10 rounds today as usual

1. World War 1
WW1 began in Europe
1917, Germans introduced mustard gas
Versailles treaty ended WW1
Grenade came in Jam Tin variety
Nivelle, French commander in charge during Battle of Verdun
Turkish tried to capture it - Suez Canal
Turnip Winter - I cannot imagine a worse, more depressing situation than to be an average german on the homefront during the Turnip winter of 1916-17. As the police reports indicate, the people where between a rock and a hard place. "The mood can only be described as very bad...the discontent in the population has reached a new intensity...the attitude of women toward the war can be summarized as 'Peace at any price.' (66)" First the government rations the bread, and provides potatoes instead. Then, potatoes by 1916 become increasingly difficult to find legally, so the only alternative become turnips. As Fritzsche points out on pg 69, over 28,000 copies of "Turnips Instead of Potatoes" were published in newspapers and cookbooks during this awful time in German history. I have never eaten just turnips, or turnip soup, but if that was all I could eat, for months at a time, without meat, bread, potatoes, or hardly any sugar or chocolate to consume either, I could not be a happy camper- to say the least. On top of the terrible eating situation, Fritsche continues by adding that "the winter turned out to be the coldest in memory...35,000 households in Nuremberg simply ran out of coal before the winter ended... 175,000 men and women died of influenza in the year 1918." I just canot fathom a worse living quagmire than to not only be able to eat hardly anything, not be able to keep yourself warm, and to sit back and read daily reports of how the war was not going germany's way any longer. This shows how devoted the people were to not only the war, but to their country, and for that these poor souls should be recognized for enduring one of, if not the worst living conditions possible in all of german history. There is just no way I could have been able to survive through that horrible turnip winter.
German M-16 Stahelm were helmets 1st used in action in Verdun

2. World War 2
1937 Italy withdrew from League of Nations
Eva Braun, name of Hitler's Wife
1945, German instrument of surrender signed
Hiroshima, first City atom bomb was dropped
1944 - year of Warsaw Uprising
6 billion leaflets Allies dropped on Europe during WW2
8 German Panzer divisions took part in the December 1944 von Rundstedt offensive

3. Star Trek
Captain Kirk in Orig Series = William Shatner
Neelix = cook and morale officer
Leonard Nimoy, played Spock in Original Series
The Ferengi was not pursuing
The Cochrane
Tuvok had an orchid named after him
Guardian of Forever

4. Shakespeare
"Et tu, Brute?" Julius Caesar said that
Anne Hathaway - wife of Shakespeare
England was were Shakespeare was born
The Winter's Tale = A Dance of Twelve Satyr's
Bard of Avon = Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus - first of Shakespeare's plays
Italy and France = setting of All's Well that Ends Well

5. Baseball
42 number that Dodgers and every other Major League team retired in honor of Jackie Robinson
National League Central, division of Cincinnati Reds
George Brett - entering 2014, holds Royals' record for hits in a career
Willie Mays - only National League batter to hit at least 50 home runs in a season during the 1950s
Jackie Robinson - first Rookie of the Year winner to later win a league MVP award
Jackie Robinson again - first former Negro Leaguer to win an MVP award
Mike Schmidt - entering 2014 who holds Phillies' record for hits in a career


6. NBA
Zach Lavine
8
Thunder
Darryl Dawkins
Chris Paul
82 games in an NBA Season
Christian Laetner


7. Boxing
Joe Frazier's nickname = Smokin' Joe
20 Mike Tyson's age when he became youngest ever
Tavoris Cloud, lost his last 3 fights in a row after winning his first 24
Amir Khan - defeated Andreas Kotlenik to win WBA Light Welterweight title in 2009
Anders Eklund - Frank Bruno defeated him in 1985 to become European Heavyweight Champion
Stuart Hall is from Great Britain, he's the former IBF Bantamweight World Champion

