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Hi Anu,
Welcome to our weekly quiz newsletter. It's freezing where we are right now so we thought we'd send a round of quiz questions based on the topic of Snow and Winter.
2009 Year in Review
![]( "2009 Quiz Review") It's the end of the year - so what better time to test your quiz teams on recent history? 2009 has been the year of Duck Houses, the year we lost Michael Jackson and Patrick Swayze, the year that the World Cup 2010 picture was painted and Lance Armstrong came back. In film we went Up, heard The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button and saw what would happen to the planet in 2012. Lady GaGa showed us her Pokerface and Susan Boyle got to dream her dream. Celebrate the year of Bankers, Barack Obama, Button and Boyle with a fantastic range of 2009 quizzes; click below:
http://paulsquiz.com/2009
Christmas Quiz Pack
![]( "Christmas Quiz Pack") Our Christmas Quiz Pack is still available. The pack contains well over 300 Christmas-themed quiz questions formatted as individual rounds and each question has it's answer conveniently alongside. We have put some handout rounds in there too as well as blank answer and score sheets.
http://paulsquiz.com/xmas
Questions for Newsletter Week 52 2009
1. What colour snow fell over an area of 1,500 sq. km. in Siberia on Feb 2 2007?
a. Orange
b. Black
c. Pink
d. Gold
2. The following words are from which song?
"Don't be a naughty Eskimo"
3. Each of the following mean snow in which European language?
a. Sneeuw
b. Lumi
c. Schnee
d. Neve
e. Snieg
4. Who had a hit song in the late 60s with Hazy Shade Of Winter?
5. What is an Alberta Clipper?
6. Which director said "Blondes make the best victims. They are like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints"?
7. What are Mukluks?
8. In which two countries are the winter skiing resorts named Banff found?
9. After she eats the poison apple the seven dwarfs, believing her to be dead, place Snow White in what?
10. In which country were the first Winter Olympic Games held in 1924?
11. What is an Ushanka?
12. Can you name some famous sled dog breeds given the following clues?
a. first letter M, last letter E
b. first letter S, last letter D
13. Each of the following all mean what in Europe?
talvi, inverno, zima and tel.
14. Which Canadian female singer had a hit in the USA, Canada and the UK in 1970 with Snow Bird?
"The snow bird sings the song he always sings, and speaks to me of flowers that will bloom again in spring"
15. Which Sir played Richard Lionheart in the prize winning 1968 film The Lion In Winter?
16. Due to the lack of sunlight a dogs nose can fade to brown in the winter. What is this called?
17. Which name is given to the battle that took place in severe winter conditions in the Ardennes between 16 December 1944 and 25 January 1945?
18. Who had a hit song on both sides of the Atlantic in 1969 with Winter World Of Love?
19. Which 'winter' film opens with the following text? "This is a true story. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987"
20. What is the more common name for the legume called Mangetout?
and now the all important answers:
Answers for Newsletter Week 52 2009
1. a. orange
2. Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
3. Five answers
a. Dutch
b. Finnish
c. German
d. Italian
e. Polish
4. Simon and Garfunkel
5. An extremely cold, fast moving winter storm
6. Alfred Hitchcock
7. A type of Eskimo boots
8. Canada and Scotland
9. A glass coffin
10. France. Chamonix.
11. Russian fur cap with ear flaps
12. two answers
a. Malamute
b. Samoyed
13. Winter. Talvi is Finnish, Inverno is Italian, Zima is Czech and Tel is Hungarian for winter
14. Anne Murray
15. Sir Anthony Hopkins
16. Snow nose or hyperpigmentation
17. Battle of the Bulge
18. Engelbert Humperdinck
19. Fargo
20. Snow Pea
So, until next week,
Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a very happy new Year!
Dave Small and Paul Abrook,
PaulsQuiz is a joint effort between Paul Abrook and Dave Small, two British expats living in Germany.
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