The World's Easiest Quiz

[Spritle]

OK, everyone, there have been some cool games with some really obscure trivia involved. Gosh, they made me feel stoopit! If I can’t answer even one of those questions, what am I doing here on the boards trying to squash ignorance and all?

Here’s an easy quiz for you. The first person to answer all 10 correctly wins immense braggin’ rights.

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 evolution?
5. What is a camel’s hair brush made of?
6. The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
7. What was King George VI’s first name?
8. What color is a purple finch?
9. What country do Chinese gooseberries come from?
10. How long did the Thirty Years War last?

Let the games begin.

[Tansu]

pssst, ‘canaries’ is not the answer to 6.

[dantheman]

Ok, I’ll bite, even though I know some of these are probably trick questions… Easiest, eh? So if I get them all wrong I’m damned to Heck, right?

1. How long did the Hundred Years War last? 100 years!
2. Which country makes Panama hats? Panama!
3. From which animal do we get catgut? cats!
4. In which month do Russians celebrate the October evolution? October!
5. What is a camel’s hair brush made of? camel’s hair!
6. The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal? Canaries!
7. What was King George VI’s first name? George! (or King!)
8. What color is a purple finch? purple!
9. What country do Chinese gooseberries come from? China!
10. How long did the Thirty Years War last? 30 years!

[Spritle]

Dan, one correct!

[UncleBeer]

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How’d I do?

[screech-owl]

1. 112
2. Dunno
3. Sheep
4. Dunno
5. Dunno
6. Dogs (Canis)
7. Dunno
8. (Carpodacus purpureus) - Depends on sex and subspecies - Rose on adult males, brightest on head and rump, with brownish coloring on wing and tail. Adult females and immatures are heavily streaked brown and white, adult females also have a whitish eybrow and cheek stripe. The Pacific coast subspecies C.p. californicus is buffier and more diffusely streaked than the more widespread C.p. purpureus, especially in females. (Found throughout eastern plains states and east coast US, west coast US, Baja California and Canada (noticibly absent from the western plains and US Rockies).
9. Australia
10. 35

[Spritle]

Unc, Oh my!

screech Three. (you could have said “red” for number 8!)

[screech-owl]

Could have, but I’m here to fight ignorance too! (Okay, I may put you to sleep in the process, but ya’ll be educated, dangit! - 'Taint my fault that the Purple Finch practices sexual dimorphism!)

1. 114?
2. 37?

[dantheman]

One! One! One! Yesss!

If I had gotten three, I was going to do the Snoopy happy dance. If I had gotten more than 7, I was going to do a waltz.

But since I only got one… hmmm… Fraid I’ll have to do the lapdance in a g-string for some unlucky lady.

(Besides, someone had to guess the obvious ones!)

[hibernicus]

*Originally posted by spritle *
**Here’s an easy quiz for you. The first person to answer all 10 correctly wins immense braggin’ rights.

4. In which month do Russians celebrate the October evolution?
5. What is a camel’s hair brush made of?
6. The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
7. What was King George VI’s first name?
8. What color is a purple finch?
9. What country do Chinese gooseberries come from?
10. How long did the Thirty Years War last?

Let the games begin.
**

4. a) they don’t. b) November
5. Dogs (and for a bonus point, the Canaries are not in the Pacific.
6. Albert
7. Chinese gooseberries are kiwi fruit, so you could say NZ.
8. 35 years

[Spritle]

Hibernicus, Three. (Though I really shouldn’t reply, since you didn’t attempt them all and now the others hav an unfair advantage.)

[Edward_The_Head]

*Originally posted by spritle *
**

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 evolution?
5. What is a camel’s hair brush made of?
6. The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
7. What was King George VI’s first name?
8. What color is a purple finch?
9. What country do Chinese gooseberries come from?
10. How long did the Thirty Years War last?
    **

1. I got 92 years, but other sources give or take a few years.

2. Ecuador

3. Sheep. no one better come after my cats! they can have the dog though.

4. I knew this one even without previous help, it’s November, helps to have Russian Inlaws.

5. this site http://www.berol.co.uk/pen/ says Camel and Rat hair. don’t know though.

6. dogs

7. well this is a new one on me Albert Frederick Arthur George is his name so Albert is his first!

8. Red/brown depending.

9. how far back are we going? this site Loading... says they come from China, New Zealand, and the US

10. 30 years 1618-1648

[Spritle]

Edward, a whopping 8 correct! (according to my sources). And, of course, your answers must match mine to be considered correct.

[TwistofFate]

1. How long did the Hundred Years War last? 87 years
2. Which country makes Panama hats? England
3. From which animal do we get catgut? Sheep
4. In which month do Russians celebrate the October evolution? May
5. What is a camel’s hair brush made of? Camel’s hair?
6. The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal? Dog
7. What was King George VI’s first name? albert
8. What color is a purple finch? red/brown
9. What country do Chinese gooseberries come from? new Zeland
10. How long did the Thirty Years War last? 35 years
    (shameless answer stealing… ;))

[Spritle]

Twisty, 5 correct. You stole some of the wrong ones! (going quickly from shameless to shameful :))

[Spritle]

Just a little bump to keep it alive for our friends across the globe and for those still working. I’ll post answers tomorrow morning (my time).

[ianzin]

Good quiz, Spritle!

1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?
116 years, from 1337 to 1453.

2) Which country makes Panama hats?
Ecuador.

3) From which animal do we get catgut?
Sheep and horses.

4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October revolution?
November. The Russian calendar was 13 days behind ours.

5) What is a camel’s hair brush made of?
Squirrel hair.

6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
The Latin name was Insularia Canaria - Island of the Dogs.

7) What was King George VI’s first name?
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) What color is a purple finch?
Red.

9) What country do Chinese gooseberries come from?
New Zealand.

10) How long did the Thirty Years War last?
30 years. 1618-1648.

[Speaker_for_the_Dead]

This quiz came from a Bathroom Reader. I recognized it at once, and I knew all of those except the Chinese Gooseberries and the Finches, because I forgot.

[Silver_Fire]

Like Speaker, I read this quiz in a bathroom reader. So I won’t answer the questions.

[iampunha]

I first saw this my senior year of high school, and as such won’t give away the answers (though ianfin already helped).