GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESIONS QUIZ

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESIONS Quiz 1

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Cook Strait, 2 Venice, 3 Jim Carrey, 4 Michael Campbell, 5 Africa, 6 Gene

Loves Jezebel, 7 Taxidermy, 8 Goya, 9 Jupiter, 10 Toby.

1 Which strait separates the North and South islands of

New Zealand?

2 In which city is the Doge’s Palace?

3 Who plays Johnny Depp’s uncle in the 1993 film

Arizona Dream?

4 Which New Zealand golfer won the 2000 Australian

Masters in Melbourne?

5 Which continent has the larger land mass: Africa or

North America?

6 Aston, Aston, Rizzo, Stevenson, Gilvear: which 1980s

group?

7 What name is given to the art of preparing, stuffing

and mounting the skins of animals to make lifelike

models?

8 Which artist was appointed court painter to Charles IV

of Spain in 1786?

9 The name of which Roman god means ‘shining father'

in Latin?

10 What is the name of the dog in Punch and Judy

shows?

Quiz 2

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Lurch, 2 Absolute zero, 3 Water polo, 4 Opus Dei, 5 Spike Lee,

6 Renaissance, 7 Rene Russo, 8 Michael Mann, 9 French Guiana, 10 1993.

1 What was the name of the Addams Family butler?

2 Which theoretical temperature corresponds to minus

273.15 degrees on the Celsius scale?

3 Which seven-a-side ball game is played in a

swimming pool?

4 Which Roman Catholic organization takes its name

from the Latin for ‘God’s work’?

5 Bamboozled is a film by which controversial US

director?

6 Which word meaning ‘rebirth’ describes the period in

European history which began in the 14th century?

7 Who starred opposite Pierce Brosnan in the remake of

The Thomas Crown Affair?

8 Who directed the 1995 film Heat, which starred Al

Pacino?

9 Of which French overseas region in South America is

Cayenne the capital?

10 In which year did David Koresh and the Branch

Davidians Christian cult hold a siege in Waco, Texas?

Quiz 3

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Meat Loaf, 2 Space Cowboys, 3 Saturn, 4 Betty Grable, 5 15, 6 Biscuit,

7 Colleen McCullough, 8 Jack London, 9 Chickenpox, 10 Aquarius.

1 Which rock star was born Marvin Lee Aday?

2 Which 2000 film starred veteran actors Clint

Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and

James Garner?

3 Of which planet is Phoebe a satellite?

4 Which film actress and wartime pin-up girl married

bandleader Harry James in 1943?

5 How many counters has each player in a game of

backgammon?

6 Which food item takes its name from the French for

‘twice cooked’?

7 Who wrote The Thorn Birds?

8 Who wrote The Call of the Wild and White Fang?

9 Which common childhood illness related to shingles is

also called varicella?

10 Which sign of the zodiac is also called The

Waterbearer?

Quiz 4

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 A nine-lash whip, 2 Jamaica, 3 Charles Dickens, 4 Software, 5 Coma,

6 Pampas, 7 Bay of Biscay, 8 Notting Hill, 9 Hanoi, 10 Jesuits.

1 What is a cat-o’-nine-tails?

2 Of which Caribbean country is Montego Bay the main

tourist centre?

3 Who wrote David Copperfield?

4 What name is given to the programs run by a

computer, as opposed to the hardware?

5 In medicine, what name is given to a state of deep

unconsciousness in which the subject is unrousable?

6 What are the flat, treeless plains of Argentina called?

7 Which bay of the Atlantic, between northern Spain and

western France, is noted for its rough seas and high

tides?

8 What was the first British film to take more than one

hundred million dollars at the US box office?

9 What is the capital of Vietnam?

10 What name is given to members of the Roman

Catholic Society of Jesus?

Quiz 5

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Koala, 2 Horse, 3 Martin Luther, 4 Nelson Mandela, 5 Neptune,

6 John Huston, 7 Louis Pasteur, 8 The Internationale, 9 Horatio Nelson,

10 Pawnbroker.

1 The name of which animal is an Aboriginal term

meaning ‘no water’?

2 Which animal has the biggest eyes of any living

creature?

3 Which founder of Protestantism appeared before the

Diet of Worms in 1521?

4 Which African statesman received the Freedom of the

City of Cardiff in a ceremony in 1998?

5 Which Roman god of the sea is identified with the

Greek god Poseidon?

6 Who directed The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen

and The Dead?

7 Which French chemist and microbiologist devised

vaccines for anthrax and rabies?

8 Which revolutionary anthem was the Soviet national

anthem until 1944 ?

9 Which British admiral had an affair with Emma

Hamilton?

10 What name is given to a dealer licensed to lend

money on the security of an item of portable personal

property?

Quiz 6

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Euchre, 2 Samuel Becket, 3 Chicago, 4 Danish, 5 Daylight Saving Time

(putting the clocks forwards and backwards), 6 Triassic, 7 Orchid, 8 James

Coburn, 9 Joseph Lister, 10 Lily Munster.

1 In which card game, played with a deck of 32 cards,

are the jacks known as bowers?

2 Who wrote Waiting for Godot?

3 The Wrigley Building is located in which US city?

4 What nationality was the 14th/15th century astronomer

Tycho Brahe?

5 What was first seriously advocated by a British

builder, William Willett, in his 1907 pamphlet Waste of

Daylight?

6 By the end of which period in Earth’s history had most

dinosaurs become extinct?

7 Calypso, cattleya and pogonia are types of which

flower?

8 Who played Flint in a series of spy films?

9 Who performed the first surgery in England under

antiseptic conditions?

10 Which part in the Munsters TV series was played by

old-time film actress Yvonne de Carlo?

Quiz 7

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 California, 2 Peter Wright, 3 Francois Mitterand, 4 Battle of Britain, 5 An ice

pick, 6 Bird, 7 Harvest moon, 8 A tidal wave, 9 Kelly, 10 Saltire.

1 In which US state is the Mojave Desert?

2 Which former MI5 officer wrote Spycatcher?

3 Whom did Jacques Chirac succeed as French

president in 1995?

4 About which event did Winston Churchill say “Never

in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so

many to so few”?

5 With what weapon was Leon Trotsky assassinated in

Mexico in 1940?

6 What sort of creature is a cotinga?

7 What is the name of the full moon closest to the

Autumn Equinox?

8 What is a tsunami?

9 Which Irish surname means ‘warlike one’?

10 What is the name given to a cross in the form of an

‘X’?

Quiz 8

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Rheims, 2 Italy, 3 Paul Gauguin, 4 St Bernard, 5 Whoopi Goldberg,

6 Johann Sebastian, 7 Puccini, 8 The Monkees, 9 Olivia Newton John,

10 The Sting.

1 The coronations of most of the French kings took

place in which city in the Marne region of France?

2 In which country is the ski resort of Val Gardena?

3 Van Gogh cut of part of his own left ear during a

quarrel with which other artist?

4 To which breed of dog was Longfellow referring when

he wrote “A traveller, by the faithful hound, half buried

in the snow was found”?

5 Who had an occasional rôle as Guinan, the female

bartender, in the TV series Star Trek: The Next

Generation?

6 What do the initials J S stand for in J S Bach?

7 Who wrote the opera La Boheme?

8 Michael Nesmith is associated with which 1960s pop

group?

9 Who had a hit with On the Banks of the Ohio in 1971

and Hopelessly Devoted to You in 1978?

10 Robert Redford and Paul Newman played two 1920s

conmen in which film?

Quiz 9

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Joni Mitchell, 2 Afterburner, 3 American football, 4 Volta, 5 Thirteen Days,

6 The Divine Comedy, 7 Volkswagen, 8 Devon and Cornwall, 9 Liza Minnelli,

10 Haddock.

1 Which Canadian singer recorded the albums Blue

and Miles of Aisles?

2 Which device in a jet engine provides extra thrust for

take-off or supersonic flight?

3 The film Jerry Maguire featured which sport?

4 What is the chief river of Ghana?

5 Which 2001 film about the Cuban missile crisis

starred Kevin Costner?

6 Which epic poem by Dante begins on Good Friday in

the year 1300?

7 Which German motor manufacturer was set up in

1937 to produce a ‘people’s car’?

8 The River Tamar forms a historic boundary between

which two English counties?

9 Who played Sally Bowles in the film Cabaret?

10 Which fish is smoked and sold as finnan haddie?

Quiz 10

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 A deep inner layer of the skin, 2 The Shining, 3 Index, 4 Zirconium,

5 Opium, 6 The nose, 7 Dr Tracey Clark, 8 Much Ado About Nothing, 9 Ohio,

10 A mongrel dog.

1 What is corium?

2 Which Stanley Kubrick film was based on a Stephen

King novel and starred Jack Nicholson?

3 ‘Indices’ is the plural of which word?

4 Zr is the symbol of which chemical element?

5 Which drug is known in Australia as ‘twang’?

6 To which part of the body does the adjective ‘rhinal’

refer?

7 What was the name of the character played by Tracey

Ullman in the television drama series Ally McBeal?

8 In which play by Shakespeare does the character

Beatrice appear?

9 Which US state is further east: Ohio or Wyoming?

10 ‘Bitser’ is an Australian word for which animal?

Quiz 11

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Konstantin Chernenko, 2 Seaview, 3 Pierce Brosnan, 4 Fiat,

5 Newfoundland, 6 Sir Walter Raleigh, 7 Germany, 8 Samuel L Jackson,

9 Alex Haley, 10 Baklava.

1 Who succeeded Yuri Andropov as leader of the Soviet

Union in 1984?

2 What was the name of the submarine in the TV series

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea?

3 Which actor played James Bond in GoldenEye?

4 With which Italian motor company is the Agnelli family

associated?

5 Of which Canadian province is St John’s the capital?

6 Which English adventurer and courtier to Elizabeth I

was executed in 1618?

7 In which country did the rottweiler originate?

8 Which Pulp Fiction actor starred in the remake of the

movie Shaft?

9 Who wrote the novel Roots: The Saga of an American

Family?

10 Which Turkish dish comprises thin layers of filo pastry

containing nuts and honey?

Quiz 12

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Green, 2 Dutch Elm Disease, 3 The jet engine, 4 Sea of Tranquility,

5 Saving Private Ryan, 6 Aubergine, 7 Arras, 8 West Side Story, 9 Joseph

Conrad, 10 The Beatles.

1 Which colour is produced by adding together yellow

and cyan?

2 Which disease carried by bark beetles was first

described in The Netherlands in 1919?

3 What was invented by Sir Frank Whittle in 1930?

4 On which area of the moon did Armstrong, Aldrin and

Collins make their landing on 20 July 1969?

5 For which film did Steven Spielberg win an Oscar for

Best Director at the 1999 Academy Awards?

6 What is the British English word for the eggplant?

7 Which French town on the Scarpe River gave its name

to a type of tapestry?

8 Which musical set in the slums of New York is based

on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet?

9 The movie Apocalypse Now is based on the book

Heart of Darkness by which author?

10 The Quarrymen was the original name of which pop

group?

Quiz 13

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Yew, 2 Bingo, 3 Bianca, 4 Christian, 5 Trilby, 6 Easter Island, 7 Elisha,

8 Victor, 9 Kidnapped, 10 From the New World.

1 What name is more commonly given to a tree of the

genus Taxus?

2 What is the only form of gambling permitted in the

British armed forces?

3 What is the name of Katharina’s younger sister in

Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew?

4 In The Pilgrim’s Progress, what is the name of the

hero?

5 In which novel by George du Maurier does the

character Svengali appear?

6 Which island is also called Rapa Nui and Isla de

Pascua?

7 Which Hebrew prophet picked up the mantle as

successor to Elijah?

8 In Mary Shelley’s novel, what is the first name of

Dr Frankenstein?

9 To which novel by Robert Louis Stevenson is Catriona

the sequel?

10 What is the subtitle of Dvorák’s Symphony No 9 in E

minor?

Quiz 14

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 South Park, 2 Charles Dickens, 3 An edible fungus, 4 France, 5 Electrical

current, 6 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 7 Acetic acid, 8 The Beat Movement,

9 Lake Maracaibo, 10 Colombian.

1 In which cartoon series do the characters Chef and

Cartman appear?

2 Who wrote Great Expectations?

3 What is a champignon?

4 In which country is the port of Dieppe?

5 What does an ammeter measure?

6 What was the full name of the US president known as

LBJ?

7 What is the common name for ethanoic acid?

8 What name was given to the literary movement in the

USA in the 1950s of which William Burroughs and

Jack Kerouac were prominent writers?

9 About 70 per cent of Venezuela’s total oil production is

obtained in and around which lake?

10 What nationality is author Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

Quiz 15

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Switzerland, 2 Measure for Measure, 3 Maharajah, 4 The Bay of Pigs,

5 Leon, 6 Walter de la Mare, 7 Baseball, 8 Dialysis, 9 Hilaire Belloc, 10 The

Pilgrim Fathers.

1 In which country are the headquarters of the

multinational company Nestlé?

2 In which play by Shakespeare do Elbow and Mistress

Overdone appear?

3 What name is given to a Hindu prince ranking above a

rajah?

4 By what name do we know the Bahia de los Cochinos

on the coast of Cuba?

5 What was the real first name of jazz musician Bix

Beiderbecke?

6 Which English poet wrote The Listeners?

7 With which sport is Lou Gehrig associated?

8 What name is given to the process of removing waste

products from the blood?

9 Which French poet wrote Cautionary Tales?

10 What name was given to the settlers who established

the first permanent colony in New England in 1620?

Quiz 16

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Kalashnikov, 2 Red and blue, 3 Jordan, 4 A type of shawl, 5 Asses’ milk,

6 Thalidomide, 7 Patsy Cline, 8 A bird, 9 Tutankhamen, 10 Adolf Hitler.

1 Which Russian gave his name to the famous AK47

assault rifle?

2 Which two primary colours are mixed to make purple?

3 Established as an independent kingdom in 1946,

which Middle Eastern country has a seven-pointed

white star on its national flag, representing the first

seven verses of the Koran?

4 What is a pashmina?

5 In what did Cleopatra supposedly bathe to remain

beautiful?

6 What is the name of the sedative drug which caused

deformities in babies born in the late 1950s and early

1960s?

7 Which popular female country and western singer was

killed in a plane crash in March 1963?

8 What type of creature is a fulmar?

9 Whose tomb was discovered by Howard Carter and

Lord Carnarvon in 1922?

10 Who was born the son of a customs official in

Braunau, Upper Austria, in 1889?

Quiz 17

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 George Washington, 2 George Harrison, 3 Nicaragua, 4 Robert Zemeckis,

5 Frederick Delius, 6 Horses, 7 Bad Manners, 8 Woody Woodpecker,

9 Central African Republic, 10 Don Quixote.

1 Who was the first president of the United States of

America?

2 Who was the youngest member of the Beatles?

3 Of which country is Managua the capital?

4 Who directed the film Back to the Future?

5 Which British composer wrote On Hearing the First

Cuckoo in Spring?

6 What does a hippologist study?

7 Buster Bloodvessel was the frontman of which 1980s

pop group?

8 Which cartoon bird was created by Walter Lantz?

9 Of which country is Bangui the capital?

10 For which novel is the Spanish author Miguel de

Cervantes famous?

Quiz 18

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Geneva, 2 Karate, 3 Jesse Owens, 4 Frederick Forsyth, 5 Slovenia,

6 Scrabble, 7 Hairdresser, 8 Florida, 9 Austria, 10 Queensland.

1 Which city in Switzerland was the headquarters of

the League of Nations?

2 At which sport have Keiji, Okada and Yuko Hasama

been world champions?

3 Which man set a world record of 10.2 seconds for

the 100 metres sprint on 20 June 1936?

4 Who wrote the novel The Fourth Protocol?

5 Ljubljana is the capital of which republic of central

Europe?

6 Which boardgame was invented by Alfred M Butts?

7 What is Kim Basinger’s profession in the 1987 film

Nadine?

8 In which US state is the port of Tarpon Springs?

9 In which European country is the ski resort of

Obergurgl?

10 The Whit Sunday Islands lie off the coast of which

Australian state?

Quiz 19

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Gabarone, 2 Paul Whiteman, 3 Captain Bligh, 4 Pink, 5 Moses, 6 Ilex,

7 Zeta, 8 Russia, 9 Harrisburg, 10 Ice hockey.

1 What is the capital of Botswana?

2 Which bandleader born in 1891 was known in his early

days as ‘the King of Jazz’?

3 Which famous sea captain who commanded HMS

Bounty died in 1817?

4 What is the colour of the ball worth six points in

snooker?

5 Which prophet led the Israelites out of Egypt into the

Promised Land?

6 Which genus of trees and shrubs includes the holly?

7 What is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet?

8 In which European country is the formerly important

gold-mining town of Tomsk?

9 What is the state capital of Pennsylvania?

10 In which sport is the term ‘hookcheck’ used?

Quiz 20

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Alice Munroe, 2 Ducks and drakes, 3 Hermes, 4 Fools’ gold, 5 Permafrost,

6 Jakarta, 7 Richard Strauss, 8 Sri Lanka, 9 Praetorian Guard, 10 Gabriel.

1 In February 2005, which renowned Canadian short

story writer was awarded the Medal of Honor for

Literature from the USA National Arts Club?

2 In which game is a flat stone bounced across the

surface of water?

3 Who was represented in Greek mythology as

wearing winged sandals?

4 What is the common name for pyrites or iron pyrites?

5 What name is given to the permanent freezing of the

ground in areas bordering on ice sheets?

6 What is the capital of Indonesia?

7 Which German composer wrote the opera Der

Rosenkavalier?

8 In which country is the port of Jaffna?

9 What was the name of the official bodyguard of

Roman emperors, created by Augustus?

10 Which archangel announced the birth of John the

Baptist to Zechariah?

Quiz 21

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Mike Myers, 2 Lady Nancy Astor, 3 Vaclav Havel, 4 Saxophone, 5 Lake

Superior, 6 Jamaica, 7 Goat, 8 Italy, 9 Telephone, 10 Hungary.

1 Which Canadian comedian wrote, directed and starred

in Wayne’s World and the Austin Powers films?

2 Who was the first woman to hold a seat in the British

parliament?

3 Which playwright became president of Czechoslovakia

in 1989?

4 What instrument was played by jazz great Coleman

Hawkins?

5 Which is the northernmost of North America’s five

Great Lakes?

6 In which country is Montego Bay?

7 The ibex is a type of which animal?

8 Ice cream was first produced in which country in the

17th century?

9 Elisha Gray filed his own claim for the invention of

which device, only hours after the accredited inventor

had done so in 1874?

10 A hussar was a light cavalryman from which country?

Quiz 22

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 19th, 2 Florida, 3 Football, 4 Czech, 5 Cliff Richard, 6 The Terminator,

7 Brisbane, 8 Spanish, 9 Lira, 10 John Donne.

1 In which century did the Crimean War take place?

2 In which US state is the city of Tallahassee?

3 Which sport is central to the film Escape to Victory?

4 What nationality was the composer Antonin Dvorak?

5 Which pop star was born Harry Rodger Webb?

6 In which film did Arnold Schwarzenegger first star as

a cyborg?

7 What is the capital of Queensland, Australia?

8 What is the official language of Mexico?

9 What is the standard monetary unit of Turkey?

10 Who wrote the poem Death Be Not Proud?

Quiz 23

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Dan Ackroyd, 2 Christopher Reeve, 3 Wonder Woman, 4 Dusty Springfield,

5 Cilla Black, 6 If, 7 2002, 8 Lenin, 9 Prunus, 10 Prague.

1 Which Canadian comedian teamed with John Belushi

to form the Blues Brothers?

2 Who starred as Superman in the 1970s and 1980s film

series?

3 Who was the alter ego of superhero Diana Prince?

4 Which singer was known as The White Lady of Soul?

5 Which TV celebrity had hits in the 1960s with Anyone

Who Had a Heart and You’re My World?

6 Which poem by Rudyard Kipling begins: “If you

can keep your head when all about you are losing

theirs…”?

7 More than 200 were killed in a terrorist bomb in Bali,

the Euro became the common currency over the

EU and the Queen Mother died; all in the same year

– which?

8 Which early 20th century revolutionary said “A lie told

often enough becomes the truth”?

9 To which genus do cherry and plum trees belong?

10 Which Eastern European capital stands on the River

Vltava?

Quiz 24

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Ben Johnson, 2 Jose Carreras, 3 Carlos the Jackal, 4 Germaine Greer,

5 Lazarus, 6 Thailand, 7 Red Sea, 8 Pinocchio, 9 It does not follow, 10 Indian

Ocean.

1 Which Canadian sprinter was stripped of his 100-

metres gold medal in 1988 after failing a drugs test?

2 Who is the youngest of the Three Tenors?

3 Born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, by what name was the

one-time world’s most wanted terrorist better known?

4 Who wrote The Female Eunuch?

5 Who was the sick beggar cured of leprosy by Jesus?

6 In which country is the holiday resort of Phuket?

7 Which sea lies between Egypt and Saudi Arabia?

8 When You Wish Upon a Star is from which Disney

film?

9 What is the meaning of the Latin phrase ‘non

sequitur’?

10 In which ocean are the Maldive Islands?

Quiz 25

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Ingrid Bergman, 2 Giraffe, 3 Clueless, 4 The Domesday Book, 5 Luzon,

6 Opium, 7 Herculaneum, 8 Rounders, 9 Kippers, 10 Cello.

1 Which Swedish actress starred in Casablanca and

Gaslight?

2 What is the tallest living land mammal?

3 Which 1995 film was partly inspired by Jane Austen’s

novel Emma?

4 Which survey of England was started in 1086?

5 What is the most important and largest island in the

Philippines?

6 From which drug are morphine and codeine derived?

7 In 79AD which town, other than Pompeii, was

destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius?

8 Which nine-a-side game was a forerunner of

baseball?

9 By what name are smoked herring usually known in

the UK?

10 Musician and human rights defender Mstislav

Rostropovich, who died in 2007, was a virtuoso of

which instrument?

Quiz 26

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Andrea Doria, 2 Blount, 3 Machu Picchu, 4 John Glenn, 5 Giselle, 6 Weimar

Republic, 7 Star, 8 Bay of Bengal, 9 Tour de France, 10 Finger movements.

1 Name the Italian ocean liner which sank off the coast

of Massachusetts after colliding with another vessel

on 26 July 1956?

2 The ‘B’ in Cecil B De Mille stands for what?

3 What is the name of the well-preserved Inca city

discovered in 1911, named after the mountain that

rises above it?

4 In 1962, who became the first American to orbit the

Earth?

5 First performed in Paris in 1841, which ballet in two

acts by Adolphe Adam concerns the ghosts of young

girls who die of grief before their wedding days, after

being deserted by their lovers?

6 What name was given to the government of Germany

from 1919 to 1933, named after the town in which the

constitution was formulated?

7 In which film did Julie Andrews play Gertrude

Lawrence?

8 In which great bay are the Nicobar Islands?

9 In 1986, Greg Le Mond was the first non-European to

win which annual sporting event?

10 In the human body, what are controlled by the

lumbrical muscles?

Quiz 27

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Max Planck, 2 Twelve, 3 Amethyst, 4 Harrier, 5 Bathyscaphe, 6 Herschel,

7 Microphone, 8 Chess, 9 Vienna, 10 Norwegian.

1 Which German physicist laid down the principles of

quantum theory?

2 How many dozens are there in a gross?

3 Which variety of quartz is violet to purple in colour?

4 What is the name of the aircraft developed in 1969 in

which two moveable nozzles direct the engines’ thrust

downwards for vertical take-off?

