Wednesday, April 18, 2007

[quiz] a complete waste of time

1 What is a sum of money given but not loaned, for example, to establish a new business? [5]

2 What is considered to be the opposite of 'immigrant'? [8]

3 Which commune is of the département of Calvados, in the Basse-Normandie région, in France [14400]? It can also refer to a creature which is not an ant. [6]

4 What is a very large, supposedly mythical person, sometimes confused with an ogre? [5]

5 What would be the acronym for the Humanist Association of the Northern Territories? [4]

6 What is considered to be the opposite of 'emigrant'? [9]

7 What word means Oxford 'students who have qualified but not yet been admitted into their degree'? At Cambridge, they are 'graduands'. [10]


8 Which enlightenment philosopher changed his name from 'Emanuel' to 'Immanuel'? [4]

9 What is a water dispensing utility in the street, often used by the fire brigade? [7]

10 Which creature is from the family Formicidae, belonging to the order Hymenoptera which also includes sawflies, bees and wasps? [3]

11 What is the National Association of Nephrology Technicians known as, in acronymic form? [4]


The first letters of each word make the name of a famous warrior emperor whose name is now associated with a creature named at the end of each answer.


4 comments:

  1. Well I get the first part, Genghis Khan but not the last. Too sad.
    jmb

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  2. Well, I thought I was doing OK because I'd got some of them right (I did appallingly on the BBC website's cuts of meat quiz today), then you go and get complex at the end!

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  3. Bag - no only a strange mind could see a link there. Just ahving a bit of fun.

    JMB and Mutterings - sorry! I was being naughty.

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