“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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1.  What is a Counter-Tenor ?.
2.  What was Sir Winston Churchill’s

      first “post” in the British Govt., and

      when was he appointed to it ?.

3.  What is the difference between a3

       Haematite and a Haemostat ?.

4.  When is Trinity Sunday ?.
5.  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 ?.

6.  What was the “Thunderer” ?.
7.  What is a Penang-Lawyer ?.
8.  At which University was Hamlet 

      educated ?. 

9.  Which musical note is twice as 

       long as a Semi-demi quaver ?.

10. 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.

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.

2.  Sir Winston Churchill’s first post 

      was Under-Secretary of State, for 

      the Colonies, in 1906.

3.  Haematite is a red iron-ore. A 

      Haemostat is something which 

      stops bleeding, a Styptic pencil, 

      for example, which is used after 

      shaving.

4.  Trinity-Sunday is the one after 

       Whit-Sunday.

5.  The chances of the coin coming 

       down heads or tails, is EVEN, no

       matter how many times they are 

       tossed.

6.  “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.

7.  A Penang-Lawyer is a “walking-

      stick, made from the stem of an

      East Asiatic Dwarf-Palm.

8.  Hamlet was educated at the 

      University of Wittenberg, in Central

      Germany.

9.  A demi-semi semi-quaver is twice a

      long as a semi-demi-semi-quaver.

10. 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.