5 What type of vessel to explore ocean depths was

invented in 1947 by Auguste Piccard?

6 Which astronomer discovered the planet Uranus?

7 What device is used to transform sound energy into

electrical energy?

8 Shogi is a Japanese form of which boardgame?

9 Which European capital has a skyline dominated by

St Stephen’s cathedral?

10 What nationality was the playwright Henrik Ibsen?

Quiz 28

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Enid Bagnold, 2 Electron, 3 Rouen, 4 Opals, 5 Alison Lurie, 6 General De

Gaulle, 7 Naseem Hamed, 8 George Lucas, 9 Steffi Graf, 10 Gary Cooper.

1 Who wrote the novel National Velvet?

2 What name is given to a negatively charged particle

that is a constituent of all atoms?

3 In which French city was Joan of Arc burned at the

stake?

4 For which gemstones is the Australian mining town of

Coober Pedy famous?

5 Which American novelist wrote Imaginary Friends and

Foreign Affairs?

6 The Day of the Jackal centres on the attempted

assassination of which leader?

7 Which British boxer lost his world title to Marco

Antonion Barrera in 2001?

8 Who produced the Star Wars and Indiana Jones

series of films?

9 Which German tennis player won five successive

Grand Slam tournaments in the 1980s?

10 Which US actor starred in High Noon and Mr Deeds

Goes to Town?

Quiz 29

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Saving Private Ryan, 2 Swallowing, 3 George Foreman, 4 Edward Elgar,

5 The Bloop, 6 Julius Caesar, 7 W B Yeats, 8 York, 9 George Gipp, 10 A bird.

1 What was the top grossing film in 1998 in the USA?

2 What does someone suffering from dysphagia have

difficulty in doing?

3 Which boxer became the oldest-ever World

Heavyweight Champion in 1994?

4 Which English composer wrote five Pomp and

Circumstance marches?

5 What was the name of the pet space-monkey in Lost

in Space?

6 After whom is the month of July named?

7 Which Irish poet wrote The Isle of Innisfree?

8 In which English city is the National Railway Museum?

9 Which US football legend was called The Gipper?

10 What sort of creature is a whydah?

Quiz 30

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Haiti, 2 Ants, 3 Christina Onassis, 4 Chef, 5 Houston, 6 Queen Victoria,

7 Bulgaria, 8 At a moderate tempo, 9 Patrick, 10 Picador.

1 Which country had a police force called the Tonton

Macoutes?

2 What would you find in a formicary?

3 Which Greek millionairess died in 1989 in Argentina?

4 What was the profession of the Frenchman Auguste

Escoffier?

5 In basketball, the Rockets are a major league team of

which US city?

6 Who was the first British sovereign to make regular

use of Buckingham Palace when in residence in

London?

7 Of which country is Sofia the capital?

8 What is meant by the musical term ‘andante’?

9 Which saint’s day falls on 17 March?

10 In a bullfight, what is a mounted man with a lance

called?

Quiz 31

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Hiawatha, 2 Muhummad Ali, 3 Westerns, 4 Euthanasia, 5 Red, 6 Lilliput,

7 Ehud Barak, 8 Corsica, 9 Lord Kitchener, 10 14 July.

1 Which legendary chief of the Onondaga tribe of native

Americans was the subject of a famous poem by

Longfellow?

2 Which famous sportsman was presented with a gold

medal during the 1996 Olympics, to replace the one

he threw away in the 1960s?

3 What sort of films are sometimes referred to ‘horse

operas’?

4 Which word for the act of killing someone painlessly,

especially to relieve suffering, is derived from the

Greek for ‘easy death’?

5 Carmine is a vivid shade of which colour?

6 Name the island where Gulliver discovered a race of

little people in the novel Gulliver’s Travels.

7 In May 1999, who succeeded Benjamin Netanyahu as

Israel’s prime minister?

8 Under Genoese control from the 14th century, which

Mediterranean island was sold to France in 1768?

9 The face of which British soldier and politician

appeared on one of the most famous of all recruiting

posters with the slogan “Your country needs you”?

10 On what date do the French celebrate Bastille Day?

Quiz 32

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Pacific, 2 Spanish, 3 1985, 4 Oslo, 5 Mark Darcy, 6 Lil’ Mo, 7 Loire,

8 Keenen Ivory Wayans, 9 Paris, 10 A film camera.

1 In which ocean does the country of Vanuatu lie?

2 What nationality is Formula 1 driver Marc Gené?

3 In which year were the World Indoor Athletics

Championships first held?

4 In which city were the 1952 Winter Olympic Games

held?

5 Which character was played by Colin Firth in the

2001 film Bridget Jones’s Diary?

6 Which protégée of Missy Elliott recorded the 2001

album Based on a True Story?

7 What is the longest river in France?

8 Who directed the films Scary Movie and Scary

Movie 2?

9 In which city was the International Governing Body of

Fencing (the FIE) founded in 1913?

10 What would be mounted on a pan and tilt head?

Quiz 33

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Fantasia, 2 David, 3 Gustave Flaubert, 4 12, 5 Pianoforte, 6 Yellow, 7 212

degrees, 8 South America, 9 Tunisia, 10 Keats.

1 Which 1940 Disney film featured music by Bach,

Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Stravinsky and others?

2 Which patron saint of the British Isles does not have

his cross on the union flag?

3 Which French novelist wrote Madame Bovary?

4 How many players are there in a lacrosse team?

5 Which instrument derives its name from the fact that

it can be played soft or loud according to the pressure

on the keys?

6 What is the third colour of the rainbow?

7 On the Fahrenheit scale, what temperature is boiling

point?

8 The tapir is an animal native to which continent?

9 Which country would you first reach if you travel

south-west from Sicily?

10 Who wrote Ode to a Grecian Urn?

Quiz 34

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Isaac Hayes, 2 Jimmy Hoffa, 3 Damien Hirst, 4 Lake Titicaca, 5 New

Mexico, 6 Papua New Guinea, 7 Habeas corpus, 8 Weightlifting, 9 Fallout,

10 Bram Stoker.

1 Which singer/songwriter won an Oscar for his score

for the 1971 film Shaft?

2 Which US union leader mysteriously disappeared in

1975?

3 Which controversial British artist is best known for

works such as Mother and Child Divided?

4 Which is the highest navigable lake in the world?

5 Albuquerque is the largest city of which US state?

6 Of which country is New Britain a part?

7 Which Latin legal term means ‘you should have the

body’?

8 Which sport involves ‘the snatch’, ‘the clean’ and

‘the jerk’?

9 What name is given to radioactive material which

settles on the Earth’s surface following a nuclear

explosion?

10 Who wrote the horror novel Dracula?

Quiz 35

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Chicago, 2 Genoa, 3 Darling, 4 A fairy drops down dead, 5 Austrian,

6 Turtles, 7 Utopia, 8 Marseilles, 9 Puck, 10 Islands.

1 Supposedly started by Mrs O’Leary’s cow kicking over

an oil lamp, fire almost completely destroyed which US

city in 1871?

2 Which city is the home of the Italian soccer team

Sampdoria?

3 In J M Barrie’s Peter Pan, what is the surname of

Wendy, Michael and John?

4 According to Peter Pan, what happens every time a

child says: “I don’t believe in fairies”?

5 What nationality was the composer Franz Schubert?

6 Snake-necked and hawk’s bill are what kinds of

creatures?

7 Which imaginary island was created by Sir Thomas

More in 1516?

8 Which city on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea

was originally a Greek colony called Massilia?

9 What is the name of the flat circular disk of vulcanised

rubber used in the game of ice hockey?

10 In Japan, what are Hokkaido, Shikoko and Kyushu?

Quiz 36

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Antelope, 2 Guernica, 3 Antarctica, 4 St Sebastian, 5 Lemur,

6 Pennsylvania, 7 Ursulines, 8 Turbine, 9 Cain, 10 Armageddon.

1 What sort of creature is an eland?

2 During the Spanish Civil War, the bombing of which

Basque town by German planes inspired a famous

painting by Picasso?

3 On which continent is the volcano Mount Erebus?

4 Which Roman soldier and martyr was supposedly

sentenced to be executed by archers?

5 Which small prosimian primate of Madagascar has a

ring-tailed variety?

6 In which US state is the city of Pittsburgh?

7 Which Roman Catholic order founded by St Angela

Merici in 1535 was the first women’s teaching order?

8 What name is given to a device in which a moving

fluid drives a wheel or motor?

9 Which Old Testament character was banished to the

Land of Nod on the east of Eden?

10 In which Hollywood blockbuster did Bruce Willis play

an oil-driller attempting to save the world from being

destroyed by an asteroid?

Quiz 37

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Stratford-on-Avon, 2 Mars, 3 Ramadan, 4 Glockenspiel, 5 Penicillin,

6 Strasbourg, 7 Marsupials, 8 The small intestine, 9 Ten per cent,

10 Tintoretto.

1 Which Warwickshire market town was the birthplace

of William Shakespeare?

2 Who was the Roman god of war?

3 What name is given to the ninth month of the Muslim

year?

4 Which tuned percussion instrument takes its name

from the German for ‘bell play’?

5 What sort of antibiotic was first isolated by Sir

Alexander Fleming?

6 Which French city is a meeting place for the European

Parliament?

7 What name is given to animals such as kangaroos,

wallabies and opossums?

8 Which part of the body consists of the duodenum, the

jejunum and the ileum?

9 What percentage of agricultural produce was payable

as a tithe?

10 By what name was Venetian painter Jacopo Robusti

known?

Quiz 38

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Vancouver, 2 Torvill and Dean, 3 Montgolfier, 4 William Shakespeare, 5 Tour

de France, 6 Saturn, 7 Sao Paulo, 8 Sapporo, 9 Pete Townshend, 10 Johann

Gutenberg.

1 Which large, picturesque Canadian city lies to the

west of the Rocky Mountains?

2 Which British ice dancers who won gold medals at the

1984 Olympics were famous for their Bolero routine?

3 What was the surname of the French brothers who

invented the hot-air balloon?

4 Who wrote the play The Two Gentlemen of Verona?

5 Which famous cycle race was first staged in 1903?

6 Titan is a satellite of which planet?

7 Which is the largest city in Brazil?

8 Which Japanese city hosted the 1972 Winter

Olympics?

9 Who was the guitarist in The Who who wrote the rock

opera Tommy?

10 Which German printer is famous for his 15th century

Bible?

Quiz 39

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Two, 2 South, 3 Chukkas, 4 Bear, 5 Newfoundland, 6 Beef Stroganoff,

7 Jennifer Capriati, 8 Hovercraft, 9 Klondike, 10 Kuala Lumpur.

1 How many dancers feature in a pas de deux?

2 Is Provence in the north or south of France?

3 What name is given to the playing periods in a game

of polo?

4 What type of creature was Baloo in The Jungle Book?

5 What breed of dog was Nana, the dog featured in

Peter Pan?

6 Which beef dish is named after a Russian count?

7 After her career seemed to be in ruins, which tennis

player marked her comeback by winning her first

Grand Slam tournament, the 2001 Australian Open

Championship?

8 Which vehicle was invented by English engineer

Sir Christopher Cockerell?

9 In which valley in central Yukon was gold discovered

in 1896, leading to a famous gold-rush?

10 What is the capital of Malaysia?

Quiz 40

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Meadow or field, 2 Samuel L Jackson, 3 Freddie Mercury, 4 Rowing,

5 Phil Hill, 6 Sir Rowland Hill, 7 The African Queen, 8 The Italian Symphony,

9 Kyrgyzstan, 10 Nostradamus.

1 For what is the word ‘lea’ a poetic term?

2 Who plays comic-book expert Elijah Price in the

2000 film Unbreakable?

3 Which flamboyant singer reached the UK No 1 spot

posthumously in 1993 with Living on My Own?

4 In which sport was the father of Grace Kelly an

Olympic gold medallist?

5 Who was the first US racing driver to win the

Formula 1 World Championship?

6 Which British administrator originated the penny

postage system?

7 In which film did Humphrey Bogart play the character

of Charlie Allnut?

8 By what name is Mendelssohn’s Fourth Symphony

known?

9 Of which former Soviet state is Bishkek the capital?

10 By what name is the 16th century astrologer Michelle

de Notredame known?

Quiz 41

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Heroin, 2 Palate, 3 China, 4 Drum, 5 Pasa doble, 6 Whitney Houston,

7 Aaron Copland, 8 Burt Reynolds, 9 Raphael, 10 Salvador Dali’s.

1 For which powerful opiate is ‘diamorphine’ the

technical term?

2 What name is given to the roof of the mouth divided

into soft and hard parts?

3 In which country did the Boxer Rebellion take place?

4 The Irish bodhran is why type of musical instrument?

5 In which Spanish dance does a man represent the

matador and a woman represent the cloak?

6 In the film The Bodyguard, who plays the singer who

requires protection?

7 Who wrote the music for the ballet Billy the Kid?

8 Which actor was the first male to appear as a

centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine?

9 Who painted The Madonna and Child with Saint John

the Baptist and Saint Nicholas of Bari?

10 Which Spanish surrealist’s 1955 work The Sacrament

of the Last Supper is in the National Gallery of Art in

Washington DC?

Quiz 42

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 George Eliot, 2 Clef, 3 Jack Nicholson, 4 Foot, 5 1789, 6 The Solent, 7 Cutty

Sark, 8 Horses, 9 Chicle, 10 London and Paris.

1 Which British novelist wrote Silas Marner?

2 What name is given to the symbol placed at the

beginning of a musical stave, to indicate the pitch?

3 Who played Darryl van Horne in the film The Witches

of Eastwick?

4 Which part of the body contains five metatarsal

bones?

5 In which year did the French Revolution begin?

6 Which strait separates the Isle of Wight from

Hampshire?

7 Which clipper (built in 1869) is preserved as a

museum at Greenwich, London?

8 British painter George Stubbs was famous for his

studies of which animals?

9 What substance obtained from the sapodilla tree is

used to make chewing gum?

10 In which two European cities are Cleopatra’s Needles?

Quiz 43

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Sphinx, 2 Ireland, 3 Latex, 4 Water, 5 Insects, 6 Jordan, 7 The Baltic Sea,

8 Nine, 9 Bat, 10 Cornwall.

1 Who was the famous monster of Greek legend, part

woman, part beast, who dwelt near Thebes?

2 In which country was the author Jonathan Swift born?

3 What is the name of the milky fluid obtained from trees

which is used to produce rubber?

4 The molecule of what substance contains two

hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom?

5 Of what is entymology the study?

6 Of which country is Amman the capital?

7 The republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania all

border the shores of which sea?

8 How many innings are there for each team in a game

of baseball?

9 Which is the only mammal with the power of active

flight?

10 In which English county is Lizard Point?

Quiz 44

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Vancouver, 2 Gray Davis, 3 Michael Howard, 4 Gerald Ford, 5 Pierre

Trudeau, 6 Robertson Davies, 7 “…To forgive divine”, 8 A lie (pork pie), 9 Hic

iacet sepultus (Here lies buried), 10 Homesick.

1 Which city will play host to the 2010 Winter Olympics?

2 Who preceded Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of

California?

3 In 2003, who became leader of the British

Conservative Party?

4 In 2003, George W Bush became the second US

president to visit Auschwitz: who was the first?

5 In 2003, Montreal International Airport was renamed

in honour of which Canadian statesman?

6 Which Canadian wrote the critically and commercially

acclaimed novel Fifth Business?

7 Complete the saying: “To err is human…”

8 In Cockney rhyming slang, what is a ‘porky’?

9 On a tombstone, what do the initials HIS stand for?

10 What is the English translation of the German

‘heimweh’?

Quiz 45

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Gin, 2 Diana Ross, 3 Josephine Bonaparte, 4 Hybrid, 5 Leopard,

6 Neuralgia, 7 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, 8 Alistair MacLean, 9 The

Herald of Free Enterprise, 10 The shoe-bomber.

1 Which alcoholic drink is distilled from grain flavoured

with juniper berries?

2 Who played Billie Holiday in the film Lady Sings the

Blues?

3 What was the name of Napoleon Bonaparte’s first

wife?

4 What name is given to the offspring produced by the

mating of two unrelated animals or plants?

5 Which big cat is also known as the panther?

6 What name is given to a sharp or burning pain

originating in a nerve?

7 In medicine, what does the acronym SARS stand for?

8 Who wrote Where Eagles Dare?

9 What was the name of the car ferry which overturned

in the 1987 Zeebrugge disaster?

10 By what name did Richard Reid, who tried to hijack an

American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami, become

known?

Quiz 46

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Three, 2 Bhutan, 3 Smallpox, 4 Finnish, 5 George Wendt, 6 Turkey,

7 Anne Boleyn, 8 The head (it is used for chewing), 9 Alexander the Great,

10 Pepperoni.

1 How many nautical miles is a league?

2 Thimpu is the capital of which country?

3 Edward Jenner discovered a vaccine for which

disease?

4 What nationality was the composer Sibelius?

5 Who played Norm Paterson in Cheers?

6 What type of bird is a broad-breasted bronze?

7 Which English queen is reputed to have had an extra

finger on one of her hands?

8 In which part of the human body is the masseter

muscle?

9 Which great historic general and adventurer rode a

horse called Bucephalus?

10 What is the name of the very spicy Italian sausage

eaten hot or cold?

Quiz 47

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The Matthew, 2 Baldur von Shirach, 3 Cato the Younger, 4 Menachem

Begin, 5 Geoffrey Chaucer, 6 Aniseed, 7 Baseball, 8 Bram Stoker, 9 The

Sepoy Rebellion, 10 Nero.

1 In which ship did John Cabot set sail from Bristol in

May 1497?

2 Who was appointed Youth Leader of the Reich in June

1933?

3 Marcus Junius Brutus (an assassin of Julius Caesar)

was the nephew of which Roman philosopher?

4 Which former Israeli prime minister was born at

Brestlitovsk in 1913?

5 Who was the author of The Canterbury Tales?

6 What is the name given to the liquorice-flavoured

seeds of the anise plant?

7 Which sport is played by the Toronto Blue Jays and

Boston Red Sox?

8 The 1989 Ken Russell film The Lair of the White Worm

was based on a tale by which writer?

9 What was the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8 also known as?

10 Who was Roman emperor from 54 -68AD?

Quiz 48

1 Which famous English landscape artist’s works

include The Vale of Dedham?

2 In which year was Anne Boleyn executed?

3 Which body of water in Scotland does the Kincardine

Bridge span?

4 Who recorded the 2001 album Hot Shot?

5 In which African country is the resort of Sharm El

Sheikh?

6 Which star of the X Files TV series played Lily Bart in

the film The House of Mirth?

7 Which modern US fighter aircraft is also called The

Fighting Falcon?

8 What name is given to the fruits of plants of the genus

Ficus?

9 What is the state capital of Utah?

10 In which year was the Channel Tunnel officially

opened?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 John Constable, 2 1536, 3 Firth of Forth, 4 Shaggy, 5 Egypt, 6 Gillian

Anderson, 7 F16, 8 Figs, 9 Salt Lake City, 10 1994.

Quiz 49

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Quebec City, 2 Mary Pickford, 3 Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt, 4 Al Pacino,

5 W, 6 The ear, 7 Jupiter, 8 Ottawa, 9 Albert Einstein, 10 Geneva.

1 Name the walled city in Canada that has been

declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

2 Which United States film actress (born in Canada)

who starred in silent films, was born Gladys Smith?

3 From the Jordanian port of Aqaba, three other

countries can be seen: can you name them?

4 Who plays the part of ruthless casino owner Willy

Bank in the 2007 film Ocean’s Thirteen?

5 On a standard typewriter keyboard, which letter lies

between the ‘Q’ and the ‘E’?

6 In which part of the body would you find the organ of

Corti?

7 Which is closest to the Sun: Jupiter or Pluto?

8 What is the capital of Canada?

9 Which German-born physicist was famous for his

theories of relativity?

10 Which Swiss city is the location of the headquarters

of the International Red Cross and the World Health

Organisation?

Quiz 50

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Central African Republic, 2 15, 3 Ikebana, 4 Photograph, 5 Chewing gum,

6 St Cecilia, 7 Austria, 8 Kate Wiggin, 9 Modest, 10 Arctic.

1 Of which country did Jean-Bédel Bokassa proclaim

himself emperor in 1977?

2 How many players are there in a Gaelic football

team?

3 What name is given to the Japanese art of flower

arranging?

4 A daguerreotype is an early form of what?

5 Which product did soap salesman William Wrigley Jr

begin distributing in 1892?

6 Who is the patron saint of music?

7 In which European country is the summer and ski

resort of Zell am See?

8 Who wrote Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm?

9 What was the first name of the composer

Mussorgsky?

10 The Kara Sea is an arm of which ocean?

Quiz No 51

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Iris Murdoch, 2 Unicorn, 3 Swimming, 4 Ice hockey, 5 Charlotte, 6 Vivienne

Westwood, 7 Björk, 8 36, 9 Martin Riggs, 10 Hungarian.

1 Who wrote the 1978 novel The Sea, the Sea?

2 Which imaginary creature is depicted as white horse

with one spiralled horn growing from its forehead?

3 At which sport is Australian Kieran Perkins a former

world champion?

4 In which sport is the James Norris Memorial Trophy

awarded?

5 In which city is the US football team The Carolina

Panthers based?

6 Which famous UK fashion designer married Andreas

Kronthaler in 1992?

7 In 1996, which female singer famously attacked a

reporter at Bangkok airport?

8 How old was reggae legend Bob Marley when he

died: 36 or 42?

9 What was the name of Mel Gibson’s character in the

Lethal Weapon films?

10 What was the nationality of the character played by

Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient?

Quiz No 52

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Pierre and Marie Curie, 2 John Buchan, 3 A dumpling, 4 Fleet Street,

5 Brussels, 6 Elizabeth Taylor, 7 Australia, 8 Joseph Haydn, 9 Lake

Tanganyika, 10 Woody Allen.

1 Which husband and wife shared the 1903 Nobel Prize

for Physics with Henri Becquerel?

2 Which British author wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps?

3 In Jewish cookery, what is a kneidel?

4 Which London street between The Strand and

Ludgate Circus became synonymous with the British

newspaper industry?

5 What is the capital of Belgium?

6 Which English-born actress was twice married to

Richard Burton?

7 In which country was media tycoon Rupert Murdoch

born?

8 Which Austrian composer wrote the oratorios The

Creation and The Seasons?

9 Which African lake was discovered by Sir Richard

Burton and John Speke in 1858?

10 Who narrates Woody Allen’s film Radio Days?

Quiz No 53

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The Wailers, 2 The Spy Who Loved Me, 3 J Wellington Wimpy, 4 28, 5 The

turkey, 6 Jane, 7 Iceni, 8 Tunisia, 9 St Peter, 10 Hispaniola.

1 What was the name of Bob Marley’s backing group?

2 The song Nobody Does it Better featured in which

James Bond film?

3 In the Popeye cartoon series, who is Popeye’s

hamburger-loving friend, who has an IQ of 326?

4 How many dominoes are there in a standard set?

5 By what name is the large American bird Meleagris

Gallopavo more commonly known?

6 What is the first name of Agatha Christie’s creation

Miss Marple?

7 Boadicea was queen of which tribe of people?

8 The ancient city of Carthage is in which modern

country?

9 Who is the patron saint of fishermen?

10 In the book Treasure Island by Robert Louis

Stevenson, what is the name of the ship?

