The Ignoramus' Quiz Archive

[This is an archive of The Ignoramus' Quiz, a weekly quiz that I mail to some online quiz forums - Quiznet, Quizkrieg to name a couple. If you aren't a member of the quiz forums in question, but would still like to receive this quiz by email - do drop me a mail and I shall be glad to include your name to the mailing list.]

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.54

1. The original name of this product was 'Offiziersmesser.' US soldiers, who couldn't pronounce that, gave it its current name. Which product?
2. What are the Canary Islands named after?
3. The Spanish city of Granada is named after a fruit. Which one?
4. The original name of which famous monument was 'Rauza-i-munavvara' or 'The Illumined Tomb'?
5. Which popular pastime was originally named 'tibromania'?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.53

1. Madame Tussauds is currently located on Marylebone Road - having moved its premises there in 1884. Where was it located before that?
2. Whose official residence is Number One Observatory Circle?
3. Which is the most saline body of water on Earth?
4. In what language was The New Testament originally written?
5. Who wrote the first James Bond book not to be authored by Ian Fleming?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.52

1. In US politics, what's a Sherman Pledge?
2. What word describes the method of slaughtering animals conforming to Jewish law?
3. Outside of Africa, which country has the most number of people of African descent?
4. Wenger is one of the two official manufacturers of a certain iconic product. Name the other better-known one.
5. Observed on 12th June, what does Loving Day (unofficially) celebrate?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.51

1. How did motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel get the nickname 'Evel'?
2. How did sharpshooters come to be known as 'snipers'?
3. Soviet training jets had a limited range by design. Why?
4. In the 17th century, maritime law dictated that a country's nautical reach extended 3 miles from the shore. Why 3 miles?
5. Where did most of the funding for Richard Nixon's first congressional run come from?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.50

1. Tornadoes occur most frequently in the United States. Which country comes second?
2. Which was the world's first commercial jet airliner?
3. In 1858, who became the first female fellow of the Statistical Society of London?
4. In poker, if you have 'the nuts', what are you holding?
5. Which now common practice (among nations) was once shunned as the 'sin of David'?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.49

1. What's the maximum number of people one can mark as friends on Facebook?
2. Who is Britain's wealthiest sports person?
3. The name Blighty - English troops' slang for England - is derived from which language?
4. Which is the oldest football club in the world?
5. Whom was Marilyn Monroe due to marry when she was found dead?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.48

1. If you are practicing Mithridatism, what are you doing?
2. Warner Bros' Looney Tunes series was a blatant rip-off (both in content and name) of a Disney Series. What was the Disney series called?
3. In film-making, what do Foley artists do?
4. Arbed from Luxembourg, Usinor from France and Aceralia from Spain merged to form which company?
5. In what way does 'Fischer Chess' differ from standard chess?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.47

1. Which is the only national capital in the world without a single traffic light?
2. Wolverine made his debut in a comic series featuring which character?
3. According to music historians, what achievement can Ike Turner and Fats Domino both lay claim to?
4. Considered a scientific icon, what does the Keeling Curve establish?
5. When the Giza pyramids were constructed what was the colour of their surface?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.46

