“GENERAL KNOWLEDGE TRIVIA”
As my eLanka readers should already know, your Editor has always been partial to a good phrase, or a quota of meaningful quotes, as the case may be, so let us get down to this quiz, which I hope will enable you to put on your “thinking caps”, because, as the great writer W.Somerset Maughan once quoted “Some people have a disinterested desire for knowledge. It is NOT an ignoble desire”
Please read the questions, then email us info@eLanka.com.au answers you think, are correct, and check them in the next issue of our Newsletter, which is now being praised by many, around the World. We will also pick a winner and see if we can share some of the Des Kelly Cds with the winner…
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- What is a Counter-Tenor ?.
- What was Sir Winston Churchill’s
first “post” in the British Govt., and
when was he appointed to it ?.
- What is the difference between a3
Haematite and a Haemostat ?.
- When is Trinity Sunday ?.
- If you tossed a coin 6 times and it
comes up “tails”, what are the
chances that it comes up “heads”,
at the 7th toss ?.
- What was the “Thunderer” ?.
- What is a Penang-Lawyer ?.
- At which University was Hamlet
educated ?.
- Which musical note is twice as
long as a Semi-demi quaver ?.
- What does the word “Aulese” mean
on German Wines ?.
Answers will be coming up on the next Newsletter of eLanka. Please watch out for them, and tell your friends to join us on eLanka. They are always welcome. dkelly2u@gmail.com
Desmond Kelly.
(Editor-in-Chief)eLanka.
My dear readers, the following are the answers to the above questions of Series 1.
- A Counter-Tenor is a high, falsetto
male voice, higher, of course, than
a natural Tenor, also sometimes
referred to, as a “male-alto”voice.
- Sir Winston Churchill’s first post
was Under-Secretary of State, for
the Colonies, in 1906.
- Haematite is a red iron-ore. A
Haemostat is something which
stops bleeding, a Styptic pencil,
for example, which is used after
shaving.
- Trinity-Sunday is the one after
Whit-Sunday.
- The chances of the coin coming
down heads or tails, is EVEN, no
matter how many times they are
tossed.
- “Thunderer” was the name given to
The British Times, Newspaper,
because of it’s frequently
aggressive articles, it was also the
name of a Ship of the Royal Navy
of the 19th Century.
- A Penang-Lawyer is a “walking-
stick, made from the stem of an
East Asiatic Dwarf-Palm.
- Hamlet was educated at the
University of Wittenberg, in Central
Germany.
- A demi-semi semi-quaver is twice a
long as a semi-demi-semi-quaver.
- The word “Auslese” means that the
wine has been made from specially
selected berries.
If, after you have double-checked
your answers, your score is 8/10,
please consider yourself excellent
in General-Knowledge Trivia, and
until the next time folks, KEEP
READING GOOD BOOKS. They are
an Education, unto themselves.
Desmond Kelly.
(Editor-in-Chief) eLanka.