Quiz No 54

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Jamaican, 2 The Prodigy, 3 Louis Bleriot, 4 Hebe, 5 Bhopal, 6 Union

Carbide, 7 Edvard Munch, 8 Italian, 9 Norwegian, 10 Club-shaped.

1 What nationality was the sprinter Ray Stewart?

2 Fat of the Land, which went straight to No 1 in the US

album charts in 1997, was by which band?

3 Which Frenchman made the first flight across the

English Channel in 1909?

4 Who was the goddess of youth and spring in Greek

mythology?

5 Which city in central India was the site of a poisonous

gas leak in 1984?

6 …and which company was responsible for this

disaster?

7 Which Norwegian painter’s works include The

Scream?

8 What nationality is the tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano?

9 What nationality was Olympic shooting champion

Gudbrand Skatteboe?

10 If something is ‘clavate’ what shape is it?

Quiz No 55

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Ayrton Senna, 2 Buenos Aires, 3 Rex Warner, 4 Dawn Fraser,

5 Frankincense, 6 Mary Had a Little Lamb, 7 Los Alamos, 8 Danzig, 9 Imam,

10 Sonny Ramphal.

1 Which Brazilian racing driver was killed at Imola in

1994?

2 What is the capital of Argentina?

3 Which novelist wrote The Young Caesar and The

Aerodrome?

4 Who was the first female swimmer to win gold medals

in three successive Olympics?

5 Which of the gifts brought by the Magi is also known

as olibanum?

6 Which well-known nursery rhyme was written by US

poet Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830?

7 In which New Mexico city was the atomic bomb

developed in the Manhattan Project?

8 What is the German name for the Polish port of

Gdansk?

9 What is the name given to the leader of congregational

prayer in a mosque?

10 Who was Secretary-General of the Commonwealth

from 1975-1989?

Quiz No 56

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Abel, 2 Tonto, 3 William Tell, 4 Adelaide, 5 Astronaut, 6 Adrian IV, 7 John

Quincy Adams, 8 The Marx Brothers, 9 Tyrrhenian Sea, 10 Norwegian.

1 Who was the first murder victim in the Bible?

2 What was the name of the Lone Ranger’s Indian

companion?

3 The Lone Ranger TV theme music comes from

which Rossini opera?

4 Which Australian city is named after the queen

consort of King William IV of England?

5 What was the profession of the character played by

Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment?

6 By what name was the only English pope, Nicholas

Brakespear known?

7 Who was the sixth president of the USA?

8 Margaret Dumont was the long-suffering stooge to

which comedy team?

9 Which sea lies between the Italian mainland and the

islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica?

10 What nationality is the actress Liv Ullmann?

Quiz No 57

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Conrad Black, 2 220, 3 Lewis Carroll, 4 Canada, 5 El Niño, 6 Roald Dahl,

7 Finland, 8 1981, 9 Johnny Depp, 10 Kes.

1 Which prominent newspaper tycoon renounced his

Canadian citizenship in 2001 in order to be appointed

to Britain’s House of Lords?

2 How many yards are there in one furlong?

3 What was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge

Dodgson?

4 In which country are the Plains of Abraham?

5 Which weather phenomenon takes its name from the

Spanish for ‘the child’?

6 Who wrote the children’s story James and the Giant

Peach?

7 Which country is known as Suomi in its native

language?

8 In which year did the reggae artist Bob Marley die?

9 Which Hollywood heart-throb was the guitarist of the

rock group P?

10 Which 1970 Ken Loach film starred David Bradley as

a boy who becomes obsessed with a bird of prey?

Quiz No 58

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 William Rufus de Vane King, 2 Hosni Mubarak, 3 Austria and Prussia, 4 Leg

lock, 5 Bullseye, 6 Shot putting, 7 Table tennis, 8 German, 9 Melbourne,

10 The scientific study of fingerprints.

1 Who was elected vice president of the USA in 1852,

but died six weeks after being sworn in?

2 Who became president of Egypt in 1981?

3 The War of the Bavarian Succession was fought

between which two countries?

4 In martial arts, what is an ashi gatami?

5 What is the name of Woody’s horse in the film Toy

Story 2?

6 In which field event would you associate Philippa

Roles and Judy Oakes?

7 In which sport were Ichiro Ogimura and Yoshio

Tomita world champions in 1956?

8 What nationality was skier Christl Cranz?

9 In which Australian city is the Albert Park Formula 1

motor racing circuit?

10 What is dactylography?

Quiz No 59

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Kappa, 2 Compact Disk Read Only Memory, 3 Quarternary, 4 Fort Worth,

5 Manitoba, 6 15 weeks, 7 Longfellow, 8 Paris, 9 Hugh Grant, 10 Your

Holiness.

1 Which letter of the Greek alphabet is the equivalent

of the letter ‘K’?

2 What is the meaning of the common abbreviation

CD‑ROM?

3 Which period of geological time saw the appearance

of humans?

4 Which Texas town was established in 1849 to protect

settlers from attacks by the Comanche tribe?

5 MB is the abbreviation of which Canadian province?

6 What is the average gestation period of a lion:

15 weeks or 26 weeks?

7 Who penned the poem The Village Blacksmith?

8 In which European capital city is the grave of the

Doors singer Jim Morrison?

9 Which Four Weddings and a Funeral star played

Clive Durham in the 1987 film Maurice?

10 What is the correct form of spoken address to a

pope?

Quiz No 60

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Sahara, 2 Epiphany, 3 Sabre-toothed tiger, 4 Kamikaze, 5 Marquis de

Sade, 6 Fruit-bat, 7 Mendelssohn, 8 Joseph McCarthy, 9 Sadlers Wells,

10 Offenbach.

1 Which is the world’s largest dry desert?

2 Which Christian festival is celebrated on 6 January?

3 Which extinct big cat was named after its long, curved

upper canine teeth?

4 In World War II, what name was given to a Japanese

aircraft crashed deliberately onto its target by its pilot?

5 Which French novelist gave his name to pleasure

derived from causing or observing pain?

6 What sort of creature is a flying fox?

7 Who composed the music for Hark the Herald Angels

Sing?

8 Which US senator was famous for leading an anticommunist

witch-hunt in the early 1950s?

9 In which London theatre did Lilian Baylis establish and

opera and ballet company in the 1930s?

10 Which composer wrote Orpheus in the Underworld

and The Tales of Hoffmann?

Quiz No 61

1 What is the title of the Clement Moore poem which

begins “’Twas the night before Christmas…”?

2 Which actor appeared in Apocalypse Now and

Superman?

3 Who is generally regarded as the first British prime

minister?

4 What number wood in golf was formerly known as a

‘spoon’?

5 What name is given to the deliberate and systematic

destruction of a racial, religious or ethnic group?

6 Which US actor starred in Twelve Angry Men and

On Golden Pond?

7 Who composed the symphony No 6 commonly known

as The Pastoral?

8 Which three sports are included in the triathlon?

9 Which branch of mathematics takes its name from the

Greek for ‘earth measurement’?

10 Which horse won the British Grand National in 1973,

1974 and 1977?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 A Visit from St Nicholas, 2 Marlon Brando, 3 Robert Walpole, 4 Three,

5 Genocide, 6 Henry Fonda, 7 Beethoven, 8 Swimming, cycling and running,

9 Geometry, 10 Red Rum.

Quiz No 62

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Robert Burns, 2 Sonny Rollins, 3 Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club

Band, 4 Tom Hanks, 5 Ireland, 6 Delilah, 7 Succubus, 8 Seaweed, 9 Lake

Michigan, 10 Ten.

1 Which Scottish poet is remembered on 25 January?

2 By what first name is saxophonist Theodore Walter

Rollins better known?

3 Which pop album was the world’s number one bestseller

in 1967?

4 Who won an Oscar in 1993 for his rôle in

Philadelphia?

5 Which country won the Eurovision Song Contest in

1992, 1993 and 1994?

6 In the Old Testament, who cut off Samson’s hair?

7 What is the female counterpart of the male spirit

Incubus?

8 Which plants have an organ called a holdfast?

9 On which lake is the city of Milwaukee?

10 How many cohorts were there in a Roman legion?

Quiz No 63

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Binyamin Netanyahu, 2 James Delingpole, 3 A storey between floors of a

building, 4 Phototherapy, 5 Willie Nelson, 6 Norway, 7 Bonn, 8 Pablo Neruda,

9 A type of fabric, 10 Chemistry.

1 Which Israeli politician was given the nickname BiBi?

2 Who wrote the 2000 novel Fin?

3 What is an entresol?

4 For which form of therapy is the scientist Niels Ryberg

Finsen best remembered?

5 Which country music artist recorded the 2000 album

Milk Cow Blues?

6 In which country is the Badalona cave system?

7 Which German city is further south: Bonn or Cologne?

8 Which poet was born Ricardo Neftali Reyes Basoalto

in 1904?

9 What is balbriggan: a gypsy or a type of fabric?

10 In which discipline did Robert S Mulliken win a Nobel

prize in 1966?

Quiz No 64

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 James Wolfe, 2 Reader’s Digest, 3 Juvenal, 4 Douglas MacArthur, 5 Robin

Hood, 6 Rotterdam, 7 Richard Nixon, 8 Surrealism, 9 Tundra, 10 Rimsky

-Korsakov.

1 Which British general died leading his men in the

capture of Quebec in 1759?

2 Which publication, originally reprinting condensations

of articles from other magazines, first appeared in the

US in 1922?

3 Which ancient Roman wrote The Sixteen Satires?

4 Who was the US Commander in Chief of UN Forces in

the Korean War, who was relieved of his command in

April 1951?

5 Which legendary English outlaw was an adversary of

the Sheriff of Nottingham?

6 What is the chief port of The Netherlands?

7 Which US president was the subject of a 1987 opera

by John Adams?

8 With which artistic movement were Salvador Dali and

Rene Magritte associated?

9 What name is given to the treeless region in the

northern hemisphere, of which permafrost is a

feature?

10 Which Russian composer wrote Sheherezade?

Quiz No 65

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Jane Austen, 2 Westminster Abbey, 3 West End Girls, 4 Fred Astaire,

5 The Last Detail, 6 Benin, 7 The Rivals, 8 Ralf Schumacher, 9 Abu Dhabi,

10 Russia.

1 Which British novelist penned Mansfield Park and

Northanger Abbey?

2 In which London church is Poets’ Corner?

3 What was the debut single of the Pet Shop Boys,

which hit the UK No 1 spot in 1985?

4 Which legendary actor and dancer’s first screen

appearance came in 1933’s Dancing Lady, in which

he played himself?

5 Which 1973 film featured Jack Nicholson as a sailor

escorting a thief to naval prison?

6 Which African country was formerly known as

Dahomey?

7 In which Sheridan play does the character

Mrs Malaprop appear?

8 Which German driver achieved his first Formula 1

victory in the 2001 San Marino Grand Prix?

9 Which is the largest of the United Arab Emirates?

10 Dagestan is an autonomous republic of which

country?

Quiz No 66

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Vercingetorix, 2 The Outlaws, 3 Alec Guinness, 4 Alonso, 5 Agamemnon,

6 Birds, 7 Jetsam, 8 Italy, 9 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 10 Lake

Tanganyika.

1 Which chieftain united the Gauls against Julius Caesar

in 52BC?

2 What is the name of the gang of which William is a

member in the stories by Richmal Crompton?

3 Who played eight members of the same family in the

film Kind Hearts and Coronets?

4 What was the first name of actor Lon Chaney?

5 Which character in Greek mythology sacrificed his

daughter Iphigenia?

6 Which creatures are studied by an ornithologist?

7 What name is given to goods thrown overboard to

lighten a ship in distress?

8 In which European country is the city of Verona?

9 Which Oscar-winning film starred Chow Yn Fat and

Zhang Zi Yi?

10 Which African lake is the second deepest lake in the

world?

Quiz No 67

1 Which group’s albums included the live recording

Bless Its Pointed Little Head?

2 To what did the group The Detours change their

name in 1964?

3 Which British album went straight to No 1 in the US

charts in 2000?

4 In the hexadecimal system, what letter represents the

number 15?

5 The largest of the seas of the Moon is the Mare

Imbrium: what does this translate to?

6 Lake Iliamna is the largest lake in which US state?

7 In which sport did Inna Ryskal of the USSR win four

Olympic medals from 1964 to 1976?

8 Makes Me Wonder was a Top Five hit for which

group in 2007?

9 Whose album Favourite Worst Nightmare was a hit in

2007?

10 What is the real name of the comedienne Ruby Wax?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Jefferson Airplane, 2 The Who, 3 Kid A by Radiohead, 4 F, 5 Sea of Rains,

6 Alaska, 7 Volleyball, 8 Maroon 5, 9 Arctic Monkeys, 10 Ruby Wachs.

Quiz No 68

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The Simplon Tunnel, 2 Daniel, 3 Hydrogen, 4 Wilbur, 5 February,

6 Advantage, 7 Linctus, 8 Nicolas Sarkozy, 9 Jacques Chirac, 10 Windows.

1 Which alpine rail tunnel (then the longest rail tunnel in

the world) was opened in 1906?

2 Which Biblical character was thrown into a lion’s den?

3 The periodic table is a list of chemical elements: what

is No 1 in that list?

4 Orville was one of the pioneering Wright brothers:

what was the name of the other?

5 Which month of the year takes its name from the

Roman festival of purification?

6 In tennis, what score comes after deuce?

7 Derived from the Latin for ‘licking’ what word describes

a syrupy medicinal preparation taken to relieve coughs

and sore throats?

8 Who was elected France’s new president in May

2007?

9 …and whom did he succeed?

10 In architecture, fenestration is the arrangement of what

in a building?

Quiz No 69

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Jeffrey, 2 Rudolf Nureyev, 3 Elaine and Lancelot, 4 A heavy black breed of

domestic fowl, 5 Ruth Barbara Grasemann, 6 Idlewild, 7 Independence Day,

8 Paris, 9 Norway, 10 Chile.

1 What is the middle name of basketball legend Michael

Jordan?

2 Which flamboyant Russian-born ballet dancer died in

Paris in 1993?

3 Who were the mother and father of Galahad in

Arthurian legend?

4 What kind of creature is an australorp?

5 What is the real name of writer Barbara Vine, also

known as Ruth Rendell?

6 What is the former name of JFK airport, New York?

7 Which 1996 film featured Bill Paxton as the US

president?

8 St Cloud is a suburb of which French city?

9 Which country claimed Queen Maud Land, Antarctica

in 1939?

10 Which country has the southernmost point in South

America?

Quiz No 70

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Patrick Stewart, 2 Angelina Jolie, 3 Sydney, 4 Death in Venice by Thomas

Mann, 5 France and Italy, 6 The Algarve, 7 Einstein, 8 Rocks and minerals,

9 Hippopotamus, 10 Prince Albert.

1 Who played Professor X in the 2000 film The X-Men?

2 Who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2000

for her role in Girl, Interrupted?

3 In which Australian city were the group The Hoodoo

Gurus formed?

4 Gustav von Aschenbach is the central character in

which novella?

5 The Maritime Alps run along the border between

which two countries?

6 Which is the most southerly province of Portugal?

7 Which scientist won the Nobel Prize for his discovery

of photoelectric effect?

8 Of what is petrology the study?

9 Which African animal’s name means ‘river horse’?

10 Who was the consort of Queen Victoria?

Quiz No 71

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 London Bridge, 2 Russell Crowe, 3 Quarantine, 4 Nevada, 5 David Niven,

6 Origami, 7 The Ryder Cup, 8 Montreal, 9 Toulouse-Lautrec, 10 Lesbos.

1 Which bridge was re-erected as a tourist attraction at

Lake Havasu City in Arizona?

2 Who won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in

Gladiator?

3 What name is given to the period during which a

person or animal that is suspected of carrying an

infected disease is kept in isolation?

4 Of which US state is Carson City the capital?

5 Which debonair British actor wrote The Moon’s a

Balloon and Bring on the Empty Horses?

6 What name is given to the oriental art of paperfolding?

7 In which men’s team golf competition do professionals

from Europe and the USA compete every two years?

8 What is the largest French-speaking city in Canada?

9 Which diminutive French painter led an unconventional

life among the music halls and cafés of Montmartre?

10 On which Greek island did the poetess Sappho live?

Quiz No 72

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Nero, 2 Al Jolson, 3 The Trojan Horse, 4 TNT, 5 Marathon, 6 Loch Ness,

7 Stainless steel, 8 The Nereids, 9 The peach, 10 The ozone layer.

1 Which notoriously cruel Roman emperor is said to

have been responsible for the deaths of two wives and

his mother?

2 By what name was Russian-born entertainer Asa

Yoelson, star of The Jazz Singer better known?

3 Which wooden religious offering allowed the Greeks to

get inside the walls of Troy?

4 By what initials is the high explosive trinitrotoluene

better known?

5 Which Olympic event takes place over a course 26

miles and 385 yards in length?

6 Which Scottish loch is famously associated with

sightings of a monster?

7 Which corrosion-resistant alloy of iron, chromium and

nickel is widely used for making cutlery and kitchen

utensils?

8 To which class of nymphs did Amphitrite (wife of

Poseidon) and Thetis (mother of Achilles) belong in

Greek mythology?

9 What name is given to the fruit of the Chinese tree

prunus persica?

10 By what name is the ozonosphere commonly known?

Quiz No 73

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 USA, 2 Cheese, 3 Eat it, it’s a smoked sausage, 4 A sheep, 5 Reef,

6 A policeman’s badge, 7 Bathsheba, 8 Yellow, 9 Portsmouth, 10 Switzerland.

1 Sherwood Stewart and Ferdi Taygan won the 1982

French Open Men’s Doubles Tennis Championship:

which country were they from?

2 If a substance is ‘caseous’, what is it like?

3 What might you do with a cervelat?

4 What in Australia is known as a ‘jumbuck’?

5 Which rock group released the 2001 single All I

Want?

6 What in North American slang is a ‘potsy’ to a police

officer?

7 In the Bible, who was the wife of Uriah?

8 What is the colour of the central stripe on the flag of

Chad?

9 Which modern British city was known by the Romans

as Magnus Portus?

10 Which country is home to the international governing

body of gymnastics, the FIG?

Quiz No 74

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 French Connection, 2 Henry III, 3 Casablanca, 4 Walker, 5 Haile Selassie,

6 Blue, 7 Flash Gordon, 8 Wiltshire, 9 Bullfighting, 10 Empty.

1 What does the ‘fc’ stand for in the designer fashion

label ‘fcuk’?

2 The coronation of which king of England took place in

Gloucester Cathedral in 1216?

3 The name of which North African city literally means

‘white house’?

4 What does the ‘W’ in George W Bush stand for?

5 Which deceased former emperor of Ethiopia is

regarded by members of the Rastafarian religion as

the Messiah?

6 Shades of which colour can be described as cobalt

and Prussian?

7 Ming the Merciless was the arch-enemy of which sci-fi

hero?

8 In which English county is the famous Stonehenge

stone circle?

9 What activity links the following films: Blood and Sand,

The Kid from Spain and The Sun Also Rises?

10 What is the meaning of the prefix ‘kara’ in Japanese

words such as ‘karate’ and ‘karaoke’?

Quiz No 75

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Stanley Ipkiss, 2 World War I, 3 Vanity Fair, 4 Red, 5 Luke Skywalker,

6 Farad, 7 Let the buyer beware, 8 Judy Garland, 9 Earvin, 10 The Gestapo.

1 Who does Jim Carrey play in the 1994 film The Mask?

2 During which war was the 1970 film Darling Lili set?

3 In which novel does Rawdon Crawley marry Becky

Sharp?

4 What is the colour of the ball worth one point in the

game of snooker?

5 Which character in the film Star Wars was played by

Mark Hammill?

6 What is the derived SI unit of electrical capacitance?

7 What does the legal term ‘caveat emptor’ mean?

8 Which singer and actress starred in the films

The Wizard of Oz and Meet Me in St Louis?

9 What was basketball player Magic Johnson’s real first

name?

10 By what name were the Nazi police force Geheime

Staatspolizei known?

Quiz No 76

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Catkins, 2 Bishop, 3 Agamemnon, 4 Nimbus, 5 Ganges, 6 1200 hrs,

7 Northern Ireland, 8 Rhine, 9 Denmark, 10 Joni Mitchell.

1 What is the name given to clusters of flowers borne by

trees such as the hazel?

2 In chess, which piece can move diagonally in a

straight line, but keeping to the colour of the square on

which it starts?

3 Who was the Commander in Chief of the Greeks

in the Trojan War, who was murdered by his wife

Clytemnestra?

4 Which lower level of clouds are commonly called

rainclouds?

5 What is the longest river in India?

6 At 1200 hours GMT, what time is it in Lisbon?

7 In which country is the promontory known as The

Giant’s Causeway?

8 The rivers Ruhr, Main, Moselle and Neckar are

tributaries of which river?

9 Which country in Europe is nowhere higher than

570 feet above sea level?

10 Which prolific Canadian songstress wrote Big Yellow

Taxi?

Quiz No 77

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Pride and Prejudice, 2 Cartoonist, 3 Pakistan, 4 Mary Poppins,

5 Hibernation, 6 William, 7 Peter Pears, 8 Male, 9 Woodhouse, 10 Vincent van

Gogh.

1 Which Jane Austen novel begins: “It is a truth

universally acknowledged that a single man in

possession of a good fortune must be in want of a

wife”?

2 What was the occupation of the character played by

Jack Lemmon in the film How to Murder Your Wife?

3 In which country is the city of Faisalabad?

4 Which famous nanny was created by P L Travers?

5 What name is given to the winter dormancy of certain

mammals?

6 What was the first name of the Scottish pirate

Captain Kidd?

7 Which British tenor sang in the first performances of

all Benjamin Britten’s operas?

8 Do male or female sea horses carry the eggs until

they hatch?

9 What is the surname of Emma in the novel by Jane

Austen?

10 Which famous artist was the subject of the song by

Don McLean which begins “Starry, starry night”?

Quiz No 78

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Björk, 2 Microsoft Disk Operating System, 3 Uranus, 4 Proactinium, 5 Black,

6 Robin Williams, 7 Goldie Hawn, 8 Chris Judd, 9 Richard Gere, 10 Neon.

1 Which female singer recorded the 1999 album

Telegram?

2 What does MS-DOS stand for in computing?

3 Of which planet is Desdemona a satellite?

4 Which element did Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner

discover in 1918?

5 What colour is pitchblende?

6 Which actor voiced the Genie in the 1992 animated

film Aladdin?

7 Actress Kate Hudson is the daughter of which other

actress?

8 Who did the singer Jennifer Lopez marry in 2001?

9 Who starred as the psychiatrist in the 1992 film Final

Analysis?

10 Which gas forms a larger percentage of the air by

volume: ozone or neon?

Quiz No 79

1 Which Bavarian town was the site of the first

concentration camp set up by the Nazis?

2 Which US singer/songwriter wrote Blowin’ in the

Wind?

3 Which US author wrote The Fall of the House of

Usher?

4 Which actor starred as a theatrical entrepreneur and

serial-killer in the 1968 film No Way to Treat a Lady?

5 Which UK garage artist released the debut album

Born to Do It?

6 Which form of recreation originated on paved areas

along California beaches in the 1960s?

7 What is the name of the Barber of Seville in the play

by Beaumarchais?

8 Which music-hall comedienne and singer was born

Grace Stansfield?

9 What was the tallest building in the world before the

completion of the Chrysler Building in New York in

1930?

