Tom Corbett?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.