Orange Crush Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Netherlands

The Dutch football team wear orange shirts and are also known as the 'Oranje'. Orange is the colour of the Dutch Royal Family who are descended from William of Orange and the colour has come to symbolise the Netherlands. It is worn with pride by many Dutch international sports teams and by Dutch citizens on public holidays.

Answer: St Clements

The nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons' refers to the sounds made by the pealing of bells on some of the churches around London. Two churches, St. Clements Eastcheap and St Clements Dane Westminster, both claim to be the St Clements mentioned in the song. The bells of St Clements Dane ring out the tune 'oranges and lemons' three times a day.

Answer: Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess was an English writer who wrote novels, non-fiction, poems and plays, and also composed music. 'A Clockwork Orange' was first published in 1962 and is his best known work. It is a violent dystopian novella.

Answer: Judging two completely different things on the same criteria

The idiom "to compare apples and oranges" is used to indicate that someone is trying to compare things that are so fundamentally different from each other that a meaningful comparison cannot be made.

Answer: The containers it was shipped in had orange stripes painted on them

Agent Orange was a chemical defoliant and herbicide which was contaminated with dioxin and may have affected up to three million Vietnamese people, including half a million children born with birth defects. Vietnam war veterans have also suffered with increased rates of cancer.
There were other chemicals used as weapons in the Vietnam War, and to distinguish between them they were shipped in drums with different coloured stripes on them to identify each one. The other chemicals were called Agents Blue, Pink, Green, Purple and White.

Answer: South Africa

The Orange Free State was a province in South Africa from 1910-1994. It took its name from the Orange River which is the longest river in South Africa. The river was named by a commander of the Dutch East India Company to honour the Dutch Royal House. After 1994 the Orange Free State was renamed the Free State.

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson was one of the foremost thinkers in the United States in the mid-19th century. He wrote these words in an essay on culture that appeared in his final collection of original essays, 'The Conduct of Life', published in 1860.

Answer: Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is the country most known for Orange Day parades. Orange Day parades are marches by Protestant groups who are known as Orangemen. The marches usually lead up to celebrations on July 12th which is the date that Prince William of Orange defeated King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

Answer: Brazil

Brazil is the world's largest producer of oranges, producing about 18 million tonnes a year. That's more than twice that of the next largest producer, the United States.

Answer: R.E.M.

R.E.M. released the song 'Orange Crush' in 1988. The song is about Agent Orange and Vietnam although the vagueness of the lyrics has caused confusion with some believing it is about a soft drink of the same name.