10 Which French composer wrote The Sorcerer’s

Apprentice?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Dachau, 2 Bob Dylan, 3 Edgar Allan Poe, 4 Rod Steiger, 5 Craig David,

6 Skateboarding, 7 Figaro, 8 Gracie Fields, 9 Eiffel Tower, 10 Paul Dukas.

Quiz No 80

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Diurnal, 2 Mexico, 3 Ballerina, 4 17th, 5 In the human pancreas, 6 Strait of

Gibraltar, 7 Dallas, 8 Loire, 9 Biathlon, 10 Dallas.

1 Is the meerkat diurnal or nocturnal?

2 The Sierra Madre chain is the main mountain system

of which country?

3 As what was the Russian Anna Pavlova best known?

4 In which century was Sir Isaac Newton born?

5 Where are the Islets of Langerhans?

6 Which sea strait links the Mediterranean Sea with the

Atlantic Ocean?

7 In which US city was John F Kennedy assassinated in

1963?

8 The French port of Saint Nazaire stands at the mouth

of which river?

9 At which sport have Eirik Kvalfoss and Frank Ullrich

been world champions?

10 In which city was country music star Kenny Rogers

born?

Quiz No 81

1 Who was the first actress to receive two Oscars

before the age of 30?

2 Which Belgian city was the site of the first battle

between British and German forces in World War I?

3 Which large triangular muscle covering the shoulder

serves to raise the arm laterally?

4 What was the pen-name of Samuel Langhorne

Clemens?

5 Which hoisting device used on ships is named after

a 17th century English hangman?

6 Who was the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England?

7 Which actress starred opposite Harrison Ford in the

film thriller What Lies Beneath?

8 Which actor’s childhood nickname was Tootsie?

9 Which boy band became the first act to have seven

UK No 1 singles in a row?

10 What name is given to 15 July, which is supposed to

set the weather for 40 days thereafter?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Jodie Foster, 2 Mons, 3 Deltoid, 4 Mark Twain, 5 Derrick, 6 Catherine

Howard, 7 Michelle Pfeiffer, 8 Dustin Hoffman, 9 Westlife, 10 St Swithin’s Day.

Quiz No 82

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Frogman, 2 Skiing, 3 South Africa, 4 Copenhagen, 5 Nigeria, 6 Jamaica,

7 FAB 1, 8 Iowa, 9 Billy Ocean, 10 Wear.

1 What is Elvis Presley’s profession in the 1967 film

Easy Come, Easy Go?

2 With which winter sport is the Worldloppet Cup

associated?

3 In which country was cricketer Mike Procter born?

4 Physicist Niels Bohr was born and died in which

European capital city?

5 Abuja is the capital of which West African republic?

6 Which country did athlete Juliet Cuthbert represent?

7 What was the registration number of Lady Penelope’s

pink Rolls Royce in the TV show Thunderbirds?

8 Des Moines is the capital of which US state?

9 Which pop singer originally had a No 1 single with

the song When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get

Going?

10 Which river flows into the North Sea at Sunderland?

Quiz No 83

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Taurus, 2 FBI, 3 Dolly, 4 Night blindness, 5 Sherman, 6 Greece, 7 Three

Mile Island, 8 Tiberius, 9 Sicily, 10 Chile.

1 Aldebaran is the brightest star in which constellation?

2 “Fidelity, bravery, integrity” is the motto of which US

organisation?

3 What was the name of the cloned sheep which

attracted much media attention in 1997?

4 What is the more common name for the medical

condition nyctalopia?

5 Which US Civil War general led his famous march to

the sea?

6 Which country always leads the Olympic procession

at the opening ceremony?

7 At which US nuclear plant did a nuclear accident occur

in 1979?

8 How was the second emperor of Rome, Claudius Nero

Caesar, better known?

9 The wine marsala comes from which region of Italy?

10 The statue Christ of the Andes stands on the border

between Argentina and which other country?

Quiz No 84

1 What nationality is the cyclist Eddy Merckx?

2 With which instrument was Yehudi Menuhin

associated?

3 Which US city is nicknamed Bean Town?

4 In which European country is the ski resort of Serre-

Chevalier?

5 What was Michael Caine’s character’s name in the

1967 film Billion Dollar Brain?

6 Which actor’s son plays the kidnapped child in the

1996 film Ransom?

7 At which sport were Irina Karavaeva and Alexander

Rusakov world champions in 2005?

8 In which sport was Denny Hume active during the

1970s?

9 Who set a world record of 26:38.08 for the 10,000

metres on 23 August 1996?

10 Who wrote the 2001 self-help-cum-autobiographical

book Take It From Me: Life’s a Struggle But You Can

Win?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Belgian, 2 Violin, 3 Boston, 4 France, 5 Harry Palmer, 6 Nick Nolte,

7 Trampolining, 8 Formula 1 motor racing, 9 Salah Hissou, 10 Erin

Brockovich.

Quiz No 85

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Irving Berlin, 2 The Royal Albert Hall, 3 Salvador Dali, 4 Cheese,

5 Westerns, 6 Doldrums, 7 Orang utan, 8 Cubit, 9 1997, 10 The Golden Hind.

1 Who wrote the musical Annie Get Your Gun?

2 In London, which concert hall is the traditional home of

the Promenade Concerts?

3 Which surrealist artist once described his paintings as

“hand-painted dream photographs”?

4 What kind of foodstuff is Monterey Jack?

5 What type of books were written by American novelist

Zane Gray?

6 What name is given to the region of low pressure,

calm latitudes in the oceans near to the equator?

7 Which creature is known as orange man, or wise man

of the forest?

8 What archaic unit of measurement was equal to

18 inches?

9 In which year did Hong Kong revert to Chinese

sovereignty?

10 In which vessel did Sir Francis Drake sail the world?

Quiz No 86

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Ivory, 2 Isotherm, 3 One, 4 Iron Age, 5 Marcel Proust, 6 Mandible,

7 Nevada, 8 Crocodile, 9 John Napier, 10 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

1 Which hard white substance forms the tusks of

elephants and walruses?

2 What name is given to a line on a map joining places

of equal temperature?

3 How many horns has an Indian rhinoceros?

4 Which stage of human history came after the Bronze

Age?

5 Which French novelist wrote the book translated as

Remembrance of Things Past?

6 What is the anatomical name for the lower jawbone?

7 In which US state is Las Vegas?

8 What sort of creature is a ‘mugger’?

9 Which Scottish mathematician invented logarithms?

10 What do the initials NATO stand for?

Quiz No 87

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Aaron, 2 Grand Canal, 3 Ngaio Marsh, 4 Andy Kaufman, 5 Jane Russell,

6 The asphodel, 7 Blue Sky, 8 Ridley Scott, 9 Petrology, 10 The Two Jakes.

1 Which Old Testament brother of Moses was first High

Priest of the Israelites?

2 Which canal in Venice is crossed by the Rialto Bridge?

3 Who wrote the 1982 novel Light Thickens?

4 Who played Latka Gravas in the sitcom Taxi?

5 Which actress provides the love interest in the 1955

film The Tall Men?

6 Which flower of Greek legend was said to cover the

Elysian Fields?

7 For which 1994 film did Jessica Lange win a Best

Actress Oscar?

8 Who directed the 1991 film Thelma & Louise?

9 What is the name given to the study of the

composition and formation of rocks?

10 Which 1990 film starring Jack Nicholson was a

belated follow-up to Chinatown?

Quiz No 88

1 From which country does the band Sigur Ros come?

2 What was the name of the character played by

Antonio Fargas in the TV cop show Starsky and

Hutch?

3 Which common servant is the lover of Columbine in

the Comedia dell’Arte?

4 In the Old Testament, who was the second son of

Adam and Eve?

5 On which river is the Texas city of Laredo?

6 Which country administers the Aleutian Islands?

7 In which US state is the Yosemite National Park?

8 In which South American country is the seaport of

Florianopolis?

9 Guernsey, Jersey and Sark are part of which island

group?

10 What meat-derived foodstuff did Kenneth Daigneau

famously give a name to in 1937?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Iceland, 2 Huggy Bear, 3 Harlequin, 4 Abel, 5 Rio Grande, 6 USA,

7 California, 8 Brazil, 9 The Channel Islands, 10 Spam.

Quiz No 89

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The pula, 2 Peter Shaffer, 3 Delphi, 4 Oscar Wilde, 5 Echidna, 6 News of the

World, 7 79AD, 8 Chester A Arthur, 9 Haiti, 10 New Zealand.

1 What is the standard monetary unit of Botswana?

2 Who wrote the 1973 play Equus?

3 Which ancient Greek city was the site of the most

famous oracle of Apollo?

4 Who wrote the one act play Salomé, produced in Paris

in 1896?

5 Which creature of Australia and New Guinea is also

called a spiny anteater?

6 Which studio album by Queen first featured the song

We Will Rock You?

7 In which year was Pompeii destroyed by Vesuvius?

8 Who succeeded James A Garfield as US president in

1881?

9 Of which republic in the Caribbean is Port au Prince

the capital?

10 Lake Taupo is the largest lake in which country?

Quiz No 90

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Carol Shields, 2 Tiger Woods, 3 Livy, 4 The Shakers, 5 Richard Cheney,

6 Graphical User Interface, 7 Appalachians, 8 Tyburn Tree, 9 George Clooney,

10 Minnehaha.

1 Which critically acclaimed Canadian author wrote

The Stone Diaries?

2 Who was the youngest man to have won all four of

golf’s major championships?

3 Which Roman historian wrote a history of Rome in

142 volumes?

4 What name is given to members of the United Society

of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing?

5 Which former defence secretary did George W Bush

choose as his running mate?

6 In computing, what does GUI stand for?

7 Which is the second largest mountain system in

North America?

8 What was the popular name for the gallows which

stood close to the present-day site of Marble Arch in

London?

9 Which former star of ER appeared in the film

The Perfect Storm?

10 In Longfellow’s famous poem, who does Hiawatha

marry?

Quiz No 91

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Apartheid, 2 The king, 3 Ohio, 4 Printed Circuit Board, 5 Italy, 6 Tombstone,

7 Luddites, 8 Julie Andrews, 9 Nebula, 10 Scrofula (or tuberculosis).

1 What was the name of the former racial segregation

policy in South Africa?

2 Which is the only chess piece that cannot be taken?

3 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stands on which river?

4 In electronics, what does PCB stand for?

5 In which country are the Apennine Mountains?

6 Which Arizona town is famous as the scene of the

Gunfight at the OK Corral?

7 What name was given to the Nottinghamshire textile

workers who destroyed labour-saving machinery in the

Industrial Revolution?

8 Which actress is the second wife of film director Blake

Edwards?

9 What name is given to a visible cloud of dust and gas

in space?

10 Which medical condition was formerly known as

King’s Evil?

Quiz No 92

1 Which Chilean island, famous for its giant stone

sculptures, is also called Rapa Nui?

2 Which actress is the elder sister of Warren Beatty?

3 What was Thomas Twyford’s gift to civilization with

his invention of 1885?

4 Which US inventor developed the first safety lift?

5 What is the minimum number of tennis strokes a

player needs to make to win a set?

6 Which English poet wrote Paradise Lost and

Paradise Regained?

7 Which rare Indonesian monitor lizard is the largest

living lizard?

8 What was the name of the raft used by Thor

Heyerdahl on his 1947 expedition?

9 In 1947, which country was created as a separate

state for the Muslim minority in India?

10 Diplodocus and triceratops are examples of what

kind of creature?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Easter Island, 2 Shirley MacLaine, 3 The first one-piece china toilet pan,

4 Elisha Graves Otis, 5 12, 6 John Milton, 7 Komodo dragon, 8 Kon-tiki,

9 Pakistan, 10 Dinosaurs.

Quiz No 93

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Cymbeline, 2 Solomon, 3 Billy Elliot, 4 Leo, 5 Racing toboggan, 6 Buster

Crabbe, 7 Carl Fogarty, 8 Hungary, 9 Ring of Bright Water, 10 Guano.

1 Of which Shakespeare play is Imogen the heroine?

2 To which king is the Book of Proverbs in the Old

Testament traditionally ascribed?

3 Which 2000 British film was about an 11-year-old boy

who takes up ballet?

4 Which sign of the zodiac governs the period from

23 July to 22 August?

5 A luge is a type of what?

6 Which former Olympic swimming champion played

Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in films?

7 Which four-times World Superbike Champion

announced his retirement in 2000?

8 In which European country did the dish goulash

originate?

9 Which book by Gavin Maxwell describes his life with

two pet otters in the Scottish Highlands?

10 What name is given to the dried excrement of fisheating

birds, used as a fertilizer?

Quiz No 94

1 Which eye disease is marked by increased pressure

within the eye?

2 What was the name of the London restaurant

launched by models Claudia Schiffer, Naomi

Campbell and Elle MacPherson?

3 Which coastal village in Cornwall has the ruins of a

castle reputed to be that of the court of King Arthur?

4 Which Irish-American dancer and choreographer

came to fame in River Dance and Lord of the Dance?

5 What was the name of the royal dynasty of France

from 1328 to 1589?

6 Lake Titicaca lies in which two South American

countries?

7 Which Scottish band recorded the album The Man

Who?

8 Which Jewish initiation ceremony takes its name

from the Hebrew for ‘son of the Commandment’?

9 Which tree’s leaves provide the staple diet of koala

bears?

10 Which sugar is also known as dextrose or grape

sugar?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Glaucoma, 2 Fashion Café, 3 Tintagel, 4 Michael Flatley, 5 Valois, 6 Bolivia

and Peru, 7 Travis, 8 Bar mitzvah, 9 Eucalyptus, 10 Glucose.

Quiz No 95

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Chiropractic, 2 Dame Ninette de Valois, 3 Leopard seal, 4 Eddie Murphy,

5 Pigeon-racing, 6 Greenpeace, 7 Frostbite, 8 All the Pretty Horses,

9 Sir Francis Chichester, 10 Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

1 Which system of healing is based on the belief that

disease results from a lack of normal nerve function?

2 Which dancer and choreographer died in 2001 at the

age of 102?

3 Which is the only seal that feeds on penguins?

4 Who provided the voice of the dragon in the Disney

film Mulan?

5 The Fédération Colombophile Internationale is the

world governing body of which sport?

6 Which international environmental pressure group was

founded in British Columbia in 1971?

7 What name is given to tissue damage caused by

exposure to extreme cold?

8 Which 2001 film set in Mexico starred Penelope Cruz

and Matt Damon?

9 Who sailed around the world in the yacht Gipsy

Moth IV?

10 Which collection of fairy tales include Hansel and

Gretel and Rumpelstiltskin?

Quiz No 96

1 In which year did Hillary and Tenzing become the first

mountaineers to reach the summit of Mount Everest?

2 Which is the highest mountain in North America?

3 What is the English name for the movement in

French cinema called ‘nouvelle vague’?

4 What is the medical name for short-sightedness?

5 Which female aviator established records with solo

flights to Australia, Tokyo and the Cape of Good

Hope in the 1930s?

6 Which country is surrounded by Austria, Slovakia,

Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia?

7 What is the name of the character who personifies

the US government and people?

8 Which acute viral infection passed on by animal bites

is also called hydrophobia?

9 Which fortified palace on a rocky hill in Granada is an

outstanding example of Moorish architecture?

10 What do the initials UNICEF stand for?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 1953, 2 Mount McKinley, 3 New Wave, 4 Myopia, 5 Amy Johnson,

6 Hungary, 7 Uncle Sam, 8 Rabies, 9 Alhambra, 10 United Nations

International Children’s Emergency Fund.

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Quiz No 97

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Anthropomorphism, 2 Whisky, 3 Voodoo, 4 Falklands, 5 Vinegar, 6 Vulcan,

7 Juan Manuel Fangio, 8 Denmark, 9 Wordsworth, 10 Partridge.

1 What name is given to the tendency to ascribe human

characteristics to non-human creatures?

2 Which alcoholic drink’s name is derived from a Gaelic

word meaning ‘the water of life’?

3 What name is given to the magical beliefs and

practices associated particularly with Haiti?

4 Which island group is called the Malvinas by

Argentina?

5 What name is given to a dilute solution of acetic acid

used to flavour food and as a preservative?

6 Who was the Roman god of fire?

7 Which Argentinian racing driver won the World Drivers’

Championship a record five times in the 1950s?

8 From which country did Iceland win total

independence in June 1944?

9 Which English poet lived with his sister at Dove

Cottage, Grasmere in the English Lake District?

10 A covey is the group name for what type of bird?

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Quiz No 98

1 Which alkaline fluid is produced by the liver and

stored in the gall bladder?

2 Which French dramatist wrote Tartuffe and

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme?

3 The name of which major religion translates as

‘submission’?

4 Which important religious building contains the

Kaaba?

5 Which opera was composed by Verdi for the opening

of the Suez Canal?

6 Who was Lord Protector of England from 1653 to

1658?

7 What was the name of King Arthur’s magic sword?

8 Which Russian author wrote the novel A Month in the

Country?

9 Which singer and songwriter recorded the 1965 album

Highway 61 Revisited?

10 Who was the last king of Rome?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Bile, 2 Molière, 3 Islam, 4 Great Mosque at Mecca, 5 Aida, 6 Oliver

Cromwell, 7 Excalibur, 8 Ivan Turgenev, 9 Bob Dylan, 10 Tarquin the Proud.

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Quiz No 99

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Lizard, 2 Lord Haw-Haw, 3 Local Area Network, 4 Charles De Gaulle,

5 Mediterranean Sea, 6 Couscous, 7 Squid, 8 Darjeeling, 9 The French

Lieutenant’s Woman, 10 Dr Christiaan Barnard.

1 What type of creature is a gecko?

2 By what name was William Joyce known in World

War II?

3 In internet terminology, what does LAN stand for?

4 Who was the first president of the French Fifth

Republic?

5 The Ligurian Sea is an arm of which body of water?

6 What is the name of the dish, originating from North

Africa, that consists of steamed semolina?

7 If you ordered calamares in a restaurant, what would

you be eating?

8 Named after a town in north-east India, which high

quality tea with a delicate taste is known as the

‘Champagne of teas’?

9 In which 1981 film do Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep

say farewell?

10 Which South African surgeon performed the world’s

first successful heart transplant?

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Quiz No 100

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Retinol, 2 Paris, 3 Argos, 4 Israel, 5 Charles I, 6 Bird, 7 Muskrat, 8 Common

daisy, 9 The Equator, 10 Dr Michael Foale.

1 What ‘R’ is the active form of vitamin A found in

margarines, oily fish and dairy fats?

2 Orly airport serves which city?

3 In Greek mythology, who was the giant watchman with

one hundred eyes?

4 Mossad is the secret service of which country?

5 Which English king summoned the Long Parliament in

1640?

6 What sort of creature is a nuthatch?

7 Which North American aquatic rodent is also known

as a musquash?

8 Which flower has the Latin name Bellis perennis?

9 Which great circle may be terrestrial or celestial?

10 Who was the first British-born astronaut to walk in

space?

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Quiz No 101

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Alaska, 2 Monday, 3 Skyros, 4 Tagus, 5 Croagh Patrick, 6 Australian

Desert, 7 Jordan, 8 Austria, 9 1984, 10 Sidney Falco.

1 In which US state is the Spurr Volcano?

2 On which day of the week did New Year’s Day fall in

2007?

3 On which island is the poet Rupert Brooke buried?

4 Which European river is spanned by the Ponte 25 de

Abril bridge?

5 On which mountain in Ireland (also known as The

Reek) did St Patrick fast for 40 days and nights in

441AD?

6 Which is the world’s second largest desert?

7 In which Middle Eastern country is the Roman city of

Jerash?

8 In which European country is the ski resort of Sölden?

9 In which year did Paul McCartney have a top ten

single with No More Lonely Nights?

10 What is the name of Tony Curtis’ character in the 1957

film Sweet Smell of Success?

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Quiz No 102

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Killer whale, 2 Richard Wagner, 3 Salome, 4 J R R Tolkien, 5 Starlight

Express, 6 Lucy Robinson, 7 Anything Goes, 8 Princess Margaret, 9 Moses,

10 New South Wales.

1 What type of creature is a grampus?

2 Who composed The Ride of the Valkyries?

3 In the Bible, who performed the Dance of the Seven

Veils?

4 Who wrote The Lord of the Rings?

5 In which Lloyd Webber musical do Pearl, Dinah,

Rusty, Greaseball, Electra and Poppa appear?

6 Which character in the Australian TV soap Neighbours

has been played by actresses Kylie Flinker, Sacha

Close and Melissa Bell?

7 “In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as

something shocking” is a line from which song?

8 Which member of the British royal family abandoned

plans to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend in

1955?

9 In the Old Testament, who was given the Ten

Commandments?

10 Of which Australian state is Sydney the capital?

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Quiz No 103

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Sixpence, 2 Female, 3 Young urban (or upwardly mobile) professional,

4 The Beautiful South, 5 Jackie Collins, 6 Alec Guinness, 7 Nancy Sinatra,

8 Pakistan and Afghanistan, 9 Khmer Rouge, 10 Yemen.

1 To which former British coin does the slang term

‘tanner’ refer?

2 Is a ‘brach’ a male or female hunting hound?

3 From which phrase was the 1980s term ‘Yuppie’

originally derived?

4 Which group recorded the 2000 album Painting It

Red?

5 Who wrote the novels upon which the 1970s films

The Stud and The Bitch were based?

6 Which actor played the title rôle in the 1973 film

Hitler – The Last Ten Days?

7 Which US vocalist had a 1966 UK No 1 hit with

These Boots are Made for Walking?

8 Which two countries are connected by the Khyber

Pass?

9 Which communist movement ruled Cambodia from

1975 to 1979?

10 In which country is the port of Mocha, which gives its

name to a type of coffee?

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Quiz No 104

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 French, 2 Robert Altman, 3 Amy, 4 Paul Newman, 5 Orion, 6 Bedrock, 7 Far

from the Madding Crowd, 8 Neville Marriner, 9 Henry VI, 10 Bird.

1 What was the nationality of the actress Sarah

Bernhardt?

2 Which unconventional director made the films

M*A*S*H, Nashville and The Player?

3 Who is sister to Meg, Jo and Beth March in the novel

Little Women?

4 Who was Best Actor Oscar winner for the film The

Color of Money?

5 Bellatrix is the third brightest star in which

constellation?

6 In the cartoon series, which town was home to The

Flintstones?

7 Bathsheba Everdene is the heroine of which novel by

Thomas Hardy?

8 Which English conductor founded the Academy of

St Martin-in-the-Fields?

9 Margaret of Anjou was queen to which English king?

10 What sort of creature is a loon?

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Quiz No 105

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Radiocarbon, 2 The Great Slave Lake, 3 Gravedigging, 4 Finland,

5 Desmond Morris, 6 Jack Higgins, 7 Indian Ocean, 8 A snake, 9 Dachshund,

10 Russia.

1 What is carbon-14 also called?

2 Into which lake does the Hay River of Alberta, Canada

flow?

3 What job would be performed by a fossarian?

4 In which European country is the seaport of Kotka?

5 Which zoologist wrote the 1977 book Manwatching?

6 Who wrote the 1975 novel The Eagle Has Landed?

7 In which ocean does the island of Madagascar lie?

8 What type of creature is a taipan?

9 ‘Sausage dog’ is an informal name for which animal?

10 In which country is Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest

lake?

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Quiz No 106

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 James Fenimore Cooper, 2 Maverick, 3 Meet the Applegates, 4 Doctor

Leonard McCoy, 5 Dolly Parton, 6 Orpheus, 7 Alain Prost, 8 Wilma, 9 Faye

Wray, 10 John Braine.

