Those Are Only for Big People Trivia Quiz

Answer: Denmark

Motion picture classifications vary from country to country with higher age restrictions on movies with more adult themes or explicit violence.

Denmark has four broad classifications for films, the highest of which is 15. Children aged seven and over can still view a 15 rated movie provided they are accompanied by an adult. England and Italy both have an adult rating of 18, but Poland has an additional age rating of 21.

Answer: Ban smoking in the workplace

Ireland was the first country in the world to ban smoking outright in workplaces - which included restaurants, bars and other social gathering places. Many other countries followed suit, such as New Zealand, Norway and the UK.

A ban on tobacco advertising was already in force throughout Europe in addition to minimum ages for purchase, which vary from country to country, with most set at age eighteen. Prosecution relating to tobacco is generally on the supply side with the offense being selling to someone below the legal age to purchase.

Answer: Isle of Man

In 2006, the Isle of Man became the first of the British Crown dependencies to reduce its voting age to sixteen. Jersey and Guernsey, two other dependencies, followed suit in 2007. As crown dependencies, these territories have the British monarch as their head of state but they have their own executive and legislative branches for day-to-day governance.

Answer: The Netherlands

Marital consent ages vary from region to region and quite often is eighteen, although in the Netherlands it was possible to marry under the age of sixteen with the permission of the reigning monarch.

Belgium was the next country to recognise same sex marriages in 2003. Sweden and Portugal have both recognised same sex marriage since 2009 and 2010 respectively.

Answer: Germany

In Germany, a single shot consists of 20ml with a double being 40ml; the origins of these sizes seem to be in the traditional drinking of schnapps, which has a very high alcohol by volume content. In Finland, a single shot is 40ml but it is illegal to serve a double. Shot servings in pubs in Ireland are precise - 35.5ml and a double is 71ml.

The UK is interesting, single shots may be either 25ml or 35ml, although generally it is the former. A double shot is legal, but these instructions apply only to whiskey, gin, rum or vodka served in a licensed premises.

Answer: China

Video gaming controversies usually relate to gratuitous violence, criminal acts, sexual content or other adult themes in games. The argument was that such games that are targeted at children, despite the fact that many adults play video games and it is estimated that the average age of 'gamers' is 34.

The banning of 'Football Manager 2005' however, was due to the recognition in the game of Tibet and Taiwan as independent nations. China believed that this threatened their sovereignty. A new version of the game was released without the offending content.

Answer: Harry Potter

An organisation called kidSPEAK defends the rights of children to freedom of speech and actively fights censorship. The organisation grew out of 'Muggles for Harry Potter' following a spate of bannings by school boards across the United States - largely for promoting witchcraft.

Although it was the ban on the 'Harry Potter' books which initially created the impetus for the organisation, 'Harriet the Spy', 'Blubber' and 'Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl' have all been subject to bans for reasons such as "teaching children to lie", "characters swearing" and in the latter case for being "too depressing".

Answer: February

Red Hand Day takes place annually on February 12th. Started in 2002, Red Hand Day is designed to highlight and protest against the use of child soldiers. The United Nations estimate that there are up to 250,000 children forced to participate in wars around the world.

In 2009, over 101 countries took part in collecting over a quarter of a million red hand-prints which were presented to the UN Secretary-General by former child soldiers to bring his attention to all of those still in service.

Answer: Portugal

Contrary to popular opinion, the effect of this legislation was NOT the legalisation of drugs. It was enacted largely to combat the unprecedented rise in HIV among injecting drug users.

Under this new law, drugs are confiscated and users are summonsed to appear before a board of people made up of an attorney, a psychologist and a social worker. Users may be fined, sentenced to community service or placed in a treatment program, but they are not convicted of a criminal offense.

Answer: US Air Force

The US Air Force has both minimum and maximum height requirements. These were revised in 2004 and now stand at between 58 and 80 inches. There are further restrictions on weight, relative to height. In 1999 all height requirements were ruled as potentially discriminatory in Britain and there is no longer any minimum height restriction in any police force there. Although height may be an advantage in the NBA there is no minimum height requirement.

In 2005, the car manufacturer Volvo was actually brought to court in Sweden for having a minimum height requirement. It was brought on the grounds that their minimum height excluded over 25% of women, whereas only 1% or 2% of men would be excluded, and as such was indirectly discriminating against women, which is against the law. The case was won and damages were awarded to the women who had been deemed 'too short' to work for Volvo. They have now removed this policy.