From the Back of My Brain Trivia Quiz

Answer: What's Up Doc?

Words spoken by the right honorable Judge Maxwell to the owner of a delivery bike stolen by Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand after they flee from a shooting. In this screwball comedy Ryan O'Neal is a musicologist who hopes to win a grant for his research on igneous rocks with some musical properties.

The bag he is carrying them in is identical to Streisand's bag with her underwear, another ladies' bag with jewels and a fourth bag containing top-secret government papers. Mix-ups, misunderstandings and all people concerned end up in San Francisco Bay after a wild chase through the city.

The police picks them up, and they appear before the judge. Ryan O'Neal, who at the start of the film was the fiancée of Madeline Kahn, ends up in the arms of Barbra Streisand.

Answer: The names of the host cities all started with an M

Mexico City 1968, Munich 1972, Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980. The terrorist attack was in Munich, the boycotts were in Montreal (by African nations) and Moscow (by some western countries including the United States). The only other M-games were in 1956 in Melbourne.

Answer: March

Originally the Romans had a calendar year of 304 days divided into ten months. The first four months (Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius) were named after Gods and Goddesses. The next six months (Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, December) were named after their position on the calendar. Curiously, the 60 days of winter did not fall within the calender.
In 703 BC two months (Ianuarius and Februarius) were added to the ten existing ones. Ianuarius later became the first month roughly shaping our current calendar.
After that there were a few significant changes like the number of days a month, the renaming of two months (Quintilis became July after Julius Caesar and Sextilis was renamed August after the Roman Emperor Augustus) and the introduction in 1582 of the Gregorian Calendar.

Answer: England

Surprisingly, if you know where football (or soccer if you like) originated. The original members were: The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain (represented by Real Madrid), Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. Germany joined almost immediately. England became a member of FIFA in 1906.

Answer: All these answers are correct

The only differences were of course the different years and the fact that Malvern Hill was in Virginia and Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. On both occasions Lee ordered a full frontal up-hill assault on strong positions, thinking that a mass(ive) attack could win the day.

After all, the Union forces were put on the backfoot in the previous days. But the Confederates suffered heavy casualties in both battles. After Malvern Hill it didn't matter, because the Union troops withdrew from the Peninsula despite their victory.

But after Gettysburg the Confederates, suffering more casualties with a smaller army, would never invade the north again. They had to fight defensive battles with dwindling forces until capitulation in April 1865.

Answer: Rhode Island

The original name was 'Roodt Eylandt', which means 'red island'. The name referred to the red clay that could be find on its shores. Vermont originally was called Verts monts (green mountains) by the French, Michigan is Ottawa for 'large water' and Nevada is in fact an abbreviation for 'Sierra Nevada' which is Spanish for 'snowy range'. 'Sierra Nevada' is also a mountain range in the south of Spain.

Answer: Finnish

Finnish is part of Finno-Ugric language family. The Finno-Ugric language is also spoken in Estonia, Hungary as a whole, parts of other Scandinavian countries and parts of Russia.

Answer: She was the lead singer of Shocking Blue

Mariska Veres was born October 1, 1947 in The Hague. Her father (a violinist) was of Hungarian descent, and her mother was born in Germany and had French and Russian blood. What international flavor! In 1963, she started singing. In 1968, she joined local band Shocking Blue, led by Robbie van Leeuwen to replace Fred de Wilde who had to join the army.

After two modest hits, Shocking Blue scored a number one hit in the United States, the first Dutch band to do so. The song 'Venus' was later covered by Bananarama. Shocking Blue had some other hits, before it split up in 1974. Mariska Veres kept on performing but did not make it big anymore. On December 2, 2006 she died of cancer.

Answer: Monaco

Monaco, located near the Italian border, is 1.637 square kilometers (0.75 square miles) big. San Marino is located near the Adriatic. It measures 61 square kilometers (or 23.5 square miles), Liechtenstein is squeezed in between Austria and Switzerland.

It measures 160 square kilometers (62 square miles). Andorra, located in the Pyrenees, about 100 miles north of Barcelona, covers a whopping 468 square kilometers (or 181 square miles) of land.

Answer: Colombia

Colombians always did very well in the mountains, but not so in time trials (individual or with the team). Very tiny Luxembourg has produced no less than three different winners of 'La Grande Boucle'. In 1909, Francois Faber was the first. In 1923, Nicolas Frantz was victorious and the 'Angel of the Mountains' Charly Gaul gave Luxembourg its last win in 1958. Stephen Roche of Ireland won the Tour in 1987. That year he repeated something only Eddy Merckx had done before him in 1974: winning the Tour, the Giro d'Italia and the World Cycling Championship.

In 1996 Bjarne Riis was the first and only Dane to win the Tour, just before teammate Jan Ullrich. All in all, until 2007, eleven countries have had a win in this great race: France (37 times), Belgium (16), the USA (11), Italy (9), Spain (8), Luxembourg (4), The Netherlands (2), Switzerland (2), Denmark (1), Germany (1) and Ireland (1).