Answers to Ian’s Trivialus 20 July 2025
Answers
France
A breed of horse, originally from America.
Druze – a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion which evolved from Islam, but is now an independent religion. Most Druze followers live in the mountainous region in the southwest of Syria, but there are also pockets in Israel and Lebanon. Many of those in Israel are members of the IDF.
Crimean War
b) – Benefit
a) 1911 – when Dorothea Lambert Chambers beat Dora Boothby by the same score. Remarkable that this record has stood for so long.
b) – Austria.
Chord
16
None – the river expands too much and there is an underground river below the Amazon itself (the Hamza River) that makes the banks too unstable to build on. To cross one needs to take a ferry.
Oklahoma City – b) July 1935, exactly 90 years ago.
Felling the Sycamore tree on Hadrian’s Wall in what is known as the Sycamore Gap. The tree featured in the 1991 Robin Hood film with Kevin Costner.
Great Expectations
New Zealand – the series was a draw. One test win each, with the third test drawn.
Love is All Around – Wet Wet Wet - Four Weddings and a Funeral.
The use of AI by people seeking information – asking an AI chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT) for an answer instead of using a search engine. This results in an immediate answer instead of having to wade through various websites replete with clickbait.
Nikita Khrushchev
Theo – Telly Savalas.
False – it uses seven I, V, X, L, C, D, M.
Gabon