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One-Eye

The Oldie Quiz

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subject: October Quiz

1. 30
2. Sergei Rachmaninoff
3. Sherpa Tenzing
4. Dalai Lama
5. The Queen's Pembroke Welsh Corgis
6. choose either Trudie Goodwin or June Ackland
7. Man
8. ??????????????? SEE BELOW
9. Fletcher Christian
10. Cyclist
11. The Gettysburg Address
12. Kellogg's Cornflakes
13. Leopold Bloom
14. Rugby League
15. Billy Graham
16. Nonesuch Records
17. K2
18. Stephen Frears
19. Tectonic Plates
20. Nancy Sinatra


I'm stuck on Q8:

Sweden, Switzerland, Paraguay, Lichtenstein, Turkey, Nepal, Yemen, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Spain and Portugal. What’s the mid-20th-century connection?

D_M_E

I think this refers to the talks on disarmament October 2013 when they all voted in favour, but 2013 is not mid 20th century - I'll have to do some more thinking on this.

nursey71

It depends what source they have used, but there are references on some websites that suggest that all the countries were neutral during WW2 e.g

http://www.heeve.com/modern-history/what-countries-were-involved-in-world-war-2.html

(Several sites suggest that Nepal for example was neutral, though according to wiki, it declared war on Germany on September 4, 1939)

One-Eye

My first thought was WW2 neutrality, but Nepal were definitely involved throughout with over 250,000 fighting, and Turkey also declared war on Germany, although not until 23/02/1945.

One-Eye

Correct answers:

7. Tortoise
8. All neutral during World War II
17. K6