Text 13 Oct 1 note classic ortsz quisz, round eight

Questions:

  1. Most humans live on which continent?
  2. Humans are most closely related to which species?
  3. What colour is a white elephant?
  4. By what name is “Brad’s Drink” now known?
  5. Which of the following is not Dr. Pepper Time: 10, 2, 4, or 6 o’clock?
  6. What drink was originally named “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda”?
  7. Which country does port wine come from?
  8. Bibendum is the humanoid symbol of which French company?
  9. Which of the following is not one of the ingredients of mirepoix, a traditional French base for a wide variety of dishes: carrot, celery, garlic, or onions?
  10. Name a good sauce of glutamates.
  11. Name the Asian Tigers, the four countries which experienced very rapid industrialisation and economic between the 1960s and 1990s.
  12. Which Bond film was the last film JFK watched before going to Dallas?
  13. True or false: in 2003, Marvel Comics announced it was to publish a five-part series entitled Di Another Day featuring a resurrected Diana, Princess of Wales, as a mutant with superpowers.
  14. 10 Downing Street is the official residence of whom?
  15. By tradition, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been allowed to drink whatever he or she wishes whilst making the annual Budget Speech to the British Parliament, including alcohol, which is otherwise banned under parliamentary rules. What was Gordon Brown’s drink of choice as Chancellor?
  16. Factor VIII and Factor IX are proteins, defects in the genes for which result in which disorder?
  17. Home taping is killing what?
  18. Name one of the two metals in the alloy molybdochalkos.
  19. What was deemed the most effective truth drug by the Office of Strategic Services in the early 1940s?
  20. In zoological nomenclature, a species can be formally defined by a single specimen, known as the lectotype, which means that the species can be validly defined as the species to which that specimen belonged. In 1959, which 18th century scientist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature was defined as the lectotype for Homo sapiens?

Answers:

  1. Asia (61% live in Asia; 14% live in the Americas, 14% in Africa, 11% in Europe, and 0.5% in Oceania.)
  2. The common chimpanzee or the bonobo. (It’s hard to say which.)
  3. Reddish-brown to pink. (They were considered sacred and kept by South-east Asian monarchs.)
  4. Pepsi.
  5. 6 o’clock. (And during World War II, a radio program called ‘The 10-2-4 Ranch’ aired areas of the US where Dr Pepper was distributed.)
  6. 7-up.
  7. Portugal.
  8. Michelin.
  9. Garlic.
  10. Soy sauce, oyster sauce, or fish sauce, amongst others.
  11. Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.
  12. From Russia with Love. (The president had named the novel one of his ten favourite books of all time.)
  13. True. (Amidst considerable outcry, the idea was quickly dropped.)
  14. The First Lord of the Treasury. (Technically, not the Prime Minister, though they are now always the same person.)
  15. Water.
  16. Haemophilia.
  17. Music. (And it’s illegal.)
  18. Lead or copper. (But not molybdenum.)
  19. Cannabis. (They found it caused a subject “to be loquacious and free in his impartation of information”.)
  20. Carl Linnaeus.
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