By Old Pete
June 18 2014

The answers to round 2 of the Summer Quiz

 

 

 

 

Answers

1.  Which Country has the largest population of wild camels   -    Australia

2. True or false ?  -    The Southern Bush Adder is the only poisonous snake in NZ  False –there are no snakes in NZ

3.  The Argentine national rugby team are known as the Pumas  -what is wrong with that ?   The  first use of the name Pumas is attributed to a South African journalist who mistook the jaguar on the team badge for a puma.

4. Excluding Zoos and other kept animals –which is the nearest country  to the UK with a wild wolf population  France

5.  which predators would you associate with the “acronyms “    - Pzkpfw  VI   and Pzkpfw V  Tiger and Panther  German tanks in world War 2 – Pzkpw  - stands for panzerkampfwagen.

6. Where or what am I -   “ I have two large squares one named after a Napoleonic French general and the other after an Italian liberator. The Church of England was involved  in building a  walkway by the sea to provide work for the unemployed ; my airport is the second busiest in the country.

Nice

7  What is the connection between- An Irish Nationalist , Warrington   and a Hitler HQ  Wolf or Wolves -   Wolfe Tone ;  Warrington Wolves  Rugby League team ;  and the Wolfs Lair  Hitler’s HQ for the Eastern Front.

8. Who am I – I was born Heinz Alfred…………. in Bavaria  - but    throughout my adult life I was known by another anglicised first name. ; I played football as a youth and never lost my love for the game even when my family moved to the safety of another country.  I served in that country’s military and worked in intelligence.  I had a successful academic career graduating summa cum laude from one their  oldest universities .I rose to very high office in public service .  but because I was foreign born could never aspire to the highest office of all.

Henry Kissinger

9.  What is the connection between Gunther Grass ; Rolf Harris   and a horse called Hercules   Drums -  Gunther Grass wrote the Tin Drum   - Rolf Harris sang “The little drummer Boy “ and Hercules was one of the drum horses of the Blues and Royals

10.  Why and how was blue once a way of displaying ones wealth ?   in paintings commissioned by the rich and wealthy  pre – say circa  1600   they would often ask for a lot of blue – as this was best made from the rare and very expensive Lapis lazuli.