8. Geography
Patagonia = large region of South America shared by Chile and Argentina
A loaf of bread symbolizes France to many people, Baguette
London = Wembley Stadium
Bhutan = Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary as a way to protect the Yeti
New Hampshire = Maine Borders two Canadian Provinces.. the only US State to border exactly one other State.
Russia = You can ride the Trans-Siberian Railroad..
117 man made islands found in a 200 square mile lagoon

9.
David Copperfield - Who befriends James Steerforth and is raised by Betsy Trotwood in the Charles Dickens novel bearing his name
Hester Prynne - forced to wear a red letter "A" in "The Scarlet Letter"
Anna Karenina - "Happy Families are all alike; every unhappy in its own way" is from what 1877 novel
Mr. Hyde - Dr. Jekyll's alter ego in Robert Louis Stevenson novel
Great Expectations - title of 1860s coming-of-age story about an orphan named Pip
Rudyard Kipling - wrote "The Jungle Book"
Robert Louis Stevenson , wrote 1886 novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"


10.
Augusta - where is US Masters golf tournament held every year
US Open, The Open, US Masters - 3 of the 4 majors
Phil Mickelson plays Left Handed - these golfers play left handed
1985 British Open -
Gene Sarazen
Tiger Woods
Illinois

Thursday, February 18, 2016

WW2
Mussolini - A dictator who ended up hanging by his feet from an Esso station in Piazzale Loreto, along w/ his mistress
Nuremberg - Trials of Leading Nazis held
Winston Churchill - Prime Minister of Britain through
Heinrich Himmler - Minister of Interior in Germany
Prinz Eugen - only German ship to survive WW2
Unit 731 - Japanese unit researched and conducted biological attacks on Chinese people
German Weather Ship - "Busch" in WW2

WW1
The Battle of Verdun took place in France
Treaty of Versailles = name of Treaty which ended state of war between Germany and Allied Powers
Schliefen Plan = name given to the German plan to invade France by marching through Belgium
1918 = Kaiser Wilhelm 2 abdicated in this year during the War
Haig insisted on using this untested weapon for the first time at the Battle of Somme = Tank
Battle of the Marne ended the success of this plan by Germany - The Schlieffen Plan

Music : General    (3rd Cat)
The Moon, 2015 song "Shut Up and Dance"
LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
Whitney Houston, in 1992 had a hit w/ their cover of Dolly Parton's 1973 song "I Will Always Love You"
Paul McCartney, replaced Kurt Cobain at the Nirvana reunion at 2012 12-12-12 concert for Hurricane Sandy Relief
Elton John - as a duet w/ Kiki Dee, had a hit w/ "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
Bjork - dressed as a Geisha for the "Homogenic" album cover

Science - 4th Cat
Electric current usu measured in Amperes
Precipitation Condensation Evaporation - water cycle
HCL = Acid Compound
Divergent - Boundary when two plates move away from one another
Vector - An organism, such as a mosquito or tick, that carries disease-causing microorganisms from one host to another

Philosophy
Plato's "apology is about Socrates' trial
Thoreau values TRUTH the most
Bertrand Russel
Aristotle believed Music had no practical application
George Berkeley

Neuroscience
Central Nervous System - CNS
Bursitis is NOT a mental disorder
Alcohol suppresses neural activity in the brain, producing a sedative or hypnotic effect
Marijuana - causes problems in memory in the hippocampus when used long term
12 pairs of thoracic nerves are in the spinal column
Stress and Depression hastens death of neurons

...look at all options first before you pick an answer...


