Miscellaneous
Name one person or event referenced in the Billy Joel song "We Didn´t Start the Fire".
Bay of Pigs, Suez Crisis, Joel and Ethel Rosenberg, Adolf Eichman, Marilyn Monroe...
Which Romantic period poet was described as:
"Mad, bad and dangerous to know."
Lord George Gordon Byron
Who is the Prime Minister of Canada?
Mark Carney
What was the last thing Oscar Wilde wrote?
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
What is an exclamation mark called in America?
OR
What is a full stop called in America?
An exclamation point
A period
Who invented the first medically recognised vaccine?
Which disease did it protect people from?
Sir Edward Jenner
Smallpox
In Which SW English county is Cooper´s Hill, the site of the famous cheese rolling competition?
Gloucestershire
What was the full name of the British economist who created Keynesian economic principles?
John Maynard Keynes
Name an American writer and one of his books from the Depression era.
John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Cannery Row
Describe an Oxford comma and its purpose.
A comma used in a list before "and" to show the item before is separate.
E.G.
C and A, and Marks and Spencer
When doodling a tree, what are you unconsciously drawing?
Yourself
Name three songs by Bob Dylan
Hurricane, It´s Alright Ma (I´m Only Bleeding), Blowing in the Wind, Like a Rolling Stone, Mr Tambourine Man, The Times They Are a Changing, Forever Young...
What are the three branches of government?
And what are they called in the USA?
The executive branch, the legislative branch and the judicial branch:
The Presidency
Congress (The House of Representatives and The Senate)
The Supreme Court
Who wrote Ulysses and were is it set?
James Joyce
In Dublin, over the course of a single day
What is hyperbaton?
Re-arranging the word order of a sentence or phrase to emphasise a particuar meaning.
E.G.
The question is, whether to be or not.
"To be, or not to be. That is the question."
Who or what is January named after?
Janus, the two-headed Roman god of thresholds
Who painted The Ambassadors in 1533?
Hans Holbein the Younger
Where in New Hampshire did leading politicians and economists meet, in 1944, to decide the post-war economic future of the Western World?
Bretton Woods
Name one similarity and one difference between an Italian (or Petrarchian) sonnet and a Shakespearean sonnet.
They both have 14 lines
An Italian sonnet has an octet and a sextet
A Shakespearean sonnet has a rhyming couplet at the end
What is the order of description in an English sentence?
CLUE: The green great dragon cannot exist.
opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose
What is the surface area of a standard desk at GEKOM?
+ 10 square centimetres = 500 points
+ 50 square centimetres = 400 points
+ 80 square centimetres = 300 points
+ 100 square centimetres = 200 points
+ 200 square centimetres = 100 points
5,950 square centimetres
Sing either a whole verse or chorus of A Thousand Years by Christina Perri... with MAKATON
I have died everday, waiting for you
Darling don´t be afraid, I have loved you
For a thousand years
I will love you for a thousand more.
Name either of the men who are recognised as creating Neoliberalism which became the dominant economic philosophy in the West, circa 1980?
Friedrich von Hayek (philosopher)
Milton Friedman (economist)
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor-Coleridge set out their manifesto for Romanticism in the preface to which book?
The Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Name four of Aristotle´s aspects of rhetoric.
Ethos, Logos, Pathos, Kairos