Quizzes & Puzzles 56

I'm aware that this issue of “Quizzes & Puzzles” comes late. I'm sorry for that, but certain events in my offline life interfered, and might continue to do so for some time. I will continue posting here, but I'm not sure I can keep my previous posting frequency over the nearest few weeks. We will see... Anyway, I assure fans and friends of Quizzes & Puzzles that the series continues.

Some new problems with which to exercise the brain. But first a look at answers and solutions to Quizzes & Puzzles 55. New problems below the image (cartoon).

Answer to Quiz 55:1

Most people have heard about “the four body fluids” and that someone's temperament was determined by them. Then we also got “the four temperaments” - each temperament corresponding to one body fluid.

• Which were the four body fluids?

• Which were the four temperaments?

• For each body fluid: to which temperament was it related?

• The body fluids are: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm.

• The temperaments are: choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic and sanguine.

• They are connected thus: blood-sanguine, yelllow bile-choleric, black bile-melancholic, and phlegm-phlegmatic.

As @Aimure correctly commented, these are also connected to the four elements. As a matter of fact, they are connected to other groups of four as well, such as seasons, four body parts, four celestial bodies, etc.

Answer to Quiz 55:2

In 1873, Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof created a language, an international auxiliary language. It is still used, allegedly it has around 2 million users, and is the largest artificial language in the world. What is this language called?

The answer is Esperanto, just as @Tomi-Ajax answered.

Many years ago, I decided to learn this language. I don't really liked it though; in my opinion, it is not at all as simple as it could be.

Answer to Quiz 55:3

A trident is a three-pronged spear, often used as a symbol. I have three questions about tridents:

A trident is a symbol of a god in Graeco-Roman mythology, what's his name?

It is also the weapon of a god in Hindu mythology, what is the name of that god?

A trident is the emblem of a luxury car as well, which car?

It is a symbol of Graeco-Roman god Poseidon/Neptune, the weapon of Hindu god Shiva, and the emblem of Italian luxury car Maserati.

@Trifecta knew it was Poseidon/Neptune, @TheGuy and @lonestranger correctly answered Lord Shiva, and in addition to that, @TheGuy also knew that the car is Maserati.

Answer to Quiz 55:4

Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry were the main characters in a Western series from the 1970s, what was the name of the series?

The series was “Alias Smith and Jones” from 1974, which was the last series to be made during the great era of Westerns. Nothing significant has been created in this genre since then.

Answer to Quiz 55:5

What is weighed in the unit "momme", where 1 standard momme equals 3750 mg?

Note: we are not talking about silk!

The right answer here is that pearls are weighed in momme.

Answer to Quiz 55:6

The author of the classic “Candide” is best known under his pen name, but what was his real name?

He is commonly known as “Voltaire”, but his real name was “François-Marie Arouet”.

Answer to Quiz 55:7

Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation is an important and versatile technology. In daily speech, however, it is not called that, but something much simpler - what is it called? (You have all heard about it.)

It is called LASER. @Tomi-Ajax knew that.

And now some new exercises for brain & memory...

Quiz 56:1

The so-called “War of the Roses” was fought between two branches of the English royal family in the Middle Ages. What were these two branches called?

Quiz 56:2

Which winner of the Nobel prize in literature wrote the great novel “Doctor Zhivago“? The story also became a movie in 1965, with Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, and Geraldine Chaplin in leading roles.

Quiz 56:3

Alechin, Capablanca, Fischer, and Lasker – what do they have in common?

Quiz 56:4

The Channel Islands, a group of islands in the English Channel, between France and Britain, belongs to the British crown, but are they formally a part of

• Great Britain?

• France?

• The United Kingdom?

• The Archduchy of Normandy?

• England?

Quiz 56:5

Which piece of classical music contains “An die Freude”? I want the name of the piece, and that of the composer (which is one of the greatest of all time)?

Quiz 56:6

If you suffer from myocarditis, which organ is affected?

Quiz 56:7

What is a “biwa”?

• A detail of women's clothes?

• A musical instrument?

• A coin?

• A sort of knife?

You'll find answers and solutions in the next “Quizzes & Puzzles”.

Quizzes & Puzzles has its own label in my Index, where all issues of the series can be found.

In my INDEX, you can find all my writings on Read.Cash, sorted by topic.

Copyright © 2022 Meleonymica/Mictorrani. All Rights Reserved

(Cartoon by Christian Dorn/Pixabay, CC0/Public Domain.)

(All images are in the Public Domain.)