Quizzes? It is hard to pitch them right. Yesterday's quiz may have caused irritation in some quarters because the general feeling was that it was too damned easy. Please accept my sincere apologies. So, okay, let's try another quiz with "More Proverbs". This time the proverbs come from either Albania or Nigeria. You will be pleased to learn that they have been translated from Albanian and from three of the principal Nigerian languages - Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo.
Albanian:-
1) A dog that barks a lot, does not _________ you
(a) love (b) need (c) bite (d) respect
2) As long as you live, you will _____________
(a) fight (b) love (c) suffer (d) learn
3) Do not leave today’s ________ for tomorrow
(a) work (b) dinner (c) bills (d) kisses
3) Do not leave today’s ________ for tomorrow
(a) work (b) dinner (c) bills (d) kisses
4) Everyone builds their own _________.
(a) house (c) family (c) career (d) destiny
5) The big fish eats the _________ one.
(a) succulent (b) small (c) lost (d) biggest
Nigerian:-
6) The child of an elephant will not be a ___________.
6) The child of an elephant will not be a ___________.
(a) bull elephant (b) dwarf (c) monkey (d) giant
7) What an old man sees while _________, a young man can never see - even when he climbs up in a tree.
(a) tilling the soil (b) lying down (c) sitting in the dunny (d) watching ants
8) Whoever is patient with a __________ shell will one day have thousands of them.
(a) groundnut (b) bullet (c) cowrie (d) conch
(a) groundnut (b) bullet (c) cowrie (d) conch
9) The day on which one starts out is not the time to begin one’s ______.
(a) preparations (b) journey (c) recollections (d) return
10) One who has been bitten by a ___________ lives in fear of worms.
(a) warthog (b) crow (c) snake (d) worm
10/10 this time?
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1. (c) bite
2. (d) learn
3. (a) work
4. (d) destiny
5. (b) small
6. (b) dwarf
7. (b) lying down
8. (c) cowrie
9. (a) preparations
10. (c) snake
Only one wrong!
ReplyDeleteYour brain is immense.
DeleteHey, 6 out of 10! I'm a genius! Oh, JayCee got 9? Drat!
ReplyDeleteJayCee's younger than you Mr Taylor.
DeleteThese are all guesses ...
ReplyDelete1. Bite; as in all bark and no bite???
2. Learn: am I too optimistic??
3. Work: never put off tomorrow what you can do today??
4. Destiny; again with the optimism???
5. Small or lost; both seem apt.
6. Dwarf; I mean, it's an elephant, right??
7. Lying down: I think it's perspective from up high??
8. I am utterly baffled by this one even after seeing the correct answer.
9. Preparations; makes perfect sense.
10. Snake; though I doubt I'd fear worms.
Not bad; one entirely wrong and one half wrong?
Cowrie shells were once widely used in West Africa as a type of currency.
DeleteOi you. You can't have two choices and say your are half wrong, meaning you were half right.
DeleteThat's Yanks for you Andrew!
DeleteI only got 70% this time. I went back and changed one to the wrong answer. Stupid me.
ReplyDeleteDon't beat yourself up Kelly! You're okay gal.
DeleteMuch more difficult but still, I was able to guess correctly 8 out of 10 times missing numbers 8 and 10.
ReplyDeleteA little bit of mental challenge there as the proverbs were unfamiliar..
DeleteYes! 10/10 and all guesswork 👌
ReplyDeleteArise Dame Elsie!
Delete7/10. A couple were just good luck.
ReplyDeleteWhich couple? Bob Geldof and Paula Yates?
Delete7/10.....quite pleased with that! Wrong on 6,8 and 9.
ReplyDeleteHow the mighty are fallen! From 10 to 7... quite a nosedive. May Day! May Day!
DeleteNo problem with the Albanian, but not being Nigerian I had to guess some of the answers to that section, so 7/10 this time.
ReplyDeleteEh? I thought you were of Nigerian origin Carol. This news has spoilt the image of you I had developed in my mind - dancing upon your terrace in Spain in voluminous rainbow coloured robes singing Yoruba spiritual anthems.
Delete7/10. Wrong on 6,7,8. Never heard the word cowrie (on second thought that should perhaps in itself have been a clue) and I'm still struggling to understand what it means to be "patient" with a shell and how that would generate more of them...
ReplyDeleteI thought the same Monica. Maybe the translation was faulty. A better word could have been "prudent". Cowrie shells were widely used as currency in West Africa.
DeleteThose Albanians seem to have a talent for the obvious. But then, I guess we are talking about proverbs.
ReplyDeleteRe #8, year 8 Geography (Nigeria. savannah) attracted me to "ground nuts" (special Geography term, we learnt, for peanuts) except, why would you want to have a lot of peanut shells?
You would want them to throw at your Geography teacher.
DeleteHe was a Welshman - appropriately, from South Wales, who became something of a professional Welshman in Sydney - giving Dylan Thomas readings and compering for a Welsh male-voice choir. His best Geography-teacher joke was that the principal export of Wales was teachers.
DeleteHe once gave me a term mark of 30%, possibly even in the already invoked year 8, telling me that the school's computer system for reports didn't permit a lower mark. I was poor at submitting written work on time or even at all.
"To welsh on someone" is an informal and sometimes offensive phrase that means to fail or refuse to do something that you said you would do. Sounds like you welshed on your geography teacher with regard to homework.
DeleteI never said I would do it. I was just told to do it.
Delete60% today. still fun, it was nice to ace yesterday.
ReplyDeletePride comes before a fall.
Delete5/10. Some of those were guesses.
ReplyDeleteEverybody had to guess today Dave as this blog is not visited by any Albanians or Nigerians as far as I know.
Delete8 for me this time. I didn't know what Cowrie is, but now that I think about it, it is obvious - the German term is Kauri, and that should have gotten me the right answer.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why "cowrie" is mis-spelt in the German language?
DeleteP.S. Just winding you up!
I must be Nigerian. (5 for 5 Nigerian; 2 for 5 Albanian)
ReplyDeleteYou don't look Nigerian Tom. Perhaps you are an albino.
Delete3, 5 and 7 wrong, so not brilliant, but not too bad.
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