Pick n' Mix: Part FOURTEEN Trivia Quiz

Answer: Groton

Located in New London County, the town of Groton is situated on the Thames River. It is named after the village of Groton in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. Groton was first founded around 1705.

Established in 1899 by Isaac Rice, the General Dynamics Electric Boat company is where what was expanded into the USS Holland (SS-1) was born, the first modern submarine introduced to the US Navy.

Answer: Woyengi

Woyengi differs from many creator gods throughout the Earth's history. She is said to have created humanity, but not animals or plants, which were already on Earth before she descended down there from Heaven. Woyengi's original humans were created without gender. She is said to have permitted the original humans to choose if they would prefer to be male or female.

The Ijaw people reside mainly throughout Nigeria, but also reside in fisher communities as far east as neighbouring Gabon, and as far west as neighbouring Sierra Leone. The Ijaw are now however predominantly Christian at around 65% of the Ijaw population.

Answer: George Catlin

Wi-jún-jon (1796-1835), also known as "The Light" and "Pigeon's Egg Head" was chief of the Native American Assiniboine tribe.

George Catlin (1796-1872) painted Wi-jún-jon's portrait in 1831. He painted him again later around 1837-1839 wearing both traditional Native American dress, and a Western business suit. Catling visited and painted 18 Native American tribes in his career as an artist.

Answer: Magiritsa

Magiritsa is traditionally the food that the Greek Orthodox Church's adherents eat when breaking their fast during the Great Lent.

Answer: Pius V

Considered a saint by the Catholic Church, Pius V (born Antonio Ghislieri in 1504, died in 1572) was pope from 1566 until his death. He had a reputation for being proud and fair before he became pope, once berating his predecessor, Pius IV, for his flagrant nepotism upon learning that he planned to make his 13 year old relative a cardinal.

Pius V issued Regnans in Excelsis ("Reigning on High") in 1570. It contained a highly unflattering description of Queen Elizabeth I of England: "the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime." Elizabeth's persecution of Catholics had not endeared her to Pius V, who declared that not only was Elizabeth I excommunicated, but anyone who worked for her or followed her orders was as well. He absolved every one of her subjects from having to obey her or show loyalty to her in this document.

Answer: Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) served between 1966-1977 as Prime Minister of India. She was elected again in 1980 until 1984, when she was assassinated. She was the daughter of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who began his 16 year period in office from 1947, following Indian independence.

Indira Gandhi led India during military conflict with China in 1967, with her army successfully driving the Chinese army from the Himalayas. By 1971, India was in conflict with Pakistan, with India securing victory under Gandhi's leadership, resulting in the birth of Bangladesh as a country. Gandhi established a close relationship with the Soviet Union, the two nations helping each other in various proxy wars.

A state of emergency was declared by Gandhi between 1975-77 where atrocities occurred and the media was censored from reporting it. Hundreds of Sikhs were killed at the Golden Temple, one of the holiest sites in Sikhism, under Gandhi's Operation Blue Star. Sikh insurgent, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, was the main target, and he died in the massacre.

In revenge for the massacre, two of Indira Gandhi's bodyguards (who were Sikhs) assassinated her.

Answer: Neptunium

Transuranium elements are chemical elements that have an atomic number higher than that of uranium, which has 92. Every transuranium element is radioactively unstable.

Neptunium has an atomic number of 93 and Np is its symbol. It is an actinide, radioactive metal, and was first synthesised in 1940 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, by Philip Abelson and Edwin McMillan. Neptunium is hazardous to handle due to its being poisonous and radioactive.

Answer: Battle of Sauchieburn

King James III of Scotland (1452-1488) became King of the Scots in 1460, reigning for 22 years until his death in unclear circumstances during the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488.

King James III of Scotland is recorded as an incompetent and disfavoured King, often espousing grandiose military plans that never came to fruition. He was succeeded by his son, King James IV of Scotland.

The Battle of Sauchieburn took place on July 11 1488 approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of the city of Stirling, Central Scotland. The rebels against James III's rule in Scotland won the Battle of Sauchieburn.

Answer: Huangpu

The Huangpu River is around 70 miles (110 km) long and flows north through the city of Shanghai.

The SS Kiangya sank around 50 miles (80 km) north of Shanghai on December 4, 1948. It is suspected that the explosion was caused by the ship hitting a mine left over by the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. The vessel was carrying many refugees from the Chinese Civil War, with an estimated 2,750-3,920 killed in the explosion, double the death toll of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic.

700 survivors are recorded to have survived the disaster. The wreck of the SS Kiangya was removed from the Huangpu in 1956.

Answer: San Francisco Giants

The San Francisco Giants were established in 1883 under the name the "New York Gothams." They were renamed the New York Giants three years later, but did not relocate from New York to San Francisco, (and become the San Francisco Giants), until 1958.

Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, has been the home ground of the San Francisco Giants since 2000. The Giants have rivalries with the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers since the time of being based in New York.

Renowned San Francisco Giants player, Buck Ewing (1859-1906) was the first catcher to ever be included in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Answer: Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836) wrote what would become "La Marseillaise" in 1792, with its original title being "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine" - France was at war with Austria when he wrote the song). He was a royalist who attained the rank of captain in the French army. He wrote the song that would become the French national anthem while he was stationed at Strasbourg.

