Around the World in Ten Anchovies Quiz

Answer: Sudbury, Ontario

Started as a way to offset running cost for the Ukraine Senior's Center, the Garlic Festival has become a yearly event in Sudbury.

Run by volunteers, the festival started in 1992, and begins with the "Great Garlic Walk" in Senator Hnatyshyn Park. The fourth weekend in August was chosen to accommodate the garlic growing season.

During the 1994 festival, a record breaking garlic braid was created, measuring in length 78 feet and 4 inches.

Question written by jojanne1974

Answer: Clapham, Bedfordshire

Miller was based at RAF Twinwood Farm, an airfield on the western outskirts of the village of Clapham, next to Bedford. In 1944, he got on a plane from Twinwood and disappeared.

After WWII ended, the airfield was closed and the control tower fell into disrepair, but restoration work began in 2001. In 2002, when the work was completed, a Glenn Miller concert was held to celebrate the completion of the restoration, and has been held every August since then.
http://www.glennmillertrust.co.uk/glenn%20miller%20festival.htm

The tower is now a Glenn Miller museum.
http://www.twinwoodevents.com/Glenn%20Miller.htm

Question written by lesley153

Answer: Bubonic plague

The Black Plague had come to Oberammergau, and had killed 15,000 residents of nearby Munich in 1634 - 1635 alone. The people of Oberammergau were frightened, and vowed that they would present the story of Christ to the world every 10 years for ever, if their village was spared. The village was spared, and the people have kept their word ever since.

Two thousand people are involved in the play, which runs for six hours, in front of an audience of nearly 5,000. Performers must be Oberammergau natives, or have lived there for at least ten years. The first play was in 1634, on a stage put up in the cemetery above fresh graves of plague victims, and the 40th was in 2000.

Feelings run so high that some of the men who have played Judas suffer abuse, attacks, and death threats.

Question written by ladylmk58

Answer: Support for Aboriginal people

Life for the Aboriginal people in Australia was difficult: they were living on reserves, without political rights or citizenship, and were not allowed to travel without permission. It had become worse as a result of the Depression, when they were at the back of the queue for jobs, pay and food.

The Day of Mourning was declared on 26th January 1938, which was Australia Day, and also the 150th anniversary of white settlement. The Australian Aborigines League and the Aborigines Progressive Association marched peacefully together to Australia House, in the hope of publicising their plight and improving their rights.

In 1955, the day was made a National Day and the date was changed to the first Sunday in July.

Question written by nikki-D

Answer: Hartlepool

It is thought that the "spy" rather than being an actual monkey, may have been a small boy or "powder monkey" although whether this makes his hanging better or worse is debatable!

The Hartlepool monkey made headlines when the townspeople elected H'Angus (aka Stuart Drummond), the mascot of the town's football (soccer) team, to be their Mayor in 2002 and again in 2005.

Question written by Rowena8482

Answer: Bicycle

Legend has it that Otto was born in 1461, and that he has been seen at every festival since!

The Otto Grunski Festival was started as an excuse to have a community party, and over the years there have been bed races, soccer tourneys and a bicycle race that attracts cyclists from around the nation.

I made "cheesekraut" up.

Question written by JMs81

Answer: For convincing the judges that they are happy to be married to each other, a side of bacon.

The competition is the Dunmow Flitch Trials, held in Great Dunmow, in Essex. The prize of a "flitch" (a side) of bacon is awarded to married couples from anywhere in the world, if they can "satisfy the Judge and Jury of 6 maidens and 6 bachelors that in ' twelvemonth and a day' they have 'not wisht themselves unmarried again'." The latest winners (July 2008) are one couple from each of three different counties in England, and one couple from Tennessee.

The Trials are about 900 years old, and are mentioned by William Langland in his 1362 book The Vision of Piers Plowman, and by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Wife of Bath's Tale.
http://www.dunmowflitchtrials.co.uk/

Question written by lesley153

Answer: Minnesota

Minnesota State Fair, or "The Great Minnesota Get-Together," was first held in 1859, and is held on the Minnesota State Fair Grounds, near the Saint Paul campus of the State's University. It runs for twelve days, and is thought to be the United States state fair with the highest average daily attendance. The Texas State Fair has the largest total annual attendance, but it runs for twenty-four days.

Question written by whataman

Answer: Appleton, Wisconsin

Appleton has the oldest (starting in 1950), Troy the largest (50,000 people), and Pennsylvania is the only state to have made Flag Day a state holiday. George Morris of Hartford, Connecticut is popularly credited with first suggesting "Flag Day" in 1861.

Question written by JMs81

Answer: Winterlude

The Ice Hogs are a family of fantasy furry creatures, Papa, Mama, Noumi and Noums, who come out to play, and to provide entertainment, during Winterlude. There is an entire legend that explains their existence. The first Winterlude was in 1979 and it quickly became an enjoyable way to show off the various ways to enjoy a Canadian winter.

Here's the link to the web-site for winterlude 2009:
http://www.canadascapital.gc.ca/bins/ncc_web_content_page.asp?cid=16297-16298-22877〈=1&bhcp=1

And here's a picture of two of the Ice Hogs:
http://media.canada.com/45773afa-7225-4885-a26c-930db6f5c81d/jchy8486.jpg

Question written by red_stone

Thanks to Jojanne for the inspiration to create the quiz, Rowena for help putting it together, and the lovely Boris for creating our lovely team.

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