QUIZ ANSWERS


1    A flagrant misquote from the Bard. The line (King John, Act IV) reads “To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,”

2    A recent study has shown that drivers using hand-free mobiles travelled 5 metres further in emergency stops from 60 mph, and made 83% more driving errors.

3    There is no evidence that women have less innate maths ability than men. The apparent poorer performance correlates strongly with cultural prejudice.

4    Many evolutionists hold this to be true, but more recent evidence strongly suggests that, though birds and dinosaurs probably had a common ancestor, Archaeopteryx is not a missing link.

5    Breed’s Hill. Bunker Hill was mistakenly identified in early reports.

6    The Brits. But their heavy losses gave the Americans confidence that they could win pitched battles.

7    Not poor Marie Antoinette. The remark predates her birth by several years.

8    Never. Magna Carta was sealed not signed. King John probably couldn’t write.

9    Yes, once (Isiah 14:12, in Vulgate and King James). But it refers to the King of Babylon, not Satan.

10    No, a rotten shot. Old English was a different language (Anglo Saxon). Chaucer wrote Middle English. The Our Father  begins in Old English:
Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum, Si þin nama gehalgod.
The strange “þ” character is the “thorn” or “th”. Typically type setters substituted a “y” character, so “ye” should be pronounced “the”.

11    True, despite all the wiring diagrams.

12    The seahorse. It carries the young in a pouch where deposited eggs are fertilised and nurtured.
 
13    Swann. His bulb preceded Edison’s invention by 10 months.

14    Eugene Speicher (1883 -1962), not Sargent. Sargent said: “Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.” All portrait painters know both to be true.

15    None. The phrase does not occur.

PENANCES:     For each wrong answer one Hail Mary
            For each right answer two Hail Marys
            For disputed/partial answers one “Come Holy Spirit.”

 

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