Very Busy!

Hello everyone,

Recently Go-Sensei is very busy so it is taking away from his trivia time. He hopes that you will understand.
From next month Go-Sensei will be starting his English Conversation Classes so he is getting that ready right now.

The answers to the most recent quiz were;
1) Millennium Falcon
2) Chewbacca
3) Tatooine

Today's questions are Movies .
1) Who directed the movie JFK?
2) Who played 'James Bond' in the movie 'Moonraker'?
3) Who does Tom Cruise play in the 'Mission Impossible' movies?

Good luck with those and see you soon!

Star Wars.

Hey everyone!

The answers to yesterday's quiz were as follows,

1) Mumbai
2) NAVAN!!!
3) Co. Meath, Ireland.

Today's three questions are on the movie series Star Wars. When I was young I used to love these movies but was disappointed with the three newer movies. What did you think of them? Which Star Wars episode was your favourite. I liked 'The Empire Strikes Back' the most.

Today's Star Wars questions are,

1) What was the name of Han Solo's ship?
2) What was the name of the 'Wookie' in Star Wars?
3) What was the home planet of Luke Skywalker?

Hope to hear your views on Star Wars!

I'm back!!!

Hello everyone!

Go-Sensei is back after his little hangover! Actually he was very busy with his 'Mixi' site too.
If you are a 'Mixi' user please look for Go-Sensei's E.O.B. (English Only Blog).

Shall we get back to our Trivia? For the rest of the week we will have Random questions.
OK, these are today's questions.

1) What is the new name for Bombay in India?
2) Spell NAVAN backwards!?!?!?
3) Where is Navan?

Enjoy your questions and see you all tomorrow!

Go-Sensei has a hangover!

Hello everyone,

Go-Sensei has a hangover from St. Patrick's Day so he requests another couple of days off!

No seriuosly, I will be updating the blog and my other sites but my Trivia questions will be back on Wednesday.

Thank you for your patience.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you all!

I hope you all are having a great Paddy's Day.Don't get too drunk!

Yesterday's answers were;

1) 32 (26 in the Republic of Ireland & 6 in Northern Ireland).
2) 4 (Munster, Leinster, Connacht and Ulster).
3) Belfast

Today's questions,
1) What colour is Tokyo Tower tonight?
2) What does an Taoiseach mean in English?
3) Who is Ireland's Taoiseach?

Tomorrow Go-Sensei will be at the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Omotesando so this blog
will take a day off.Go-Sensei will take some photos so please see them on Monday.

Bye for now!

Pot of Gold.

Thank you for the correct answers.

I want to say a special thanks to Former Captain 5 for always getting the correct answer.
Well done!

Yesterday's answers were,
1) The Irish leprechaun's secret hiding place for his pot of gold.
2) Hanzoumon St.
3) c. Elton John

Today's questions are as follows,
1) How many Counties in Ireland?
2) How many Proviences in Ireland?
3) What is the capital city of Northern Ireland?

A nice Paddy's week challenge,

Good luck!

Shamrock.

Excellent!
Thank you for such great answers.
Yes St. Patrick's week is a very exciting time for Irish people all over the world.
It reminds us of home and sometimes we can get a little homesick.......

Yesterday's correct answers were,
1) Shamrock.
2) Omotesando
3) Croke Park, Dublin.

If you see Go-Sensei next Sunday please say hello to him!

Today's questions are as follows,
1) What can you find at the end of a rainbow?
2) What is the nearest train station(s) to the Irish Embassy in Tokyo?
3) Which musician is not Irish?
a) Enya b) Bono c) Elton John d) Ronan Keating

See you tomorrow!

Snakes.

Good evening everyone!

Were you able to find out yesterday's questions? They were a little bit difficult but they are very important to Irish culture.

The answers were;
1) St. Patrick banished snakes into the sea.
2) Gaelic Athletic Association,
3) (Gaelic) Football and Hurling.

OK, are you ready for today's questions?

1) What is the name of the 3-leaf symbol of Ireland?
2) Where will the Tokyo St. Patrick's Day parade take place?
3) Where are the Headquarters (HQ) of the GAA?

The Tokyo St. Patrick's Day parade will on be this Sunday, March 18th.
Will Go-Sensei see you there????

March 17th

Hello again!

Very good answering, 100% perfect!

The answers were as follows,
1) March 17th
2) Green, white and orange
3) Green-Catholic, White-Peace, Orange- Protestant.

Today's three questions are as follows;
1) What does legend say St. Patrick banished into the sea?
2) What does G.A.A. stand for in Ireland?
3) What are the two most popular G.A.A. sports in Ireland?

