Friday, 29 July 2011
Thursday, 28 July 2011
28/7/11- Answer
The answer is 137,699, according with the 2011 census (which you can check out on this website). The archipelago of the Azores is located in the middle of the Atlantic ocean and is composed of 9 islands, divided into three geographic groups. The smallest island is Corvo, and has 430 inhabitants. The islands are of vulcanic origin and the main sources of income are cattle and tourism.
28/7/11- Question
How many inhabitants are there in the biggest island of the portuguese archipelago of the Azores?
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
27/07/11- Question
Knowing that there was a total number of 2224 people aboard the Titanic, how many people survived the tragic sinking?
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
26/7/11- Answer
The answer is between 4,000 and 5,000! The Komodo dragon lives only in the Indonesian islands of Komodo (dah!), Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang and Gili Dasami and only around 350 breeding females are estimated to exist at the moment!
26/7/11- Question
The largest living species of lizard in the world is the Komodo Dragon. Knowing that this species is considered 'vulnerable' on the IUCN red list, how many komodo dragons are estimated to live in the wild?
Monday, 25 July 2011
Mary Anne Evans
And here is the photo of Mary Anne. She chose to have a pen name so that her work would be taken seriously, as most female literature at the time was dismissed at the time as 'lighthearted novels'. In addition, she wanted to escape any publicity, as she lived with a married man for most of her life without ever getting married. She lived between 1819 and 1880. (Wikipedia)
25/7/11- Question
Mary Anne Evans was a victorian writer who wrote, among others, the novel Middlemarch. By what pen name was she better known?
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