Steven's Quiz 13 (Questions only)

1. Who am I? I was seen as a poor student who couldn't spell, a member of the Cambridge society of Gluttons and ate animals such as the Brown Owl. Many zoologists participate in a Phylum Feast on my birthday (12 February) where they eat as many different species as possible.

2. Who am I? I was the first Englishman to set foot in Australia and invented the "wind over current" map. My "A New Voyage Around the World" was carried around by sailors for 100 years and I was responsible for influencing the books "Robinson Crusoe" and "Gulliver's Travels".

3. Extremophiles are the only organisms that live in which sea?

4. How many people died in the Great Fire of London in 1666? Plus or minus 200.

5. True or false: Lemmings commit suicide by jumping over cliffs.

6. What are the four main religions in India?

7. What is the most commonly found bird in the world? Seven letters.

8. Which animal am I? I can communicate using infrasound. If chased, I can run faster than a cheater. I can kick hard enough to shatter a lion's skull and I sleep on average only 1.9 hours per day.

9. The fingerprints of which animal are almost exactly the same as those for human beings, often causing major problems for detectives in Australia?

10. A device called the "vomit comet" is used to train which group of people?

11. Where can one find the American flag that is never lowered? (Clue: Pink Floyd sang about it)

12. Actor Beau Bridges' real name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III but his parents decided to call him Beau after Ashley Wilkes' son in which famous novel?

13. What is the currency of Iceland?

14. The river Danube flows through an amazing 17 countries, name ten of them.

15. What do the following have in common:
    Ross Carpenter
    Rusty Wells
    Mike McCoy
    Lucky Jackson
    Mike Windgren?