And there's more...

[Rob_the_Saint]

The World's Easiest Quiz?

 

1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?

 

2) Which country makes Panama hats?

 

3) From which animal do we get catgut?

 

4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?

 

5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?

 

6) The Canary Islands in the Atlantic are named after what animal?

 

7) What was King George VI's first name?

 

8) What colour is a purple finch?

 

9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?

 

10) How long did the Thirty Years War last?

 

 

[GHA EFM]

1. Cheese

 

2. Purple

 

3. 47 seconds

 

4. Colin Zeal EFM

 

5. Sony

 

6. Toy Story 2

 

7. Hertfordshire

 

8. Garage

 

9. Diamond

 

10. Moses

[Northern Monkey]

1- 112 yrs (something like that anyway)

6- Dogs (canaris, latin for dog)

9- New Zealand (ha ha)

[Rob_the_Saint]

Very good. GHA, see me later, boy.

[EFM's Librarian]

3. Horses?

[EFM Trev]

4. November.

 

That is all.

[Northern Monkey]

3-rabbits?

2- Mexico?

5- Horse hair

7- Charles?

10-27 years?

 

[EFM's Librarian]

Rob - I'm disappointed. I decided to search for the answer to the catgut one (don't worry, I won't say what it was) and I found all the questions together on one site. I thought you'd used your huge brain to come up with all the questions yourself <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

[Rob_the_Saint]

Oh yeah, as if I've got nothing better to do all day than think up questions to put on here... anyway, now I've been rumbled, here are the answers...

 

 

1. 116 years, from 1337 to 1453.

 

2. Ecuador.

 

3. From sheep and horses.

 

4. November. The Russian calendar was 13 days behind ours.

 

5. Squirrel fur.

 

6. The Latin name was Insularia Canaria - Island of the Dogs.

 

7. Albert. When he came to the throne in 1936 he respected the wish of Queen Victoria that no future king should ever be called Albert.

 

8. Distinctively crimson.

 

9. New Zealand.

 

10. Thirty years, of course. From 1618 to 1648.

 

 

I have to admit I only knew two of them. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

 

 

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Quote:

6) The Canary Islands in the Atlantic are named after what animal?

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6. The Latin name was Insularia Canaria - Island of the Dogs.

You trying to tell me we have the canary islands in east london <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />
So when all them poor Essex folk go on holiday to places like the Isle of Grain and Canvey Island and say "we were at a little place just outside the canarys", we know what they mean now!

[Rob_the_Saint]

Ahh, Isle of Dogs - Canary Wharf, it all starts to make sense now....

[CANV EFM]

thats actually quite intresting