7th category
Carnivore - animal that feeds mainly on flesh of other animal
Toad is an amphibian
Kangaroo is native to Australia
Gnu = Wildebeest
Numbat = Australian animal lives exclusively on a diet of termites
Puffer Fish = Marine Animal second most poisonous animal on the planet

Television Shows - 8th
TNG = Star Trek Next Generation
Hikaru Sulu
Captain Tiberius Kirk
Gamma Quadrant - The Only Place The Defiant may use Cloaking device
Betazed - the planet Deanna Troi comes from in Star Trek Next Generation
Jack The Ripper was responsible for murder when Scotty was accused of it, in Star Trek: The Original Series

On Deep Space Nine, what is the original Cardassian name for space station Deep Space 9
Terok Nor

TV SHOWS - 9th
Melmac - ALF came from this planet
Red - color of Magnum's Ferrari
Sam Malone - character played by Ted Danson in "Cheers"
Jessica Fletcher - main character in Murder She Wrote
Orphanage - "Hi-De-Hi".. Paul Shane's character of Ted Bovis was brought up as a child here
Colorado - American state of Colorado was where TV Soap "Dynasty" was set
Kristin Shepard shot JR



Shakespeare - 10th
Ophelia is the girl who drowns herself in Hamlet
Hamlet - there is something rotten in the State of Denmark
Macbeth - "Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble"
Macbeth again - Spirit Like a Cat is a listed character appearing in this Shakespeare play
Alehouse - The Induction of "The Taming of the Shrew" takes place here
King Of France - marries Cordelia in "King Lear" despite her father's decision to disinherit her
Plague - Shakespeare wrote poetry in 1593 and 1594 when theaters were closed because of the plague



(stand out word or object theory - that's what people pick in a multiple choice question)


11th
Mu is a fictional continent popularized by James Churchward
Equestria - fictional land in my little pony
Mos Eisley - name of desert town in Star Wars
Brigadoon - fictional Scottish town which appears briefly every 100 years
Darkover - fictional planet
Hillwood - Hey Arnold set in this fic city
Trantor - capital of the Galactic Empire in Asimov's "Foundation" series

The capital of Scotland is Edinburgh, also Saddam Hussein tried to get his hands on Kuwait

1. Shakespeare Quotes
Hamlet - "To be or not to be, that is the question"
Romeo and Juliet - "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Othello - Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone
Julius Caesar - Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
Richard The Second - The purest treasure mortal times afford is a spotless reputation
Hamlet - Sweets to the sweet, farewell
Hamlet - Come give us a taste of your quality, come, a passionate speech

2. Star Trek
USS Voyager Chakotay is First Officer
Rom and Nog is Ferengi species in Deep Space Nine
Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek
Robert Picardo played the Doctor in Voyager
Anthony Montgomery played Travis Mayweather in Enterprise
Developing cloaking technology is how USS Pegasus conspired to violate the Treaty of Algeron in Star Trek the Next Generation
Mogh is Worf's natural father

3. Science
Greenwich is at Zero Degrees of Longitude
They don't grow - Lichens indicate air pollution by doing this
3959 miles far below the ground (sea level) would the center of the Earth be
Polaris - The North Star is also known as
Bears - Animals of the Ursidae family
50 seconds - it takes to make 100,000 vibrations if a tuning fork has freq of 2000 Hz
Osmosis - what term describes the balancing of water molecules from higher to lower pressure, across a semi permeable membrane

4. Baseball
1908 famous song was written by Jack Norworth but he didn't go to his first baseball game 'til 1942
Didn't go to a baseball game till 1942
New York Mets, in 2012 Johan Santana pitched the first no-hitter
It's a home run - a hit ball bounces off the foul pole and into the field
Matt Williams - first player to hit a World series home run for 3 diff teams
San Diego - Ted Giannoulas created a chicken who cavorts at sports events in San Diego
Mark McGwire - in 2014, holds Athletics' record for home runs in a career

5. NBA
47 Blake Griffin's career high
Magic Johnson - started at the center of game 6 of the 1980 NBA Finals as Lakers clinched NBA title
Tim Duncan won 2 times, NBA MVP award
How many games was the Knicks playoff losing streak that ended 2012
Tyreke Evans
Patrick Beverley = winner of 2015 All Star Weekend Skills Challenge
Pacific = Phoenix Suns play in which NBA Division
Oscar Roberston, Michael Jordan, Lebron James averaged 20+ PPG, 5+ APG, and 5+ RPG as rookies. Who else has done this? = Tyreke Evans

