Frank Collins Trivia Challenge

Our Vice Chairman, aware of the immense popularity of TV's Jeopardy, is toying with the idea of a Fencers Trivia quiz that would become a regular feature of our Website or our Newsletter. Below is a sample Quiz. Our members are invited to test themselves & then to report back to Andy.

Frank Collins
Jan '05

 

1. George Silver, English fencing master-author, was a contemporary of another celebrated Elizabethan whose name was?

 

2. What is the name of the French master who is reputedly the inventor of the fencing mask?

 

3. The official length of a fencing strip is 14 meters, a meter being:

  1. A metric measurement precisely equal to one yard
  2. Longer than a yard
  3. Shorter than a yard

 

4. What is the name of the British fencing master who staged the fight & dueling scenes in the movie, Mask of Zorro?

 

5. Our H-B fencers frequently compete in an area tournament known as Pomme de Terre. What is the vegetable in question?

 

6. "Ich bin ein Berliner," is a comment made by:

  1. Hitler's mistress
  2. Mitch Berliner
  3. an American President

 

7. What is Impetinata?

  1. A painting in the Louvre
  2. An obscure fencing term
  3. An Italian dessert

 

8. Movie buffs all know the Three Musketeers. Name the fourth Musketeer.

 

9. The 1976 Olympics was held in Montreal.  An RPI student who attended the fencing events & visits the club occasionally is:

  1. Bob Russell
  2. Fred Eaton
  3. Helene Mayer

 

10. The patron saint of Fencing is:

  1. St. Bernard
  2. Santa Cruz
  3. St. Louis
  4. None of the above

 

11. "He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one," is a quotation from:

  1. Martin Luther
  2. The Koran
  3. The Bible (King James Version)
  4. Martin Luther King