HEY. I'm still here.

Can't believe my last post on here was over a month ago. Seem to have been busy with all sorts of stuff: uni work (honest), filming UC (there'll be a long post coming on that once it's started airing, about the whole experience and how we've done), doing some quizzes. Unfortunately my quiz-writing rate - certainly for the blog and my own learning - has reduced to very little. So now I aim to write a lot more on here, with at least one new post a week.

Two quizzes today - they are as follows:

First quiz is on Nobel laureates:
1 The element with atomic number 109 is named after which Austrian physicist, the only woman other than Marie Curie to have had a chemical element named after her?
2 Which Russian-American poet and essayist received the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature for, according to the official citation, "an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity"?
3 In how many different categories are the Nobel prizes awarded?
4 Norwegian Ragnar Frisch and Dutch Jan Tinbergen were the inaugural winners of which of the Nobel prizes?
5 Winning it in 1956 and 1972, who is the first and so far only person to have received the Nobel Prize for Physics twice? 
6 Which Austrian physicist, who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology, was considered one of the founders of ethology, and wrote books including King Solomon's Ring and Man Meets Dog?
7 Max Theiler was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for his development of a vaccine against which disease, subsequently becoming the first African-born Nobel laureate?
8 Swiss businessman Henry Dunant was joint-laureate of the first ever Nobel Peace Prize for his founding of the International Red Cross, which he was inspired to do after witnessing the fighting at which 1859 battle?
9 Bangladeshi entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his founding of which micro-finance organisation which specialises in giving small loans to the impoverished without requiring collateral?
10 Which contemporary Chinese writer was set to win the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature but died before he could be awarded it?




Answers:
1 Lise Meitner
2 Joseph Brodsky
3 Six
4 Economic Sciences
5 John Bardeen
6 Konrad Lorenz
7 Yellow fever
8 Solferino
9 Grameen Bank
10 Shen Congwen


Second quiz is on European geography:
1 Which city of north-western Spain is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia?
2 Which of Europe's major rivers - the longest of Ukraine and Belarus - flows through Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk?
3 The islands of Ischia, Procida, Nisida, and Vivara - and sometimes Capri - all comprise which archipelago of southern Italy?
4 Kopavogur, with a population of around 32,000, is the second-largest settlement in which European country?
5 Forming part of the boundary between Europe and Asia, the Bosphorus is the world's narrowest strait used for international navigation. It connects the Black Sea with which inland sea, known in classical antiquity as the Propontis?
6 Which Greek island, lying in the shadow of its much larger neighbour, Crete, is the country's most southerly, and also marks the southernmost point of Europe?
7 The flag of which partially recognised European state consists of three horizontal bands of white, red, and yellow?
8 The Tatra mountains form a natural border between Slovakia and which other European country?
9 Which is the only European country to be doubly landlocked (that is, not only is it landlocked, but it is also surrounded by landlocked countries)?
10 The Swabian Sea is another name for which lake at the northern foot of the Alps?




Answers:
1 Santiago de Compostela
2 Dnieper
3 Phlegraean islands
4 Iceland
5 Sea of Marmara
6 Gavdos
7 South Ossetia
8 Poland
9 Liechtenstein
10 Lake Constance 

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