Answers to Quiz - 134

1)      Movember is an annual charity event of growing moustaches in the month of November. What awareness does this event seek to create and spread?

Men’s health issues, especially prostate cancer

2)      Name this most popular style of moustache. (Yours truly also sports it)

Chevron

3)      In a deck of playing cards, who is the only King not to have a moustache?

King of Hearts

4)      Name the Mexican woman painter who not only accepted her moustache but also showed it off in her famous self-portraits.

Frida Kahlo

5)      What moustache style takes its name from an eponymous 1952 Marlon Brando film about a Mexican revolutionary?

Zapata

6)      Name the famous painter who described his moustache as “like two erect sentries, my moustache defends the entrance to my real self."

Salvador Dali

7)      What mustache style is named after an animal?

Walrus

8)      What moustache style takes its names from an evil fictional character created by British author Sax Rohmer?

Fu Manchu

9)      What is the name of the device that helps keep the moustache in place while sleeping?

Snood

10)  Which country hosted this year’s World Beard and Moustache Championships?

Germany

Quiz - 134

1) Movember is an annual charity event of growing moustaches in the month of November. What awareness does this event seek to create and spread?

2) Name this most popular style of moustache. (Yours truly also sports it)

3) In a deck of playing cards, who is the only King not to have a moustache?

4) Name the Mexican woman painter who not only accepted her moustache but also showed it off in her famous self-portraits.

5) What moustache style takes its name from an eponymous 1952 Marlon Brando film about a Mexican revolutionary?

6) Name the famous painter who described his moustache as “like two erect sentries, my moustache defends the entrance to my real self."

7)    What mustache style is named after an animal?

8) What moustache style takes its names from an evil fictional character created by British author Sax Rohmer?

9) What is the name of the device that helps keep the moustache in place while sleeping?

10)  Which country hosted this year’s World Beard and Moustache Championships?

Answers to Quiz - 133

1)      Why do people stand in The Queue?

To buy daily tickets for Wimbledon

2)      What historic event did Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organize on 19^th and 20^th July 1848?

The Seneca Falls Convention on women’s rights

3)      For the use of what specific steroid was Ben Johnson stripped of his medals and titles?

Stanozolol 

4)      What was known as  “The Bitter Invention of Satan” in early 17^th Century

Coffee

5)      Name the Nobel Laureate neuropsychologist who hypothesized that when the brain commands the eyes to move, it also sends a “corollary discharge”, or internal copy, of that command to the visual system.

Roger Sperry

6)      What name derived from a fairytale is given to a planet that falls within the habitable zone of its star?

Goldilocks Planet

7)      What does the Hipparcos Catalogue list?

Stars

8)      What is the popular name of the species Homo floresiensis?

Hobbit

9)      What French term is used to describe cooking food in airtight plastic bags for longer than normal times at strictly regulated temperatures?

Sous-vide

10)  Name the dairy farmer who founded Glastonbury Festival that is held every year on his farm.

Michael Eavis

QUIZ - 133

1)      Why do people stand in The Queue?

2)      What historic event did Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organize on 19^th and 20^th July 1848?

3)      For the use of what specific steroid was Ben Johnson stripped of his medals and titles?

4)      What was known as  “The Bitter Invention of Satan” in early 17^th Century

5)      Name the Nobel Laureate neuropsychologist who hypothesized that when the brain commands the eyes to move, it also sends a “corollary discharge”, or internal copy, of that command to the visual system.

6)      What name derived from a fairytale is given to a planet that falls within the habitable zone of its star?

7)      What does the Hipparcos Catalogue list?

8)      What is the popular name of the species Homo floresiensis?

9)      What French term is used to describe cooking food in airtight plastic bags for longer than normal times at strictly regulated temperatures?

10)  Name the dairy farmer who founded Glastonbury Festival that is held every year on his farm.