Text 22 Nov ortsz quisz, round fifteen

Questions:

  1. What colour shirts did members of the Nazi Party’s SA organisation wear?
  2. Match these battle cries with the corresponding armed services: hooah, hooyah, oorah; US Army, US Marine Corps, US Navy.
  3. Which of the following was not a policy introduced by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: glasnost, okroshka, perestroika, or uskoreniye?
  4. At the International Meridian Conference in 1884, which of the following countries did not vote in favour of the Greenwich Meridian: Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, the Ottoman Empire, or Russia?
  5. Pretz is the savoury counterpart to which popular Japanese snack food?

Answers:

  1. Brown. (The colour was chosen because a large number of brown uniforms ordered for World War I were cheaply available.)
  2. Hooah, US Army; hooyah, US Navy; oorah, US Marine Corps.
  3. Okroshka. (It’s a cold soup made with kvass.)
  4. France. (France abstained, as did Brazil; the only dissenting vote came from San Domingo, now the Dominican Republic.)
  5. Pocky.

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