Set One
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Set One
Dire Straights
1.1
Project Sign, Project Grudge, and Project Blue Book were official USAF investigations of what unnatural phenomenon?
1.2
BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump. What are the four categories?
1.3
The enemy advances, we retreat. The enemy camps, we harass. The enemy tires, we attack. The enemy retreats, we pursue. What is Mao Tse-Tung describing?
Fill in the blanks
1.4
Fill the blanks (Use phrase): It was first used by the London Times on 28 December, 1937 of that year, "Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new _______ __ ____ ___________?"
1.5
Fill in the blanks. All the blanks are the same and consist of a phrase of two words:
There's a big holler tree down the road here from me
where you lay down a doller er two.
When you come round the bend and when you come back again
There's a jug full of good old __________.
Oh they call it that old ____________ and them that refuse it are few.
I'll shut up my mug if you fill up my jug with some good old _____________.
(Seen this at a couple of quizzes)
1.6
Complete (Olympics) - Otis Davis, Carl Kaufmann, Malcolm Spence, ________.
(Credit for this question goes to Hrishikesh Varma)
1.7
Fill up the blank with a sentence and tell me who spoke these lines:
"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. __________________________ ; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
(Once again by Hrishikesh Varma)
Picture that
1.8
Whose coat of arms was this:
1.9
What is going on here?
1.10
The women in this picture are about to start on an expedition to climb Mount Everest. This climb was on the 20th anniversary of another famous climb made in 1984. Who made the climb in 1984?
Salut!
The solutions for set Zero haven't been posted yet (they'll be posted after 4 - 7 days), so feel free to send in your answers.
One extra point - while rating the questions you are free to suggest ways of improving them so that they are more interesting.
On to the questions:
Set One
Dire Straights
1.1
Project Sign, Project Grudge, and Project Blue Book were official USAF investigations of what unnatural phenomenon?
1.2
BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump. What are the four categories?
1.3
The enemy advances, we retreat. The enemy camps, we harass. The enemy tires, we attack. The enemy retreats, we pursue. What is Mao Tse-Tung describing?
Fill in the blanks
1.4
Fill the blanks (Use phrase): It was first used by the London Times on 28 December, 1937 of that year, "Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new _______ __ ____ ___________?"
1.5
Fill in the blanks. All the blanks are the same and consist of a phrase of two words:
There's a big holler tree down the road here from me
where you lay down a doller er two.
When you come round the bend and when you come back again
There's a jug full of good old __________.
Oh they call it that old ____________ and them that refuse it are few.
I'll shut up my mug if you fill up my jug with some good old _____________.
(Seen this at a couple of quizzes)
1.6
Complete (Olympics) - Otis Davis, Carl Kaufmann, Malcolm Spence, ________.
(Credit for this question goes to Hrishikesh Varma)
1.7
Fill up the blank with a sentence and tell me who spoke these lines:
"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. __________________________ ; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
(Once again by Hrishikesh Varma)
Picture that
1.8
Whose coat of arms was this:
1.9
What is going on here?
1.10
The women in this picture are about to start on an expedition to climb Mount Everest. This climb was on the 20th anniversary of another famous climb made in 1984. Who made the climb in 1984?
Salut!
posted by Rare Hand Axe at 6:44 AM
2 Comments:
1.1 Pebc pvepyrf
1.2 Ohvyqvat Nagraan ...... Rnegu (F - Fcnpr ???)
1.3 gnpgvpf bs theevyn jnesner ??
1.4 jrncbaf bs znff qrfgehpgvba
1.5
1.6
1.7 vf vg wbua yraaba . ebpx naq ebyy unf zber sbyybjref guna Puevfgvnavgl
1.9 pyrnavat bs gur ynxr.
1.10 Onpuraqev cny
1.1 HSB(Havqragvsvrq Sylvat Bowrpg).
1.2 Ohvyqvat, Nagraan, Fcnaf(oevqtrf), Rnegu(Pyvss), gur sbhe yriryf sebz juvpu jr pna whzc.
1.3 Threevyyn Jnesner.
1.4 Jrncbaf bs Znff Qrfgehpgvba(JZQ).(tbbtyrq)
1.5 Zbhagnva Qrj.(tbbtyrq)
1.6 Zvyxun Fvatu, Gur Sylvat Fvxu.(tbbtyrq)
1.7 Wbua Bab Yraaba.(tbbtyrq)
1.8 Gur Cncny Pbng bs nezf bs Cbcr Wbua Cnhy VV. (tbbtyrq)
1.9 Xne Frin be qrfvygvat bs gur gnax va gur Qhetvnan Grzcyr be Ynxfuzv Anenlna Grzcyr, Nzevgfre.(tbbtyrq)
1.10 Zf. Onpuraqev Cny, gur svefg Vaqvna jbzna gb pyvzo gur Zbhag Rirerfg.
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