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Issues for a Modern Day Middle Earth
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Imagine, if you will, what life would be like in Middle Earth in the 21st century. Here's a quiz about some of the issues that may occur.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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Tough
10 Q
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quogequox
May 11 06
3861 plays
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Life of Pi
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A boy, a boat and a Bengal tiger! A quick quiz on Yann Martel's Booker prize winning novel.
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M
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
May 03 04
540 plays
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Into the Wild
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A quick quiz on Jon Krakauer's book about the last days of Chris McCandless.
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K
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Aug 16 05
348 plays
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Things That'll Kill You in Australia
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Bugs and beasties everywhere. Can you survive a tour of Australia.
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Australia
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Nov 28 04
3717 plays
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Kurt Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan
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A quick quiz on Kurt Vonnegut's classic book 'The Sirens of Titan'. Enjoy.
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Vonnegut, Kurt
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
May 04 02
576 plays
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The Aussie BBQ
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G’Day mate, grab a coldie and see you ‘round the back. Can you survive an Aussie bbq?
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Australia
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Apr 09 04
4638 plays
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Middle Earth Analogies
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Some analogies about Middle Earth and its famous folk. It works like this; The Shire is to Hobbits as Fangorn is to what? Ents, of course.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Aug 16 05
855 plays
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Horse Racing in Australia
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Yes folks, I dared to do it, an Australian horse racing quiz with no mention of Phar Lap!
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Australia
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Average
15 Q
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quogequox
Apr 11 04
1191 plays
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Lost Treasures of the World
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They're out there somewhere. Lost, misplaced or just rumoured to exist. See if you can dig up the lost loot in this quiz.
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Missing Treasure
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Tough
10 Q
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quogequox
Jul 25 06
981 plays
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20th Century Analogies
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A collection of analogies about the 20th century. Confused? It works like this: Fidel Castro is to Cuba as Mao Zedong is to where? China. Easy!
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20th & 21st Centuries
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Tough
15 Q
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quogequox
Jan 24 05
3576 plays
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Exploration Analogies
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A collection of analogies involving explorers. Confused? It works like this, North Pole is to Peary as the South Pole is to whom? Amundsen.
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Explorers
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Jun 04 04
1434 plays
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Mini Man-Eaters
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Tiny parasites. They’re eating you right now!
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Bacterial, Protozoal and Parasitic Diseases
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Dec 11 04
1608 plays
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Adelaide Australia
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Much maligned, much loved, welcome to my home Adelaide Australia.
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South Australia
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Aug 27 05
1278 plays
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Real-Life Survivors
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No cameras, no prizes. It’s a matter of life or death for these castaways, maroons and lost souls.
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Mixed People
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Difficult
10 Q
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quogequox
Jan 17 05
657 plays
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Monkey!
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A quiz on "Monkey!", the cult Japanese TV show.
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Monkey
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Nov 22 04
210 plays
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Cryptozoology
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Cryptozoology is the study of hidden animals not formally recognised by science.
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The Unexplained
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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quogequox
May 29 02
4821 plays
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Military Operation Names
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A quick quiz on the names given to various military operations over the years.
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Military Matters
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Nov 16 04
1473 plays
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Algeria
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A quick quiz on the African country of Algeria.
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Algeria
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Jan 30 02
1080 plays
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Take a Hike
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Ever been hiking? Here are a few questions about some of long walking trails from all over the world.
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Where on Earth?
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Tough
10 Q
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quogequox
May 16 04
2271 plays
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Cannibalism for Dummies
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A quiz about cannibalism to really sink your teeth into.
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Thematic 10Q Difficult
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Difficult
10 Q
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quogequox
Jul 30 05
2724 plays
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A Cruise down the Amazon
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Welcome aboard on the inaugural Curious Tours Amazon cruise. I'll be your host on this journey, if I have any questions I'll be sure to ask you. So sit back and enjoy, remember at Curious Tours our motto is 'We'll keep you guessing'.