1 Who wrote The Last of the Mohicans?

2 What term for an unconventional individual is named

after a 19th century US lawyer who failed to brand his

cattle?

3 Which 1991 film featured a family of giant beetles

disguised as humans in order to save the Brazilian

rainforest?

4 Which original Star Trek character was played by

DeForest Kelley?

5 Which US country singer released the acoustic album

Little Sparrow in 2001?

6 Which character in Greek mythology was able to

charm all living things with his lyre playing?

7 Which French racing driver was World Champion in

1985, 1986, 1989 and 1993?

8 What is the name of Fred Flintstone’s wife?

9 Who played the young starlet in the original King Kong

film?

10 Who wrote the novel Room at the Top?

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Quiz No 107

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Yippees, 2 Wal-Mart, 3 Freetown, 4 Snake, 5 Michael Jackson, 6 The

Beautiful South, 7 Julie Walters, 8 Alfred Lord Tennyson, 9 Salman Rushdie,

10 Krugerrand.

1 By what name were supporters of the Youth

International Party known?

2 Which US retail chain was founded by Sam Walton in

1962?

3 What is the capital of Sierra Leone?

4 What sort of creature is a krait?

5 Which pop star married Lisa Marie Presley in 1994?

6 Which British band released their seventh studio

album Painting in Red in 2000?

7 Which actress played a ballet teacher in the 2000 film

Billy Elliot?

8 Who was the author of the poem The Lady of Shallot?

9 Who wrote the 1988 novel The Satanic Verses?

10 What is the name given to the South African coin

containing one troy ounce of gold?

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Quiz No 108

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Six, 2 Weightlifting, 3 16, 4 Badminton, 5 Brian De Palma, 6 Tuberculosis,

7 Tomato juice, 8 Long jump, 9 Edith Piaf, 10 Behemoth.

1 How many dogs take part in a greyhound race in

Britain?

2 Naim Suleymanoglu from Turkey is a top name in

which sport?

3 Which number lies between seven and eight on a

dartboard?

4 Battledore is an ancient forerunner of which modern

racquet game?

5 Which US director made the films Carrie, Scarface

and The Untouchables?

6 Against which disease can the BCG vaccination offer

protection?

7 What is added to vodka to make a Boody Mary

cocktail?

8 In which athletics event did Bob Beamon hold the

world record for 23 years?

9 Which female French singer is best known for the

song Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien?

10 In the Old Testament, which beast is said to have

‘limbs like bars of iron’?

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Quiz No 109

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 German, 2 Peter Pan, 3 Christian Lacroix, 4 An orchid, 5 Jogging, 6 Chile,

7 Retriever, 8 Emil Zatopek, 9 Beryl Reid, 10 Extra cover.

1 What nationality was the composer Paul Hindemith?

2 Which fictional character made his first appearance

in the novel The Little White Bird?

3 Who designed the wedding dress worn by Catherine

Zeta Jones when she married Michael Douglas?

4 What sort of plant is a ‘lady’s slipper’?

5 What form of exercise was popularised by Bill

Bowerman in a 1967 book?

6 In which South American country did Prince William

spend ten weeks as part of an Operation Raleigh

expedition?

7 What sort of dog has Labrador and golden varieties?

8 Which great Czech distance runner died in 2000 at

the age of 78?

9 Which British actress starred in The Killing of Sister

George and Entertaining Mr Sloane?

10 What is the name of the fielding position in cricket

between cover and mid-off?

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Quiz No 110

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The English Patient, 2 A horse, 3 Eat it: it’s a dessert, 4 Switzerland, 5 Eric

Clapton, 6 As above, 7 Oahu, 8 Sir Walter Scott, 9 One, 10 Jayne Mansfield.

1 Which Canadian novel written by Michael Ondaatje

won the Man Booker prize in 1992 and was adapted

into an Academy Award winning film?

2 What type of creature might have a ‘banged’ tail?

3 What would you do with ‘entremets’?

4 In which European country is the Furka Pass?

5 Which guitarist recorded the album Money and

Cigarettes?

6 What is the meaning of the Latin phrase ‘ut supra’?

7 On which Hawaiian island is Pearl Harbor?

8 Who wrote the 1819 novel The Bride of

Lammermoor?

9 What is the cube root of the number one?

10 Which sex symbol actress of the 1950s and 1960s

was born Vera Jayne Palmer in 1933?

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Quiz No 111

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Jessica Walter, 2 Romanian, 3 Public Enemy, 4 Abba, 5 1960, 6 South

Africa, 7 Randy Newman, 8 Henrik Ibsen, 9 1932, 10 Horse.

1 Which actress plays the stalker of Clint Eastwood in

the 1971 film Play Misty for Me?

2 What nationality is runner Gabriela Szabo?

3 Which rap band was formerly known as Spectrum

City?

4 Who had a 1976 hit with the song Dancing Queen?

5 In which year was John F Kennedy elected US

president?

6 In which African country is the city of Umtata?

7 Which singer/songwriter, born in Los Angeles,

recorded the album Little Criminals?

8 Who wrote the 1882 play An Enemy of the People?

9 In which year was automatic timing first used in

athletics at the Olympic Games?

10 ‘Tomato sauce’ is Australian rhyming slang for which

animal?

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Quiz No 112

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Wile E Coyote, 2 R D Blackmore, 3 New Mexico, 4 Lancashire, 5 Charles

Gray, 6 Frank Oz, 7 Robert Graves, 8 Cross of Lorraine, 9 Shane Fenton,

10 Moldova.

1 Who is the cartoon adversary of the Roadrunner?

2 Who was the author of the novel Lorna Doone?

3 Santa Fe is the capital of which US state?

4 In which English county is the textile town of Nelson?

5 Who played Blofeld in the 1971 film Diamonds are

Forever?

6 Who directed the 2001 film The Score, which starred

Robert DeNiro?

7 Who was the author of the book I, Claudius?

8 Which symbol of Joan of Arc was adopted by the Free

French forces leader, Charles de Gaulle in 1940?

9 What name did pop singer Alvin Stardust use when he

led the group The Fentones?

10 Chisinau is the capital of which former Soviet republic

in south-east Europe?

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Quiz No 113

1 What is the capital of Argentina?

2 In 1845, who invented a process which revolutionised

the production of steel?

3 Which arm of the Mediterranean Sea lies between

Italy and the Balkan Peninsula?

4 Which novel by H G Wells is partly set in the year

802701?

5 In which garden near Jerusalem was Jesus betrayed

by Judas Iscariot?

6 In which US state is the city of Omaha?

7 Which North American river is the chief tributary of

the Mississippi?

8 Which Nazi leader was arrested when he made

a secret trip to Scotland in 1941 in an attempt to

negotiate peace?

9 Which is closest to the Sun: the Earth or Mars?

10 Who provides the voice of Artie in the 2007 film

Shrek the Third?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Buenos Aires, 2 Henry Bessemer, 3 The Adriatic Sea, 4 The Time Machine,

5 Gethsemane, 6 Nebraska, 7 Missouri, 8 Rudolf Hess, 9 The Earth, 10 Justin

Timberlake.

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Quiz No 114

1 Which US awards are given annually in the fields of

journalism, literature and musical composition?

2 What is the name of the brown pigment made from

the ink of cuttlefish?

3 What is the most southerly point of South America?

4 Which constellation includes Sirius, the brightest star

in the night sky?

5 In South African politics, what do the initials ANC

stand for?

6 What was the legendary capital of King Arthur’s

kingdom?

7 Which region of Canada comprises the districts of

Mackenzie, Keewatin and Franklin?

8 What name is given to the study of the behaviour and

flow of air around objects?

9 What name is given to the condition of having an

abnormally low body temperature, often associated

with elderly people?

10 What name is given to the proportion of water vapour

in the atmosphere?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Pulitzer Prizes, 2 Sepia, 3 Cape Horn, 4 Canis Major, 5 African National

Congress, 6 Camelot, 7 North West Territories, 8 Aerodynamics,

9 Hypothermia, 10 Humidity.

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Quiz No 115

1 By what name are the Royal Botanic Gardens in

Surrey, England, known?

2 Which queen of England was known as The Virgin

Queen?

3 Who was the sixth wife of King Henry VIII of England?

4 In which sport do riders compete on dirt-tracks using

motorcycles without brakes?

5 What was the name of the child (her first) born to

Madonna on 14 October 1996?

6 In which former Crown Colony did EOKA fight for

independence from Britain?

7 For which vinyl resin is PVA an abbreviation?

8 In which European country is the city of Antwerp?

9 The painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos is better

known by which name?

10 The khamsin wind, which blows over Egypt, comes

from which desert?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Kew Gardens, 2 Elizabeth, 3 Katharine Parr, 4 Speedway, 5 Lourdes,

6 Cyprus, 7 Polyvinyl acetate, 8 Belgium, 9 El Greco, 10 Sahara.

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Quiz No 116

1 Which London street, associated with government

offices, contains The Cenotaph?

2 What is the commercial name of the anti-impotence

drug developed by Pfizer Labs?

3 Which English author and lexicographer was famous

for his Dictionary, first published in 1755?

4 Of which territory of Canada, associated with a

famous gold-rush, is Whitehorse the capital?

5 Which star cluster in the constellation Taurus is

named after the seven daughters of Atlas?

6 Of which African country was Hastings Banda named

President for Life in 1971?

7 What name was given to Roman citizens who did not

belong to the privileged class of the Patricians?

8 What was the name of the programme of social

reform pursued by President Harry S Truman?

9 Which British financial institution was founded in

1694?

10 Which port and resort in North Yorkshire, England,

has associations with Captain Cook and Bram

Stoker’s Dracula?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Whitehall, 2 Viagra, 3 Samuel Johnson, 4 Yukon, 5 Pleiades, 6 Malawi,

7 Plebeians, 8 Fair Deal, 9 Bank of England, 10 Whitby.

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Quiz No 117

1 Which comic book character’s alter ego is Dr

Banner?

2 What was the middle name of showman Phineas T

Barnum?

3 Who directed the 2000 film Erin Brockovich?

4 What is the real name of Guns N’ Roses guitarist

Izzy Stradlin?

5 Who was the original female singer in the group

The Beautiful South?

6 ‘Tom Thumb’ is Australian rhyming slang for which

alcoholic drink?

7 What type of creature is a galah: a cockatoo or a

kangaroo?

8 Which England Test cricket captain was known as

The Champion?

9 In which year did electronic digital computer

Colossus first become operational?

10 Of what is seismology the study?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The Incredible Hulk, 2 Taylor, 3 Steven Soderbergh, 4 Jeff Isabelle,

5 Brianna Corrigan, 6 Rum, 7 Cockatoo, 8 W G Grace, 9 1943,

10 Earthquakes.

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Quiz No 118

1 Which British Formula 1 racing driver survived a

Learjet crash in May 2000?

2 Which city hosted the 1980 Olympic Games?

3 What is a ‘jaconet’: a type of fabric or a kind of

soldier?

4 In which Australian state are the towns of Alice

Springs and Darwin?

5 Which female singer had a hit single with the song

What a Girl Wants?

6 How is the River Granta, which flows through the

English city of Cambridge, otherwise known?

7 Which continent has the larger land mass: Antarctica

or South America?

8 S A Waksman received a Nobel prize in medicine for

his discovery of which antibiotic?

9 Of what is malocology the scientific study?

10 Which comic actor was married to Tuesday Weld and

Suzy Kendall?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 David Coulthard, 2 Moscow, 3 Fabric, 4 Northern Territory, 5 Christina

Aguilera, 6 The Cam, 7 South America, 8 Streptomycin, 9 Molluscs, 10 Dudley

Moore.

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Quiz No 119

1 Who is the female star of the 2000 film Stigmata?

2 Which group had a 1985 hit with Sex Over the Phone?

3 For what was Chuck Berry imprisoned in 1979?

4 René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo were the creators

of which famous French cartoon character hero?

5 What was the surname of the three brothers who were

in the original line-up of The Beach Boys?

6 Which Four Weddings and a Funeral actress starred

in the 1995 film Unstrung Heroes?

7 Which arch-villain was played by John Shea in the TV

series The New Adventures of Superman?

8 Holly Golightly was Audrey Hepburn’s character in

which film of 1961?

9 Who had a UK No 1 hit in 1972 with You Wear It Well?

10 Which controversial former American football star

played Nordberg in the Naked Gun films?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Patricia Arquette, 2 Village People, 3 Tax evasion, 4 Asterix, 5 Wilson,

6 Andie MacDowell, 7 Lex Luthor, 8 Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 9 Rod Stewart,

10 O J Simpson.

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Quiz No 120

1 Which London landmark came from Heliopolis in

Egypt?

2 Which popular Italian operatic tenor made his debut at

La Scala in 1966?

3 What name is given to any animal without a

backbone?

4 Which spice is obtained from the plant zingiber

officinale?

5 Which London park contains the Serpentine, Rotten

Row and Speakers’ Corner?

6 Which is the oldest university in the USA?

7 Which apostle and martyr was originally known as

Saul of Tarsus?

8 Of which breed of sledge dog is the Siberian the best

known?

9 Which naturally occurring protein that helps to fight

viruses was discovered by British virologist Alick

Isaacs in 1957?

10 What is the SI unit of intensity of illumination?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Cleopatra’s Needle, 2 Luciano Pavarotti, 3 Invertebrate, 4 Ginger, 5 Hyde

Park, 6 Harvard, 7 St Paul, 8 Husky, 9 Interferon, 10 Lux.

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Quiz No 121

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Plaster of Paris, 2 Israel, 3 Toronto, 4 Mordecai Richler, 5 Goldwyn,

6 Panama Canal, 7 Bogie, 8 Vacuum, 9 Jerome K Jerome, 10 Tina Turner.

1 Which form of partly-dehydrated gypsum is used for

making casts and moulds?

2 Of which country is the shekel the basic monetary

unit?

3 Which Canadian city is the capital of Ontario?

4 Which Canadian novelist wrote The Apprenticeship

of Duddy Kravitz?

5 What does the ‘G’ stand for in the name of the film

company MGM?

6 Which waterway linking the Pacific and Atlantic

Oceans was completed in 1914?

7 What name is given to a score of one over par for a

hole in golf?

8 What name is given to a space devoid of matter?

9 Which British author wrote Three Men in a Boat?

10 Which singer was born Annie Mae Bullock in 1939?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Saigon, 2 Imagine, 3 Maria Callas, 4 The Forest of Arden, 5 Tarot,

6 Bolshoi, 7 Alabama, 8 Auld Lang Syne, 9 Prince Albert, 10 Jacob Marley.

1 What was the former name of Ho Chi Minh City?

2 Which John Lennon single was re-released to become

a Top Five hit at Christmas 1999?

3 By what name was US-born soprano Maria Anna

Kalageropoulos better known?

4 Which wooded region of Warwickshire in the UK is the

setting for Shakespeare’s As You Like It?

5 What is the name given to the pack of 78 cards used

for fortune-telling?

6 Which famous Russian ballet company was

established in Moscow in the late 18th century?

7 Of which southern US state is Montgomery the

capital?

8 Which song traditionally sung at New Year’s Eve

gatherings is associated with Robert Burns?

9 Who was Queen Victoria’s husband?

10 What was the name of Ebenezer Scrooge’s late

business partner in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Canaletto, 2 Alloy, 3 Afghanistan, 4 Cricket, 5 Cassius Clay, 6 1 November,

7 Dennis Wheatley, 8 New Delhi, 9 Porifera, 10 Fight Club.

1 Which Venetian artist was famous for his paintings of

Venice and London?

2 What name is given to an amalgamation of a metal

with another metal?

3 Which Asian republic’s chief rivers are the Helm and

Kabul?

4 In which sport might you see a twelfth man at third

man?

5 What was the former name of Muhammud Ali?

6 On what date is All Saints’ Day?

7 Who wrote the novel The Devil Rides Out?

8 What is the capital of India?

9 To which phylum do sponges belong?

10 Which controversial 1999 film starred Brad Pitt and

Edward Norton?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Rome, 2 James Joyce, 3 Sancho Panza, 4 Toronto, 5 Albania, 6 Richard

Nixon, 7 Sodom and Gomorrah, 8 Rwanda, 9 Montreal, 10 Shamrock.

1 According to the proverb, where do all roads lead to?

2 Who wrote the novel The Dubliners?

3 Who was Don Quixote’s squire in the book by

Cervantes?

4 Which is the largest city in Canada?

5 Zog was the last king of which European country?

6 Which US president resigned as a result of the

Watergate Scandal?

7 In the Old Testament, which two cities were destroyed

by fire and brimstone because of the depravity of the

inhabitants?

8 Of which landlocked African country is Kigali the

capital?

9 Which Canadian city hosted the 1976 Olympics?

10 Which plant is St Patrick said to have used to explain

the Holy Trinity?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The Silk Road, 2 Banshee, 3 Photography, 4 Andy Warhol’s, 5 Sisyphus,

6 Bantu, 7 Silicon, 8 Kiloton, 9 Albatross, 10 Fish.

1 Which 4,000-mile long trade route connected China

with the Mediterranean?

2 In Gaelic folklore, which wailing spirit announces

someone’s imminent death?

3 In which field was physicist William Henry Fox Talbot

a pioneer?

4 Whose art studio was known as The Factory?

5 In Greek mythology, which legendary king of Corinth

was condemned to roll a boulder to the top of a hill?

6 Which group of related African languages includes

Swahili, Xhosa and Zulu?

7 After oxygen, which is the most abundant element in

the Earth’s crust?

8 What measure of the explosive power of a nuclear

weapon is equal to 1,000 tons of TNT?

9 The shooting of which seabird leads to a curse on the

Ancient Mariner in Coleridge’s famous poem?

10 What sort of creature is a barbel?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 650, 2 Histamine, 3 Amsterdam, 4 Fish, 5 Costa del Sol, 6 Julius Caesar,

7 Fidel Castro, 8 “…a dangerous thing”, 9 Puissance, 10 Alan Rickman.

1 DCL are the Roman numerals for what number?

2 What is the name of the substance released by body

tissues in allergic reactions?

3 In which city did Anne Frank write her famous diary

while hiding from the Germans?

4 What sort of creature is a hake?

5 On which Spanish ‘costa’ is the resort of

Torremolinos?

6 Which Roman emperor was assassinated in the

Senate House on the ides of March?

7 Who came to power on New Year’s Day 1959 when he

overthrew the government led by President Batista?

8 According to Alexander Pope “a little learning is…”

what?

9 In showjumping, what name is given to a competition

that tests a horse’s ability to jump large fences?

10 Name the British actor who played the villain in the

following films: Diehard, Quigley Down Under and

Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Scott Joplin, 2 Cyprus, 3 Common Agricultural Policy, 4 Oscar Wilde,

5 China, 6 Bob Dylan, 7 St John, 8 Leonid Brezhnev, 9 Anne Brontë,

10 Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

1 Which US ragtime composer wrote The Entertainer

and Maple Leaf Rag?

2 Paphos is an ancient city on which Mediterranean

island?

3 Which much-criticised policy of the European Union is

abbreviated to CAP?

4 Who wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol?

5 Of which country is Manchuria a region?

6 Which singer/songwriter recorded the albums The

Times They are A-Changin’ and Blood on the Tracks?

7 To which saint is the fourth book of the New

Testament ascribed?

8 Who was president of the Soviet Union from 1977 to

1982?

9 Who wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes

Grey?

10 Which English poet wrote Sonnets from the

Portuguese?

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1 Which sign of the zodiac is represented by a bull?

2 What word for ‘killer’ is derived from the Arabic for

‘hashish-eaters’?

3 In Greek mythology, who was the muse of comedy?

4 Which German city, famous as the site of the Krupp

steelworks, is the administrative centre of the Ruhr?

5 Which US novelist wrote Slaughterhouse Five and

Breakfast of Champions?

6 Which peninsula of Western Asia forms the greater

part of the Asian portion of Turkey?

7 Of which country did Hosni Mubarak become

president in 1981?

8 The Norsemen who raided much of Europe from

about 800AD were known by what name?

9 What name is given to swollen and twisted veins,

especially in the legs?

10 What is the capital of Scotland?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Taurus, 2 Assassin, 3 Thalia, 4 Essen, 5 Kurt Vonnegut, 6 Anatolia, 7 Egypt,

8 Vikings, 9 Varicose veins, 10 Edinburgh.

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1 Which four herbs feature in the English folksong

Scarborough Fair?

2 Which book by Jules Verne tells of the adventures of

Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout?

3 Which green vegetable features in the Indian dish of

sag aloo?

4 Which colour comes before green in the colours of

the rainbow?

5 Which country is the world’s largest producer of

cheese?

6 Mimas is a moon of which planet?

7 How many humps has a bactrian camel?

8 If 25 September falls on a Monday, on which day will

Christmas Day fall in that same year?

9 On a standard typewriter keyboard, which letter lies

between the ‘B’ and the ‘M’?

10 Who plays the part of Jack Burden, a journalist, in the

2006 film All The King’s Men based on the Robert

Penn Warren novel of the same name?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, 2 Around the World in Eighty Days,

3 Spinach, 4 Yellow, 5 USA, 6 Saturn, 7 Two, 8 Monday, 9 N, 10 Jude Law.

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1 In which South American country are the ports of

Concepción, Valparaíso and Antofagasta?

2 In which country are the Magyars the largest ethnic

group?

3 Which four letters often appear on the representation

of the cross in Christian art?

4 Who became king of France in the July revolution of

1830?

5 Which of the gifts brought by the three Wise Men to

Jesus is also known as olibanum?

6 In Greek mythology, which king was condemned to

stand within reach of fruit and water that moved away

when he tried to reach for them?

7 Which number system uses only the digits 0 and 1?

8 Which famous cowboy actor and singer was

associated with the horse Trigger?

9 Cape Agulhas is the southernmost point of which

continent?

10 Which British-born conductor headed the Philadelphia

Orchestra from 1912 to 1938 and appeared in Disney’s

Fantasia?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Chile, 2 Hungary, 3 INRI, 4 Louis Philippe, 5 Frankincense, 6 Tantalus,

7 Binary, 8 Roy Rogers, 9 Africa, 10 Leopold Stokowski.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Pretty Boy Floyd, 2 Christopher Colombus, 3 Tchaikovsky, 4 John Boyd

Dunlop, 5 Sicily, 6 A year and a day, 7 Sam Malone, 8 Leprosy, 9 Reveille,

10 Liechtenstein.

1 What was the nickname of US bank robber Charles

Floyd?

2 Who sailed in a voyage of discovery on the Santa

Maria?

3 Who wrote the Pathetique symphony?

4 In 1888, who patented the pneumatic bicycle tyre?

5 Which is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?

6 In the poem by Edward Lear, for how long did the owl

and the pussycat sail?

7 Which character was played by Ted Danson in

Cheers?

8 What is the more common name for Hansen’s

Disease?

9 By what is the first bugle call of the day known?

10 Which was the last country in Europe (as late as 1984)

to give votes to women?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Halifax, 2 Walter Gropius, 3 Lemuel Gulliver, 4 The Punic Wars, 5 Tarsus,

6 Ptolemy, 7 Magnetron, 8 Laika, 9 Rikki Tikki Tavi, 10 Voltaire.

1 On 6 December 1917, several munitions ships

exploded in the harbour of which Canadian port, killing

over 1,500 and making 20,000 people homeless?

2 Name the German architect who was director of the

Bauhaus School of Design from 1919 to 1928.

3 The Small-endians and the Big-endians appeared in

the adventures of which literary character?

