Pauls Quiz 502: multiple choice
5 of the 20 questions have four options to choose from; the others stay as normal questions, because no fair wrong answers could be found for them. Tap an option to see if you are right.
1. Which C. G. Jung term meaning "meaningful coincidence" topped the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic in 1983?
Synchronicity (The Police)
2. What was Casanova's first name?
Giacomo
3. Which Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor passed away during the filming of the 2009 film 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'?
Heath Ledger
4. Which famous temple is found on the slopes of Mt Parnassus?
Delphi
5. India currently has a population of circa 1.48 billion inhabitants. According to the UN, what was the population of India in 1950? Plus or minus 72,000,000.
372,000,000
6. Which woodwind instrument is named after a 19th century Belgian musician and instrument maker?
7. The 1904 Battle of Port Arthur was the catalyst to a war involving which two imperial powers?
Russia and Japan
8. Although the literary source is questionable, who was executed between Dismas and Gestas?
Jesus (Dismas and Gestas were the two thieves)
9. Which absent minded inventor lived at 1640 Riverside Drive, Hill Valley, California?
Emmett 'Doc' Brown (Back to the Future)
10. The following lyrics are all from 'oldies' with the word "Days" somewhere in the song title. Can you name the song? One point for each correct answer.
Four answers.
11. In 1981, before the term AIDS was coined, the North American press called the disease GRID. What did the acronym GRID stand for? One point for each correct letter.
Gay Related Immune Dificiency
12. Who was the head of the KGB from 1967 untill 1982?
13. Which film, a winner of four Academy Awards, begins with the following words.?
No Country For Old Men
14. Which plant with colourful foliage is named after a 19th century US ambassador to Mexico?
15. Still in use today, what did Great Britain and the American colonies adopt on September 14, 1752?
Gregorian calender
16. Visitors at the 1969 Woodstock festival were warned over the public address system to not eat which colour acid?
Answer a. brown
17. Which flag is found in the top left corner of the state flag of Hawaii?
Union Flag of the United Kingdom
18. A movie tag line to which Ridley Scott film was, "The search for our beginning could lead to our end"?
19. The astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee were all killed in a fire during which Apollo mission?
Answer a. Apollo 1
20. Which herbivorous mammal was the title of a number one album in the 2003 UK charts (number 6 in the US)?
ANSWERS
1. Synchronicity (The Police)
2. Giacomo
3. Heath Ledger
4. Delphi
5. 372,000,000
6. D Saxaphone
7. Russia and Japan
8. Jesus (Dismas and Gestas were the two thieves)
9. Emmett 'Doc' Brown (Back to the Future)
10. Four answers.
11. Gay Related Immune Dificiency
12. D Yuri Andropov
13. No Country For Old Men
14. A Poinsettia
15. Gregorian calender
16. Answer a. brown
17. Union Flag of the United Kingdom
18. D Prometheus
19. Answer a. Apollo 1
20. C Elephant