Volume business

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper. Which of the following is the nearest equivalent to the peck that Peter Piper picked?

A) 1 gill
B) 2 gallons
C) 3 quarts
D) 4 pints

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Paradiddling

How would you play a paradiddle?

A) Beat a rapid rhythm on a drum
B) Carry out a prank or mild practical joke
C) In cricket or baseball, hit the ball twice on a single swing
D) Tell a white lie

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How much Moon?

How much of the Moon’s area can be seen from the Earth’s surface?

A) 39%
B) 50%
C) 59%
D) 74%

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Trading places

Which of the following countries is not a member of the European Free Trade Association?

A) Greece
B) Liechtenstein
C) Norway
D) Switzerland

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Cone-tooth conundrum

By 1970, many scholars had come to realize that the conodont, or “cone tooth”, fossils they had discovered were of great importance to their studies in geology and paleontology. Years went by before the scientists were able to solve one central problem, however. What was it?

A) Conodonts are found mainly in a nation where fossil research was banned
B) No one knew what kind of animal the fossils had belonged to
C) Some experts thought all conodont fossils were fakes
D) The fossils degraded almost instantly on exposure to air

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Age of Hockey

The longest continuing rivalry in ice hockey is between which two teams?

A) Harvard and Brown universities in the USA
B) Oxford and Cambridge universities in England
C) Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs
D) U.S. Army Black Knights and Canada’s Royal Military College

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Hark, hark, the quark

Modern physics theorizes the existence of unimaginably tiny and peculiar particles called quarks as the elementary constituent of matter. Quarks were described and named by Nobel-prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who took the word “quark” from:

A) A Babylonian word meaning “swarm of flies”
B) A combination of the words “quick” and “dark”
C) A phrase in James Joyce’s novel Finnegan’s Wake
D) Randomly combining letters from the household Scrabble set

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Yaffle

What is a yaffle?

A) A green woodpecker
B) A leather hood worn by blacksmiths
C) A small flag or pennant
D) A stampede

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The Tale of Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter is celebrated as an author of children’s books, beginning with The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which she published herself in 1901. After marrying in 1913 at the age of 47, Potter all but gave up writing, and devoted herself instead to:

A) Campaigning for women’s suffrage
B) Landscape painting
C) Sheep farming
D) Spiritualism

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Eighth wonder

In a mountainous area of central Ethiopia are to be found eleven Christian churches, known as the “Lalibela churches”. Dating from the 13th century, today they are famed for a remarkable feature of their construction. What is it?

A) At the summer solstice, their shadows meet at a single point
B) Their spires are made of translucent rock crystal
C) They are entirely subterranean
D) They were hewn in place from solid rock

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