1^st and 2^nd Year  BAT   quiz.

Read carefully the following information and answer  the questions.

1.The Crusaders’ flag is now the flag of one European state. Can you tell me which one? It was adopted in the year 1339 after the Battle of Laupen, which stablished the country’s independence from the Hamburgs Empire. The rationale was that being a free nation was as important as having a Christian Jerusalem. The Crusader’s flag consisted of a white  cross on a red background. Which country has that flag today?

2.There is one other country in the world which is divided between two continents. What country is that? The two continents are Africa and Asia. The country is an Arab nation, mostly in Africa, but with one part on the continent of Asia. That part is a peninsula, the Sinai Peninsula.

3.What colour symbolises love in Jewish traditions? For the Navajo Indians this colour represents the south. The psychologists tell us that  this is men’s favourite colour. It was also the colour of the uniforms of civil servants in ancient Rome, which is the reason that most police forces today dress in it.

4.The Chinese dress in white when someone dies, in contrast what colour did the ancient egyptians wear when there was a death in the family?  They put on the colour so that the ghost of the dead person wouldn’t recognise them and come back to haunt them. The Romans followed  the ancient Egyptians, and most European societies have copied them.

5.A mouse has forty , a fly has eight, a tomato has 24, a shrimp has more than two hundred. What are these things? All living matter consists of cells, and each cell has a nucleus. Each nucleus in any particular animal or plant has the same number of these things. We humans only have 46 of these things in the nuclei of our cells. These are the objects which carry hereditary information about each person contained on the acid called DNA.

6.Who was the son of Aphrodite by Zeus or by Hermes, depending on which story you accept? In Greek mythology this god got younger, unlike the rest of us who get older and older, till in the end he was an infant. He was the Greek god of fertility and passion. The Romans also adopted the child-god  and added the belief that when he wanted a person to fall in love he would shoot his victim with an arrow tipped with a diamond. People didn’t realise that they had been hit by the magic arrow and they would fall violently in love which is why  the sign of a heart crossed by an arrow is today the international symbol of love.

7.Which planet comes closer to earth? It gets to within 42 million Kilometres, so near that sometimes it is possible to see the clouds on the planet without a telescope. It is so bright that it can cast a shadow on earth, and after the moon it is the brightest object in our night sky. For at least five thousand years this planet has been associated with the idea of passion, and today it is named after the Roman godess of love.

8.The next question is about a tube. It is between 6.7 and 7.8 metres long and it is only three or four centimetres in diameter. But if you cut the tube open, it has a total internal surface  area of 4500 square metres , which is about the size of a tenis court. The reason is that in the inside the tube is not flat: it has lots of indentations which are called the mucros and the mucosal villi, that absorb most of the food we eat. This tube consist of three parts :duodenum, jejunum and ileum. Which is the name of the tube?

9.The Soviet Union use rubles and kopeks; Britain uses pounds and pence; Germany uses marks and pfennigs. The Mongolian People’s Republic uses mongos and tugriks. How many mongos are there in one tugrik?

10.St. George  is the patron saint  of Genoa, Sicily and Venice in Italy, Georgia in the Soviet Union, of Cataluña and Aragón in Spain,  of .Ethiopia, Greece, Portugal and of one other European country.  St. George’s  day is the country’s national day and the red cross of Saint George is the central part of the flag, where it combines with the  blue cross of St Andrew and the white cross of St Patrick. Which country is that?