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   Erland Sommarskog to All   
   Erland's occasional quiz   
   17 Aug 25 23:28:36   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   I have again assembled 12 assorted questions - and this time without   
   any connection to South Korea and Japan!   
      
   As always, post your answer to the newsgroup and only use your own   
   knowledge, do not ask the cat, the wife or chat GPT. And have fun!   
      
   I plan to score this quiz om Friday 22nd.   
      
   1. ESPN recently ranked a number of sports in degree of difficulty.   
      Name either the sport that was ranked as the most difficult, or   
      the sport that was ranked as the least difficult.   
      
   2. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Alaska the other   
      day. On arrival he wore a T-shirt of which the print aroused some   
      attention. What did the print say?   
      
   3. In which century did Beijing first became the capital of China?   
      
   4. Amis, Paiwan and Atayal are the three most numerous indigenous peoples   
      of which high-tech island?   
      
   5. What circumstance unites the two music groups Nirvana and Joy Division?   
      
   6. Lot was the nephew of Abraham. He had two daughters and two sons. The   
      mother of the daughters was his wife, but who gave birth to his sons?   
      
   7. Ivan Mazepa was an independence fighter who is associated with which   
      modern country?   
      
   8. What is noticeable about the number 1729?   
      
   9. The Wedding Banquet is an early film from which renowned director   
      whose later works include both dragons and cowboys?   
      
   10. For what reason might you feel an urge to inject Semaglutide?   
      
   11. The famous Wimbledon Championships in tennis is organised by All England   
       Lawn Tennis and ??? Club. What word does the question mark represent?   
      
   12. Refer to https://www.sommarskog.se/temp/IMG_3984.jpg. The statue   
       illustrates an event that takes place at the yearly San Fermin   
       festival in which city?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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