February 2012
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ortsz quisz, round twenty-three
Questions:
In Turkish and Arabic traditions, how many lives are cats said to have?
Which is the most populous country in which the majority of the population is black?
Who was the first British pop star to openly admit to using LSD?
Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe?
By what name is “Canadian oil, low acid” better known?
Name a country without a designated...
January 2012
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ortsz quisz, round twenty-two
Questions:
Was Snoop Dogg a Crip or a Blood?
In which year was the first software MP3 encoder released: 1986, 1990, 1994, or 1998?
The pairing of salt and pepper as table condiments dates back to which century: 17th, 18th, 19th, or 20th?
Which of the following television shows is not a spinoff: The Colbert Report, The Cosby Show, Happy Days, Frasier, Melrose Place, NCIS, or The Simpsons?
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ortsz quisz, round twenty-one
Questions:
Who sponsored the King James Version of the Bible?
In 1997, who commissioned a copy of the Qur’an written in his own blood?
Which of the Founding Fathers of the United States was the last to die: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, or Alexander Hamilton?
The Mariana Islands consist of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana...
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ortsz quisz, round twenty
Questions:
In which century was the backslash first introduced?
True or false: the Tetris effect is so powerful that people with anterograde amnesia reported dreaming of falling shapes after playing Tetris during the day, despite not being able to remember playing the game at all.
For at least one of these country code top-level domains, name the country to which it belongs: .cd, .fm, .mu,...
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ortsz quisz, round nineteen
Questions:
The Chinese characters for the name of which continent mean “negative continent”?
A blister known as a Jennerian vesicle develops at the site of injection a few days after receiving which vaccine?
When pink first became a gendered colour, it was considered more appropriate for boys, while blue was appropriate for girls. In which decade did the colours become inverted to...
December 2011
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ortsz quisz, round eighteen
Questions:
What series of instructional books carries the subtitle “A Reference for the Rest of Us!”?
That series of books began in 1991 with what computing-related title?
Which regime is largely reponsible for the present negative connotations of the word “propaganda”?
Which real Soviet counter-intelligence agency, featured in fictional form in early James Bond novels,...
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ortsz quisz, round seventeen
Questions:
The common pain reliever para-acetylaminophenol is known by which two generic names, one used in the United States and the other used internationally?
The onset of analgesia (pain relief) occurs approximately how many minutes after the oral administration of the aforementioned drug: 1, 5, 10, 15, or 20?
What is the world’s most traded spice (by monetary value)?
Which river was...
November 2011
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ortsz quisz, round sixteen
Questions:
Which epic poem dated between the 8th and 11th centuries is the oldest extant English manuscript?
The first hour of the medieval monastic day began at 6:00 am; which hour of the day was known as noon?
In the middle of the 17th century, which Scandinavian country was the third-largest in Europe by land area?
In which country is the world’s largest coal exporting port,...
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ortsz quisz, round fifteen
Questions:
What colour shirts did members of the Nazi Party’s SA organisation wear?
Match these battle cries with the corresponding armed services: hooah, hooyah, oorah; US Army, US Marine Corps, US Navy.
Which of the following was not a policy introduced by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: glasnost, okroshka, perestroika, or uskoreniye?
At the International Meridian Conference in...
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classic ortsz quisz, round one
Questions:
In which city is Canada’s only Major League Baseball team located?
In which country is the river referenced in the idiom “crossing the Rubicon” (meaning to pass the point of no return) located?
Which of the following organs were not stored in canopic jars: the heart, intestines, lungs, liver, or stomach?
Scurvy is a disease resulting from a deficiency of which...
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classic ortsz quisz, round two
Questions:
In 1964, the brother of which famous American author attempted to establish his own nation on a bamboo raft anchored outside the territorial waters of Jamaica?
In the US Civil War, the Confederacy’s economic strategy was based on which export?
Which of the following citrus fruits existed naturally prior to human cultivation: lemon, lime, grapefruit, tangelo, or tangerine?
In...
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ortsz quisz, round fourteen
Questions:
Which event, which occurred a little over ten years ago and is commonly known by a short date-based abbreviation, is estimated to have cost over 300 billion US dollars?