1. What was the Musée d'Orsay before it was eventually converted to a museum?
2. In the airline industry, what are tango routes?
3. Officially, how many time zones does China have?
4. What name did Leonardo da Vinci give to the painting we now know as 'Mona Lisa'?
5. Around 1792, there was a serious movement afoot to change the name of the United States of America. To what?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.45
1. What's the Russian word for satellite?
2. What's a 3D pixel called?
3. What unprecendented honour was bestowed on the Roman general Scipio for his feat of vanquishing Hannibal?
4. Winifred Wagner - daughter-in-law of the composer Richard Wagner - referred to whom as USA?
5. Why are trailers called trailers, when they actually precede the movie by weeks or months?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.44
1. With an operating margin double that of Toyota's, which company is the world's most profitable automaker?
2. Which were the first Olympic games to be broadcast live on television?
3. The Zero - the Japanese WWII fighter aircraft and once a symbol of Japan's military power - was manufactured by which company?
4. Six of the top 12 public companies on Fortune's Global 500 list sell one thing. What?
5. What's the significance of these words: "I believe history will record that America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow"?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.43
1. Thomas Edison holds the record for the most number of US patents held. Who's second?
2. Which sea creature is also known as 'sea canary'?
3. Which sports drink brand is named after a college football team?
4. When are two or more words considered to be paronynmous?
5. Which is the official state bird of New Mexico?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.42
1. Which city refers to itself as the 'wedding capital of the world'?
2. Which was the first company founded by a woman to make it to the Fortune 500 list?
3. Which famous words are supposedly derived from the Aramaic phrase meaning 'I will create as I speak'?
4. He is known as Budai in Chinese and Hotei in Japanese. How do we refer to him in English?
5. Cincinnatus was a Roman general and dictator. How did a city in Ohio (Cincinnati) come to be named after him?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.41
1. Who was the first person to be featured on the cover of Rolling Stones magazine?
2. The name of which game is derived from the Tibtetan word for 'ball'?
3. Which was the first human organ to be successfully transplanted?
4. Who did MAD magazine name as the 'Man of the Year' in 1982?
5. Which US state banned Christmas in 1659?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.40
1. What is Dr.No's first name?
2. Which classic novel was subtitled 'Or The Modern Prometheus'?
3. Who's the only US President to have won a Pulitzer?
4. What unique distinction does 'Wings' - the winner in 1929 - hold over all other Oscar winners for Best Picture?
5. Where would you find Hector (Prince of Troy) and Lancelot (the Arthurian Knight) together?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.39
1. Dismas and Gestas are the apocryphal names of which two characters from religious history?
2. In 607, what first did Pope Boniface III lay claim to?
3. What's the name of the US Army Air Forces B-29 bomber that dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki?
4. Who's the first non-fictitious woman to be portrayed on circulating US coinage?
5. The title role of Dirty Harry was originally intended for which actor?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.38
1. Accounting for one-fifth of all land in the country, which is the largest state in the US?
2. The very first patent issued in Thomas Edison's name was for what?
3. The first cervical vertebra in the spine is named Atlas. Why?
4. Alexander Graham Bell disliked the use of 'Hello' as a greeting on the telephone. What did he prefer to use instead?
5. What's the difference between the hypocentre and the epicentre of an earthquake?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.37
1. Which is the only Asian country though which the equator passes?
2. The bald eagle isn't bald at all. How does it get its name?
3. What does a vecturist collect?
4. In what way are founder Jean Henri Dunant and his native country Switzerland commemorated on the flag of International Red Cross?
5. Orogeny is the process of formation of what?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.36
1. Pencils were first painted yellow in the 1890s. Why?
2. What is barology the study of?
3. Which US state is called the land of 10,000 lakes?
4. The name of which capital city literally means 'Smoky Bay'?
5. What's unique about the hyoid bone in the human neck?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.35
1. What's the collective noun for kangaroos?
2. What's the difference between an anadromous fish and a catadromous fish?
3. What colour is the skin of a polar bear?
4. What does the medical condition synaesthesia cause?
5. The name of which month literally means 'ninth month' in Latin?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.34
1. What's the name for the family of billiards games played on pocketless tables?
2. Which city has often been referred to as 'San Francisco turned upside down' and why?
3. In what unique way is a Cephalophore saint depicted in art?
4. According to military custom, the US flag should be folded down to what shape when it's not in use?
5. From where does the Microsoft discussion forum, Channel 9, get its name?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.33
1. Which prolific and influential industrial designer was known as the father of streamlining?
2. The Arithmetica of Diophantus was written in the 2nd century AD. What marginal yet historic addition was made to it in 1637?
3. Which US President was nicknamed The Resume?
4. Aliyah and yeridah are recurring themes in Jewish history. What do they stand for?
5. Astroturf was first marketed under the name Chemgrass. Why was it renamed Astroturf?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.32
1. Which two sports did King James II of Scotland ban because they were distracting his subjects from practicing archery?
2. What is the name for rain or snow that evaporates before hitting the ground?
3. The Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish nationalist organisation, first commissioned John Phillip Holland to develop what?
4. 'Fat Man' - the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki - is named after whom?
5. Which legendary country singer was nicknamed 'The Hillbilly Shakespeare'?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.31
1. What exhibits does the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, house?
2. In 1911, Pablo Picasso and Apollinaire were suspected and questioned for what crime?
3. Lotto carpets are handwoven carpets from Turkey popular during the 16th and 17th century. How do they get their name?
4. This book - the fourth in the series - was written 30 years after the trilogy and because of sustained pressure from fans. After 262 books and 44 years of writing, it became this prolific author's first novel to make it to the New York Best Sellers list. Which book?
5. What was the US Supreme Court called to rule upon in the Nix v. Hedden case of 1893?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.30
1. The Abel prize was instituted to reward excellence in which field excluded by Alfred Nobel in the prizes he founded?
