This is to That... Trivia Quiz

Answer: Bread

The linking theme here is ingredients. Vegemite is made from yeast extracts, just as flour is the main ingedient in bread.

Answer: China

The linked theme here is native animals. The Kangaroo is native to Australia, just as Pandas (they are NOT called Panda Bears) are native to the bamboo forests of China.

Answer: Deep Purple

The linked theme here is songs by an artist. "Hey Jude" by the Beatles stayed at Number 1 on the US charts for nine straight weeks, despite it being four minutes longer than the average single. "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple was written about the experience of watching a casino burn down with Lake Geneva in the background. True story!

Answer: Virgin

The linked theme here is companies and their founders. Bill Gates founded Microsoft, and created the first Windows system, in his garage when he was a teenager. Richard Branson is another self-made millionaire who built Virgin from a small English company into a huge multi-national enterprise. Monsanto was founded by a chemist, John Francis Queeny, in 1901 in the USA, and began as a manufacturer of artificial sweeteners (http://www.social-ecology.org/article.php?story=20031202103954420). Several American computer companies banded together early in the 1900's to create what would soon become IBM (http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/decade_1900.html). Kraft was founded in 1903 by Australian entrepreneur Fred Walker ( http://www.kraft.com.au/virtualMuseum/kraftTimeline/index.cfm?Page=kraftTimeline).

Answer: Australia

The linked theme here is national capitals. Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan, as Canberra (not Sydney or Melbourne as some think) is the capital of Australia.

Answer: Old Trafford

The linked theme here is English football clubs and their home grounds. Manchester United's fortress is Old Trafford, while Arsenal plays at Highbury, Chelsea plays at Stamford Bridge and Wembley has no home team (it is used for various footballing occasions).

Answer: Genetics

The linked theme here is practitioners of science, and their fields. We all know Sigmund was particularly interested in sexual psychology. But did you know that the foundations for today's complex genetic engineering were the cross-breeding studies conducted by Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk, on common garden peas, in the 1850's?

Answer: Mexico

The linked theme here is beers and their origins. While 'Grolsch' is a premium European lager, 'Corona' comes from Mexico and has fewer hops. A famous Australian beer would be a 'Toohey's' or 'Foster's', while 'Budweiser' is the USA's most famous brew. 'Castle' is a famous South African brand.

Answer: Megabyte

The linked theme here is size of information from a common computer. A year is 1/1000th of a millennium, just as one kilobyte is 1/1000th of a megabyte. A byte is 1/1000th of a kilobyte, a terabyte is 1000 gigabytes and a centabyte does not exist (although theoretically it could be 100 bytes).

Answer: Aristotle

The linked theme here is ancient philosophers and their teachers. Plato was a student of Socrates. Later, Plato went on to tutor Aristotle. As if this line of great men isn't enough, Aristotle went on to tutor Alexander the Great.