The "easy" pub quiz

[SmallTown]

What country do Panama Hats come from?

How long did the hundered years war last?

What typs of animal is a Bombay Duck?

Which coutnries national anthem pledges allegiance to the king of Spain?

What is the usual colour of a black box flight recorder?

In what month does Oktoberfest traditionally start?

What animal were the canary islands named after?

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

What country do Panama Hats come from?

Ecuador, workers building the Panama canal wore them.

 

[guisborough_rob]

And aren’t black boxes famously orange so they can be easily found in the debris of a crash?

 

[Capybara]

I didn't know this board allowed you to hoof posts from Rivals..

 

[Juninhoburger]

Bombay Duck is a fish dish

 

[Rofesleg]

What animal were the canary islands named after?

The Spanish version of 'Isle of Dogs' isn't it?

 

[SmallTown]

The Spanish version of 'Isle of Dogs' isn't it?

It is indeed. The were a lot of wild dogs, or canines, when the romans first visited and named it that.

Additional fact: the bird is named after the islands, not the other way round

 

[Abel Tasman]

Yes the Oktoberfest takes place mainly in September and by a quirk of history the Dutch pledge allegiance to the King of Spain.

 

[SmallTown]

And aren’t black boxes famously orange so they can be easily found in the debris of a crash?

Yup, they inventor gave it that name becuase he was inspiired by the RAF during the war,:if they carried any new technology in their planes they'd put them in a black box in the hopes the germans would struggle to find them if the plane was lost.
Something I have just found out: David Warren, who invented the black box, is buried in a coffiin that has a tag on it sayng FLIGHT REOCRDER INVENTOR: DO NOT OPEN

 

[SmallTown]

and by a quirk of history the Dutch pledge allegiance to the King of Spain.

That's the one that threw me when I first heard it. I knew it couldn't be the Spanish one as it famously doesn't have lyrics. But I assumed at would be a LATAM country given their colonisation. Didn't think closer to home

 

[Brian Marwood]

How long did the hundered years war last?

What was it called?

 

[Ingleby_Flash]

It is indeed. The were a lot of wild dogs, or canines, when the romans first visited and named it that.

Additional fact: the bird is named after the islands, not the other way round

9/10 ST, in fact the islands were first visited by the Spanish from Castile who were indeed impressed by the large dogs and gave the islands the Roman name Canariae Insulae. I suspect the large dogs were similar to the Podencos we have on the islands now. The romans didn't actually come, probably something to do with Brexit.