2. Which aircraft was named by Dwight Eisenhower as one of the West's four key weapons in WW2 - the other three being the Jeep, the bazooka and the atom bomb?
3. Which famous football club was originally known as Dial Square?
4. Where would you expect to see routines named Adoplh, Randolph and Rudolph performed?
5. Which English dynasty derives its name from the latin for broom flower?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.29
1. Which company is the world's largest manufacturer of tyres?
2. Which is the only one of the Great Lakes to be situated entirely within the US?
3. Japanese and Welsh are examples of grue languages. What's a grue language?
4. The name of which Renaissance painter literally means 'little barrel'?
5. Who was the first man to appear on the cover of Playboy magazine?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.28
1. Which company is America's largest exporter?
2. Under what name did Air India begin operations in 1932?
3. Working in his backstreet laboratory, what did the English chemist William Perkin discover in 1856?
4. Seatbelts are one of the lasting legacies of the tests conducted in 1949 at Edwards Airforce Base to study the effects of rapid deceleration on the human body. What is the other legacy we have received from those tests?
5. There are over 400,000 species of this particular insect compared to about a total of 8,000 species of all mammals - which prompted JBS Haldane to famously say "The creator, if he exists, has a special preference for ______." Which insects?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.27
1. What unique sporting achievement unites Arthur Ashe, Roger Taylor, John McEnroe and Eshmayel El Shafi?
2. Which precious stone gets its name from the Greek words for 'not intoxicated' because it was believed to prevent intoxication?
3. A replica of the original 'Piggly Wiggly' stands in the Memphis Pink Palace Museum. This 'Piggly Wiggly' was the world's first what?
4. Which household item was initially referred to as Dewar vessel after its inventor, Sir James Dewar?
5. Which domestic animal finds no mention at all in the Bible?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.26
1. What does the TT in Audi TT stand for?
2. Who is the only US President to hold the office unelected?
3. What unique and unparalleled distinction does John Surtees hold in the world of motorsport?
4. What oft-repeated phrase was first used by Rev. Theodore Parker at a Boston anti-slavery convention in 1950?
5. Petrichor is the name of which frequently cited 'favourite smell'?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.25
1. Which famous fashion designer started the craze for suntans after accidentally getting sunburnt on a cruise?
2. What was Saddam Hussein's military codename while in US custody?
3. Which music genre gets its name from a nightclub (and district) in Chicago where DJ Frankie Knuckles mixed different music styles and created the sound?
4. Apart from the classic controller attachment, the much-talked about Nintendo Wii remote also comes with an additional controller attachment that's connected to the primary Wii remote via a cable. What's this called?
5. Which phrase is derived from the French for 'blank paper'?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.24
1. In 2004, which ‘global currency’ exceeded the worth of all the dollar bills in circulation around the globe?
2. One in ten Europeans is allegedly conceived in a bed of which furniture brand?
3. Which country is referred to as the ‘little red dot’?
4. In bookmaking, what is vigorish?
5. Which place was originally named ‘Jebel Tarik’ or ‘Tarik’s mountain’ after a Moorish leader?
6. Outside of primates, which are the only species found to trust non-relatives on a routine basis?
7. What was the original name of Camp David, the retreat of US Presidents?
8. What is the Islamic name of the Queen of Sheba?
9. Which sporting event is held immediately after the Summer Olympics at the same venue?
10. Which EU countries still carry out the death penalty?
11. Which famous phrase was coined by sportswriter Dan Cook in 1978?
12. The red skyline in the Edward Munch painting ‘Scream’ were inspired by what?
13. Which country boasts the highest level language diversity in the world, averaging 1 language for every 6,500 reisdents?
14. During WWII, what were baseball commentators on radio prohibited from talking about?
15. What are the popcorn kernels that fail to pop called?
16. The name of which country literally means ‘House of stone’ in its native language?
17. According to World Bank estimates, about $ 167 billion flowed into developing countries (twice the amount of money they received as foreign aid.) From where?
18. What did Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympics, describe as "impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and wrong."?
19. Which civilization used a used a writing system that involved knotted strings called Khipu?
20. What’s the Sports Illustrated Jinx?
21. The Japanese name for Godzilla – Gojira – is a combination of the Japanese words for gorilla and what other creature?
22. Which city in England gave rise to the phrase ‘true blue’?
23. Where would you expect to find dragline silk, minor ampullate silk and flagelliform silk?
24. Which city in New Zealand is named after the erstwhile name for Edinburgh?
25. Which state in the US is called ‘Land of Lincoln’ because the 16th President spent most of his life there?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.23
1. The Colosseum's official name in Roman times was the Flavian Amphitheatre. How then did it get its popular name?
2. In 1916, New York imposed restrictions that ensured skyscrapers were pyramidal in structure (widely known as the wedding cake design.) Why?
3. The 5 surviving manuscripts of which historical document are referred to as Nicolay draft, Hay draft, Everett copy, Bancroft copy and Bliss copy?
4. Which famous TV show began as a radio show titled 'My Favourite Husband'?
5. What did the 2 CD set accompanying the 1992 reissue of the book 'Murmurs of Earth' contain?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.22
1. Which yesteryear Hollywood actress enjoyed such a squeaky clean image that she was referred to as 'the professional virgin'?
2. Which musical instrument gets its name from the supposed resemblance of its shape to an almond?
3. In competitive swimming, which is the only stroke that doesn't begin with a dive?
4. In the beginning there was television. And when colour television came along, what was originally referred to as television now became known as 'black and white television.' What is the word for this adjective-noun pairing generated by a change in meaning of the noun over time (other examples: silent movies, snail mail) usually because of advances in technology?
5. Which anti-nuclear movie - about a plant that almost blows up and the subsequent cover-up - was released just 12 days before the reactor accident at Three Mile Island in 1979?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.21
1. What is Paul McCartney's first name?
2. What is the practice of comparing the horoscope of two individuals to determine their compatibility known as?
3. What is a ballerina's skirt called?
4. Which jazz musician and bandleader disappeared without a trace on a flight between England and France in 1944?
5. There's also a London in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. On the banks of which river does this London stand?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.20

