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This quiz is over and Joshua Kreizer is the winner with an impressive
entry. Congratulations and well done!

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Dan B 1 - 1 1 - 1 - 1 - - - 1 6
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Thanks to everyone for playing!

Here are the correct answers.

1. You walk past some graffiti, and you notice that it says ACAB. What
does that stand for?

All cops are bastards

2. Within ten, in which year was serfdom abolished in Russia?

1861, accepting 1851-1871.

I have been reading books on Russian history, and right now I am
exactly at the point where the law one emancipation was promulgated.

3. This country has been practically independent for more than
30 years, but it was only a little more than a week ago that
Israel took the lead as the first UN member to officially
recognise it, although Donald Trump may not know where it is.
What is the name of the country?

Somaliland.

Trump was not really amused, and said something like no one knows where
it is. Well, my daily's correspondent in Israel suggested that Israel
knows very well where it is - close to the Yemenite Houthi rebels with
whom they have some bones to pick.

4. In younger years she was an actress and a sex symbol with a
popularity well matching Marilyn Monroe. After retiring from
acting, she became a right-wing animal activist. She died last
week at the age of 91. Who was she?

Brigitte Bardot.

5. Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the archbishop of Canterbury,
the first woman to ever hold this office. The first man to hold the
office was Augustine of Canterbury. Within 25, in which year did he
become archbishop?

597.

Had I been asked this a month ago, I would not have known the answer.
I picked this up from an article about the new archbishop in my daily.
I was a little surprised, because I was under the impression that
Christianity came some 50-100 years later to England.

6. At regular room temperature only two elements are liquid: bromine and
mercury. But it is a hot day, your air-condition is not working, and
your room is now at 30#C. When you review your collection of elements,
you find a few more are now liquid. Name any one of them. (For the
purpose of this question, ignore the effect of oxidation or radiation.)

Gallium, caesium and francium are the ones I know of. I have not checked
if there are more.

It says something about this crowd when everyone gets this question
right.

7. Name any country that is a member of ECOWAS.

Benin, Cabo Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea (suspended),
Guinea-Bissau (suspended), Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal,
Sierra Leone and Togo. Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali withdrew in 2024.

ECOWAS = Economic Community of West African States

8. Heavy metal is a popular form of rock. Which classic rock song was
the first one to mention heavy metal, although the "heavy metal
thunder" in the lyrics does not actually refer to music?

"Born to Be Wild", originally recorded by Steppenwolf

9. Last year Kirsty Coventry was elected president of International
Olympic Committee. She is from Africa, but exactly which country?

Zimbabwe

My daily had their traditional sport quiz on Christmas Eve. 12 questions,
four per quarter worth 1 to 4 points. 1 point for something super-easy
and 4 four points for something super-hard. Except that for Q1, the only question was fully confident of was this one.

10. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs recently
released a report on "megacities". By a change in methodology, one
city rose from a position around #45 to now be ranked as the biggest
city in the world with a population of 41 million. Which city?

Jakarta, Indonesia.

11. Within 20%, how many people are estimated to die in traffic
accidents per year around the globe according to an WHO report from
December 2023?

1.19 million, accepting 950 000 to 1.43 million.

There was an article in my daily which mentioned this number the same day
I posted the quiz, and I was looking for one more question. It's was
mentioned in the article that over 10% of the casualties are in India.

12. Refer to https://www.sommarskog.se/temp/Q12.jpg. Which city is this?
The building you see in the front is the seat of the national
parliament, but curiously this not the capital of the country. The
land by the sea is flat, but beyond that houses of various shapes and
forms climb the mountain slope in a labyrinth that is not overly
organised. This has earned parts of the city to be named a World
Heritage by UNESCO.

Valpara0so.

Definitely a fascinating place.

Utrecht was an interesting guess. It's not by the sea, and the Netherlands
is not exactly known for their mountains. (Although there is a song about
them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPyiZI_WrXw.)



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Erland Sommarskog:

Utrecht was an interesting guess. It's not by the sea, and the Netherlands
is not exactly known for their mountains.

Details, details. :-)

I was just thinking of countries with a single capital that is not where
their legislature is located, but I didn't know what city it was actually
in (turns out to be The Hague). And I guessed that the mountain in the
image might not be all that high.
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