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Quiz Five 2005/6 Season

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Palace Admits Prince Charles is Gay

What The Bible Says About Abortion

Meatheads, Slobs and Pencil Necked Geeks

Food Spirits and Calorie Demons

Where in the world is this?

Ottawa, the capital of Canada. The huge building with the green roof is the Canadian Parliament.

Owl

A thicket by any other name would be thorny indeed. Strange as it seems, only Satan could have possibly helped the natives escape Christianity. So what got its present name in the process?

mickhasalreadybeentaken

Mt. Diablo, California

Who painted this?

Henri Rousseau (with a bit of postwork by a favourite artist of mine called Willett). It is a self-portrait titled simply "Myself, Portrait-Landscape". It was painted in 1890 and now hangs in the National Gallery of the Czech Republic in Prague.

(I'd love to know what you scribbled on his palette, Martin!)

Owl

I had to cover up the original script in case it was Googleable and I added "Wal*Mart Paint by Numbers Kit" while I was at it. The plan to add a Green Day badge to his lapel didn't work out and I resisted the urge to turn his brush (?) into a giant spliff.

His mother was arrogant, his sister pretty, his brother a saint, his son pious and his grandson red. Who was he, and how was he described?

Arthur J Puty

Boleslaus I the Cruel, duke of Bohemia. His mother was Drahomíra the Arrogant, his sister Strezislava the Pretty, his brother St. Wenceslaus, his son Boleslaus II the Pious, and his grandson Boleslaus III the Red.

awaldock

Queen Victoria, Jimi Hendrix, Douglas Adams, Michelangelo. Which Ancient Roman emperor would feel at home with this sinister bunch?

Owl

This sinister lot are all left-handed and although Julius Caesar would be a likely answer here, (from wikipedia):

"Caesar Augustus (Latin:IMP·CAESAR·DIVI·F·AVGVSTVS) ¹ (23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), known to modern historians as Octavian for the period of his life prior to 27 BC, is considered the first and one of the most important Roman Emperors..."

So my answer is: TIBERIUS. Specifically,

Tiberius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero (November 16, 42 BC–March 16, AD 37).

niobium

What is suggested by the five following words?

Uganda

film star mainframe

reggae

a famous park

a certain Mount

niobium

Zion. UGANDA was suggested at the turn of the century in Germany as a possible place to relocate the Jews. (zionist movement)
The Zion MAINFRAME figures in the Matrix films.

REGGAE was Bob Marley's music who sings about Zion. A FAMOUS PARK is Zion National Monument(or maybe park) located in Utah.

A CERTAIN MOUNT is Mount Zion.

Nine of the following words have something in common; the tenth does not share that characteristic, but rather is a hint that might help you find the connection between the others, which is...?

shadow

silence

simple

slender

sly

snare

snout

snug

speed

swan

awaldock

They are characters in the plays of William Shakespeare:

Simon Shadow - Henry IV, Part 2
Silence - Henry IV, Part 2
Peter Simple - The Merry Wives of Windsor
Abraham Slender - The Merry Wives of Windsor
Christopher Sly - The Taming of the Shrew
Snare - Henry IV, Part 2
Tom Snout - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Snug - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Speed - The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Swan is the odd one out, and is the name of a theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, named after a theatre in London at the time of Shakespeare. Stratford was the birthplace of Shakespeare and is home
to the Royal Shakespeare Company, who regularly perform at the Swan.

Owl

In my trusty old dictionary between deprived of feeling and a person holding property I find a kind of infinity; the upper part of something vulgar; a cocky way past defenders; a semi-divine maiden; yet another byproduct of the plant Cannabis sativa; working class heroes or overrated gits; a bow; diverging sideways; a musical instrument; the opposite of tails and a secret world.

Can you find a few insults lurking around here?

Between numb and occupant you find numberless; numerator; nutmeg; nymph; oakum; ???; obeisance; oblique; oboe; obverse and occult.
You numskull, you nut, you nutter, you nympho, you oaf, you something meaning an overrated git.

awaldock

After giving him a pictorial clue Alan managed to complete the answer with the name of the overrated gits: Oasis.

What do......

A type of grass

A possible cold war weapon

A post-revolutionary leader

Rocky Marciano

and

A high-ranking veteran

...have in common and who is the odd-one-out and why?

Graybags

The clues lead to characters from George Orwell's "Animal Farm":

A type of grass = Squealer
A possible cold war weapon = Snowball
A post-revolutionary leader = Napoleon
Rocky Marciano = Boxer
A high-ranking veteran = Old Major

The odd-one-out is Boxer the horse; the others are pigs.

awaldock

Why might many devout monotheists find this place (the centre of the image) the most problematic place possible to cruise through?

It is nothing to do with the International date Line, it is quite a way East of that line, which is approximately on the antipodes of Greenwich, London. This place is antipodean though, the antipodes of Mecca, near the Tuamoto Archipelago in French Polynesia.

The image is centred on the exact antipodes of the centre of the Ka'ba (aka Qibla) in Mecca (to a ridiculously unnecessary accuracy of a hundredth of a second I'll have you know). A Muslim wishing to pray to Mecca would be spared the bother of working out which direction to face as Mecca is exactly the same distance away in any direction. However there may be other things the Muslim might want to do that day. A Muslim is under an obligation NOT to face Mecca while defecating. This would be a physical impossibility, whichever way he or she faced the holiest shrine in the world would be in the direct line of fire of the chocolate cannon. ...unless of course they aimed straight UP, but that might also have theological as well as practical drawbacks.

It would be probably wise to keep clear of this place if you wanted to keep the commandments of The Prophet. The nearest islands don't seem to house any Muslims. (Protestant 54%, Roman Catholic 30%, other 10%, no religion 6%.)

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Owl	4
niobium	4
Mickhasalreadybeentaken	3
Dadge	2

Too many difficult questions for one quiz. We need a better mix.

Well done Alan.

Again Owl has been the only person to get Alan's question right. How frustrating!