Muscle Cars
Vietnam
Algebra
Coffee
Olympics
100
Pontiac GTO
100
What is the most popular sport in Vietnam?
Soccer (Football)
100
The sum of two numbers is 74. The difference between the two numbers is 16. What are the two numbers?
The two equations are x+y=74 and x-y=16. Isolate either y or x in the second equation and substitute in the first.
100
What language did the word 'coffee' evolve from?
Arabic
100
Approximately how many countries compete in the Olympics?
200
200
The Chevy Camaro was introduced as a direct competitor to which car?
Pontiac GTO
HemiCuda
Ford Mustang
Plymouth Road Runner
Ford Mustang
200
What is the official language of Vietnam?
Vietnamese
200
Let's start out with food! There is one chocolate mint bar with plenty of sprinkles on it. Obe Seguy and his 4 friends want to buy it. They buy it using their combined money that totaled to $2.50. If they decide to split it into equal parts for each one of them, what is the percentage of the whole chocolate bar each of the kids will receive?
There are five people (Obe with his 4 friends). Divide one (the whole chocolate bar) by five, and .2 is the answer. After converting this into a percent, the answer is 20%.
200
What country is accredited for first giving us coffee?
Ethiopia
There's a neat story that goes along with this discovery by Ethiopian shepherds. It is said that these shepherds saw that their goats had eaten from a coffee tree growing wild in the mountains and that the goats would 'dance' after eating these berries. Over the course of time coffee made it to Arabia and picked up it's name already mentioned in question number one and its use spread through the Muslim World.
200
Which color is NOT one of the rings on the Olympic flag?
YELLOW
BLACK
GREEN
ORANGE
Orange
The rings, from left to right, are blue, yellow, black, green, and red. The colors were chosen because at least one of them appeared on the flag of every country in the world.
300
What was an obvious visual feature of the 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Superbird?
Shooting flames
A huge rear wing
Jet engines
Neon brake lights
A huge rear wing
300
What is the capital city of Vietnam?
Hanoi
300
A mathematician who does research in algebra is called?
Algebraist
300
What color is a ripe coffee bean?
Red
The coffee bean is actually a portion of a larger whole known as a cherry when it still is attached onto the tree. The berry starts out a rich green color and as it ripens it turns a brilliant red hence the name cherry being given to its description.
300
What country boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics?
The United States boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
400
Which manufacturer introduced the Torino?
Chevy
Ford
Plymouth
Dodge
Ford
Ford introduced the Torino in 1969. Most of them were fairly standard consumer cars, but a few were a souped-up version that qualified them as true muscle cars
400
By what name do the Vietnamese refer to the Vietnam War?
The American War
400
Comes from a Latin variant of Arabic word "al-jabr"
True or false
True
400
In 1907, one country was recorded as producing 97% of the total world production of coffee. Which country was it?
Brazil
400
What organization serves as the governing body of the Olympics?
CIO
IOC
OCI
OIC
The IOC (International Olympic Committee) is the governing body of the Olympic Movement, with the Olympic Charter defining its structure and authority.
500
What sort of muscle car was General Lee in "The Dukes of Hazzard?"
Dodge Charger
Ford Mustang
Ford Pinto
Toyota Camry
Dodge Charger
500
What is the official name of Vietnam?
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
500
The Father of Algebra?
Al-Khwarizmi
500
What is the name of the world's most expensive coffee?
Kopi Luwak
Kopi Luwak is a coffee that is made from Indonesian beans that have passed through the digestive system of the Palm Civet. The animal, apparently, eats the outer coating of the bean, and then excretes the inner part undamaged. Something happens to the bean as it passes through the digestive system of the animal that gives the bean a particular flavour.
Kopi is the local Indonesian word for coffee, and Luwak is the local name for the Palm civet.
500
How old was the oldest Olympic medal winner?
During the 1920 Summer Olympics, Swedish shooter Oscar Swahn won a silver medal in the double shot running deer contest. He was 72 years old.