1. In European football, what does the waving of white handkerchiefs by fans signify?
2. Which Christian sect has two orders of priesthood - Melchisedek, dealing with religious matters and Aaronic, dealing with temporal matters?
3. How do jerry cans get their name?
4. Which scientific theory, now accepted as mainstream, gets its name from a derogatory term used to describe it by its detractor-in-chief, Fred Hoyle?
5. The Porsche 911 was initially christened Porsche 901 but the name had to be changed just before its release. Why?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.19
1. In February 2007, Roger Federer will become the longest reigning No.1 in men's tennis. Whose 25-year old record will he break?
2. Because it serves as the test bed for theories of thinking, what is known as the 'drosophilia (fruitfly) of cognitive science.'?
3. To be termed as a 'skyscraper' , how tall should a building be?
4. What popular snack is prepared using a process known as the 'fracture problem'?
5. The first warrant for Osama Bin Laden's arrest was issued by Interpol in 1998. At the request of which country?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.18
1. The name of the medical disorder 'pica' is derived from the Latin word for the magpie bird. What behaviour is pica characterised by?
2. How do we better know 'Defence of Fort McHenry', a poem written in 1814?
3. The surviving members of which band toured for a while as 'The Other Ones', following the death of their lead singer?
4. Which flower gets its name from its supposed resemblance to the crown of thorns and the wounds on Jesus' body?
5. Which software giant gets its name from a project for one its very first clients - the CIA?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.17
1. Which form of music gets its name from the Italian for 'like in the chapel'?
2. What's the name of the group within the British Conservative Party that advocates free market Thatcherite policies?
3. Which is the second largest military contingent in Iraq presently?
4. Donald Rumsfeld was the oldest to hold the post of US Defence Secretary. Who was the youngest?
5. What unique distinction does Berengaria, queen consort of Richard The Lionheart, hold among the queens of England?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.16
1. What is the name of the psychosomatic illness which causes dizziness and fainting fits in an individual exposed to particularly 'beautiful' art or a large amount of art in one place?
2. The name of which city means 'Hill Of Spring'?
3. What is the name of the passenger and cargo airline covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
4. Which is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court?
5. How high above the Earth does one have to orbit to be officially recognised as an astronaut by NASA?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.15
1. Theodore Herzl outlined the need to create a Jewish State in his book in 1896 and presented two options as the possible sites for the state of Israel. One was Palestine. What was the other?
2. Which North American city used to be referred as the 'Gibraltar Of America'?
3. How many Englishmen have served as Popes?
4. What does Shia literally mean?
5. The reforms of which stock exchange effected on one day - October 27th 1986 - are referred to as the 'Big Bang'?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.14
1. Which religious sect use an annual calendar consisting of 19 months of 19 days each?
2. In 1803, Napoleon changed the name of the Louvre to what?
3. By what name do we remember both the Russian bureau, Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, and its legacy?
4. Which US state was the first to ratify the US constitution?
5. Which island nation used to be known as New Holland before it got its present name?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.13
1. In China, returning emigres from the West are referred to as 'bananas.' Why?
2. The corporate university of which Fortune 500 company is referred to as 'Harvard-on-the-Hudson'?
3. If you 'have an earworm', what are you suffering from?
4. The line "Would you buy a used car from this man?" was first used to discredit whom?
5. How did the music album come to be called 'album'?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.12
1. The tradition of carrying the flame from Mt.Olympus to the actual venue was first started at which Olympics?
2. Sverdrup is the unit of measurement of what?
3. When someone is elected a Pope, the cardinal dean asks him two questions; the first is if he accepts the offfice. What's the second?
4. Ancient Egyptians used a base 12 system of counting. What lasting legacy of this do we still use in our everyday lives?
5. What's common to Samuel Langhorne Clemens - the writer we know as Mark Twain - and a certain Captain Sellers, a riverboat pilot who used to write about river conditions for the New Orleans Picayune in the mid-1880s?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.11
