Quiz - rapid fire no googling

[Mich the Tester]

Do you mean Holland or the Netherlands?

Given the context it doesn´t make much difference. They´re all parsimonious illegitimates anyway.

[Old Greg]

Given the context it doesn´t make much difference. They´re all parsimonious illegitimates anyway.

You're just cross with them because they have such lovely heads of hair.

[TimberWolf]

the correct answers

spaghetti - china
the car - germany
bikini - france
ball bearing - england


so mich is declared the rapid fire quiz no googling champion 2011

Citations? The only two I Googled beg to differ:
Spagetti - Italy
Ball bearings - First patented in France

[suityou01]

Citations? The only two I Googled beg to differ:
Spagetti - Italy
Ball bearings - First patented in France

Yep and the car was defo USA.

[Mich the Tester]

You're just cross with them because they have such lovely heads of hair.

No, that's quite low down a list that includes crap music, an obsession with football, poor manners and a very dodgy political climate.

[TimberWolf]

Yep and the car was defo USA.

Maybe that's why EO said no Googling

[cailin maith]

Do you mean Holland or the Netherlands?

That place where they speak Netherlandese

[Old Greg]

No, that's quite low down a list that includes crap music, an obsession with football, poor manners and a very dodgy political climate.

Do you mean Holland or the Netherlands?

[suityou01]

Maybe that's why EO said no Googling

Worse yet.

Ferdinand Verbiest invented the first car in the year 1672. It was the first ever car invented and was powered by steam. Ferdinand was an experimentalist and a missionary to China. He built his car in China. Hence you could rightly say, the first ever car was made in China.

[Mich the Tester]

Do you mean Holland or the Netherlands?

Both. Friesland too. Limburg should be handed over to someone else. North Korea maybe, seeing as all the really racist countries seem to have have grown up a bit.