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Brazil
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Tough
10 Q
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quogequox
May 30 02
873 plays
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Lord Foul's Bane
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The first book in Stephen Donaldson's "Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" series.
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Donaldson, Stephen
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Aug 30 05
342 plays
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A to Z World Mythology 2
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Another alphabetical tour through world mythology.
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ABCs of Myth
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Difficult
25 Q
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quogequox
Mar 21 02
1053 plays
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The 2005 Ashes Series
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The 2005 Ashes series proved to be one of the most memorable cricket series of all time.
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Ashes Tests
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Sep 17 05
873 plays
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Murder most foul in Middle Earth
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It's not all epic battles, sometimes it's personal.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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Tough
10 Q
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quogequox
Jan 12 03
2646 plays
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TV Aliens. Where are they From?
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I'll give you the name of the alien character and the show they appear in and you pick their home planet. Easy.
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Mixture: Sci-Fi
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Dec 05 04
2748 plays
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Dungeons and Dragons Monsters
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Some questions about a collection of my favourite Dungeons and Dragons monsters.
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Dungeons and Dragons
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Tough
10 Q
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quogequox
Jan 29 04
1785 plays
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Roger Ramjet
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A quiz on "Roger Ramjet", great American hero and all round good guy.
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R
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Tough
10 Q
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quogequox
Jan 25 05
114 plays
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World Mythology A to Z
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A question for each letter of the alphabet?
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ABCs of Myth
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Difficult
25 Q
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quogequox
Dec 16 01
2376 plays
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White Plume Mountain
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A quiz on the classic Advanced Dungeons and Dragons role playing adventure by Lawrence Schick.
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Role Playing Games
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Tough
10 Q
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quogequox
Aug 22 07
153 plays
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Television and Movie Analogies
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Cross the great divide with analogies which take you between the world's of cinema and television.
For example Moe's Tavern is to Springfield as Rick's Cafe is to where? Casablanca.
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TV & Movies Mixture
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Aug 22 05
6705 plays
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Where's Elvis
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Rumour has it Elvis didn't pass away in 1977 but left the building to start a new life for himself. See if you can find out where Elvis is nowadays from the clues given.
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Where on Earth?
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Dec 17 01
5382 plays
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WSC Super Tests
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The rebel Packer series took over Australian cricket in the late 1970s. Lets take a look at the first six WSC Super Tests played in the Australian summer of 1977-78. Australia versus the West Indies and Australia versus The World.
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Test Cricket Challenge
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Difficult
10 Q
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quogequox
May 11 04
315 plays
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The Works of Lewis Carroll
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Some questions about the wacky work of Alice's friend.
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Carroll, Lewis
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Sep 16 01
762 plays
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Blackadder's Insults Part 2
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More abuse from the evil Blackadder.
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'Blackadder' - Insults
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Tough
5 Q
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quogequox
Jan 11 02
2427 plays
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A Trivia Combo
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Trawling the seas of trivia I've come up with a collection of tasty tidbits.
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Mixed 10 Q. Difficult [B]
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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quogequox
Nov 01 01
966 plays
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The Common Folk of Middle Earth
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They’re not heroes or kings, wizards or wraiths and they don’t own magical jewelry of any kind. They’re just trying to earn an honest buck.
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Mixed Tolkien Characters
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Sep 18 05
540 plays
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Little Known Natural Wonders
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Mysterious and exotic places of the world. Tell me which country they can be found in.
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Where on Earth?
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Difficult
10 Q
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quogequox
Nov 01 01
3138 plays
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Fantasy Movies of the 1980s
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The 1980s were a golden age of fantasy movies. Here's a quiz about some of them.
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1980s Movies
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Feb 14 05
1266 plays
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Blackadder's Insults Part 1
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A quiz about the barbed tongue of 'Blackadder'. If you do badly then I guess 'your brain's so minute, that if a hungry cannibal cracked it open, there wouldn't be enough to cover a small biscuit'.
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'Blackadder' - Insults
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Tough
5 Q
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quogequox
Dec 28 01
3204 plays
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Terrorist Organisations
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A quiz about various terrorist organisations around the world.