6. Animals
Turtle returns to the beach
French Gnome = NOT
Blue eyed white cats are deaf
All of these
Tree Snake = boomslang ysnake, a name originating in Afrikaans and Dutch
Breeds of Rabbits are Britannia petite, French gnome, American sable
A method of cane toad control in Australia is urgently needed. Chemical control, legislative control, and biological control is needed.

7. Philosophy
Our mind - Descartes believe we can know this most intimately
Humanism - there's inherent goodness and nobility in the human spirit
Socrates - "As for me, all i know is that
Kurt Godel - proved the famous incompleteness theorems
Parmenides - ancient Greek philosopher who was not a member of the Ionian school
"all bachelors are unmarried" - Analytic a priori
Appearances - In Critique of Pure Reason, Kant refers to as "intensive magnitudes" and "extensive magnitudes"


8. World War 2
Belgium's King Leopold III spent much of WW2 as a prisoner in his own castle
Soviet Union lost the most people in WW2
Enola Gay B-29 dropped the atom bomb
Europe was most devastated by WW2
UK was lead by Winston Churchill
Allies and Axis
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa - Demon Of Rabaul
Tours - French Gov't surrendered it to Germany
Das Schwarze Korps - Official Weekly Newspaper of the SS
Hong Kong - a British territory captured on Christmas Day 1941


9. US Presidents
Bill Clinton is 42nd Pres
Dick Cheney is Vice Pres under George Bush
JFK youngest elec Pres
Thomas Jefferson first elec press by house of rep
Calvin Coolidge had Vaseline rubbed on his head in the morning
Chester A Arthur - The Gentleman Boss, nickname
Chester Alan Arthur

10. US States
Wisconsin - abbr. WI
Washington shares border with Idaho and Oregon
New York has cat skill mountain



United Arab Emirates is the third one, after Yemen and Oman

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Ten Rounds

1st Round - Star Trek
Borg's Repetitive War Cry = Resistance is Futile
Pon farr - "The Time of Mating" in Vulcan
1995-2001 Star Trek reincarnation = Voyager
Arthuris in Voyager = Ray Wise
Sir I must protest, I am not a Merry Man = Worf
How many colonists were there on Omicron Theta? 411 colonists
On this Star Trek Voyager episode, Chakotay met a young Kazon boy = Initiations

2nd Round - NBA
Shaquille O Neal - hosts the NBA blooper feature "Shaqtin' a Fool"
Brooklyn Nets - Brook Lopez, Joe Johnson, Shane Larkin
Dwight Howard - Rockets 12
James Harden - West All Star in 2013
Alvin Gentry - New Orleans Pelicans hired him as their head coach after 2014-2015 Season
Kyrie Irving -  scored a 2014-2015 season high for the league w/ 57 points
Mike Budenholzer - 2014-2015 NBA Coach of the Year

3rd Round - Shakespeare
Two Gentlemen of Verona is a title for a Shakespeare Play
Out damn'd Spot = Lady Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet = Two Households both alike in dignity in fair Verona
Yo mama Joke = Act 1, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
25 = number of sons Titus Andronicus have
Milan = "The Tempest" Prospero is Duke of Milan
Fluellen = "Eat My Leek" in Henry V

4th Round - Baseball
First Base - 12 year old Kathryn Johnston becomes first girl to play Little League at this position
He bats fourth - A manager having one of his best hitters batting "clean up"
Rickey Henderson - holds Athletics' record for stolen bases in a season, entering 2014
Tony Fernandez - entering 2014, holds Blue Jays' record for hits in a career
Miami Marlins - in 2012 moved into a brand new ballpark in Little Havana
Larry Robinson - not one of the Robinsons who won the baseball MVP award, but won a Norris Trophy
Jose Canseco - first player in history w/ 40 home runs and 40 steals in same season

