Question 163

1

The Xs  were a confederation of Germanic Tribes  first attested in the third century AD as populating a broad strip of land on the right bank of the lower and middle Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Xs raided   Roman territory while other Xs joined the Roman troops in Gaul.In the climate of the collapse of imperial authority in the West, the X tribes were united and conquered all of Gaul except Septimania in the 6th century.

ID X

2

Roman unit			Metric equivalent
uncia			27.4 g
sescuncia or sescunx			41.1 g
sextans			54.8 g
quadrans or teruncius			82.2 g
triens			109.6 g
quincunx			137.0 g
semis or semissis			164.5 g
septunx			191.9 g
bes or bessis			219.3 g
dodrans			246.7 g
dextans			274.1 g
deunx			301.5 g
X			328.9 g

ID X

3 

		Dimensions	Colour	Portrait
		120 × 65 mm	Orange	Leopoldo Alas
		129 × 70 mm	Dark blue	Rosalía de Castro
		138 × 75 mm	Green	Benito Pérez Galdós
		147 × 80 mm	Red	Juan Ramón Jiménez
		156 × 85 mm	Brown	Juan Carlos I of Spain
		165 × 85 mm	Gray	Juan Carlos I of Spain and Felipe, Prince of Asturias

4

X had been the currency of Y since its original unification in 1871. Before that time, the different Y States issued a variety of different currencies, though most were linked to the Vereinstalher, a silver coin containing 16 2/3 grams of pure silver. Although the X was based on gold rather than silver, a fixed exchange rate between the Vereinsthaler and the X of 3 Xs = 1 Vereinsthaler was used for the conversion

ID X

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Question 162

Name the sport this guy invented 

Question 161

Yakov Naumovich Pokhi , better known as Yakov Smirnoff, is a Ukranian born American comedian, painter and teacher. He was popular in the 1980s for comedy performances in which he used irony and word play to contrast life under the Communist regime in his native Soviet Union with life in the United States, delivered in heavily accented English. He has a theatre in Branson, Missouri, where he performs year-round. Smirnoff is also a professor at Missouri State University and Drury University where he teaches "The Business of Laughter."

The question : What extremely popular kind of joke was created by this guy?

Answer : Russian Reversal or 'In Soviet Russia X Y's you'