Saturday 4 March 2017

The Dog Quiz

The Dog Quiz


1. This dog's name means "dwarf dog" in Welsh.
ID the dog.

2.
What was this Great Pyrenees claim to fame in 2014?


3. X is memorialized in the form of a statue and plaque at Star City, Russia, the Russian Cosmonaut training facility. Created in 1997, X is positioned behind the cosmonauts with her ears erect. The Monument to the Conquerors of Space, constructed in 1964, also includes X. On April 11, 2008 at the military research facility where staff had been responsible for readying X for the flight, officials unveiled a monument of her poised on top of a space rocket.
 ID X


4. This band included a whistle that is only audible to dogs, in the song "A Day in the Life",
ID the band.


5.  Released in 2005, X, written by John Grogan, was an international bestseller, having sold over five million copies in over thirty languages. It spent 76 weeks on the bestseller list, and 23 of those weeks it stood at the #1 spot. His first book earned him Quill Awards in the Audiobook and Memoir/Biography categories in 2006. It was later adapted into a film that was released on December 25, 2008, starring Owen Wilson(playing Gogan in the film) and Jennifer Aniston.
ID the book(X).


6.  An unnamed Newfoundland is credited for saving X in 1815. During his famous escape from exile on the island of Elba, rough seas knocked X overboard. A fisherman's dog jumped into the sea, and kept X afloat until he could reach safety.

ID the famous political leader that the Newfoundland dog saved.


7. When Henry VIII wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragon he sent Cardinal Wolsey to plead his case before the X. The X extended his toe for the cardinal to kiss. Instead of the kiss he expected to receive, the cardinal's dog, Urian, bit his toe. The divorce was denied, and Henry founded the Church of England so he could grant his own divorce. 


8. X lived to fight another day, thanks to his dog, Peritas. During an attack by Persia's Darius III, the warrior was charged by an elephant and faced almost certain death. The elephant was diverted when Peritas leaped into the air and bit its face. lived to fight another day, thanks to his dog, Peritas. During an attack by Persia's Darius III, the warrior was charged by an elephant and faced almost certain death. The elephant was diverted when Peritas leaped into the air and bit its face. Alexander went on to forge the empire that became the base of Western civilization. X went on to forge the empire that became the base of Western civilization.
ID X


9. Here is a dialog one of the comments writers in Youtube guess what the Y thinking to reply to the man the owner of the Y:

Owner : Mishka , I love you .

Mishka : I know, I know.

Owner : Mishka , I love you .

Mishka : I know.

*3 hours later*

Owner : Mishka , I love you .

Mishka : I KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OW!


Who is Mishka, and what is her claim to fame?


10. X is an Internet meme that became popular in 2013. The meme typically consists of a picture of a Shiba Inu accompanied by multicolored text in Comic Sans font in the foreground. The text, representing a kind of internal monologue, is deliberately written in a form of broken English.
ID X

ANSWERS

 

1. Corgi🐶


2. This Great Pyrenees was elected as the mayor of Cormorant, Minnesota.
"Everybody voted for Duke — except for one vote for his girlfriend, Lassie", according to Duke's owner, David Rick. The nine-year-old great Pyrenees was first elected in 2014 with 12 write-in votes at the town's annual Cormorant Daze festival.

 

 

3. Laika was a Soviet Space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. Laika, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on November 3, 1957. 

 

 

4. The Beatles

 

5. Marley and Me

 

 

6. Napoleon Bonaparte

 

7. Pope Clement VII

 

8. Alexander the Great


9. Mishka is a grey, black and white Siberian Husky, born on June 2002. Mishka is the main protagonist of a video series. She became famous for her videos in which she can speak like humans.


10. Doge