5th Round - Literature
Charles Dickens wrote a Tale of Two Cities 1859
The Picture of Dorian Gray, title of 1891 Wilde Novel about a dashing young man who sells his soul to remain young while his portrait ages
Oliver Twist - Please Sir, I want some more
Compeyson - a professional swindler who fights w/ Magwitch and drowns
Phileas Fogg - makes the wager that he can travel the world in 80 days
River Thames is featured in "Our Mutual Friend" by Charles Dickens
Jo is short for Josephine in "Little Women"

6th - Science
Dogs hear better than humans
Ammeter measures electric current
Calorimeter measures amount of Chlorine
Eniac name of first digital computer
Mariner, Pioneer, Ranger names of US Space mission
Static electricity causes dust to collet into dust bunnies
Aberdeen Angus is a type of Cow

7th - Computer Science
Apache is A in LAMP Stack
Object Oriented Design - Unified Modeling Language or UML, used in this area
Original 802.11 wireless protocol as well as wireless 802.11 b/g/n all broadcast at 2.4 GHZ  frequency
An IPv6 address can have 2 types of formats, one is Normal or Pure and the other is Dual
HBase is NOT an example of RBDMS
Visicalc is a Spreadsheet, one of the popular products in 1970s
A mathematician that has a functional programming language named after him: Haskell Curry

8th - Philosophy
Hedonism - thinks highest and greatest good is pleasure
Dualism - view that mind or soul and body are two separate things
Relativism - what's true for you is false for me
Thomas Hobbes - believes State of nature is war against all
Hume argues that principle of induction can neither be an a priori truth or an a posteriori fact
Karl Marx took Hegel's ideas and turned them upside down

9th - Colleges
University of Florida has a gator as a mascot
Business is most popular major
Duke University is in North Carolina
Columbia University is in New York
University of Arizona has a Blue, Red and White in A logo
The New School is located in New York
Bruin is UCLA's mascot

10th - Movies: General
Andy Stitzer - 40 year old Virgin
Shower, Marion Crane was killed in "Psycho"
James Cameron was brought on for ideas to stop oil spill for 2010 Gulf of Mexico
Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire's co-star in "Top Hat" dancing w/ him in such classics as "Cheek to Cheek"
Collin Farrel played a down on his luck screen writer involved in a dognapping in 2012 movie, "Seven Psychopaths"
Adrien Brody, won a Best Actor Oscar for the film "The Pianist"
June 6, 2006 - release date for 2006 version of "The Omen"

Good Classical Music

Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead, Symphonic poem Op. 29 - Andrew Davis

Devil's Trill Sonata

Take 10 Quizzes a Day, can you do it

Jordan = The Hashemite Kingdom

1st Quiz
Kierkegaard uses the example of G-d telling Abraham to kill his son as an example of the absurdity of life
Kant said moral laws apply to all rational beings
Richard Wagner shared a relationship with Nietzsche, he praised his "The Birth of Tragedy"
Russel said Philosophy aims for Knowledge like all other studies
Duhem-Quine thesis - in Philosophy of Science, it's impossible to test a scientific hypothesis in isolation
Ludwig Wittgenstein made use of a fire poker in confrontation w/ Karl Popper
Ludwig Wittgenstein quit his profession to become a village school teacher

2nd Quiz
Clouds are mainly made of water
Grapes grow on a vine
Plants have Chlorophyll
Mercury and Bromine are liquid at room temp
Vitamin C is ascorbic acid
9.8 m/s2
Hippocrates = Father of Modern Medicine

So I beat the top 10 in Science: General for Pakistan, I was level 2 and she was level 54.