4 What name is given to the three wars fought between

Rome and Carthage?

5 Which city in Cilicia was the birthplace of St Paul?

6 Name the Egyptian astronomer and geographer

who lived in the 2nd century AD and who produced

his Geographa Hyphegesis, and extensive guide to

geography.

7 What name is given to the diode valve which is the

source of microwaves in a microwave oven?

8 Sent into orbit by the Russians in 1957, what the name

of the first dog in space?

9 Name the mongoose in Kipling’s Jungle Book.

10 Which Frenchman wrote: “If God did not exist, it would

be necessary to invent him”?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Glenn Close, 2 Swimming, 3 Jack the Ripper, 4 Pewter, 5 The ear, 6 Ulrike

Meinhof, 7 Lester Pearson, 8 Short-sightedness, 9 Pear, 10 Titania.

1 Who played Cruella De Vil in the 1996 movie

101 Dalmatians?

2 In which sport did Briton Ben Ainslie win a gold medal

at the 2000 Sydney Olympics?

3 Mary Ann Nichols was the first victim of which serial

killer?

4 Which alloy of tin and lead was originally used for

making plates and mugs?

5 In which part of the human body is the cochlea?

6 What was the name of German terrorist Andreas

Baader’s female partner?

7 President of the United Nations General Assembly

1952-3, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in

1957 and was prime minister of Canada from 1963 to

1968: can you name him?

8 What is the common name for the condition myopia?

9 Bartlett, Comice and Conference are types of which

fruit?

10 In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, who is

the Queen of the Fairies?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Dog, 2 Nicholas Monsarrat, 3 1981, 4 Marco Polo, 5 Danny Kaye, 6 Winnie,

7 John Milton, 8 Strontium, 9 Mars, 10 The House at Pooh Corner.

1 What sort of creature is a bichon frise?

2 Which English novelist wrote The Cruel Sea?

3 In which year was the London Marathon first held?

4 Which Venetian merchant is famous for his accounts

of his travels to Asia in the late 13th century?

5 Who played the title rôle in the 1952 film Hans

Christian Andersen?

6 By what first name was Nelson Mandela’s second wife

known?

7 Which English poet wrote Paradise Lost?

8 Which chemical element is represented by the symbol

Sr?

9 Of which planet is Phobos a satellite?

10 What was the title of A A Milne’s second collection of

stories about Winnie the Pooh?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Port Moresby, 2 Bud Abbott, 3 Ghana, 4 Surinam, 5 Alba Longa, 6 Spica,

7 Seoul, 8 Gran Chaco, 9 Touché, 10 Clint Eastwod.

1 What is the capital and chief port of Papua New

Guinea?

2 Who was the comedy partner of Lou Costello?

3 In which African country is the port of Tema?

4 Paramaribo is the capital of which republic in South

America?

5 What was the legendary birthplace of Romulus and

Remus?

6 What is the brighest star in the constellation Virgo?

7 What is the capital of South Korea?

8 What is the name of the great plain of central South

America between the Andes and the Paraguay River?

9 What is the acknowledgment in fencing that a scoring

hit has been made?

10 Who directed and starred in the 1973 film High Plains

Drifter?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 New Mexico and Utah, 2 Nebraska, 3 Dallas, 4 Orson Welles, 5 Cardiff,

6 All Quiet on the Western Front, 7 Argentinian, 8 Tour de France, 9 Sandy

Lyle, 10 Boxing.

1 Only four US states have a common meeting point:

Colorado and Arizona are two of these, which are the

other two?

2 Which US state has borders with Wyoming, South

Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado and Missouri?

3 The soap opera Knott’s Landing was a spin-off from

which other US soap?

4 Who directed the 1941 film Citizen Kane?

5 What is the capital of the principality of Wales?

6 What was the name of the anti-war book by Erich

Maria Remarque which was twice made into a film?

7 What nationality was the legendary motor racing

driver Juan Manuel Fangio?

8 In 1987, Stephen Roche become the first Irishman to

win what?

9 Who was the first British golfer to win the US Masters

title?

10 Jose Napoles and John H Stracey are former

champions of which sport?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 St Anne, 2 Venezuela, 3 Montserrat, 4 Communications Satellite, 5 Seven,

6 The Maha Kumbh Mela, 7 Acid rain, 8 Julianne Moore, 9 11 November,

10 St Matthew.

1 According to Christian tradition, which saint was the

mother of the Virgin Mary?

2 Of the eleven founder members of OPEC, which was

the only South American country?

3 In August 1995, which of the Leeward Islands had to

be evacuated due to a volcanic eruption?

4 In space technology, for what is ‘comsat’ an

abbreviation?

5 A heptathlon comprises how many events?

6 Held every 12 years and lasting for several weeks,

what is the name of the religious festival that attracts

millions of Hindus to the River Ganges?

7 What name is given to rain that has absorbed sulphur

dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from the atmosphere?

8 Jodie Foster played Clarice Starling in Silence of

the Lambs, but which actress played the rôle in the

sequel, Hannibal?

9 On what date is Armistice Day celebrated?

10 In the Bible, the Gospel according to whom is the first

book of the New Testament?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Steppenwolf, 2 Geiger counter, 3 Copper and zinc, 4 Czech Republic,

5 High-speed train, 6 Hydrogen sulphide, 7 Harrod’s, 8 Asteroids, 9 Kelvin,

10 46.

1 Which Canadian rock band had hits with Magic Carpet

Ride and Born to be Wild?

2 What instrument for detecting radioactivity is named

after a 20th century German physicist?

3 Brass is an alloy of which two minerals?

4 From which country does the Skoda motorcar

originate?

5 In France, what is a TGV?

6 Which gas smells like rotten eggs?

7 Which store in the UK was the first to have an

escalator installed, in 1898?

8 What are the celestial bodies Ceres, Pallas, Juno and

Vesta?

9 What is the SI unit of temperature?

10 How many chromosomes has a normal human body

cell?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 New York, 2 Pierre Trudeau, 3 Bird, 4 French and English, 5 New Orleans,

6 Woodpecker, 7 Ritchie Valens, 8 Madonna, 9 Simon Templar, 10 Molotov

cocktail.

1 Which US city is served by La Guardia airport?

2 Which flamboyant Canadian prime minister made a

state visit to Cuba in 1976?

3 What type of creature is the Hawaii honeycreeper?

4 Franglais is a mixture of which two languages?

5 Rampart Street, Bourbon Street and Royal Street are

famous thoroughfares in the French quarter of which

US city?

6 Which bird of the family picadae chisels through tree

bark with its long straight bill in search of insects?

7 Which singer was killed in a plane crash along with

Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper in 1959?

8 Of whom did Bette Midler once say “A woman who

pulled herself up by her bra straps”?

9 What is the name of the detective created by Leslie

Charteris and known as ‘The Saint’?

10 What type of rudimentary incendiary device is named

after a Russian politician?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Raymond Chandler, 2 Front, 3 Lady Godiva, 4 St Aidan, 5 Snowball, 6 Esau,

7 Four, 8 Phil Collins, 9 Zambia, 10 Mel Gibson.

1 Which US author created the detective Philip

Marlowe?

2 What name is given to a boundary between air

masses which have a different temperature and

humidity?

3 According to legend, at whom did Peeping Tom

peep?

4 Which Irish monk founded the famous monastery

at Lindisfarne off the coast of Northumberland,

England?

5 What is the name of the cat in The Simpsons?

6 In the Old Testament, who was the twin brother of

Jacob?

7 How many heads of US presidents are carved into

Mount Rushmore?

8 Who replaced Peter Gabriel as the lead singer of

Genesis in 1975?

9 Of which African country is Lusaka the capital?

10 Which actor starred as advertising executive Nick

Marshall in the 2000 film What Women Want?

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1 Staten Island is a borough of which US city?

2 Which member of Whistler’s family features in his

most famous painting?

3 In which year did beach volleyball become an

Olympic sport?

4 What were the surnames of the animators who

created Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones and

Scooby Doo?

5 In which country is the city of Abadan?

6 Which jazz pianist and composer won an Oscar for

his score for the film Round Midnight?

7 What was Mickey Mouse’s original name?

8 What does AC stand for in physics?

9 Which English romantic poet wrote Tintern Abbey

and The Prelude?

10 What is the capital of the former Soviet state of

Azerbaijan?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 New York City, 2 His mother, 3 1996, 4 Hanna and Barbera, 5 Iran, 6 Herbie

Hancock, 7 Mortimer Mouse, 8 Alternating Current, 9 William Wordsworth,

10 Baku.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 A E Housman, 2 Brno and Enfield, 3 Endorphins, 4 Lon Chaney, 5 The

Hunting of the Snark, 6 Umlaut, 7 Pisces, 8 Snake, 9 Shirley Temple, 10 Ray

Bradbury.

1 Which English poet wrote A Shropshire Lad?

2 From which two places did the Bren gun get its name?

3 What name is given to the natural painkillers secreted

by the brain that resemble opiates?

4 Which US silent film star was known as The Man of a

Thousand Faces?

5 Which nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll is subtitled

An Agony in Eight Fits?

6 What name is given to the two dots placed above a

vowel in German?

7 Which sign of the zodiac governs the period from

19 February to 20 March?

8 What sort of creature is a ‘moccasin’?

9 Which child star sang On the Good Ship Lollipop in

the 1934 film Bright Eyes?

10 On whose book was the film Fahrenheit 451 based?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 L M Montgomery, 2 Daniel Barenboim, 3 Vietnam, 4 Lord Acton, 5 The

Loved One, 6 Herbert von Karajan, 7 Peter Shaffer, 8 His squint, 9 Roald

Dahl, 10 Duets.

1 Who wrote Anne of Green Gables?

2 Which pianist and conductor was married to the cellist

Jacqueline du Pre?

3 In which Asian country is the city of Da Nang?

4 Which English historian claimed that “absolute power

corrupts absolutely”?

5 Which Evelyn Waugh novel is a satire on the US way

of death?

6 Which Austrian conductor and music director of the

Berlin Philharmonic died in 1989?

7 Which British dramatist wrote Equus and Amadeus?

8 What feature did silent film comic Ben Turpin have

insured?

9 Who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

10 Which 2000 film starring Gwyneth Paltrow as a Las

Vegas showgirl was directed by her father Bruce?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Aristotle Onassis, 2 The Admiral’s Cup, 3 Buddhism, 4 Ares, 5 Mongols,

6 Parasite, 7 Herman Hesse, 8 Guadalajara, 9 Linguini, 10 Aurora.

1 Which Greek shipping magnate married Jacqueline

Kennedy in 1968?

2 The Fastnet Race is part of which sailing competition?

3 In which religion is the aim to break the chain of karma

by achieving nirvana?

4 Who was the Greek god of war identified with the

Roman Mars?

5 Which Asiatic people were united in the early

13th century by Genghis Khan?

6 What name is given to an organism living in or on

another organism of a different species?

7 Which German author wrote the novels Steppenwolf

and The Glass Bead Game?

8 Which is the second largest city in Mexico?

9 Which type of pasta is named after the Italian phrase

‘small tongues’?

10 In Roman mythology, what was the name of the

goddess of the dawn?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Strasbourg, 2 Japan, 3 Striptease artist, 4 Namibia, 5 Java, 6 Touch,

7 Oahu, 8 Tin and lead, 9 Fencing, 10 France and Spain.

1 In which city was the mime artiste Marcel Marceau

born?

2 In which Asian country is the city of Niigata?

3 What type of performer is an ‘ecdysiast’?

4 Which African country lies immediately west of

Botswana?

5 Which island is larger: Java or Hispaniola?

6 The adjective ‘hepatic’ refers to which of the five

senses?

7 On which of the Hawaiian islands is Mount Tantalus?

8 What are the constituent elements of the alloy

solder?

9 In which sport might you perform a ‘septime’?

10 Which countries fought in the Battle of Rocroi in

1643?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Sax Rohmer, 2 Flak, 3 Daedalus, 4 Bird, 5 Richard III, 6 Lou Costello,

7 Daytona 500, 8 The Ryder Cup, 9 The Keystone Cops, 10 Selene.

1 Who created the oriental villain Fu Manchu?

2 Which word was originally an abbreviation of the

German word ‘Fliegerabwehrkanone’?

3 In Greek mythology, who was the father of Icarus?

4 What sort of creature is an ‘accentor’?

5 Which English king was killed at the Battle of

Bosworth Field?

6 By what name was US comedian Louis Francis

Cristillo better known?

7 Racing driver Dale Earnhardt was killed on the final

lap of which famous race in 2001?

8 Which professional team golf event was first

contested in 1927?

9 Which comic police force did Max Sennett create in

his silent films?

10 Who was the Greek goddess of the moon?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Mordecai Richler, 2 W B Yeats, 3 Edward III, 4 George Frampton,

5 Elizabeth, 6 Dodi, 7 Trombone, 8 Leonard Nimoy, 9 Sonny Liston, 10 You

Only Live Twice.

1 Name the Montreal-born author of St Urbain’s

Horsemen and Barney’s Version.

2 Which Irish poet wrote The Lake Isle of Innisfree?

3 Which king led England into the Hundred Years War

with France?

4 Who sculpted the statue of Peter Pan in London’s

Kensington Gardens?

5 Which English queen was the daughter of King

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn?

6 By what first name was Emad Mohamed al-Fayed

known?

7 With which instrument is jazz musician Jack

Teagarden associated?

8 Who made his directorial debut with Star Trek III: The

Search for Spock?

9 By what name was World Heavyweight Boxing

Champion Charles Liston better known?

10 Roald Dahl wrote the script for which Bond film?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 John Braine, 2 Coniston Water, 3 Zinc, 4 Matterhorn, 5 White Horse, 6 Karl

Marx Stadt, 7 Back to the Future III, 8 Sebastian, 9 Michael Jackson, 10 King

George III of Britain.

1 Which British novelist wrote the bestseller Room at

the Top?

2 From which English lake was Donald Campbell’s

Bluebird raised in 2001?

3 Which metal is added to copper to make brass?

4 Edward Whymper led the first team to climb which

famous Swiss peak?

5 What is the capital of Canada’s Yukon territory?

6 What was the former name of the German city of

Chemnitz?

7 In which film does Marty go back to the year 1885?

8 What is the name of Viola’s twin brother in

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night?

9 Which pop star visited Britain in 2001 to address the

Oxford Union on the subject of child welfare?

10 Which king did caricaturist James Gillray portray as

Farmer George?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Germany, 2 Quinine, 3 Chemical warfare, 4 Snake, 5 Elvis Presley, 6 Fish,

7 Georgia, 8 Priam, 9 Pocahontas, 10 13.

1 In which country was conductor Andre Previn born?

2 Which ingredient found in tonic water was the first

drug used to treat malaria?

3 What name is given to the use in war of toxic

substances on humans, animals or plants?

4 What sort of creature is a ‘mamba’?

5 Which singer’s first big hit was Heartbreak Hotel?

6 What sort of creature is a ‘grouper’?

7 Of which US state is Atlanta the capital?

8 In Greek mythology, who was the last king of Troy?

9 Which native North American girl saved the life of

Captain John Smith?

10 Which prime number is between 11 and 17?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Margaret Atwood, 2 Stand By Your Man, 3 Dallas, 4 Monkey, 5 Ventriloquist,

6 One week (seven nights), 7 Kilt, 8 Piltdown, 9 John Smith, 10 Slovenian.

1 Name the Canadian author of The Blind Assassin,

winner of the Man Booker prize in 2001.

2 Which Tammy Wynette song was covered by Lyle

Lovett on the album Lyle Lovett and his Large Band?

3 Which US city is nicknamed Big D?

4 What sort of animal is a macaque?

5 What type of entertainer is an engastrimyth?

6 To which period of time did the word ‘sennight’ refer?

7 What item of clothing is also known as a ‘filibeg’?

8 Name the place near Lewes in Sussex which was the

site of a famous scientific forgery of 1912.

9 What was the name of the ranger in the cartoon

series Yogi Bear?

10 What nationality is alpine skier Spela Pretnar?

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Quiz No 151

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 James Brown, 2 Kosher, 3 Jake La Motta, 4 Jim Carrey, 5 The English

Channel, 6 Anita Desai, 7 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 8 Five, 9 19,

10 Six.

1 Which US singer had hits with Papa’s Got a Brand

New Bag and It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World?

2 Which Yiddish word meaning ‘fit’ or ‘proper’ is applied

to food that meets the requirements of Jewish dietary

laws?

3 Raging Bull was the autobiography of which US

boxer?

4 Which comic actor starred in the film Me, Myself and

Irene?

5 What is the English name for what the French call La

Manche?

6 Which Indian novelist wrote Journey to Ithaca and

Village by the Sea?

7 What was the first of C S Lewis’ books about the

kindom of Narnia?

8 How many lines are in a limerick?

9 How old was Cassius Clay when he became the

1960 Olympic Light-Heavyweight Boxing Champion?

10 How many points are awarded for a touchdown in

American football?

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Quiz No 152

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Thespis, 2 Quicksand, 3 Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, 4 Old Faithful,

5 Seven, 6 Yom Kippur, 7 Hamlet, 8 The Newton, 9 Myxomatosis,

10 Nagasaki.

1 Which Greek poet is traditionally considered to be the

inventor of tragedy?

2 What name is given to a mass of soft unconsolidated

sand that is unable to support any appreciable weight

when saturated?

3 Which three Allied leaders attended the Yalta

Conference in 1945?

4 What is the name of the famous geyser in Yellowstone

National Park?

5 How many players are there in a netball team?

6 Which Jewish holiday is also known as the Day of

Atonement?

7 Which of Shakespeare’s great tragedies is set in

Elsinore Castle?

8 What is the SI unit of force?

9 Which disease was deliberately introduced into the UK

in the 1950s to control the rabbit population?

10 The second atomic bomb used against Japan in World

War II was dropped on which port city?

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Quiz No 153

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Avril Lavigne, 2 20 years, 3 Al Pacino, 4 Edward Elgar, 5 22, 6 Optical

Character Recognition, 7 Xerox, 8 Australian, 9 Norwegian, 10 Parkinson’s

Disease.

1 Which Canadian songstress whose albums include

The Best Damn Thing and Under My Skin had a

smash hit in 2007 with Girlfriend?

2 What length of imprisonment is implied by the term

‘double sawbuck’ in the US?

3 Who was a Best Actor Oscar winner for the film

Scent of a Woman?

4 Who was the composer of the oratorio The Dream of

Gerontius?

5 How old was Andre Agassi when he first won a

Wimbledon Singles title?

6 What in computer science is OCR?

7 Which company originally developed the computer

mouse?

8 What nationality is tennis player Lleyton Hewitt?

9 What nationality is skier Bente Martinsen?

10 In 1999, Michael J Fox announced that he was

suffering from which illness?

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Quiz No 154

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Black Widow, 2 Wading bird, 3 Watt, 4 Wilbur Smith, 5 Harry Houdini,

6 Ayers Rock, 7 Thorax, 8 Danish, 9 Richard Wagner, 10 Belgium.

1 Which venomous spider gets its name from its habit of

killing and eating the male after mating?

2 What sort of creature is an avocet?

3 What is the SI unit of power equal to one joule per

second?

4 Who wrote the thriller novel Birds of Prey?

5 What was the stage name of US magician and

escapologist Eric Weiss?

6 Which monolith in Northern Territory, Australia, is the

largest in the world?

7 What name is given to the part of an insect’s body that

bears the wings and legs?

8 What nationality was the composer Carl Nielsen, who

died in 1931?

9 Who composed the opera Tristan and Isolde?

10 La Brabanconne is the title of the national anthem of

which European country?

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Quiz No 155

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Ulna, 2 Hugo Soto, 3 Jim Carrey, 4 Australian, 5 Cousin, 6 Nagano,

7 Michael Johnson, 8 Centaurs, 9 White blood cells, 10 Pete Seeger.

1 Which is the inner and longer of the two bones of the

human forearm?

2 Which Argentinian was 1998 WBA Flyweight Boxing

Champion?

3 Who plays the title rôle in the 2000 film The Grinch?

4 What nationality is golfer Wayne Riley?

5 What relationship was Mike Love to Brian, Carl and

Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys?

6 Which Japanese city hosted the 1998 Winter Olympic

Games?

7 Who was the first man to win both the 200- and

400‑metre gold medals at the same Olympic

Games?

8 In Greek mythology, which race of creatures was

part‑horse and part-man?

9 What sort of blood cells are also known as

leucocytes?

10 Which US folk singer wrote Where Have All the

Flowers Gone and Kisses Sweeter Than Wine?

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Quiz No 156

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 British Columbia, 2 Lake Michigan, 3 Sicily, 4 On her head: it was a small,

brimless hat, 5 Elvis Presley, 6 Marlon Brando, 7 Belgium, 8 Donner, 9 Cats,

10 Mike Tyson.

1 In which Canadian province might you ski at the

Kicking Horse Mountain Resort?

2 On which of the Great Lakes is the Michigan port of

St Joseph?

3 On which European island are the ruins of Agrigento

to be found?

4 Where would an Edwardian woman have worn a

toque?

5 Which singer starred in the 1957 film Jailhouse

Rock?

6 Who won a Best Actor Oscar for his part in the film

The Godfather?

7 The heavy woollen cloth known as duffel is named

after a town in which European country?

8 What is the name of the God of Thunder in Wagner’s

opera Das Rheingold?

9 Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical closed

on Broadway in 2001 after more than 7,000

performances?

10 Which boxer plays himself in the film Black and White

during which he beats up Robert Downey Jr?

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Quiz No 157

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Ottawa, 2 Polygon, 3 Indonesia, 4 Brigitte Bardot, 5 St Christopher, 6 Goat,

7 Beaver, 8 Buckingham Palace, 9 Elk, or moose, 10 Croup.

1 Turkish-born Canadian portrait photographer Yousef

Karsh, famous for his wartime studies of Chjurchill and

other national leaders, signed himself as ‘Karsh of …’

which city?

2 Which word describes a closed plane figure bounded

by straight sides?

3 In 1999, the people of East Timor voted for

independence from which country?

4 What is the screen name of actress Camille Javal?

5 Who is the patron saint of travellers?

6 Which hoofed ruminant animal belongs to the genus

Capra?

7 Which large aquatic rodent lives in a lodge?

8 For which London building was Marble Arch originally

designed as a gateway?

9 Which is the largest deer?

10 What form of laryngitis occurs most commonly in

children under five years of age?

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Quiz No 158

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Agora, 2 Fosbury flop, 3 San Jose, 4 The Needles, 5 Dar-es-Salaam,

6 Depeche Mode, 7 Richard E Grant, 8 Dover, 9 Dow Jones Index,

10 Dresden.

1 What monetary unit of Israel is worth one hundredth

of a shekel?

2 In the high jump, what name is given to the

manoeuvre of jumping over the horizontal bar

backwards and head first?

3 What is the capital of Costa Rica?

4 What is the name given to the set of chalk stacks off

the west coast of the Isle of Wight?

5 What is the chief port of Tanzania?

6 Which pop group’s record albums include Black

Celebration and Construction Time Again?

7 Who was the male star of the 1989 film How to Get

Ahead in Advertising, directed by Bruce Robinson?

8 What is the capital of the US state of Delaware?

9 What name is given to the indicator of stock market

prices; based on the share values of 30 blue-chip

stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange?

10 Which city in south-eastern Germany on the Elbe

River was almost totally destroyed by British and US

air raids in 1945?