The original Team Fortress was a mod for which video game?
True or false: in 1986, US warplanes mistook an undersea shoal near Sicily for a Libyan submarine and dropped depth charges on it.
The Treaty of Windsor,...
October 2011
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ortsz quisz, round thirteen
Questions:
What is the most common consonantal sound in the world’s languages?
Mao Zedong was prolific poet; is his style considered romantic or realist?
In 1987, the US House of Representatives and Senate passed a bill defining which genre as a unique form of American music?
Which is the only elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics to experience all four...
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ortsz quisz, round twelve
Questions:
In which year did the dot-com bubble burst?
Around the same time, Time Warner merged with which internet company in what is often considered the worst merger in history?
What is a duel between three opponents called?
Which country’s vice president suggested, in the lead up to war, that his country’s president and the enemy’s president settle their differences in...
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classic ortsz quisz, rounds three and four
Questions:
The OS/2 operating system was initially developed by Microsoft and which other company?
True or false: the juniper berry, from which gin derives its flavour, is actually a nut.
Which of the following is not an African capital city: Antananarivo, Brazzaville, Cape Town, Djibouti, Lagos, or Victoria?
Name a European country other than France that fought against Britain in the America...
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classic ortsz quisz, round five
Questions:
What does the S in SWAT stand for?
Is a sharecropper a member of the bourgeoisie or the proletariat?
In which country does the Naxalite militant Communist movement operate?
Which of the following products has Muammar Gaddafi not blamed for the Libyan civil war: alcohol, coffee, tea, or milk?
Gram staining is a method of differentiating bacterial species; Gram-positive bacteria...
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classic ortsz quisz, round six
Questions:
Humans, other higher primates, guinea pigs, and most bats lack the enzyme required for synthesis of which vitamin?
The name of which beverage comes from the colour of the habits worn by Capuchin friars?
Cinnabar is an ore of which element?
In 2008, after son was arrested there for assaulting his domestic servants, Muammar Gaddafi attempted to get the UN to abolish which European...
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classic ortsz quisz, round seven
Questions:
Which musical instrument takes its name from the French “hautbois”?
True or false: at the launch of the OS/2 Warp operating system in 1994, Patrick Stewart from Star Trek: The Next Generation was the Master of Ceremonies.
At the southern pole of inaccessibility, the point on Antarctica most distant from the Southern Ocean, there is a bust of which Soviet leader?
Which...
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classic ortsz quisz, round eight
Questions:
Most humans live on which continent?
Humans are most closely related to which species?
What colour is a white elephant?
By what name is “Brad’s Drink” now known?
Which of the following is not Dr. Pepper Time: 10, 2, 4, or 6 o’clock?
What drink was originally named “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda”?
Which country does port wine come...
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classic ortsz quisz, round nine
Questions:
Name the dish: romaine (cos) lettuce and croutons dressed with parmesan cheese, lemon juice, olive oil, egg, Worcestershire sauce, and black pepper.
Name the dish: bread topped with garlic and olive oil or butter.
Name the dish: a stew of chili peppers, garlic, onions, and cumin, and chopped or ground beef.
Name the sauce: an emulsion of oil, egg yolk and either vinegar or lemon...
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classic ortsz quisz, round ten
Questions:
Which Soviet leader said the following upon being removed from power: “Now everything is different. The fear is gone, and we can talk as equals. That’s my contribution. I won’t put up a fight.”
With which grain was that Soviet leader somewhat obsessed?
Which American president created the office whose head became known as the “energy czar” and...
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ortsz quisz, round eleven
Questions:
How many nuclear reactors are there in Australia?
Which European country produces the highest percentage of its electricity from nuclear reactors?
What ingredient does mayonnaise have that a vinaigrette lacks?
Service à la française is the practice of serving all dishes of a meal at the same time; since the nineteenth century, it has largely been replaced by the practice of...
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I “wrote” a “song”...
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Finally, of course, every new blog needs a trivial fact about British politics:
The Great Offices of State in the United Kingdom are the four most senior and prestigious posts in the British parliamentary system of government. They are the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary.
WIKIPEDIA Great Offices of State
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