Text 8 Feb 2 notes ortsz quisz, round twenty-three

Questions:

  1. In Turkish and Arabic traditions, how many lives are cats said to have?
  2. Which is the most populous country in which the majority of the population is black?
  3. Who was the first British pop star to openly admit to using LSD?
  4. Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe?
  5. By what name is “Canadian oil, low acid” better known?
  6. Name a country without a designated national day.
  7. Which is the only national football team to have played in every World Cup?
  8. What is the largest winning streak in professional sports: 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, or 999 consecutive wins?
  9. Which airline is the Netherland’s flag carrier?
  10. In which war were napalm bombs first used?
  11. Members of what Christian movement are known as Friends?
  12. Two US presidents belonged to this movement; name one.
  13. Who was the youngest US President to take office?
  14. Which of these former Vice Presidents of the United States still has a pulse: Walter Mondale, Gerald Ford, Dick Cheney, Spiro Agnew, or Hubert Humphrey?
  15. What kind of vehicle is designated Army One?

Answers:

  1. Six.
  2. Nigeria.
  3. Paul McCartney.
  4. Juan Sebastián Elcano and the other survivors of the Magellan expedition. (Ferdinand Magellan himself was killed in battle during the voyage and did not complete the circumnavigation.)
  5. Canola.
  6. United Kingdom or Denmark. (Possibly others.)
  7. Brazil. (Brazil was the only South American country to compete in both the 1934 and 1938 tournaments, as most others were unwilling to travel to Europe.)
  8. 555. (Achieved by Jahangir Khan in squash from 1981 to 1986. Currently, the Dutch wheelchair tennis player Esther Vergeer is on a winning streak of around 444 matches, having not lost a match for nine years.)
  9. KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines). (Speaking of flag carriers, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden all have the same one: Scandinavian Airlines.)
  10. World War II.
  11. Quakers.
  12. Richard Nixon or Herbert Hoover.
  13. Teddy Roosevelt. (John F. Kennedy, 43, was the youngest person to be elected President; Roosevelt became President at the age of 42 after the asssassination of William McKinley. Roosevelt was also the first American to win a Nobel Prize.)
  14. Walter Mondale. (While alive, Dick Cheney does not have a pulse; he has a device that pumps blood constantly throughout his body.)
  15. An aircraft, usually a helicopter.
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