Answer: Ohsumi

On February 11, 1970, Japan became the fourth country of the world (after the former Soviet Union, the USA and France) to launch a satellite into orbit successfully. Ohumi was launched from the Kagoshima Space Center (which was renamed the "Uchinoura Space Center") and the satellite is named for Kagoshima Prefecture's Ohsumi Peninsula, the site of the launch.

Ohsumi orbited the Earth for 33 years before coming back into Earth's atmosphere on August 2, 2003, completing its orbit.

Answer: Tulsidas

Meaning "Lake of the deeds of Rama," Ramcharitmanas was written around the 16th century by Tulsidas (1511-1623), an Indian poet known for his dedication to the Hindu deity, Rama. Tulsida wrote in Braj Bhasha, Sanskrit and Awadhi, with Ramcharitmanas being written in Awadhi (which is primarily spoken in Uttar Pradesh, northern India). Historians are not in agreement in regards to his birthplace, however the the government of Uttar Pradesh declared its small town of Soron as Tulsidas' birthplace in 2012. He is purported to have been in his mother's womb for a year before being born, and would only say "Rama" as a baby rather than cry, hence why his parents named him "Rambola Dubey" at birth, with "Rambola" meaning "he who uttered Rama."

Tulsidas' earliest work was "Ramcharitmanas" and is an Awadhi interpretation of the "Ramyana" by Valmiki. Although Tulsidas was proficient in Sanskrit, he wanted the story of Rama to be easily readable to the general public, hence he chose Awadhi, the common language of what is now Uttar Pradesh.

Tulsidas' influence on Indian culture is prevalent. He founded the Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple in Uttar Pradesh, said to be built on the exact location where Tulsidas had a vision of Hanuman. The Tulsi Ghat in Varanasi is named for Tulsidas.

Answer: Waterford

The River Suir is around 115 miles (185 km) and flows through the Irish counties of Tipperary, Kilkenny and Waterford. The Suir forms the border between County Tipperary and County Waterford. The source of the Suir is located in Devil's Bit Mountain in County Tipperary.

County Waterford is located in the south of Ireland in the province of Munster.

Answer: Earn a doctor of medicine degree

Fannie Almara Quain (1874-1950) was an American physician who is remembered for her enthusiastic campaigning to eradicate tuberculosis in America, and was important in the founding of the North Dakota Tuberculosis Association in 1909 (which is now the American Lung Association of North Dakota). Born in Bismarck in 1874, Quain was the daughter of a pharmacist and several of her relatives were physicians, sparking her interest in the field at a young age.

Fannie Almara Quain became the first woman from North Dakota to earn a doctor of medicine degree in 1898. She died aged 75 in 1950.

Answer: Typhoon

The 1922 Shantou Typhoon raged at around 100 miles (155 km) per hour, killing between 50,000-100,000 people throughout China. It briefly passed through the Philippines, killing nobody there as that part of the country was sparsely inhabited at the time.

Although the storm was spotted around both countries, it hit land in Shantou, and the destruction began. Houses and ships were totally destroyed, and it remains one of China's deadliest typhoons on record.

Answer: Bile pigments

Gmelin's test involves the slow mixing of five millilitres of urine to five millilitres of concentrated nitric acid. The appearance of coloured rings in the test tube indicates the presence of bile pigments. Bilirubin is present if there are purple, green and blue rings.

Gmelin's test is named after its inventor, Leopold Gmelin (1788 - 1853), a German chemist and teacher. He came into contact with the sciences from a young age, being the son of a physician and botanist. Gmelin's test is not the most proficient of tests, with the presence of bile pigments being indicated by a positive result, however, a smaller amount of bile pigments may come out as the negative result.

Answer: FC Heidenheim

FC Heidenheim have existed since 1846, and have played in the Bundesliga (that is, the highest league in German football) since the 2023-24 football season.

Designed by German architect, Dietbert E. Trägner, Voith-Arena is located in the town of Heidenheim, in Baden-Württemberg, south Germany. The stadium can accommodate 15,000 people. The original stadium was constructed by 1971, however the stadium was expanded in various areas between the years 2009-2015. This ground's floodlights are its crowning feature, being placed diagonally as opposed to vertically.

Answer: Guadalquivir

Flowing for around 410 miles (660 km) Guadalquivir River is the second-longest river with its entire length flowing solely in Spain, and the fifth-longest river of the Iberian Peninsula. The Guadalquivir gets its name from the Arabic "al-wādī l-kabīr" that is "the big river." The oldest bridge on the river is the Roman bridge of Córdoba, built in the first century.

The Battle of Alcolea of 1868 occurred on a bridge over the Guadalquivir River, and resulted in Queen Isabella II of Spain's army being defeated by rebels led by Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre. Queen Isabella II was forced to flee in exile to France as a result of this battle. Around a thousand casualties were among the death toll.

Answer: Skull

The occipitalis muscle is a thin, rectangular muscle located at the back of the skull. There are some disagreements among anatomists on the nature of the muscle, with some saying the occipitalis and frontalis (a muscle at the front of the skull) are two separate muscles, and others saying these two muscles are part of the same muscle unit, the epicranius, or occipitofrontalis.

The occipitalis muscle has its primary function in moving the scalp in the direction of the posterior of the skull.

The occipitalis muscle and the frontalis muscle work together to manipulate the scalp, aiding in the creation of facial expressions such as raised eyebrows and wrinkles in the forehead.

Apes also have an occipitalis muscle, but theirs is of greater importance to them, aiding in the balancing of their heads on their vertebral column, which pulls back on the skull. This is because apes are not bipedal as humans are.