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A Foolish Round

 15 General Knowledge questions indexed by subject matter.  Each answer contains a word that is a synonym for the word ‘fool’.  Make your choice.

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1.

Stage names

 Michael Lee Aday is an actor and singer. How is he better known?

Meatloaf
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2.

British actors

 Who’s this British actor?

Stephen Berkoff
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3.

Vehicles

 Translated into English Piaggio made a wasp and Innocenti made a Milanese Water-Sprite – but what type of vehicles were they?

Scooters

(Vespa and Lambretta in Italian)
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4.

Medicine

What part of the body is affected by chondrolaryngoplasty?

Adam’s apple
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5.

Trains

 HBR is a railway company that runs a twice weekly train service to Churchill. In which province of which country is Churchill?

Manitoba, Canada

(Churchill is on Hudson Bay – hence HBR)
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6.

Fells

  If you look North West down from the peaks of Steeple and Pillar towards Whitehaven what do you see?

Ennerdale Water

(in the Western Lake District)
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7.

Words

 Which autological word is – in three senses – ‘keenly foolish’?

Oxymoron

(It means ‘keenly foolish’ in the original Greek - ‘Keenly foolish’ is an example of an oxymoron;

also it’s an answer in this clever ‘foolish’ round!)
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8.

Radio 4

This is the theme music of Desert Island Discs, but what is its original title?   (click to play)

By the Sleepy Lagoon

(by Eric Coates)
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9.

Academic Institutions

 Which academic institution takes its name jointly from a Scottish inventor and a Scottish goldsmith?

Heriot-Watt University

(in Edinburgh)
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10.

Olympic Games 1

 In which Olympic Games host city did the ‘flying Finn’ Paavo Nurmi win his first Gold Medal?

Antwerp

(in 1920 in the 10,000m)
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11.

Olympic Games 2

 …and who is this Olympic Gold medallist?

Lasse Viren

(Finnish Gold medal winner in the 5,000m and 10,000m in the 1972 & 1976 Games)
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12.

Philosophy

 Which phrase, a fundamental principle of Western philosophy, first appeared in the book Principles of Philosophy?

“Cogito ergo sum”

(written by Rene Descartes)
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13.

Chinese words

 What is the English meaning of the Chinese Taishanese word which has been anglicised to ‘mein’?

Noodle
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14.

Animals

 What sort of animal is this?

 

Mongoose
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15.

Theme music

What is introduced by this music?   (click to play)

Looney Tunes cartoons

That’s All Folks!
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