quarta-feira, 31 de julho de 2013

Tuesday 29th Quiz at La Estación!


general knowledge questions:
1.       Who was the first ever pope?
2.       According to Led Zeppeln, you shouldn´t be alarmed If there´s a bustle in your what?
3.       Which actor won the best actor Oscars in 94 and 95?
4.       Which German Jewish teenage girl wrote a dirary while she was hiding from the Nazis in the Netherlands?
5.       Who wrote the novels that would become the films Minority Report, Total recall and Blade Runner?
6.       What word comes after match, bread, candle and lip to make 4 new words?
7.       Which brazilian artist´s museum was designed by  Álvaro Siza Vieira (bairro cristal)
8.       What was the name of the boat on which Greek hero Jason sailed to find the golden fleece?
9.       Euclideas and tales are associated with which branch of mathematics?
10.    Which TV show is presented by Celso Zucatelli, Chris Flores, eEdu Guedes.? (morning)
11.   Japanese comics are called what?
12.   What was guns and roses first album called? Appetite for destruction or Lies
13.   Can pigs swim ? yes or no.
14.   What is the name of the organization that controls the international actions of police? (it´s also a band)
15.   What is the name given to the theory proposed by scientist James Lovelock that the earth is a living organism in biostasis? (clue – it´s the name of a Greek goddess)
16.   What is the name of the new future king of England? Tyler, Rambo, Winston, George or Peter
17.   Brazil won forever the first world cup? How was this world cup called?
18.   Which is the heaviest element to be found in nature? Lead, uranium or titanium
19.   Which English racing driver won the 2008 Formula 1 World Championship? Nigel Mansell, Michal Shumacher, Lewis Hamilton or Jenson Button
20.   Which 90s comic book written by Neil Gaiman and published by Vertigo follows the adventures of Dream in the land of Dreaming and beyond? Clue – Metallica


answers

1.       Pedro
2.       Hedgerow
3.       Tom hanks
4.       Anne frank
5.       Philip k dick
6.       Stick
7.       Ibere camargo
8.       Argo
9.       Geometria
10.   Hoje em dia
11.   Manga
12.   Appetite for destruction 87
13.   Yes
14.   Interpol
15.   Gaia
16.   Prince George Alexander Louis
17.   Jules rimet
18.   Uranium
19.   Lewis Hamilton
20.   sandman






quarta-feira, 3 de julho de 2013

America We Stand As One


1.      Which football classic match is the oldest A. Corinthians verus Palmeiras, B. Flamengo vs Fluminense , C. Botafogo vs Fluminense
2.      What´s bigger? a megabyte,  a kilobyte or a gigabyte?
3.      Our sun is a member of what galaxy?
4.      The name of which Spanish wine means bleeding?
5.      How many balls on the table at the start of a pool game
6.      Which country gave the statue of liberty to America?
7.      In the 1952 and 56 olympics Brazilian Ademar Ferreira da Silva won gold medals in what event?
8.      Which US state capital ends in x
9.      Which US coffee chain is named after the 1st mate from moby dick/ brazil q.
10.  Kelly Slater is associated with what sport?
11.  Muppets Bert and Ernie live on what street?
12.   What do you call a submarine in German?
13.  What do Americans call sweets?
14.  Who plays CIA agent Jack Bauer in the tv series 24?
15.  What does film company MGM stand for?
16.  Bhakti, Hatha, Karma and tantra are all types of what Hindu and Buddhist meditational and physical practice?
17.  What word comes before load, fall, cast and beat to make 4 new words?
18.  What is the name of the process in which atoms or molecules become ions by gaining or losing electrons?
19.   Which American general made his last stand against the Indians in the battle of little bighorn?
20.  What planet does Superman come from?

BONUS: For 2 points, what do the first letters of questions 11 to 20 spell out!?




General knowledgeAnswers :
1.        Botafogo vs Fluminense
2.        Gigabyte
3.        Milky Way
4.        Sangria
5.        15
6.        France
7.        Triple jump (salto triplo)
8.        Phoenix
9.        Starbucks
10.     Surfing
11.     Sesame Street
12.     U-boat
13.     Candy
14.     Kiefer Sutherland
15.     Metro Goldwyn Mayer
16.     Yoga
17.     Down
18.     Ionisation
19.     Custer
20.     Krypton

21.     SUCK MY DICK

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