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Just to break up the routine this blog is starting to form I’m offering you…….

The World's Easiest Looking Quiz

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(Answers at the bottom. Hey - NO Cheating!)

1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?

2) Which country makes Panama hats?

3) From which animal do we get catgut?

4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?

5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?

6) The Canary Islands in the Atlantic are named after what
animal?

7) What was King George VI's first name?

8) What color is a purple finch?

9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?

10) How long did the Thirty Years War last

Answers To The Quiz

1) How long did the Hundred Years War last? 116 years, from 1337 to 1453.

2) Which country makes Panama hats? Ecuador.

3) From which animal do we get catgut? From sheep and horses.

4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
November. The Russian calendar was 13 days behind ours.

5) What is a camel's hair brush made of? Squirrel fur.

6) The Canary Islands in the Atlantic are named after what animal?
The Latin name was Insularia Canaria - Island of the Dogs.

7) What was King George VI's first name?
Albert. When he came to the throne in 1936, he respected the
wish of Queen Victoria that no future king should ever be
called Albert.

8) What color is a purple finch? Distinctively crimson.

9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from? New Zealand.

10) How long did the Thirty Years War last?
Thirty years, of course. From 1618 to 1648.

It's amazing how the simple is not so simple and the obvious is not so obvious.

Also, when you've been wrong nine times, you don't trust yourself anymore and even when truth is presented to you, because of past failures, you doubt the obvious

...you doubt you.

Don't let past failures convince you that you can't be right, that you can't do it, that success isn't destined for you.

We don't fail because we don't succeed,

we fail because we quit,

believing that we can't win.