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Organizations
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Tough
10 Q
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quogequox
Dec 14 01
2031 plays
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Awards of the World
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Awards are handed out for more than Hollywood productions. The envelope please....
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Thematic 10Q Difficult
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Difficult
10 Q
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quogequox
Apr 12 02
255 plays
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Phaic Tan
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Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Stich have written a travel guide for a country that doesn't exist. See what you know about the this travel guide parody and the mysterious nation of Phaic Tan.
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Humor and Satire
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Difficult
10 Q
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quogequox
Jan 10 05
207 plays
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Fantasy Geography
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Ok so you know the capital of the Upper Volta and the third highest hill in Patagonia but what about the less tangible worlds created by fantasy writers like Tolkien and McCaffrey? No Robert Jordan or Raymond Feist though.
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Fantasy
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Difficult
10 Q
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quogequox
Sep 15 01
540 plays
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Rock Star Infamy
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Try and pick the rock star by the list of unsavory things they've done.
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Music Celebs Mixed
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Average
5 Q
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quogequox
Jan 22 02
3174 plays
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The 1989 Ashes Tour
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A flashback to Australia's tour of England.
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Ashes Tests
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
May 04 04
219 plays
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Second Bananas- sidekicks and henchmen
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Dedicated to all the Igors out there. The hero gets all the credit but we all know who does all the work, the trusty second banana.
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15 Minutes of Fame
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Tough
15 Q
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quogequox
Jan 21 02
801 plays
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Newgrange Ireland
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North of Dublin stands the mysterious and magical Newgrange. Older than the pyramids, older than Stonehenge.
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Burial Sites
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Difficult
5 Q
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quogequox
Dec 28 01
387 plays
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Trivia-a-rama Mk2
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Another bunch of questions...
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Mixed 10 Q. Difficult [D]
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Difficult
10 Q
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quogequox
Nov 08 01
591 plays
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Travel Books
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So many places, so little cash. Save yourself the airfare and read the book instead. A quiz on some travel books.
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Specific Subjects & Themes
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Tough
10 Q
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quogequox
Mar 20 04
177 plays
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The Adelaide Crows
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The team everybody else loves to hate, the mighty Crows.
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Adelaide Crows
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Tough
10 Q
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quogequox
Nov 07 01
1311 plays
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Fraser Island
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A quiz on one of Australia's natural treasures. The world's largest sand island.
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Queensland
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Tough
10 Q
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quogequox
Dec 16 01
879 plays
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Angling in South Australia
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My little part of the world offers all sorts of different angling experiences. How many do you know?
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Australia
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Tough
10 Q
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quogequox
Mar 15 04
204 plays
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9 Famous Goals, 1 Famous Miss
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A quiz about some of the goals, and one miss, that made soccer history.
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Worldwide Football
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Jul 20 06
504 plays
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World Sports: They Said What?
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Sporting Quotes. Who said it?
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The Sports Challenge
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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quogequox
Jan 14 02
549 plays
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Trivia Combo
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Another tasty trivia combo. Would you like fries with that?
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Mixed 10 Q. Difficult [B]
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Difficult
10 Q
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quogequox
Nov 07 01
705 plays
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The Greek Alphabet Goes to the Movies
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Sick of Roman numerals getting all the credit? Now the Greek alphabet makes an appearance.
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Grab Bag - Average 10
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Dec 18 04
507 plays
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'Bored of the Rings'
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A quick quiz about Harvard Lampoon's 'Bored of the Rings'.
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Books about Middle Earth
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Tough
10 Q
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quogequox
Apr 17 02
687 plays
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AFL: 2005 The Minor Round
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A footy quiz to do if your team didn't make the finals.
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AFL by Season
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Average
10 Q
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quogequox
Aug 30 05
633 plays
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Surf Breaks of the World
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Dude! I'll give you the name of the break and you tell me where you'll find it.
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Surfing
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Difficult
10 Q
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quogequox
Apr 12 02
525 plays
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