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Litterature/Movies

Question: Who is the author of Macbeth?
Answer: William Shakespeare

Question: Who is the director and writer behind the documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11"?
Answer: Michael Moore

Question: "The Iron Lady" is a movie about which English politician?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Question: Who wrote the text "The United States of BOO!"?
Answer: Michael Moore

Question: Who wrote the short story "The Veldt"?
Answer: Ray Bradbury

Random facts

Question: Which country has the highest consumption of meat per person?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Is it legal to burn foreign flags in Denmark?
Answer: No

Question: Which Dane is Bluetooth named after?
Answer: Harald Blåtand/Bluetooth

Question: What is the Tetris effect/syndrome?
Answer: When an individual devotes so much time to an activity that it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images and dreams.

Question: Who illustrated the Danish edition of Lord of the Rings?
Answer: Margrethe the 2nd (under the pseudonym Ingahild Grathmer)

Words

Question: What does the word 'abandon' mean?
Answer:

Question: What does the word ' Lollygag' Mean?
Answer: Lollygag - To move slowly, fall behind.

Question: What does the word 'zoanthropy' mean? (Think Michael Strunge)
Answer: delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal.

Question: What does the word 'kakorrhaphiophobia' mean? (in a sentence: This is the last word that someone with kakorrhaphiophobia would want to encounter in a spelling bee.)
Answer: fear of failure

Question: What does the word 'Quomodocunquize' mean?
Answer: To make money in any way that you can.

Riddles

Question: A person was born in 1940. Today is his 18th birthday.

How is that possible?
Answer: He was born in hospital room number 1940.

Question: What is the only question you can't answer yes to?
Answer: "Are you dead?" (Assuming you really are dead)

Question: A hobo picks up cigarette butts from the ground and can make a cigarette with 4 butts. If he finds 16 cigarette butts, how many cigarettes can he make?
Answer: 5. He makes 4 cigarettes with the 16 butts. Then he smokes them and has 4 more butts to make another cigarette.

Question: 2 men catch 2 fish in 2 minutes. At this rate, how many men could catch 500 fish in 500 minutes?
Answer: 2 men.

Question: What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and the beginning of every ending?
Answer: The letter 'E'

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Question: Hvad hedder EU-præsidenten?
Answer: Herman Van Rompuy

Question: EU bliver ofte kritiseret for det såkaldte "Rejsecirkus" Men hvor ofte og mellem visse byer finder dette 'rejsecirkus' sted?
Answer: Hver tredje uge mellem Brussel og Strasbourg

Question: Hvornår blev Polen medlem af EU?
Answer: 2003/2004

Question: Kina har kraftig økonomisk vækst, og man forventer at Kina overhaler USA som verdens største økonomi, men hvornår?
Answer: I år

Question: Ifølge en meningsmåling foretaget op til Europaparlaments-valget, forventes Dansk Folkeparti (DF) fremgang. Men hvor mange procent anslår man, at DF vil få?
Answer: ~ 27%