3rd Quiz
Louis Armstrong - Jazz Performer
1930s - Great Depression
The Bill of Rights, first 10 const amendments
Alabama
1850s Handcart Migration, Mormons went to Utah

4th Quiz
Israel certified its stamp as Kosher
Kyoto is anagram of Tokyo
Heivetia - NOT a name for Switzerland

Switzerland has 3 main official languages ..
these are names for Switzerland: Suisse, Svizzera, Schweiz

Lake Superior - Westernmost and Northernmost of the Great Lakes

5 at least
Atlas - an Ocean and a Mountain range named for him
1,400 fountains in the garden of Palace of Versailles
Zimbabwe as a country is named for the ruins that were once capital city of Monomutapa Empire
"Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono" Hawaii's motto
China has one time zone

6
Chile and Argentina shares Patagonia
River's current meets the sea's tide = Estuary
1707 - Scotland politically unified with England and Wales to form the Kingdom of Great Britain
Lebanon only country in Middle East w/ no desert
4 States in the United States has a border w/ Mexico
Brazil's flag depicts the night sky of Rio de Janeiro as seen on Nov 15 1889
Long Island is the largest island in the continental United States
Yellowstone - US national park created by a massive volcanic eruption 600,000 years ago
Grand Duke, monarch of Luxembourg is referred to by what title
Tahiti is located in French Polynesia
Darfur is in Sudan

7th
Chile is around 12 times longer from North to South than it is from East to West
London has Wembley Stadium, a national football stadium located in London
Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Russia all have borders on Black Sea
Pakistan means "Land of the Pure" in Urdu, it was coined in 1933 by Choudhary Rahman Ali in his pamphlet "Now or Never"
Russia used to cover more of Earth's surface, covers 11% of it as of 2011
Antarctica - The Queen Maud Mountains and the Weddell Sea are features found on which continent
Montana

QUIZ games - 11 so far

1ST GAME
Triangle on a map - means Mountain
Great Sandy Dessert, Great Dividing Range - Australia
Argentina's language is Spanish
Charles Bridge - longest bridge built in Middle Ages in Europe
El Paso is named because it's a ford across what Texas river
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is w/ Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Paris-Dakar's rally's traditional finishing point is Dakar

2ND GAME
Shanghai is China's largest city by population
Lines of latitude are lines that run parallel to the equator
Half of St. Martin is French and the other Caribbean
Colombia and Panama - The Darien Gap is an undeveloped break in the Pan-American highway
Baroque - Palace of Versailles is an example of this architecture
Paris, Texas - 60 ft high w/ a red Cowboy hat
Maui - 1992, 30,000 Hawaiians petitioned to change the name of Maui to Gilligan's Island

3RD GAME
Amazon River - The Rio Negro, Jurua River and Madeira River.. some of the 1000 tributaries of a major river
Astha - world's 1 billionth person
Russia - Trans-Siberian Railroad
Indian Ocean - Zambezi River in Africa flows into Indian Ocean
Argentina and Chile - Patagonia traverses into these two South American countries
Martinique - Mt Pele is in Martinique
Nova Scotia does not border the United States

4TH GAME
Australia celebrates Xmas in Summer
Brazil - only Portuguese speaking country in the Americas
Mount Olympus is highest peak in Greece
Copper named after Cyprus where it was mined in Roman Era
Prince Orange - Heir Apparent to the Dutch Throne
Amsterdam's symbol is "xxx", three crosses
Islamabad capital of Pakistan along w/ Rawalpindi, makes up its 3rd largest metro area

5TH GAME
Pacific Ocean - Largest body of water on Earth
Mascara, once capital of Turkish province of West Algeria
New Zealand has Stewart Island, its 3rd largest island
Wyoming has Yellowstone Park, 1st nat'l park established in the United States
Saudi Arabia population is 29 million
Russia has Lake Baikal
Uganda until 1962 has the capital of Entebbe

