Thanksgiving quiz 3

When I lived in Davis and when we were entertaining friends and family at Thanksgiving I would always try to entertain our guests with a postprandial quiz of my own devising. I would wait until the guests had eaten their fill in order to ensure their near-comatose state forbids them an easy escape.

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Round 1: Is it a turkey?

The Latin name for Turkey is Meleagris gallopavo, and turkeys belong to the family of birds called Phasianidae, (Face-ee-ann-i-die). So which of the following birds are also in the same family and hence closely related to turkeys?

1. Pigeon
2. Partridge
3. Turkey Vulture
4. Peacock
5. Quail
6. Flamingo

Round 2: Is it in Turkey?

1. Pune
2. Bochum
3. Bodrum
4. Ankara
5. Hemet
6. Ephesus

Round 3: Stuffing

A turducken is a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey. But this is not the only example of food items being stuffed inside other food items. The name for this culinary technique is engastration.

You will see five dishes listed below; four of these dishes involve meat, but one of them is a dessert dish. 1 point for each of the correct blank spaces that you fill in. Order of stuffing not important

1. Gurducken/Gooducken
2. Fowl de cochon
3. Pandora's cushion
4. Hotchken
5. Cherpumple

Round 4: True or false:

1. The Turkish word for Turkey (the animal) is Turkey (i.e. it's the same)
2. The Republic of Turkey was founded in 1897
3. Turkey has a higher population than Argentina and Malaysia combined
4. An adult wild turkey is covered by approximately 1,100 feathers
5. Romania is one of 8 different countries that shares a border with Turkey
6. Wild turkeys can fly at up to 55 mph
7. Turkey is the world's largest producer of hazelnuts
8. There are Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and Turkey is home to two of them
9. The weight of the largest turkey ever recorded was 86 lbs / 39 Kg
10. Internationally, Turkey is more popular to tourists than the United Kingdom

Answers

Round 1: Is it a turkey?

The Latin name for Turkey is Meleagris gallopavo, and turkeys belong to the family of birds called Phasianidae, (Face-ee-ann-i-die). So which of the following birds are also in the same family and hence closely related to turkeys?

1. Pigeon
2. Partridge (Y)
3. Turkey Vulture
4. Peacock (Y)
5. Quail (Y)
6. Flamingo

Round 2: Is it in Turkey?

1. No. It's in India, 27th largest city in the world.
2. No. It's in Germany (16th largest city)
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. Noo. It's in Riverside county, California
6. Yes

Round 3: Stuffing

1. Gurducken/Gooducken: goose <- duck <- chicken
2. Fowl de cochon: pig <- turkey <- duck <- chicken
3. Pandora's cushion: goose <- chicken <- quail
4. Hotchken: chicken <- hot dogs
5. Cherpumple: Cake <- cherry pie + pumpkin pie + apple pie

Round 4: True or false:

1. False
2. False: it was founded in 1923 after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in WW1
3. True: 77m vs 43m + 30m, 18th most populous in the world
4. False: it's 5,500 feathers
5. False: Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Syria
6. True
7. True
8. True: Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
9. True
10. True: 37.8 tourist arrivals vs 31.2 in 2013

Thanksgiving quiz 2

When I lived in Davis and when we were entertaining friends and family at Thanksgiving I would always try to entertain our guests with a postprandial quiz of my own devising. I would wait until the guests had eaten their fill in order to ensure their near-comatose state forbids them an easy escape.

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In this quiz, all of the questions are in the style of cryptic crossword clues. The answers can all be made from the letters in the word 'Thanksgiving'. Some examples…

Clue: I just rescued one of King Arthurs minions from danger (6, 6) Anwser: saving knight

Clue: I have a list of 7 things: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride. If you had to remove one of those things from the list, what would you be doing? (6, 3) Answer: taking sin

Clue: An unforgettable singer without any Cole? (3, 4) Answer: Nat King

Okay so now on to the real questions. Scroll down for answers…

1. People who have this are easily insulted, and are also very easy to give injections to (4, 4)
2. As soon as we get a lot of snow, I'm going to Lake Tahoe and I expect I'll suffer from too much exposure to the sun. What will I be getting? (3, 3)
3. Someone has just acquired another possession (5, 5)
4. About a thousand years ago, a gentleman from Scandinavia may have worn this on his head (6, 3)
5. Someone is contemplating about getting older (6, 5)
6. I get very nervous and agitated about the prospect of going on long walks in the countryside (6, 5)
7. I'm in possession of a rather noxious odor (6, 5)
8. What might you call nitrous oxide if – in addition to making you laugh – it made you contemplate and consider the mysteries of life? (8, 3)
9. One thousand grams has just disappeared (9, 2)
10. If an actor from the film Apollo 13 started making an alcoholic beverage using juniper berries, what might he put on the bottle? (1, 5, 3) – requires 2 punctuation characters

Answers

1. thin skin
2. ski tan
3. gains thing
4. viking hat
5. thinks aging
6. hiking angst
7. having stink
8. thinking gas
9. vanishing kg
10. T. Hank's Gin

Thanksgiving quiz 1

When I lived in Davis and when we were entertaining friends and family at Thanksgiving I would always try to entertain our guests with a postprandial quiz of my own devising. I would wait until the guests had eaten their fill in order to ensure their near-comatose state forbids them an easy escape.

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In this quiz (scroll down for answers ), all of the answers sound a bit like 'Thanksgiving'. A couple of examples…

Question: What prison inmates might be doing today?
Answer: Shanksgiving

Question: One way of describing the gifts and other objects that are donated at Christmas?
Answer: Thingsgiven

You get the idea now? Okay so here ten more questions (the last one is particularly cryptic)…

1. What might you call it if you bought someone a Panzer or a Sherman as a gift?
2. This is what would happen if Dracula gave away his dentures?
3. The unlikely event that would occur if Wall St institutions donated their profits to charity?
4. The butcher's cold store has just been furnished with several sides of beef.
5. Throughout his life, Mr Sinatra raised millions of dollars for good causes.
6. What would you call it if lots of women suddenly returned the same type of skimpy undergarment to Victoria's Secret?
7. What happens when up and coming musicians have to rely on financial contributions from their supporters?
8. I appreciate you all coming here today. It pleases me immensely. I'm much obliged. I owe you all a debt of gratitude.
9. Sometime I wonder about bestowing gifts upon people.
10. Big actor donates to charity

Answers

1. Tanksgiving
2. Fangsgiving
3. Banksgiving
4. Flanksgiving
5. Franksgiving
6. Thongsgiving
7. Fansgiving
8. Thanksgiven
9. Thinksgiving
10. T. Hanks giving