“Small” Questions [Quiz #8]

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1. Let’s Get Small was the 1977 debut album by what stand-up comic, later to become a popular movie actor?

2. Complete this sentence:
A human small intestine is typically about six _____ (inches; feet; yards*) long, approximately _____ (a quarter; half; equivalent to; twice; four times) the length of the large intestine. [half a point each]
*or (15 cm/1.83 m/5.49 m)

3. What country is the world’s smallest independent nation as measured by both area and population?

4. For what purpose did songwriters Richard and Roger Sherman write the oft-sung “It’s a Small World”?

5. Which English doctor introduced the use of cowpox as a vaccination against smallpox in 1796?

6. What’s the name for the elementary particles that make up the protons and neutrons in an atom?

7. Which automobile introduced the influential “Think Small” series of advertisements in 1959? [name the make and model]

8. A nanosecond is what fraction of a second?

9. Who sang these big hits about small things? [half point each]

(a) “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning” (1955)

(b) “Small Town” (1985)

(c) “All the Small Things” (1999 as an album track, or 2000 as a single)

(d) “So Small” (2007)