It's Earthy - but Not a Lot! Trivia Quiz

Answer: a very large sphere

This enormous sphere which is sixty feet in diameter, is often referred to as 'The Giant Golf Ball'. Sitting on its supports, it does look very like one, with a surface resembling the the dimples on a golf ball. According to the 'On-Line Guide to Walt Disney World', you would need to be one and one fifth of a mile tall to use this sphere as a golf ball!
Inside 'Spaceship Earth' visitors are taken on a ride through history.

Answer: Archimedes

This great mathematician and scientist of antiquity was referring to a possible use of the lever when he said this.
In his day, Archimedes could not have known the size and weight of the earth. Even if there was a place to stand and another for a fulcrum, nobody would have enough time or space in which to move our planet with a lever.

Answer: forty minutes

In the 16th. century Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, was regarded as a kind of mischievous spirit in popular superstition.
This Shakespearean comedy is about what happens when the juice of the magical plant is used on some of the characters in the play.

Answer: The Pillars of the Earth

The story is told through the lives and work of the characters involved in the building of the cathedral. It follows the development of architectural changes from the Romanesque to the Gothic.
Those of you who know Ken Follett's books will probably agree with me that 'The Pillars of the Earth' is one of his masterpieces.

Answer: form

You can read these well-known words if you open the Bible at its very beginning. They are the first words of the Book of Genesis. As all Bible lovers know, they are followed by a description of God's creation of our Earth.

Answer: The magnitude of earthquakes is expressed by use of the Richter scale.

Richter,a famous seismologist and geologist, was born in 1900 and therefore would not have predicted the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 when he was six years old!
The first, modern seismograph was invented by John Milne, another seismologist and geologist, in 1880 - twenty years before the birth of Richter.

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

This famous poem, which has been translated into many languages, reminds us of the ideals and attitudes of Victorian life. If any one could have followed the rules laid down in this poem, they would have been a fine upstanding pillar of society. Many Victorians respected the ideas of this piece of poetry so much that they had copies of it hanging on their walls - among them - my own grandparents. Rudyard Kipling is better remembered as the author of 'The Jungle Book'; 'Kim' and the 'Just So Stories'. You might expect that a writer of high standing, such as he was, would have been knighted, perhaps established as Poet Laureate or awarded a special Order. All these were offered to him but he turned them down.

He did, however, accept the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.

Answer: a kind of clay-like earth or marl

Fullers' Earth is a hydrous silicate of alumina which was used in the cleaning and felting of cloth - a process known as 'fulling'.
Among its many other uses nowadays is the clarifying of oils.

Answer: fulness

Some of the words which are sung in Handel's oratorio, 'The Messiah', are taken from this same psalm. They are:-
'Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.'

Answer: early morning in a city

The poem which begins with the above-quoted three lines, is entitled 'Upon Westminster Bridge' and describes a London scene of the 19th century as seen in the early-morning light.
Wordsworth's poem on daffodils is so well known and so famous that you could be forgiven if you thought that these opening, three lines would lead to the description of a rural scene.