This is an image quiz that I made some while ago.  Try it out:

1. Which city is depicted in this picture?

 

   2. This is a picture of what, called the “Surgeon’s Photograph”,  later revealed to be a hoax?

 

3. The flag of the country shown here depicts the Angkor Wat, a temple found in this country.

 4. This religious leader was born in this house in 1935.  Who?

5. This picture depicts what?

That’s all for now then.

Okay, this is my first post in the world of blogging.  And I’ve decided to start with a quiz I made.  Answers to come shortly.  This quiz is fairly easy, but I thought some questions were interesting to say the least.

1.     Which luxury department store became the first to install an escalator?  Nervous customers were given brandy at the top after their ‘ordeal’.

2.     This toy company’s name means “play well” in Danish.

3.     This Irish writer claims to be this teenage criminal mastermind’s official biographer, although the character denies it disdainfully.

4.     She worked on the Underground Railway and was nicknamed “Moses”.  She never lost a “passenger”.

5.     Which two American presidents played a major part in American Independence and in the writing of the Declaration of Independence died on the 50^th anniversary of the document?

6.     Which album shows the members of the band on the cover, along with celebrities like Albert Einstein, T.E. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas, Marilyn Monroe, Karl Marx, HG Wells, Bob Dylan, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, David Livingstone, George Bernard Shaw, etc?

7.     Which book was first published under the following title: The Annex: diary notes from 12 June 1942 – 1 August 1944?

8.     Who was chosen as the Time Person of the Year in 2006?

9.     Aibohphobia is a joke term that is a phobia of what?

10. Which American Vice President attracted a lot of media attention when he misspelled the word ‘potato’ at a visit to a school?

11. Who is the only fictional character to be given a front-page obituary on the ‘New York Times’ after his death in his final case?

12. He was plagued by bad luck during his trip to the South Pole and when he reached, he found that Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it.  He died on the return journey

13. What was the name of the plan, created by Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, planned to blow up 11 airplanes?

14. This Italian explorer has a continent named after him, which was the land he discovered.

15. “These two tennis players are married and have both achieved career golden slams (winning all four Grand Slam tournaments and the Olympic gold in their career.

 

I’m busy studying my boards right now, particurly SST and French.   I’m left with Geography in SST and a few writing skills in French (this will take a lot of practice).  I want to finish things off by the 20th.  That will give me enough time to fine-tune these subjects. 

Okay, gotta get back to work.