Questions and answers for the Brains of Sao Paulo 2012

3. What is the name of Sherlock Holmes´ brother?
Robert Holmes
Mycroft Holmes
John Holmes

4. Which acclaimed Spanish cubist painter quoted “good artists copy, great artists steal”?
Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dalí
El Greco,

5. Marion Mitchell Morrison, was an actor, director and producer, and considered the all-time top money making star. He was better known as?
Jim Morrison
Marilyn Monroe
John Wayne

6. Rudyard Kipling wrote “The man who would to be king”, which in 1975 was turned to a film with Michael Caine and Sean Connery. In which country did the bulk of the action take place?
Kathmandu
Kafiristan
kyrgyzstan

7. What prize did philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre refuse in 1964?
Booker Prize
The National Book Awards
The Noble prize for Literature

8. Yo Katrina Darling recently hit the news, and the cover of Playboy Magazine, not only thanks to her physical attributes, or because she works in a bank during the day and strips in a club at night. Who is she related to? recently hit the news, and the cover of Playboy Magazine, not only thanks to her physical attributes, or because she works in a bank during the day and strips in a club at night. Who is she related to?
lady Gaga
Kate Middleton
Angela Merkel

9. Who or what are Angélique-Françoise, Antoinette-Charlotte, Hyacinthe-Jeanne and Denise-David??
French Davis cup team
The four bells in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame
The four horses on top of the Arc du Carrousel in Paris

10. Who was the Libyan monarch deposed by Gaddafi in 1969?
King Idris I
Haile Selassie
Bashir al-Assad

11. This is the oldest surviving sovereign state and constitutional republic in the world. What is its name?
Luxemberg
Monoco
San Marino

12.Which island (or rock) is in dispute between UK, Ireland, Iceland and Denmark?
Hebrides
Faeroes
Rockall

13. Who was buried twice in the polish cathedral of Prombork, the first time in 1543?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Fryderyk Chopin
Galileo Galilei

14. An influenza epidemic in 1918 was named after this country, although the real reason for this to have happened was due to Germany,
US, Britain and France having media blackouts, not wanting to disclose bad news which would lower morale. What was the name of this pandemic?
Hong Kong flu
Asian flu
Spanish flu

15. Which country is smaller in size: Monaco, Vatican City, or Gibraltar
Gibraltar
Vatican
Monaco

16. This was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, and who later disappeared in a circumnavigational flight in 1937. Her name was?
Amelia Earhart
Mary Celeste.
Agatha Christie

17. The US Navy battleships Arizona, Utah, West Virginia, California and Oklahoma sank within a short distance of one another. Where ?
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Trafalgar
Pearl Harbor

18. The term “Seven seas” was used by many civilizations, such as the Arabs, Indians & Persians. In medieval European literature,
it comprised the Adriatic, the Mediterranean, the Caspian, the Persian, the Arabian, the Red Sea and which other?
The Aegean
The Black Sea
Dead sea

19. The last remaining giant turtle of the Pinta Islands, in the Galapagos, passed away, aged over a century old. What was the name of this famous turtle?
Sleepy George
Sandy George
Solitary George

20. What term formally coined in 1842 by paleontologist Sir Richard Owen, is derived from two Greek words, meaning “terrible lizard”? ?
Dinosaur
Gecko
Dragon

21. A granule is a rock up to 4 mm in diameter, and a cobble is a rock over 64 mm in diameter. What do you name the rock
in between these sizes? (0,16 inches to 2,52 inches)
Gravel
A grain
A pebble

22. What disability did English chemist John Dalton suffer from, and which led him to write “The extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours”?
Night blindness
Photophobia
Colour Blindness

23. In the Greek Alphabet, letters also symbolized numbers. Delta represented 4, Lambda represented 30, Sigma represented 200. What did Omega represent?
800
80
8

24 What other activity did the inventor of the Morse code have??
accomplished writer.
accomplished Musician
accomplished painter

25. Who or what is Who or what is Yvonne, listed on the most wanted list for three weeks in Germany, finally
captured last year (02/09/2011), listed on the most wanted list for three weeks in Germany, finally captured in 2011
A Cow
A Wolf
A German Shepherd

26. Last year, the 1884 De Dion, Bouton et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos Steam Runabout was auctioned off. What is it?
A car
A Boat
A train

27. Which world-class athlete was recently banned from competing and lost most of his victories after an extensive investigation on doping?n.
Ben Johnson
Voula Papachristou
Lance Armstrong

