FunTrivia World Mix: Vol 25 Trivia Quiz

Answer: the bilge

Not all water clears the deck of a ship or boat through the scuppers; some water finds its way inside. This is collected at the bottom of the boat in a bilge. In addition to water, the bilge may contain hydrocarbons, human waste, and other spillage. Bilges are normally emptied by pumps; the discharge of bilge water is highly regulated by environmental laws in some jurisdictions. Because bilge water is often disgusting, the term has been adopted colloquially to mean anything which is foul or offensive.

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: Hawaii

Barack Obama later became the 44th President of the United States. Before he achieved this position, however, he represented Illinois in the US Senate. (And before that, he served on the Illinois State Senate.)

Question by player portgleep

Answer: Brexit

In a June 23, 2016,referendum election, the United Kingdom voted 51.89% to withdraw from the European Union. Supporters and the media latched onto the term "Brexit" (as in Britain-exit) to refer to the proposed withdrawal.

Question by player amcoffice

Answer: Virginia

The College of William and Mary is located Williamsburg, Virginia. It was founded in 1693 and can count Presidents Monroe, Jefferson, and Tyler among its many prestigious alumni. During the American Civil War, the college building was used as a Confederate barracks and also as a hospital by both sides of the war.

Question by player dcpddc478

Answer: Klondike Bar

The Klondike bar was created in the early 1920s, with its first advertisement being in 1922. The Klondike Bar brags of being the only ice cream bar without a stick. Its mascot is a polar bear.

Question by player salami_swami

Answer: France

Embarrassing France, the two state entities who share the blame remain relatively calm. Apparently the measurements upon which the order was based failed to include existing train stations older than the last few decades - of which France has many. So, about 1,300 of the nation's 8,700 stations must be altered to receive any of the 2,000 new trains.

Question by player ELJ1

Answer: Claque

The concept of hiring people to applaud actors is not new. In his "Lives of the Twelve Caesars", Roman author Suetonius writes that Nero hired 5,000 young men and asked them to use three different kinds of applause in his performances. The word gained a new popularity in Paris around 1800 when "la claque" became permanent and organized. "Claque" comes from the French onomatopoeic verb "claquer" (to clap) and entered English in the 19th century.

A new modern sense has emerged, "a group of sycophants or fawning political followers".

Question by player chabenao1

Answer: Meteorological Service of Canada

The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) was founded on May 1, 1871, four years after Canada became a country. Before this date, weather was informally monitored by the Hudson's Bay Company, other explorers, and the British government. The MSC was started when the Canadian government gave G.T. Kingston, a professor at the University of Toronto, a $5,000 grant to establish a network of weather observers to provide reliable information to the government and the general public. Today, the MSC provides weather forecasts, researches climate and atmospheric science, maintains databases on air and water quality, and completes other environmental research.

The Service even provided modelling information about atomic dispersion after the Chernobyl incident.

Question by player Trivia_Fan54

Answer: Hong Kong and Shanghai

Previously known as the "Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation", it was founded in Hong Kong in April 1865 and in Shanghai the following month. It took over the leading British 'Midland Bank' in the early 1990s, and transferred its headquarters to London in 1993.

In 2008, 'Forbes Magazine' rated HSBC the world's largest bank in terms of market value. The previous year it had been the world's most profitable bank, with a net income of $19.3billion

Question by player darksplash

Answer: Ubuntu

Ubuntu means humanity and is part of a longer phrase "Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu" which means that a person is a person through other people. It means that we are all connected and it captures the spirit of community, humanity and oneness. It's more of a philosophy than anything else and this outlook is over 2,000 years old and found in many African countries.

It has several other names, depending on the specific Bantu language, including "utu" in Swahili, "boto" in Sesotho and "munto" in Meru.

Question by player ramonesrule