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July 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.
Biology
- What is the fastest land animal?
- How many hearts does an octopus have?
- Gentoo, Adelie and Macaroni are all species of what?
- What comic strip’s joke name for the row of spikes on a stegosaurus’s tail, the “thagomizer,” ended up becoming the official name?
- Which fruit did many people in the Western world think was poisonous until 1820?
- What is the natural compound present in green plants that gives them their colour?
Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.
June 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.
World Affairs
- Which political figure became Baroness of Kesteven? Margaret Thatcher
- What year was the United Nations established? 1945
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus became the head of which United Nations agency in 2017? WHO (World Health Organisation)
- Who was US President in the year 2000? Bill Clinton
- What was the name of the treaty signed between the Allies and Germany that officially ended WWI? Treaty of Versailles
- The border between North Korea and South Korea is about 257km long and 4km wide. What is this buffer zone known as? Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ)
Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.
This Month’s Poem
Trees
Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Find this poem online at Poetry Foundation
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 17th Century
- Claude Lorrain
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Willem van der Velde the Younger
Willem van der Velde the Younger
Calm: Fishing Boats under Sail
- Johannes Vermeer
- Wenceslaus Hollar
- Aelbert Cuyp
- Pieter de Hooch
- Antoine Watteau
- William Hogarth
- Peter Lely
This Month’s Quote
The average person thinks he isn’t.
Father Larry Lorenzoni
June 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.
World Affairs
- Which political figure became Baroness of Kesteven?
- What year was the United Nations established?
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus became the head of which United Nations agency in 2017?
- Who was US President in the year 2000?
- What was the name of the treaty signed between the Allies and Germany that officially ended WWI?
- The border between North Korea and South Korea is about 257km long and 4km wide. What is this buffer zone known as?
Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.
May 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.
General Knowledge (2)
- What is a grimoire? A textbook of magic, typically including instructions on creating magical objects, performing spells & divination, and summoning supernatural entities
- Which British coin was introduced in February 1971 and withdrawn from circulation in December 1984? Half New Penny
- The wood of a cricket bat is traditionally from which type of tree? Willow
- In the United States, who is second in presidential line of succession after the Vice President? The Speaker of the House of Representatives
- Which film concerns the declaration of war by Freedonia against neighbouring Sylvania? Duck Soup
- The Velocipede was a nineteenth-century prototype of what? The bicycle
Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.
This Month’s Poem
A Fairy Song
William Shakespeare
Over hill, over dale,
Through bush, through briar,
Over park, over pale,
Through blood, through fire,
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moone’s sphere;
And I serve the fairy queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green.
The cowslips tall her pensioners be:
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours,
In those freckles live their savours:
I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.
Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I’ll be gone:
Our queen and all her elves come here anon.
Find this poem online at Poetry Lover’s Page
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 17th Century
- George Frideric Handel
- Jean-Philippe Rameau
- JS Bach
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Dieterich Buxtehude
- Domenico Scarlatti
Domingo Antonio Velasco
Portrait of Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
- Pavel Josef Vejvanovský
- Joan Cererols
- Jean-François Dandrieu
- François Couperin