28.Buford, a small town in Wyoming, USA, was already famous for only having one inhabitant. What brought it back to the headlines in 2012?
it´s only inhabitant was arrested for selling raw milk
It was sold in an auction
The power was cut off

29.In which country did A Zombie run for President
USA
Brazil
Mexico

30. What did Chinese Hu Seng, from Chongqing City recently post in the mail, which would have been his last gift to his girlfriend?
A dog
Himself
A plastic engagement ring

31. Joyce Coffey, from New Hampshire, was arrested four times within 26 hours for repeatedly
playing a song by AC/DC very loudly. What song was she playing?
Hard As Rock
Night Of The Long Knifes
Highway to hell

32. What is the name given to the group of three members (IMF, European Central Bank and European Comission)
trying to control the financial crisis in Europe?
Bildeberg
Committee of 300
Troika

33. The oldest surviving bank in the world is 640 years old, and is the third largest in its country. As most others in Europe, it required recapitalization by its national government in 2012. In which country is this bank?
London - Rothschild
Vatican - Vatican bank
Italy - Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena

34. Which country advanced its calendar date one day ahead, after having done the opposite 119 years before?
Samoa
Hawaii
Easter Island

35. Which country will no longer have any McDonald´s fast food stores as from December2012?
Peru
Bolivia
Paraguay

36. Recently, Corinthians and Palmeiras commemorated their 102nd and 98th anniversaries. They are not, however, the oldest professional football team in activity in the State of São Paulo. Which is this team?
Ponte Preta
SPAC
Sao Paulo

37. Two cars departing at the same time, a Ferrari leaving São Paulo towards Rio,
and a Fiat Uno leaving Rio towards São Paulo, cross each other along the way. When they cross, which one is farther from São Paulo?
Ferrari
Uno
Neither

38. Which was the first skyscraper in the city of São Paulo?
edificio Banespa
edificio Martinelli
edificio Itália

39. The most recent census of Brazil showed that the population is close to how many hundred million inhabitants?
Two hundred million
Three hundred million
one hundred million

40. How many judges are there in the high court of Brazil?
9
11
13

41.Which three Brazilian State capitals are located on islands?
Manaus, Florinopolis, vitoria
Rio, Vitoria , sao Luis
Florianopolis, Vitoria and Sao Luis

42.Which are the three most common street names in Brazil?
Av.Brasil , Av. Nove de Julho, Av. atlantica
Rua Dois, Rua Três, Rua Um
Av. brasil, av. Nove de Julho, Av. Vinte tres de Maio

43. Santos Dumont is considered one of the most important inventors of Brazil, having developed the airplane 14-bis.
What was his father´s occupation, which brought wealth to their family?
Banker
Politician
Coffee planter

44. Which one of these countries has the smallest annual per capita beer consumption: Germany, Holland, or Australia?
Australia
Holland
Germany

45. Pisco is a traditional Peruvian brandy. What is it made of
grapes
apples
coca leaf

46. It was invented by the Chinese, but like most of the terms in cuisine, it got its name from the French, and means
“something made small”, from the Latin “minutus”. What is this item found in practically all restaurants?
The Tip
The Menu
The fork

47. If I was offered a gill of beer, how many would I need to drink to have had two pints?
8 gills
4 gills
6 gills

48. The pest Phylloxera plagued and destroyed what kind of plantations in Europe in the 19th century?
potatoes
orchards
Vineyards

49. What well-guarded formula did John Stith Pemberton create in 1886?
The paper clip
Coca-cola
vacuum cleaner

50. Which member of the royal family infamously said “If it has four legs and is not a chair,
if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine,
the Cantonese will eat it."?
Prince Philip
Prince harry
Prince Charles

51. Reputedly, what has Prahlad Jani, an 82-yo yogi in India, not done for the last 70 years?
passed Gas
stood up
Eaten or drunk water

52. Which famous person said “you can get much more with nice words and a pistol than only with nice words”?
Joseph Stalin
Al Capone
Saddam Hussein

53. which is the largest planet within our solar system.
Uranus
Jupiter
Saturn

54. What do you name a collection of two or more events or conditions, closely related by time,
space, form or other associations which appear unlikely to bear a relationship?
accidentally
matter of fact
Coincidence

55. What would you usually find buried inside a cenotaph?
Nothing
ashes
the Unknown soldier

56. What is the second full moon in a month usually named?
new moon
blue moon
half moon

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