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Quiz No 159

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Thomas Harris, 2 Supergiant, 3 Lake Tiberias, 4 Duck, 5 King Henry VIII,

6 Lanthanum, 7 Clark Gable, 8 Dada, 9 Actaeon, 10 John Steinbeck.

1 Who wrote the book on which the film Hannibal was

based?

2 What is the largest and most luminous type of star?

3 Which lake in Israel is also known as the Sea of

Galilee?

4 What sort of bird is a gadwall?

5 The film A Man For All Seasons was set during the

reign of which monarch?

6 Which rare earth metal has the symbol La?

7 Who played Rhett Butler in the film Gone With the

Wind?

8 Which art movement took its name from a childish

French word for hobbyhorse?

9 Which hunter in Greek mythology was changed into a

stag by Artemis and killed by his own hounds?

10 Who wrote the powerful novel The Grapes of Wrath?

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Quiz No 160

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Hypertension, 2 Artie Shaw, 3 Iris, 4 A Midsummer Night’s Dream,

5 Dianthus, 6 T E Lawrence, 7 Frank Lloyd Wright, 8 Mercator, 9 Corazon

Aquino, 10 Christadelphians.

1 What is the name for abnormally high blood pressure?

2 By what name is clarinetist and bandleader Arthur

Arshawsky better known?

3 Which part of the eye is responsible for its colour?

4 Which film of a Shakespeare play stars Michelle

Pfeiffer and Rupert Everett?

5 To which genus of plants do sweet williams, carnations

and pinks belong?

6 Which British soldier and author wrote The Seven

Pillars of Wisdom?

7 The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and the Guggenheim

Museum in New York are two of the best-known public

buildings designed by which US architect?

8 What was the name of the 16th century Flemish

geographer, best known for the cylindrical map

projection that was named after him?

9 After her husband had been assassinated in 1983,

who became president of the Philippines in 1986?

10 Which religious movement was founded by John

Thomas in New York in 1848?

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Quiz No 161

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Switzerland, 2 Lutine, 3 Los Angeles, 4 Pisa, 5 Kiri te Kanawa, 6 Marrow,

7 Yak, 8 Siena, 9 Ash, 10 Chuck Berry.

1 In which European country is the town of Neuchâtel?

2 From which ship did the famous bell hanging in the

underwriting room at Lloyd’s of London come?

3 Of which US city is Beverly Hills a residential suburb?

4 In which European city is the Galileo Galilei airport?

5 Which New Zealand soprano sang at the wedding of

the Prince and Princess of Wales?

6 What name is given to the soft tissue found in the

cavities of bones?

7 What is the name for the shaggy-coated wild ox which

inhabits mountain pastures of central Asia?

8 Which Tuscan city hosts the annual Palio horseraces?

9 What type of tree was Yggdrasil, that was thought to

span heaven and hell in Norse mythology?

10 Which rock and roll pioneer wrote Johnny B Goode

and Roll Over Beethoven?

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1 What sort of puzzle originated as education devices

to teach geography?

2 Who was the head of RAF Fighter Command during

the Battle of Britain?

3 Which Fatal Attraction actress starred in the 1991

film Meeting Venus as a lead soprano in the fictional

Opera Europa?

4 What was the name of the lion in The Chronicles of

Narnia?

5 Kurt Cobain was the lead singer with which grunge

rock group?

6 Which oriental eating utensils originated in China?

7 Which Russian city was formerly called Petrograd?

8 Who wrote the 1976 science fiction novel Children of

Dune?

9 Which type of writing paper measuring 13½ inches

by 17 inches is named after the watermark which was

formerly used on it?

10 Which opera by Amilcare Ponchielli contains the

ballet Dance of the Hours?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Jigsaws, 2 Hugh Dowding, 3 Glenn Close, 4 Aslan, 5 Nirvana, 6 Chopsticks,

7 St Petersburg, 8 Frank Herbert, 9 Foolscap, 10 La Gioconda.

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Quiz No 163

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Pastern, 2 Baltic, 3 Sudan, 4 Mont Blanc, 5 The Channel Islands, 6 The Bay

of Bengal, 7 Arctic, 8 Canada, 9 Trafalgar Square, 10 Chateaubriand.

1 What part of a horse’s leg extends from the fetlock to

the hoof?

2 Which sea is bounded by several countries, including

Sweden, Finland, Poland and Germany?

3 In which country do the White and Blue Niles

converge?

4 A road tunnel runs from Pelerins in France to Entreves

in Italy, beneath which mountain?

5 To what do the French refer as Iles Normandes?

6 The Andaman Islands lie east of India in which great

bay?

7 The Barents Sea is part of which ocean?

8 In which country is the Great Bear Lake?

9 Which famous London square was once known as

Porridge Island because the squalid courtyards were

filled with cheap eating-houses?

10 What is the name of the thick steak cut from a fillet of

beef, which takes its name from a French writer and

statesman?

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Quiz No 164

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Alfred the Great, 2 Lyndon B Johnson, 3 Paediatrics, 4 Wellington, 5 Elton

John, 6 Mata Hari, 7 Monica Lewinsky, 8 St Petersburg, 9 Paganini, 10 Pope

John Paul II.

1 Which king of Wessex was said to have allowed a

peasant housewife’s cakes to burn?

2 Who succeeded to the US presidency after the

assassination of John F Kennedy?

3 Which medical specialty is concerned with the

problems and illnesses of children?

4 What is the capital of New Zealand?

5 By what name is Reginal Dwight better known?

6 Which Dutch courtesan and dancer was shot by the

French on espionage charges in 1917?

7 With whom did Bill Clinton confess to having a

relationship that was “not appropriate”?

8 Which Russian city is the home of the Kirov Ballet?

9 Which Italian virtuoso violinist inspired works by

Rachmaninov and Andrew Lloyd Webber amongst

others?

10 By what name was Karol Wojtyla better known?

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Quiz No 165

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Helen Mirren, 2 Swedish, 3 Beatrix Potter, 4 Space shuttle, 5 Grenada,

6 British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 7 Sergio Garcia, 8 Lichens,

9 Rhizome, 10 Henrik Ibsen.

1 In 2007, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her

performance in The Queen?

2 What nationality was Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, the first

Olympic athlete to test positive for doping use, at the

1968 Summer Olympics?

3 Who wrote The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck?

4 What name is given to a reusable spacecraft such as

Columbia or Challenger?

5 Which Spanish city is noted for its Moorish buildings,

such as the Alhambra?

6 What does the entertainment industry acronym

BAFTA stand for?

7 Which Spanish golfer was runner-up to Tiger Woods

in the 1999 USPGA Championship?

8 What name is given to organisms comprising an alga

and a fungus in a mutually beneficial association?

9 Which underground plant stem is also known as a

rootstock?

10 Who wrote Hedda Gabler and A Dolls’ House?

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Quiz No 166

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 John Osborne, 2 Magnum Force, 3 Geraldine Ferraro, 4 Poppy, 5 12cm,

6 Four, 7 Percy Bysshe Shelley, 8 Prozac, 9 China, 10 Artificial Intelligence.

1 Which British dramatist wrote Look Back in Anger?

2 Which was the second film in which Clint Eastwood

played Harry Callaghan?

3 Who is the only woman to have been chosen as a

running mate in a US presidential election?

4 Which flower is used as a symbol of remembrance for

the dead of the two World Wars?

5 What is the diameter of a compact disc: 15cm or

12cm?

6 How many horses finished the 2001 Grand National:

eight or four?

7 Which poet wrote the lyric drama Prometheus

Unbound?

8 What is the trade name of the antidepressant drug

fluoxetine?

9 Which country held the crew of a US spy plane after it

made an emergency landing in 2001?

10 In computing, what does the abbreviation AI stand

for?

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Quiz No 167

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Gnomon, 2 Magnitude, 3 Mercury, 4 Hermes, 5 Norman Mailer, 6 St Albans,

7 Qatar, 8 Kaiser, 9 Pegasus, 10 Iceland.

1 What name is given to the indicator that casts a

shadow on a sundial?

2 What measure of the brightness of stars can be either

absolute or apparent?

3 Who was the messenger of the gods in Roman

mythology?

4 Who was the messenger of the gods in Greek

mythology?

5 Which US novelist wrote Tough Guys Don’t Dance?

6 Which British city contains the ruins of the Roman city

of Verulanium?

7 Of which country in the Middle East is Doha the

capital?

8 Which title derived from the Latin ‘Caesar’ was borne

by German emperors until 1918?

9 In Greek mythology, what was the name of the winged

horse that sprang from the blood of Medusa?

10 Of which country is Reykjavik the capital?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Himalayas, 2 Prokofiev, 3 The 7th Cavalry, 4 Edward VII, 5 Marilyn Monroe,

6 Leo Tolstoy, 7 Chameleon, 8 Darth Vader, 9 Andrew Lloyd Webber,

10 Alistair Cooke.

1 Annapurna is a mountain in which range?

2 Which Russian composer died on 5 March 1953, the

same day as Stalin?

3 Which US cavalry regiment did Custer lead to disaster

at the Little Big Horn?

4 Which British monarch served 60 years as Prince of

Wales before becoming king?

5 Who famously sang Happy Birthday to President

Kennedy in 1962?

6 Which famous Russian writer died at a railway station

in 1910?

7 The name of which lizard is derived from the Greek for

‘on the ground’ and ‘lion’?

8 What is the name of the villain in Star Wars?

9 Who wrote the music for Starlight Express?

10 Who started to broadcast his weekly Letter From

America in 1946?

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Quiz No 169

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 L Frank Baum, 2 Krakatoa, 3 Eucalyptus, 4 Eugenics, 5 Kublai Khan, 6 Lee,

7 102 Dalmatians, 8 Andrew Jackson, 9 Geometry, 10 Cheops.

1 Who wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?

2 Which famous volcano between Java and Sumatra

erupted catastrophically in 1883?

3 Which Australian tree is also called a gum tree?

4 What name is given to the study of human

improvements by genetic means?

5 Which Mongul emperor was the grandson of Genghis

Khan?

6 What was Miss Piggy’s surname in the TV show

The Muppets?

7 What is the sequel to the film 101 Dalmatians?

8 Which US president was known as Old Hickory?

9 With which branch of mathematics is Euclid chiefly

associated?

10 What was the Greek name for Khufu, builder of the

Great Pyramid at Giza?

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Quiz No 170

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Large Scale Integration, 2 Egypt, 3 British Academy of Film and Television

Arts, 4 Blue, 5 1988, 6 1945, 7 Minorca, 8 Peter Carrington, Francis Pym,

Geoffrey Howe, John Major or Douglas Hurd, 9 St Alban’s, 10 Texas.

1 In computing, what does the abbreviation LSI stand

for?

2 From which country was the sixth Secretary General

of the United Nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali?

3 What is the meaning of the common abbreviation

BAFTA?

4 What is the colour of the cross on the flag of Finland?

5 In which year did Boris Becker first play Stefan

Edberg in the Wimbledon Men’s Singles Tennis

Championship?

6 In which year did the Nuremberg Trials begin?

7 Which island is further north: Ibiza or Minorca?

8 Name one of the five British Foreign Secretaries who

served under Mrs Thatcher.

9 Which battle initiated the Wars of the Roses in 1455?

10 In which state of the USA is the city of Amarillo?

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Quiz No 171

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Gerald Ford, 2 Rhine, 3 Lazarus, 4 I, 5 Columbia Broadcasting System,

6 Kama, 7 Lake Garda, 8 The krona, 9 Ajax, 10 The Piano.

1 Who succeeded Richard Nixon in 1974 as US

president?

2 Which river was known by the Romans as Rhenus?

3 In the Bible, who was the brother of Martha and Mary?

4 Which letter in Morse code is indicated by two dots?

5 For what is CBS an abbreviation?

6 Who is the Hindu god of desire and lust?

7 Which is the largest lake in Italy?

8 What is the standard monetary unit of Iceland?

9 Which Greek hero of the Trojan war killed himself

when the armour of Achilles was given to Odysseus?

10 For which 1993 film was Holly Hunter a Best Actress

Oscar nominee?

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Quiz No 172

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Stefan Edberg and Anders Järryd, 2 Saving All My Love for You, 3 Chim

Chim Cher-ee, 4 Jimmy Carter, 5 Leslie Charteris, 6 Destiny’s Child, 7 An

edible mushroom, 8 Norway, 9 Nicci French, 10 Ammonia.

1 Which Swedes won the 1987 Australian Open Men’s

Doubles tennis title?

2 What was the title of Whitney Houston’s debut single

in the UK, which hit the No 1 spot in 1985?

3 Which was the Oscar-winning song from Mary

Poppins?

4 Who, in 1977, became the 39th president of the United

States of America?

5 Which writer created The Saint?

6 Which US girl group hit the No 1 spot with Survivor in

2001?

7 What is a cep?

8 In which country was chemist Lars Onsager born?

9 Who wrote the 2001 novel The Red Room?

10 What chemical substance does the Haber process

produce?

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Quiz No 173

1 In which US state is the city of Tampa?

2 What is the capital of Jamaica?

3 Who wrote The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and

Mr Hyde and The Master of Ballantrae?

4 In zoology, which order of mammals includes

monkeys, apes and man?

5 For what do the initials ISBN stand?

6 Which form of gelatin is obtained from the swim

bladders of various fishes?

7 What sort of creature is a jacamar?

8 Which British rock singer recorded the album Every

Picture Tells a Story?

9 Which is the world’s largest continent?

10 Which noisy black and white member of the crow

family is attracted to bright objects?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Florida, 2 Kingston, 3 Robert Louis Stevenson, 4 Primates, 5 International

Standard Book Number, 6 Isinglass, 7 Bird, 8 Rod Stewart, 9 Asia, 10 Magpie.

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Quiz No 174

1 From which ocean into which other ocean would one

pass going east past the Cape of Good Hope?

2 In which country is the port city of Casablanca?

3 Which US sharpshooter, who performed in Buffalo

Bill’s Wild West Show, inspired the musical Annie Get

Your Gun?

4 In Greek mythology, whose elopement with Paris

precipitated the Trojan War?

5 Which US president came from a family of peanut

farmers?

6 By what name was Haitian president François

Duvalier better known?

7 Which soft fabric is made from the undercoat of the

Kashmir goat?

8 What name is given to a substance that cannot be

broken down into simpler fragments by chemical

means?

9 Which English navigator was set adrift by a mutinous

crew in the Canadian bay which now bears his

name?

10 Which Armenian composer wrote the ballets

Gayaneh, Spartacus and Maskarade?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 From the Atlantic to the Indian Oceans, 2 Morocco, 3 Annie Oakley, 4 Helen

of Troy, 5 Jimmy Carter, 6 Papa Doc, 7 Cashmere, 8 Element, 9 Henry

Hudson, 10 Aram Khachaturian.

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1 In which country was the actor Robert Donat born?

2 With which sport was Geoff Capes most famously

associated?

3 What was the name of Othello’s wife in Shakespeare’s

play of the same name?

4 In the Old Testament, where was the birthplace of

King David?

5 With which sport is Reggie Jackson associated?

6 What is Salman Rushdie’s real first name?

7 For which month is emerald the traditional birthstone?

8 Which marine creature includes the varieties hermit,

spider and king?

9 Which former country was also known as the GDR?

10 Which Texas city has an American football team

called The Cowboys?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 England, 2 Shot-putting, 3 Desdemona, 4 Bethlehem, 5 Baseball, 6 Ahmad,

7 May, 8 Crab, 9 East Germany, 10 Dallas.

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Quiz No 176

1 In which European country is the city of Katowice?

2 In which novel by Tolstoy does Konstantin Levin

appear?

3 What was the title of actor David Niven’s first

autobiography?

4 Who is the hero of John Buchan’s novel The Thirty-

Nine Steps?

5 Which code used in telegraphy consists of dots and

dashes?

6 In which 1999 Woody Allen film did Sean Penn play

fictitious 1930s jazz guitarist Emmet Ray?

7 Which 1967 film set in America’s deep south starred

Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger?

8 Which group recorded the hit album Minutes To

Midnight?

9 Which US guitarist and composer was the leader of

the Mothers of Invention?

10 What name is given to a verbal device for aiding the

memory, such as “i before e except after c”?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Poland, 2 Anna Karenina, 3 The Moon’s a Balloon, 4 Richard Hannay,

5 Morse, 6 Sweet and Lowdown, 7 In the Heat of the Night, 8 Linkin Park,

9 Frank Zappa, 10 Mnemonic.

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1 In which organ of the body is the hippocampus?

2 Which emperor of Japan renounced his divinity

and became a constitutional monarch after Japan

surrendered at the end of World War II?

3 In Greek mythology, who was the husband of Medea

and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the

Golden Fleece?

4 Which two countries are connected by the Simplon

Pass?

5 What was the name of the US airbase near the

English town of Newbury, where a women’s peace

camp was set up in 1981?

6 Which hard silvery metal has the chemical symbol Ni?

7 With which of the senses is the word olfactory

connected?

8 What name is given to the form of ritual suicide

practised by Japanese Samurai?

9 By what letters were the elite German military corps,

the Schutzstaffel, known?

10 Which warlike seafaring Biblical people give their

name to people indifferent to artistic or cultural values?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The brain, 2 Hirohito, 3 Jason, 4 Switzerland and Italy, 5 Greenham

Common, 6 Nickel, 7 Smell, 8 Hara Kiri, 9 SS, 10 Philistines.

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Quiz No 178

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Autism, 2 Biafra, 3 Bikini, 4 Elbow, 5 Sean Connery, 6 Kentucky, 7 Frederick

Marryat, 8 The Observer, 9 Working Girl, 10 The Mayor of Casterbridge.

1 From what condition does Dustin Hoffman’s character

suffer in the 1988 film Rain Man?

2 Which state unilaterally declared independence from

Nigeria in 1967?

3 Which atoll in the Marshall Islands gave its name to a

form of swimwear?

4 Which joint is formed by the meeting of the humerus,

radius and ulna?

5 Which actor plays William Forrester in the film

Finding Forrester?

6 Of which US state is Frankfort the capital?

7 Which English novelist wrote The Children of the

New Forest?

8 Which was the first Sunday newspaper to be

published in Britain?

9 Let the River Run was the 1988 Oscar-winning song

from which film?

10 The film The Claim is based on which Thomas Hardy

novel?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Florence Nightingale, 2 Code, 3 Michigan, 4 The Isle of Man, 5 Mollusc,

6 Mel Gibson, 7 Irwell, 8 Defender of the Faith, 9 The Indianapolis Colts,

10 John Wyndham.

1 Who was known as ‘the lady with the lamp’?

2 In the computer abbreviation ASCII, for what does the

letter ‘C’ stand?

3 Of which US state is Lansing the capital?

4 Which of the British Isles has three legs on its flag?

5 What sort of creature is a ‘piddock’?

6 Which Oscar-winning actor starred in the film What

Women Want?

7 On which river does the city of Manchester stand?

8 What is the meaning of the title Fidei Defensor

belonging to English monarchs?

9 Which US football team won Superbowl XLI?

10 Who wrote The Day of the Triffids?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Robert Downey Jr, 2 USA, 3 In a car accident, 4 Empty hand, 5 Ron Lyle,

6 Marbles, 7 Winnipeg, 8 Tree, 9 Electrical current, 10 South Korea.

1 Which actor appeared in TV’s Ally McBeal as

attorney Larry Paul, after serving time in prison?

2 In which country was landscape painter John La

Farge born in 1835?

3 How was actress Grace Kelly killed?

4 What is the meaning of the word ‘karate’?

5 Who did Muhammad Ali beat in 1975 to retain his

World Heavyweight crown?

6 In which game might you use a ‘bonce’?

7 St Boniface is a suburb of which Canadian city?

8 What is a ‘bullace’: is it a type of bird or is it a tree?

9 Of what quantity is the ampere the SI unit?

10 In which Asian country is the city of Suwon?

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Quiz No 181

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Alexander Graham Bell, 2 Star Trek IV, 3 Cricket, 4 Horse, 5 Dombie and

Son, 6 Scott Joplin, 7 Gryffindor, 8 Mexico, 9 The Living Daylights, 10 Steven

Spielberg.

1 Name the Edinburgh-born inventor of the telephone

who emigrated to Canada in 1870.

2 Which Star Trek film has the subtitle The Voyage

Home?

3 Richard Hadlee and Dennis Lillee are former players

of which sport?

4 The bacterial disease glanders can be passed on to

humans from which animal?

5 In which novel by Charles Dickens does Captain

Cuttle appear?

6 Which composer is associated with the film The

Sting?

7 To which house does Harry Potter belong in the

novels by J K Rowling?

8 Pulque is a light alcoholic drink which comes from

which country?

9 Which James Bond film was the last to use a title

actually written by Ian Fleming?

10 Who directed the 1993 film Schindler’s List?

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Quiz No 182

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Triton, 2 Alessandro Volta, 3 Orson Welles, 4 Mickey Rooney, 5 Volga,

6 Courtney Walsh, 7 Troilus and Cressida, 8 Napalm, 9 Voltaire,

10 Chalcedony.

1 In Greek mythology, which merman is traditionally

shown blowing a conch shell?

2 Which Italian physicist gave his name to the SI unit of

electromotive force?

3 Which film director released the album You Made Me

Love You?

4 Which child cinema star was born Joe Yule?

5 Which is the longest river in Europe?

6 Who was the first bowler to take 500 wickets in Test

cricket?

7 Which Shakespeare play concerns one of King

Priam’s sons?

8 What is the name of the petrol-thickening jelly used in

incendiary bombs and flame-throwers?

9 Which French author was born François-Marie

Arouet?

10 Agate is a semi-precious variety of what form of

quartz?

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Quiz No 183

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Celine Dion, 2 Aberdeen, 3 Diameter, 4 Angola, 5 Citizens’ Band, 6 The

heart, 7 Elbe, 8 John the Baptist, 9 Geriatrics, 10 Aberystwyth.

1 Which Canadian chanteuse sang My Heart Will Go

On in the film Titanic?

2 Which Scottish city is known as The Granite City?

3 What name is given to a straight line which joins two

points on a circle and passes through the centre?

4 Of which African country is Luanda the capital?

5 What does ‘CB’ stand for in CB radio?

6 Of which organ of the body is the tricuspid valve a

part?

7 On which river is the German city of Dresden?

8 In the New Testament, who was beheaded by Herod

Antipas at the request of Salome?

9 Which medical speciality deals with the problems and

diseases of old age?

10 In which Welsh town was the National Library of

Wales established in 1911?

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Quiz No 184

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 S, 2 Types of caviar, 3 Czechoslovakia, 4 Paul McCartney, 5 Elle

MacPherson, 6 Olivia Newton John, 7 Yorkshire, 8 The Bann, 9 Martina

Navratilova, 10 Silurian Period.

1 Which letter was transmitted in Morse code from

Cornwall to Newfoundland in 1901, to the radio

pioneer Marconi?

2 What are sevruga, beluga and ascieta?

3 Of which country was Tomas Masaryk president from

1918 to 1935?

4 Which member of the Beatles played bass guitar?

5 Which supermodel became Joey’s roommate in the

comedy series Friends?

6 Which female vocalist in collaboration with ELO had

a 1980 UK No 1 with Xanadu?

7 In which English county is the Fylingdales early

warning radar station?

8 Which is the longest river in Northern Ireland?

9 Which tennis player penned the 1985 autobiography

entitled Being Myself?

10 Which happened first in geological time: the Jurassic

or Silurian Period?

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Quiz No 185

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 David Bowie, 2 Koh-i-Noor, 3 Jack Brabham, 4 Mallard, 5 Piccolo, 6 Linda

Gray, 7 America Online, 8 Fenugreek, 9 Battersea, 10 Newark.