6TH GAME
Yukon runs through the center of Alaska and shares its name w/ a territory of Canada
A baguette
John Donne is an island in the Irish Sea and so is Isle of Man
Gypsies
Isle of Man
Minnesota has International Falls which is Icebox of the Nation
Strassbourg is NOT in Germany

7TH GAME
New Zealand has Maori
Arabian Peninsula has Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Sana'a, Muscat
Wales has a "Red Dragon Flag" includes a red dragon called Y Ddraig Goch
China has the world's biggest crashing bore, a tidal bore in the Qiantang River at Hangzhou Bay
Aral Sea is in Kazakhstan
Lesotho's Flag has a hat

Italian forces invaded Ethiopia in 1935 and annexed the country the following year, but their unwelcomed stay was relatively short-lived, as the World War II Allied powers liberated the country in 1941. 

Anglo-Zulu War (1879, in Southern Africa)
The British defeat of Zulu King Cetshwayo’s forces marked the end of an era of powerful Zulu kings. It also resulted in the Zulu kingdom being incorporated into British colonial holdings, eventually as part of the province of Natal, which later became the modern-day South African province of KwaZulu-Natal.

The Sotho peoples’ victory over the Cape Colony is one of the few examples in Southern African history of black Africans’ winning a conflict with colonial powers in the 19th century. It’s also the reason why the country of Lesotho is surrounded by the country of South Africa, rather than being a part of it: because Basutoland (as Lesotho was then known) remained independent of the Cape Colony, it was not included when that colony and three others formed the Union of South Africa in 1910.

South African War (1899–1902, in Southern Africa)

DeA Picture Library

The war between Great Britain and the Boer (Afrikaner) republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State, which ended with British victory and annexation of the two Boer republics, is noteworthy for several reasons. Here are just a few:
-It was the largest and most costly war that the British fought during the 19th century.
-It provided a preview of the type of warfare that would come to characterize World War I.
-It was a war fought between two groups of white peoples—the British and the Dutch-descended Boers—in a subcontinent with a largely black African population that both sides generally sought to exclude from the fighting, although black Africans were certainly negatively impacted by the conflict.
-The two annexed Boer Republics would, with the British colonies of Cape and Natal, later form the Union of South Africa in 1910, the forerunner of today’s Republic of South Africa.

8TH QUIZ
Patagonia is a large region in South America shared by Chile and Argentina
Spanish and Portuguese as you know, is spoken in Latin America
Indonesia has Krakatoa vo
West Bengal
Istanbul both in Europe and Asia
Himalayas = House of Snow
Dar el Bayda
West Bengal is an Indian State renamed Porschim Bongo
Himalayas = "the House of Snow" in Sanskrit
Casablanca is called Dar el Bayda in Morocco

9th quiz

Argentina - gets her name from the Latin word for Silver

Channel Tunnel connects UK and France, it's 50 km long

Lemur only real one native to Madagascar in "Madagascar" movie

Niagara River tumbles over Niagara Falls

Uruguay

Cote D’Ivoire - doesn't border Central African Republic

10th Quiz

Great Barrier Reef - Pacific Ocean

Africa's highest peak is Mount Kilimanjaro

United Arab Emirates has The World Islands, a collection of 300 artificial islands off its coast.. as luxury accomodations

The Sunshine State - The US State of Florida and the Australian state of Queensland share this nickname

Manila

Carnaby 

Pacific Ocean - you can find Great Barrier Reef in it

Manila is the largest city on the island of Luzon

When Archery became an Olympic sport in the 1972 games, it was held in Munich

11th Quiz

Australia largest country that starts w/ A

Sri Lanka, tear drop of India

Himalayas, 19 of the 25 highest peaks are here

Macedonia, Southern most of the former Yugoslavian Republics

Saint Malo, most visited city in Brittany which has highest ratio of sea food restaurants in Europe

Polynesia, island region in Oceania

Orange River, longest river in South Africa