A look at what is considered the world's most difficult annual quiz, after the jump ......
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I had another topic in mind for this evening's Top Comments .... but have been battling a bad cold all week, and just didn't have the strength to write it (as it would have taken more time than I could bear to sit at the keyboard). Another time.
Meanwhile, here is an annual feature of my weekly drivel writings for Cheers & Jeers that deserves further mention:
ATTENTION, READERS - posted a few months ago in this space was this year's quiz from King William's College (a prep school located on the UK's Isle of Man) - with said quiz known as its General Knowledge Paper officially.
At one time, students at the school were required to take it home during the winter recess and be prepared to research the answers at home - today, the quiz is optional. It consists of 18 groups of 10 questions - the first section on events 100 years ago, and the last on events of the present year (in this case, 2014).
Each group's correct answers has a common theme (though perhaps not immediately recognizable) that helps if you can answer at least one of that group's questions - which will give you hope of answering some others. It is among the most difficult general knowledge quizzes on earth (quite British literature-laden, as you might well imagine) in part to being very cryptic, and each year the Guardian newspaper has printed both the quiz (and a few weeks later, the answers) since 1951.
At this link is the 2014-15 year's quiz if you would like a chance to take it.
Either way, the answers are available at this link - and yours truly made a 50% improvement over my blistering 2013-2014 total ... of 2 (out of 180) correct. That's right: I am up to 3(!) correct for 2015! There's no stopping that boy, I'll have you know.
I may do even better next year if I spend more time on my homework ... as the Chicago bluesman Otis Rush tells us:
Now, on to Top Comments:
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From Wee Mama:
In the front-page diary about the upcoming RFRA bill in Louisiana - rb608 offers a giggle-worthy comment of the scriptural irony in Louisiana's Hate teh Gayz bill.
From
pico:
In my own diary about my family's unsavory history - histopresto left this agonizing comment about family history and trying to make amends for the past. One of the most haunting things I've read at the site.
From
Onomastic:
In the diary by subir about the syndicated columnist Harold Meyerson's essay on how the Party of Lincoln morphed into the Party of Jefferson Davis - Angie in WA State gives a succinct history lesson explaining how today's Democratic Party are the true moral heirs of the Party of Lincoln.
And from
Ed Tracey, your faithful correspondent this evening ........
In the diary by Walter Einenkel about today's White House press conference, in which a reporter for Fox was attempting to gin-up sympathy for the South Carolina police officer arrested in the shooting of Walter Scott - Danijo wonders if that network is working on an investigation of others who are associated with the case?
And in the diary by FaithGardner about the protestors opposing a proposed conservation effort (in the Florida Everglades) who turned out to be paid actors - a bemused blue aardvark recalls another such a staged event in Florida, years ago.
TOP PHOTOS
April 8, 2015
Next - enjoy jotter's wonderful PictureQuilt™ below. Just click on the picture and it will magically take you to the comment that features that photo.
(NOTE: Any missing images in the Quilt were removed because (a) they were from an unapproved source that somehow snuck through in the comments, or (b) it was an image from the DailyKos Image Library which didn't have permissions set to allow others to use it.)
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And lastly: yesterday's Top Mojo - mega-mojo to the intrepid mik ...... who rescued this feature from oblivion:
1) Yogi Berra: "It's déjà vu all over again" by JekyllnHyde — 171
2) Schumer's fitness for the leadership position by elwior — 145
3) Poor Mary Ann. She's the victim. by JoanMar — 127
4) do not go gentle after election night by Habitat Vic — 126
5) NYT gave the cop's service record--all they did by zenbassoon — 121
6) Good example of why people shouldn't by doc2 — 114
7) Yep - by mikejay611 — 106
8) Dick Cheney was by far the worst president we h... by Vwrtb1177 — 104
9) NYT also made one hell of a graphic today: by ericlewis0 — 103
10) Nice. Netanyahu has earned by TomP — 100
11) Let me break it down for you by milkbone — 99
12) Netanyahu: what a maroon! n/t by JeffW — 91
13) surprised? no. outraged? yes! by Robert Naiman — 83
14) Media reporting high voter turn out. by JoanMar — 81
15) FYI Samson is retiring from his law firm & they by a2nite — 75
16) M.A.D. - Mutually Assured Destruction by JekyllnHyde — 74
17) 30% turnout in a suburban municipal election by ebohlman — 72
18) If Schumer gets Majority Leader by Mogolori — 72
19) Keep the pressure up. by bananapouch1 — 71
20) The religious right is consistent by Shockwave — 70
21) the framing is so obvious by chaunceydevega — 69
22) Police have threatened people for taking pix by Cartoon Peril — 69
23) LOL /nt by Le Champignon — 69
24) The number of fucks the president gives by Joffan — 67
25) If the U.S. Constitution were amended TODAY... by PvtJarHead — 67
26) During my divorce from the first husband by cv lurking gf — 66
27) I am so happy you got away. by howabout — 65
28) I love the cut fuse - n/t by CaliSista — 64
29) Too bad, Ms. Twitty by The Truth — 64
30) Spy vs spy by Shockwave — 64