FunTrivia General Knowledge Mix: Vol 11 Quiz

Answer: a brand

Branding, that is to say placing an identifying mark upon, cattle is often identified with the American West and cattle drives of the late 19th century. Although other forms of identification such as ear tags and tattoos are now more common, the practice of branding is still in use today on all manner of livestock. Identifying specific products with trademarked names or logos is another form of branding, and the practice keeps the corporate world and the market-driven economy in business.

The Coca-Cola and McDonald's brands, for instance, are known worldwide.

Question by player Nealzineatser

Answer: Mace

Mace is one of the major convenience store chains in northern Europe. A mace can be a simple brutal weapon or a ceremonial knobbed staff. Mace the spice is actually taken from the outer part of the nutmeg seed. These days, you don't see tear gas or mace used all that often, but in the 60s it was the crowd control weapon of choice. Today, real mace is illegal in most places, replaced by pepper spray and the use of tasers.

Question by player uscgx2

Answer: Beehive

A beehive hairstyle usually involves backcombing the hair to give it a lot of height on top of the head. It was particularly popular in the 1960s. An apiarist is a beekeeper who looks after bees in hives. The hairstyle was named for its resemblance to a traditional beehive.

Question by player rossian

Answer: Sylvester

Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) was an American Presbyterian minister who taught not only the Gospel but also vegetarianism and abstinence from alcohol. He invented Graham flour and promoted it because he believed it was healthier than bleached flours to which adulterants had been added. Pope Sylvester I, or Saint Sylvester, did not attend the Council of Nicea in 325 AD but approved of its edicts.

He is closely associated with Constantine but much of this may be legendary. Sylvester the Cat first appeared in a cartoon in 1945.

He was famously voiced by Mel Blanc and won three Academy Awards.

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: 1776 feet

Initially One World Trade Center was named Freedom Tower, in 2004. However, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officially renamed the building by its legal name One World Trade Center in March, 2009. It became the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere on 3 November, 2014.

The building has 94 floors, with three floors of observation decks. The tower's spire completes the pinnacle height of 1,776 feet.

Question by player SLAPSHOT4

Answer: Ball Gown

A cotillion is a type of formal dance where young women are presented to society. Popular in the 18th and 19th centuries among the wealthy, they still occur today. The only thing on this list you would wear is a ball gown.

Question by player dcpddc478

Answer: purple

Murex is the name commonly given to various species of sea snails of the Mediterranean Sea, from whose secretions the highly prized Tyrian purple dye was extracted. "Smoke on the Water" is the signature song of English hard rock band Deep Purple, released in 1972. Anglican and Catholic clergy wear purple vestments during Lent and Advent, as the colour is associated with penitence.

Question by player LadyNym

Answer: White

White is the color of light that has all possible wavelengths of the visible spectrum. It is the color of a polar bear's fur. Milk and pure snow are also white in color.

Question by player Saleo

Answer: vicar

Walter F. Murphy was himself a Marine colonel, wounded and decorated in the Korean War, an Episcopal layman and a professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University. One of his students was Samuel A. Alito Jr. His protagonist in "The Vicar of Christ" (1979) won the Medal of Honor for his deed in the Korean War, served as Chief Justice of the United States and was elected Pope Francis. On the television series "Thomas and Friends," the Reverend is a vicar whose vicarage adjoins a branch line. He saved Trevor the Traction Engine, when he was slated to be scrapped, by purchasing him and placing him in the vicarage orchard. "The Vicar of Bray" exists in many versions.

It makes fun of an Anglican vicar whose is perfectly willing to abandon one theology for another in order to stay in the good graces of the ecclesiastical leadership of the 1680s through the 1720s.

The song is very funny but can be fully enjoyed only by those who know what the changes in polity were during this period.

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: Wales

Heddlu is police in Welsh. The use of Welsh remains strong in some parts of the country. The UK Office for National Statistics found in 2019 that just under 30 per cent of the population spoke it. Many official bodies produce documents and websites in Welsh as well as English.

Many road signs use both English and Welsh. And ymddiheuriadau to any Welsh people who were insulted by the stereotyping in the question; it was just to give a clue for the o'r tu allan.

Question by player darksplash