Have a go at those and I hope to see the correct answers tomorrow.

Until then!

1987

Welcome to a new week at Go-Sensei's English Trivia! I hope that you all had a pleasant
weekend. The answer to Saturday's question was the year of 1987.

We now move on to a new theme for this week. This week will be St.Patrick's Day and the whole world will be Irish for a day! The questions will be on both Ireland and St. Patrick's Day.We start this week's questions with 3 easy ones.

Question 1) What date is St. Patrick's day?
Question 2) What colour is the Irish flag?
Question 3) What do the colours symbolize?

Happy St. Patrick's week!

1955.

Good evening everyone,

The answer to yesterday's question was 1955, a historic but sad year.

Today's hints are as follows,

Hint 1) Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy, kills himself.
Hint 2) Margaret Thatcher wins record third term.
Hint 3) Shares plunge after Wall Street crash.

These are the last questions for this week as Go-Sensei takes a day off tomorrow.

On Monday I am back with St. Patrick's Day related questions!

1963

Hello again!

Yes indeed, 1963 was the year that JFK was assassinated as well as the Great Train Robbery in Britain, also a sign of the times when the first lady went into space.
Good answering everyone, I think the JFK hint was a little too easy.
Ready for today's challenge??
OK, what year did the following occur?

Hint 1) Winston Churchill resigns.
Hint 2) Albert Einstein dies.
Hint 3) James Dean dies in a car crash.

Try your luck with those hints and see you all tomorrow!

1973

Good evening everyone,

Well, yours truely was born in 1973 and also the other two events occured during the same year. I am starting to feel very old now!

Let's move on to today's hints.

Hint 1) President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
Hint 2) The Great Train Robbery occurs in the UK.
Hint 3) Soviets launch first woman into space.

Have fun with these ones!

2003

Hi there!

The answer to yesterday's question was the year of 2003. Thank you to all for your effort and I hope you also will give today's quiz a go!

What year did the following events occur?

Hint 1) President Nixon takes the rap for Watergate scandal.
Hint 2) Sidney opera house opened.
Hint 3) Go-Sensei was born.

A warm welcome to all the new visitors to this blog.
Good luck with today's hints!

1998!

Well done. The correct answer was indeed 1998. These questions might take a little research but I'm impressed that you all got the correct answer.

OK, let's move on to today's quiz.

Hint 1) SARS starts in China and spreads worldwide.
Hint 2) Martha Stewart was indicted on charges of obstruction of justice and securities fraud.
Hint 3) Country music singer and songwriter Johnny Cash dies.

The questions are getting more difficult but good luck and hope to hear from you tomorrow!

What year was it?

Welcome back to you all. I hope that you had a nice weekend.

For this week our theme will be 'What year was it?'.
Each day I will give three hints about events that occured during a specific year and you will have to guess the correct answer.

Let's give it a go!

Hint 1) Titanic becomes highest grossing movie of all time.
Hint 2) India and Pakistan successfully detonate Nuclear tests.
Hint 3) President Clinton is impeached.
What year was it?

Hope you enjoy!

X,Y and finally Z!

Hello!

Excellent answering yesterday, your answers were perfect!
We have come to the end of the alphabet themed questions and I would like to congratulate you all on doing such a good job!
Tomorrow this blog will take a break but we will be back Monday with a new theme of questions.

Yesterday's answers were;
1) West 2) Virtual

The final questions in this segment are as follows,

1) What 'X' takes a photo of the inside of your body?
2) What 'Y' was a bear cartoon character?
3) What 'Z' is another name for Pedestrian crossing?

See you all on Monday!

V,W,

Hello there!

Thank you to everyone who answered yesterday's questions.
I hope you like testing your general knowledge in English, it's not that difficult is it?

The answers were,
1) Skyscraper 2) Tusk 3) Uganda.

Today's questions are on V and W only.

1) What 'V' is not quite 'reality' but is very close?
2) What 'W' is where the sun sets?

Have fun with those questions and talk to you all tomorrow!

S,T,U.

Good evening!

Yesterday's questions were a little difficult.Probably you would have needed to research the answers as they were quite challenging. Never mind,today is another day so have a go at the S,T and U questions.

Yesterday's answers were,

1) Pregnant 2) Queens Park Rangers Football Club (QPR ) 3) Rhodesia (actually Zimbabwe was officially South Rhodesia but Rhodesia will do).

Today's questions are as follows;

1) What 'S' is a very tall building usually found in a city?
2) What 'T' can be found on an elephant's head?
3) What 'U' did Idi Amin rule for years?

Perhaps a little easier today, let me know what you think?

See you!