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January 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 (1)

  1. What type of clothing is a Glengarry? Hat or bonnet
  2. Which country features a shipwreck on its national flag? Bermuda
  3. Which two months of the year are named for mortal men? July and August
  4. Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire is famous for which two foods? Stilton Cheese, Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
  5. Name the type of rigid airship, first flown commercially in 1910, and carrying many thousands of fare-paying passengers before WWI? Zeppelin
  6. Benjamin Disraeli once described William Ewart Gladstone as “A sophistical rhetorician, _____ with the exuberance of his own verbosity”. What is the missing word? Inebriated

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.

books, memes, quotes

This Month’s Poem

Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Find this poem online at Poetry Foundation

amusements, memes

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 Before 1500

  1. Nicholas Ludford
  2. Robert Fayrfax
  3. Johannes Ockeghem
  4. Guillaume Du Fay
  5. Gilles Binchois
  6. Josquin des Prez
  7. John Taverner
  8. Robert Carver
    Robert Carver
  9. Guillaume de Machaut
  10. Antoine Busnois
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January Quiz Questions

Again this year, 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.

General Knowledge (1)

  1. What type of clothing is a Glengarry?
  2. Which country features a shipwreck on its national flag?
  3. Which two months of the year are named for mortal men?
  4. Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire is famous for which two foods?
  5. Name the type of rigid airship, first flown commercially in 1910, and carrying many thousands of fare-paying passengers before WWI?
  6. Benjamin Disraeli once described William Ewart Gladstone as “A sophistical rhetorician, _____ with the exuberance of his own verbosity”. What is the missing word?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.

amusements, memes

December Quiz Answers

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

Christmas

  1. In what country did Silent Night originate?  Austria
  2. In what country did the custom of putting up a Christmas tree originate?  Germany
  3. What plant based Christmas tradition did servants in 18th and 19th century England popularize?  Kissing under the mistletoe
  4. How many wise men does the bible say visited the baby Jesus?  It doesn’t mention a number.
  5. In which European country was the original St Nicholas born?  Turkey

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2023.

amusements, memes

December Quiz Questions

Each month we’re posing five pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As before, they’re not difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so hopefully you’ll learn something new, as well as having a bit of fun.

Christmas

  1. In what country did Silent Night originate?
  2. In what country did the custom of putting up a Christmas tree originate?
  3. What plant based Christmas tradition did servants in 18th and 19th century England popularize?
  4. How many wise men does the bible say visited the baby Jesus?
  5. In which European country was the original St Nicholas born?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.

history, memes

December 1924

Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

15. Winston Churchill, writing to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, said Singapore’s defences did not need to be completed for another fifteen to twenty years: “I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.”

20. Adolf Hitler was released from Landsberg Prison, as part of a general amnesty for political prisoners, having served less than 9 months of a 5 year sentence.

24. Imperial Airways de Havilland DH34 airliner crashes soon after take-off from London’s Croydon Airport killing all eight people aboard; this leads to the first public inquiry into a civil aviation accident ever held in the United Kingdom.

26. Judy Garland made her show business debut, aged 2½, singing “Jingle Bells” at her parents’ theatre in Grand Rapids, MN.

30. American astronomer Edwin Hubble announced that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe.