Off Topic Baldrick's Summer Quiz - Part 4

Answers next week. No cheating....

1) Who won the first football World Cup
2) What colour are airline black boxes?
3) What is the most common letter in the English language?
4) What kind of food is Monterey Jack?
5) Which bird has the largest wingspan?
6) In Greek mythology, who turned all that he touched into gold?
7) Which American president was a champion wrestler?
8) After WW2, which is the only country the USSR withdrew from in 1955
9) Which country has the most Olympic medals overall in tennis?
10) What was the average age of a Lancaster bomber crew during WW2
11) China is the world’s largest exporter of rice. True or false?
12) Who invented dynamite in 1867
13) The first vaccine was for which disease?
14) If you have cryophobia, what are you afraid of?
15) How many time zones are there in Russia?
16) In what country was Elon Musk born?
17) Paul McCartney credits which artist with teaching him everything he knows?
18) The Vatican Bank has the only ATM in the world that allows users to do what?
19) What's the only food that never expires?
20) Which famous singer was killed by his father in 1984?

 

I'll kick off with the easy ones

1. Uruguay
2. Red
3. E
4.Cheese
5. Albatross
6. Midas
7. Donald Trump (maybe ...)
9. Probably UK as we won everything early in the early 20th century
12. Alfred Nobel
13. Cowpox
16. South Africa
19. Honey
20. Marvin Gaye

 

7. Definitely not Trump. Only know it because I have seen it mentioned on a TV programme. I think he won over 300 times and lost only once. I think the answer would surprise others as much as it did me.

Don’t know about the tennis, there was only 1 Olympics in the 19th century, but was surprised to find out we are one of only 3 nations to compete in all the modern Olympics, both Summer and Winter along with France and Switzerland.

Number 10 is food for thought when you hear people saying a player is only a kid at 23, how the pressures get to him etc when the average age of a Lancaster crew was between 19 and 20.

19. White rice, but not brown rice, doesn’t spoil.

Three I didn’t know but could have a good guess at a couple of them.

 

You little devil, you made me laugh with 7

 

1) Uruguay
2) Orange
3) e
4) cheese
5) albatross
6) Icris
7) T. Roosevelt ...... B.Clinton as an outside guess.
8) Romania
9) US
10) 21
11) False
12) A. Nobel
13) polio
14) Dying
15) 8
16) Canada
17) Bert Weedon
18) confess
19) Marmite
20) M. Gaye

PS..Most of them are guesses.

 

7 is incorrect.

 

A good start, then you drop off a bit.

 

1. Uruguay
2. Orange
3. E
4.Cheese
5. Albatross
6. Midas
7. JFK
8. Poland
9. USA
10. 20
11. False
12. Alfred Nobel
13. Smallpox
14.
15.8
16. South Africa
17.
18.
19. Honey
20. Marvin Gaye

 

Story of my life....

14...Fear of Cold temperatures?

 

People are struggling with number 7.

 

Defo not JFK.....He had back trouble from an early age....so much so that he had to wear a brace for most of his life...fact.

 

Everybody has been way out with this one.

 

1. Uruguay
2. red
3. e
4. cheese
5. albatross
6. midas
7.
8. Poland
9. Australia
10. 20
11. false
12.
13. typhoid
14. cold/ice
15. 3
16. SAF
17.
18. donate to church
19. honey
20.Marvin Gaye

I think a good dozen of those are right, the rest are guesses. I'm sure Castro'll put me right

 

About a dozen are indeed right. The Vatican ATM thing is nothing to with money. I am guessing at 3 of them.

 

7. "Abey Baby, I'll have you"...In the Wrestling Hall of Fame even.

 

Someone else knows the right answer.

 

I randomly thought about it last night and for some reason Dubya came to mind. Not sure if it was some long lost snippet I'd remembered or just made up in my head. He looks the type though.

 

It was the 6’4” tall Abraham Lincoln.

 

Here’s one for you. What is the only no1, both here and America, co-written by an American vice president?

 

Before I answer this, was David Bowie ever the Vice pres or was he just President?