1. Which is the world's largest freshwater lake (by volume)?
2. Why is the flu epidemic of 1918 referred to as the Spanish Flu despite being a global outbreak?
3. What do the suffixes 'chester' or 'cester' in an English place name indicate?
4. From the end of World War II to turn of the century, no Purple Hearts medals were manufactured. Why?
5. The phrase 'expletive deleted' first entered the English language thanks to which historical/political event?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.10
1. What does the 'D' in D-day stand for?
2. Which African state was formed by repatriated former slaves from America?
3. What is a CAPTCHA?
4. The celebrated car deisgner Sir Alec Issigonis is credited with introducing which word to the English language?
5. Why is Mardi Gras named so?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.9
1. What is the official language of the United States Of America?
2. The standard SMS tone on a Nokia phone is Morse code for what?
3. Who are known as the Memphis Mafia?
4. Which object in the solar system has surface features exclusively named after characters in the Greek myth, Jason and the Argonauts?
5. What do you call a cheese lover?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.8
1. In the US, what's the title used to refer to an ex-president?
2. Which heavenly body was classified as a planet in the early 1800s, before being demoted?
3. Which group of islands were named as Sandwich Islands by James Cook?
4. During the Nazi regime, Jews were forced into taking on an extra first name for easy identification. What were the names (for men and women)?
5. Who is a Stratfordian?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.7
1. What is the prop used by actors to appear taller than they are, called?
2. What is the brazil nut effect?
3. What was MasterCard called when it was launched?
4. What was the originally planned location of the Statue of Liberty?
5. Which modern technology is named for a 10th century Danish king?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.6
1. Founded in 1951, what is the European Coal and Steel Community known as today?
2. What is the greek word for 'father's glory'?
3. What musical term was first used in 1909 to describe the release of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite?
4. Name the first company to sell IBM PC clones.
5. The bribe/illegal payoff money given by record companies to radio stations to play particular songs is known by a specific term. What?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.5
1. What's the large black spot at the centre of a tabla called?
2. Elvis Presley won all his 3 Grammys in which category?
3. What's the maximum number of clubs a golfer can carry on to the golf course?
4. The name of which capital city literally means 'muddy confluence'?
5. The Durand Line marks the border between which two countries?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.4
1. Before Britain started sending convicts and misfits to Australia, where were they banished to?
2. How is James Penny, a wealthy 18th century slave owner, immortalized in music?
3. What were the Kamikaze called in Japan?
4. Why are Plimsoll Shoes so named?
5. Where would you expect to find a 'toque blanche'?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.3
1. How do we know Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwazaru better?
2. If you were reading the Snellen chart, what would you be doing?
3. What is the term for the difference between the value of money and the cost of its production?
4. What was the last name of the British Royal Family before it was changed to Windsor?
5. Which movie mogul lends his name to illogical malapropisms like "Include me out" and "I may not always be right, but I am never wrong"?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.2
1. The highest distinction a kareteka can earn is not the black belt. Which rarely awarded belt is it?
2. In cinema, what is the vanity credit?
3. Which country has its map inscribed on its flag?
4. What is the headgear worn by graduating students called?
5. Which architectural landmark supposedly resembles Lord Krishna's mukut?

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The Ignoramus' Quiz No.1
1. Which country, in 1906, became the first country in the world to give women unrestricted rights both to vote and to stand for parliament?
2. When airports are named after people, it is usually the custom to do so posthumously. However, two living people are the notable exceptions. Who?
3. On what (in)auspicious day was the groundbreaking ceremony of the Pentagon performed?
4. Which living organisms make up about half - by weight - of all living things on Earth?
5. Which company is credited with introducing the idea of brand-building to China?

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