1 Which pop singer starred in the film The Man Who

Fell to Earth?

2 Which famous diamond became Crown property in

1849 when Britain annexed the Punjab?

3 Who was the first Formula One racing driver to win the

world title in a car of his own construction?

4 Which duck is the ancestor of most domestic breeds

of duck?

5 Which instrument is pitched an octave above a flute?

6 Who played Sue Ellen in Dallas?

7 AOL is an internet service provider: what does AOL

stand for?

8 Derived from the Latin for ‘Greek hay’, what ‘F’ is a

herb of the pea family, the seeds of which are used as

a spice?

9 Which part of London is famous for a power station

and a dogs’ home?

10 What name is shared by a market town in

Nottinghamshire, UK and the largest city in New

Jersey, USA?

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Quiz No 186

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Xenon, 2 John Philip Sousa, 3 Roger Federer, 4 Amelie Mauresmo, 5 Spain,

6 Canute, 7 Canopus, 8 Tagus, 9 Robert Redford, 10 Cape of Good Hope.

1 Which noble gas has the symbol Xe?

2 Which US composer wrote the marches The Stars

and Stripes Forever and Liberty Bell?

3 Which Swiss tennis player won the Men’s Singles at

the 2006 Australian Open?

4 …and which French tennis player won the Women’s

Singles at the 2006 Australian Open?

5 In which European country are the Cantabrian

Mountains?

6 According to legend, which Danish king of England

failed in his attempt to induce the waves to recede?

7 Which star in the constellation Carina is the second

brightest in the sky?

8 Which river rises in Spain and flows into the Atlantic

Ocean at Lisbon?

9 Who played the title rôle in the 1972 film

The Candidate?

10 Which African headland was formerly known as the

Cape of Storms?

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Quiz No 187

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Lenin, 2 Ostrich, 3 Chalk, 4 Rabbit, 5 Louis XIV, 6 Hamelin, 7 Cerberus,

8 Nepal, 9 Baffin Island, 10 Aurora Australis.

1 In Russia in the 19th and early 20th centuries, how

was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov better known?

2 Which bird is the nearest relative of the cassowary?

3 Quicklime is an alkaline powder obtained by strongly

heating which other material?

4 What type of creature is a blue beveren?

5 Which French king (who reigned from 1643-1715)

professed to hold his power from God and is

supposed to have said: “I am the state”?

6 The story of the Pied Piper took place in which

German town?

7 What is the name of the three-headed dog that in

classical mythology guards the entrance to Hades?

8 Kathmandu is the capital of which country?

9 Which is the largest island in Canada and the fifth

largest in the world?

10 The aurora borealis are the northern lights: what name

is given to the southern lights?

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Quiz No 188

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 De Havilland Comet, 2 Integrated Services Digital Network, 3 Euclid,

4 Fahrenheit, 5 Atmospheric pressure, 6 Captain Scott, 7 Diesel engine,

8 Marconi, 9 Refraction, 10 Stethoscope.

1 Which was the first jet-propelled commercial airliner?

2 In computer language, what do the initials ISDN stand

for?

3 Which 3rd century Greek mathematician wrote

Elements of Geometry?

4 Which German physicist devised a temperature scale

with a boiling point of 212 degrees?

5 What does a baroscope measure?

6 Which British leader of an Antarctic expedition died in

1912 while returning from the South Pole?

7 In what type of engine is fuel ignited by compression?

8 Who first succeeded in transmitting a radio signal

across the Atlantic Ocean?

9 What word means ‘the bending of light’ when passing

through a lens?

10 Which medical apparatus was invented by French

doctor Rene Laennec in 1816?

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Quiz No 189

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Fujiyama, 2 Acute, 3 1966, 4 Leonard Cohen, 5 Eight, 6 The Bank of

England, 7 Calamity Jane, 8 Pamplona, 9 Jerusalem, 10 Syrinx.

1 Which is the highest mountain in Japan?

2 What is the name given to an angle of less than

90 degrees?

3 In which year did England win the Football World Cup?

4 Which Montreal poet/novelist turned singer/songwriter

composed the enduring ballad Suzanne?

5 How many English kings have been called Henry?

6 Which British institution is known as the Old Lady of

Threadneedle Street?

7 How was frontierswoman Martha Jane Burke better

known?

8 Which Spanish city holds an annual festival in which

bulls are driven through the streets?

9 In which Middle Eastern city is the Dome of the Rock?

10 What name is given to the vocal organ of birds?

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Quiz No 190

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Windmills, 2 North, 3 Kenya, 4 Moses, 5 Beech, 6 The Philippines,

7 Banbury Cross, 8 Spinach, 9 20, 10 Montague and Capulet.

1 What type of buildings did Don Quixote mistake for evil

giants?

2 Is Hong Kong north or south of the Equator?

3 Jomo Kenyatta was prime minister and president of

which African country?

4 According to tradition, Mount Nebo in Jordan contains

the tomb of which Biblical leader?

5 Is the tree named in Latin Fagus Sylvatica ash, beech

or elm?

6 In which country during 2000 did the Mayon volcano

erupt?

7 In the traditional nursery rhyme, where would you ride

to see a fine lady with rings on her fingers and bells on

her toes?

8 In cookery, ‘florentine’ means served with which

vegetable?

9 In the book by Washington Irving, for how many years

did Rip Van Winkle sleep?

10 What were the surnames of Shakespeare’s Romeo

and Juliet?

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Quiz No 191

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Melina Mercouri, 2 Scotland, 3 Norway, 4 Mexico, 5 1959, 6 Heinrich

Brüning, 7 1962, 8 Iceland, 9 June, 10 General Matthew Ridgway.

1 Which actress wrote the 1971 autobiography I Was

Born Greek?

2 In which country is the highest waterfall in the British

Isles?

3 Which country is larger in area: Norway or Belarus?

4 In which country is the town of Tequila?

5 In which year did Russia’s Lunik III first send back

pictures of the dark side of the moon?

6 Who was appointed Chancellor of the German Reich

in 1930?

7 In which year of the 1960s was the Sino-Indian War?

8 With which country did Britain engage in a cod war in

1958?

9 In which month of 1967 was the Six Day War between

Israel and the Arab nations?

10 Who succeeded General MacArthur in 1951 as

Commander-in-Chief of UN forces in Korea?

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Quiz No 192

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Scotland, 2 Esau, 3 Penelope Cruz, 4 1994, 5 Verey pistol, 6 Alan Alda,

7 Esperanto, 8 Lead, 9 The Winter’s Tale, 10 Gustav Mahler.

1 Which country was known by the Romans as

Caledonia?

2 In the Bible, who was the first-born son of Isaac?

3 Which actress starred as a Brazilian chef in the 1999

film Woman on Top?

4 In which year did the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collide

with Jupiter?

5 Which pistol that fires a coloured flare for signalling

purposes was named after a US naval ordnance

officer?

6 Name the actor who played ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce in

M*A*S*H and Dr Gabriel Lawrence in ER.

7 What is the name of the artificial language invented by

L L Zamenhof in 1887?

8 Galena is an ore of which metal?

9 Which play by Shakespeare features the characters

Leontes and Perdita?

10 Which composer became artistic director of the

Vienna State Opera House in 1897?

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Quiz No 193

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 A hook, 2 Yann Martel, 3 Fred Couples, 4 April, June, September and

November, 5 Harold Macmillan, 6 Black Hills, 7 Keanu Reeves, 8 Phobia,

9 Virgo, 10 Exorcism.

1 In golf, what is the opposite of a slice?

2 In 2002, which Canadian author won the Booker prize

for the Life of PI?

3 Which golfer was nicknamed ‘Boom Boom’?

4 Name the months of the year which have exactly 30

days.

5 Which British prime minister became the First Earl of

Stockton?

6 Horney Peak is the highest point of which US

mountain range?

7 Which film star’s stage appearance at Glastonbury in

1999 was greeted with a shower of fruit?

8 What name is given to a pathologically strong fear of

something?

9 Which sign of the zodiac lies between Leo and Libra?

10 What name is given to the religious practice of driving

out evil spirits?

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Quiz No 194

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Egress, 2 Mumbo jumbo, 3 Femme fatale, 4 For example (eg), 5 Rookie,

6 Gringo, 7 Jeremy Irons, 8 Paul Hogan, 9 Shirley Bassey, 10 Fronds.

1 If ‘ingress’ is the action of entering, what is the word

for the action of leaving?

2 Which expression meaning ‘in a meaningless or

complicated language’ is derived from the name of an

African tribal god Mama Dyumbo?

3 Which French phrase describes an alluring or

seductive woman, especially one who causes men to

love her to their own distress?

4 What is the translation of the Latin phrase ‘exempli

gratia’?

5 What word was army slang for a raw recruit and is

now used in sport, especially golf and American

football to describe a first year professional?

6 What six-letter word beginning with ‘g’ is the name

Latin Americans give to people from an Englishspeaking

country?

7 Who was Meryl Streep’s co-star in the 1981 movie

The French Lieutenant’s Woman?

8 Who played the title rôle in the two Crocodile Dundee

films?

9 Who sang the theme song of the James Bond film

Moonraker?

10 What are the leaves of ferns and palm trees called?

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Quiz No 195

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Hans Christian Andersen, 2 Zurich, 3 Sweden, 4 Frank Lloyd Wright,

5 Nephew, 6 Belgium, 7 Munich, 8 Census, 9 Alaska, 10 Antelopes.

1 Which Danish author wrote The Snow Queen and The

Ugly Ducking?

2 What is the largest city in Switzerland?

3 In which European country is the university city of

Uppsala?

4 Which US architect designed the Guggenheim

Museum in New York?

5 What relation was Napoleon III to Napoleon I?

6 In which country is the town of Ypres, the scene of

three major battles of World War I?

7 Which German city is the capital of Bavaria?

8 What name is given to an official count of the

population?

9 In which US state is the city of Anchorage?

10 What name is given to animals such as the gazelle,

eland and gnu?

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Quiz No 196

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Oscar Peterson, 2 Burkina Faso, 3 Hannibal, 4 Malawi, 5 Lana Turner,

6 Ted Turner, 7 Thomas Mann, 8 Dorothy Lamour, 9 Boomtown Rats, 10 Paul

Michael Glaser.

1 Which Canadian jazz pianist has 16 honorary

degrees from North American universities?

2 Which African country was formerly called Upper

Volta?

3 What is the title of the film sequel to The Silence of

the Lambs?

4 What is the name of the country formerly known as

Nyasaland?

5 Which US actress was known as The Sweater Girl in

the 1940s?

6 Which US media mogul founded CNN?

7 Which German novelist wrote Death in Venice and

The Magic Mountain?

8 Which actress starred with Bob Hope and Bing

Crosby in the series of Road to… films?

9 Which Irish punk band’s line-up on forming in 1975

was Bob Geldof on vocals, Johnnie Fingers on

keyboards, Pete Briquette on bass and Gerry Cott

and Garry Roberts on guitar?

10 Which actor played Starsky in the 1970s US cop

series Starsky and Hutch?

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Quiz No 197

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Thor, 2 Maurice Ravel, 3 Eritrea, 4 El Escorial, 5 Red Guards, 6 Denmark,

7 Werner von Braun, 8 Bloemfontein, 9 Blenheim Palace, 10 Thoroughbreds.

1 Who was the god of thunder in Norse mythology?

2 Which French composer wrote Boléro and the ballet

Daphnis et Chloë?

3 Of which African country is Asmara the capital?

4 Which monastery and palace near Madrid, built for

Philip II, houses a famous art collection?

5 What name was given to the Chinese students

organised to eliminate revisionism during the Cultural

Revolution?

6 In which European country is the North Sea port of

Esbjerg?

7 Which leading Nazi rocket engineer was taken to the

US after World War II and worked for NASA?

8 What is the judicial capital of South Africa?

9 Which Oxfordshire mansion was a gift from Queen

Anne to the Duke of Marlborough and the birthplace of

Winston Churchill?

10 What name is given to horses bred for racing that

are descended from three Arab stallions brought into

England?

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Quiz No 198

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Rush, 2 Shooting, 3 Japanese, 4 Chess, 5 Fat liver, 6 Skiing, 7 Teeth,

8 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 9 London, 10 Satisfaction.

1 Which Toronto-based rock power trio have been on

top of the stadium rock world since 1978?

2 At which Olympic sport have Louis Debray and

Yevgeny Petrov been champions?

3 The word ‘honcho’ meaning boss, derives from which

language?

4 In which game might you employ a zwischenzug?

5 What does the phrase ‘foie gras’ mean, as in ‘pâté de

foie gras’?

6 For which sporting activity would you wear salopettes?

7 The branch of science known as odontology refers to

which part of the human body?

8 Which 1876 novel by Mark Twain features the

character Becky Thatcher?

9 Which European capital city is the setting for the 1988

film American Roulette?

10 Which Rolling Stones song did Eddie and the Hotrods

cover on their Live at the Marquee EP?

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Quiz No 199

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Hedy Lamarr, 2 Big Brother, 3 Mars, 4 Sagittarius, 5 Italy, 6 Appalachians,

7 Camp Crystal Lake, 8 Ahab, 9 Romania, 10 Challenger.

1 Who said: “Any girl can look glamorous: all you have

to do is stand still and look stupid”?

2 What is the name of the omnipotent head of state in

1984 by George Orwell?

3 By which name is the Red Planet better known?

4 Which sign of the zodiac is represented by the

Archer?

5 From which country does Valpolicella wine originate?

6 The Blue Ridge Mountains form part of which

mountain system?

7 What is the name of the summer camp featured in the

Friday the 13th movies?

8 What is the name of the captain in the novel Moby

Dick?

9 In which country is Transylvania?

10 Which space shuttle exploded in 1986?

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Quiz No 200

1 By what name is the clavicle usually known?

2 With which visual art movement is US Roy

Lichtenstein associated?

3 Which Irish village is famous for its castle, which has

a stone that is kissed to give the power of persuasive

speech?

4 Which savage Scandinavian warrior’s name means

‘bear shirts’?

5 Black water fever is a serious complication of which

infectious disease?

6 Rock crystal is a transparent colourless form of which

mineral?

7 Which US aviator and entrepreneur became a

recluse from 1950 until his death in 1976?

8 What name for a traitor is derived from a Norwegian

who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II?

9 Which widely cultivated cereal grass is also known as

Indian Corn?

10 Who plays the part of Abigail Sponder in the 2007

film Ocean’s Thirteen?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Collarbone, 2 Pop art, 3 Blarney, 4 Berserkers, 5 Malaria, 6 Quartz,

7 Howard Hughes, 8 Quisling, 9 Maize, 10 Ellen Barkin.

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Quiz No 201

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Serbia, 2 16, 3 12, 4 Roy Emerson’s, 5 2007, 6 Rhode Island, 7 Colonel

Steve Zodiac, 8 Mike Hammer, 9 Thin Lizzy, 10 The Addams Family.

1 Which country won the 2007 Eurovision Song

Contest, with the song Molitva, performed by Marija

Serifovic?

2 At the start of a game, how many balls are on a pool

table?

3 What number is the base of the duodecimal system?

4 Whose record of 12 Grand Slam titles did Pete

Sampras equal when he won Wimbledon in 1999?

5 In which year did Tony Blair resign as UK prime

minister?

6 In which US state is Narragansett Bay?

7 Who was lead puppet in the series Fireball XL5?

8 Which tough TV cop, played by Stacy Keach, was

created by crime novelist Mickey Spillane?

9 Which rock band recorded the 1976 top ten hit The

Boys are Back in Town?

10 Which spooky comedy series featured Lurch, Uncle

Fester and Morticia?

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Quiz No 202

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Ambrosia, 2 Gilbert and Sullivan, 3 David Copperfield, 4 George Orwell,

5 Angora, 6 Hero, 7 Hannibal, 8 Somerset Maugham, 9 Video Home System,

10 Annie Lennox.

1 What was the food of the gods, according to classical

mythology?

2 Who wrote the operetta The Gondoliers?

3 In which Charles Dickens novel does the character

Uriah Heep appear?

4 Who wrote the 1933 book Down and Out in Paris and

London?

5 What was the name of the Turkish city of Ankara until

1930?

6 Who was the lover of Leander in Greek mythology?

7 Cathaginian general Hasdrubal was the brother of

which famous historical character?

8 Who wrote the book Cakes and Ale?

9 What does VHS stand for?

10 Who recorded the 1995 hit single No More I Love

Yous?

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Quiz No 203

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Melanie B, 2 French, 3 1979, 4 Belgium, 5 Argentina, 6 12, 7 Cambrian

Period, 8 Mecca, 9 Swimming, 10 Angela Hayes.

1 Which member of the Spice Girls released the 2001

single Lullaby?

2 What nationality is rugby league player Yacine

Dekkiche?

3 In which year did the Police release the single

Walking on the Moon?

4 Which country is larger in area: Albania or Belgium?

5 Which is the second largest country in South

America?

6 How many months are there in the Hindu calendar?

7 Which occurred first in geological time: the Permian

Period or the Cambrian Period?

8 In which city is the Islamic shrine the Kaaba?

9 With which sport are Brigitte Bécue and Agnes

Kovacs associated?

10 What was the name of the character played by

actress Mena Suvari in the 1999 film American

Beauty?

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Quiz No 204

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Bats, 2 St Anthony of Padua, 3 Do not dry clean, 4 Bolivia and Paraguay,

5 Aluminium, 6 Andes, 7 Drowning, 8 Petr Korda, 9 Sancho Panza,

10 Bastille.

1 What name is given to flying animals of the order

Chiroptera?

2 Which Portuguese saint is often invoked as a finder of

lost property?

3 What does the symbol of a circle with an X across it

mean when found on a clothing label?

4 Which two South American countries fought the

Chaco War between 1932 and 1935?

5 Bauxite is the principal ore of which metal?

6 Which mountain system of South American extends

from Tierra del Fuego to Panama?

7 What name is given to suffocation due to fluid in the

air passages?

8 Which Czech tennis player failed a drugs test at

Wimbledon in 1998?

9 What was the name of Don Quixote’s squire?

10 Which Paris fortress was stormed on 14 July 1789, at

the beginning of the French Revolution?

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Quiz No 205

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The Thirty-Nine Steps, 2 Galapagos, 3 Rainbow Warrior, 4 Perestroika,

5 Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, 6 Texas, 7 Thriller, 8 Julia Roberts,

9 Wagner, 10 Tay.

1 Robert Donat, Kenneth More and Robert Powell have

all starred in movie versions of which John Buchan

novel?

2 In January 2001, oil spilt from the stricken tanker

Jessica posed a threat to the unique wildlife on which

group of islands?

3 What was the name of the Greenpeace ship sunk in

Auckland harbour in 1985?

4 What word refers to the ‘restructuring’ of the Soviet

System?

5 Which two bodies of water are connected by the

Straits of Florida?

6 Where in America is the Lone Star State?

7 Released in 1982, which album by Michael Jackson

sold more than 20 million copies, to become the

biggest-selling album in history?

8 Which actress plays the title rôle in Erin Brockovich?

9 According to Rossini, which German composer had

“beautiful moments but awful quarter hours”?

10 Which is the longest river in Scotland?

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Quiz No 206

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Geronimo, 2 The King and I, 3 Richard Nixon, 4 Ono, 5 Amanda Carrington,

6 Bill Haley and his Comets, 7 Physics, 8 Anthony Eden, 9 Richard Burton,

10 Hollywood.

1 What is the traditional yell of US army paratroopers

when jumping out of a plane?

2 The song Getting to Know You comes from which

musical?

3 Who was the only US president to resign from office?

4 In 1969, John Lennon officially adopted which middle

name?

5 Which rôle in Dynasty was played by Catherine

Oxenberg?

6 In the early days of rock and roll, who had a hit with

Shake, Rattle and Roll?

7 Which Nobel prize was won by Albert Einstein in

1955?

8 Who succeeded Winston Churchill as British prime

minister, in 1955?

9 Who played King Henry VIII in the film Anne of a

Thousand Days?

10 Paradise Valley was the former name of which US

city?

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Quiz No 207

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Taiwanese, 2 The Nutcracker, 3 Lynn Bracken, 4 Seattle, 5 May, 6 The Holy

Barbarians, 7 Fred Quimby, 8 Martinique, 9 Chilli pepper, 10 Blue agave.

1 What nationality is weightlifter Li Feng-Ying?

2 The magician Drosselmeyer is a character in which

ballet by Tchaikovsky?

3 What is Kim Basinger’s character’s name in the 1997

film LA Confidential?

4 In which city was guitarist Jimi Hendrix born?

5 In which month is the Kentucky Derby run in the

USA?

6 Which group did Ian Astbury form following the split

of The Cult in 1995?

7 Who produced the Tom and Jerry cartoons?

8 On which Caribbean island is the volcano Mount

Pelee?

9 What type of foodstuff is a red savina Habanero?

10 Which plant is the source of tequila?

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Quiz No 208

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Atlantic Ocean, 2 Lisbon, 3 9.8 kg, 4 The Trout, 5 Fish, 6 91 weeks, 7 Air

France, 8 Anti-locking Braking System, 9 Red, 10 Italy.

1 Which ocean is the larger: the Indian Ocean or the

Atlantic Ocean?

2 Which European city was known to the Romans as

Olisipo?

3 How much did Nokia’s first mobile phone, the Mobira

Senator, weigh when it was introduced in 1982, 1.7

kg or 9.8 kg?

4 What is the nickname given to Schubert’s Quintet in

A Major?

5 What type of creature is a wels?

6 What is the average gestation period of an African

elephant: 26 weeks or 91 weeks?

7 AF is the two-letter code for which major European

airline?

8 In a car, what is ABS?

9 What colour is the crown of a green woodpecker?

10 Of which country did Silvio Berlusconi become prime

minister in 2001?

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Quiz No 209

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 November, 2 At the bottom of the sea, 3 “Is worth two in the bush”, 4 “Great

oaks”, 5 Friend (China plate = mate), 6 Playing cards, 7 Candles, 8 Sugar,

9 Margaret Attwood, 10 Morocco.

1 What word is used in international radio

communications to denote the letter ‘N’?

2 Where is Davy Jones’s locker?

3 Complete the proverb: “A bird in the hand…”

4 Complete the proverb: “Little strokes fell…”

5 In Cockney rhyming slang, what is a ‘china’?

6 What are the ‘Devil’s playthings’?

7 What does a chandler make or sell?

8 In food and drinks, what is aspartame a substitute for?

9 Name the Man Booker prize-winning Canadian author

of Cat’s Eye.

10 In which country is the town of Fez?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Kiev, 2 Puccini, 3 Peter Falk, 4 Grilse, 5 Kukri, 6 Auguste Rodin, 7 14,

8 Robert Heinlein, 9 Mars Attacks!, 10 The Cortes.

1 What is the capital of Ukraine?

2 Who composed the one act opera Suor Angelica?

3 Who played TV detective Columbo?

4 What is the name given to a young salmon that

returns to fresh water after one winter in the sea?

5 What is the name of the knife with a curved blade

used by the Gurkhas?

6 Which French sculptor created The Kiss?

7 Which number is represented by the letters XIV in

Roman numerals?

8 The 1997 film Starship Troopers was based on a novel

by which author?

9 Which 1996 film comedy starred Jack Nicholson as

the US president?

10 What name is given to the national assembly of

Spain?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Snow White, 2 Dick Tracy, 3 Elizabeth Arden, 4 Lithium, 5 Richard Strauss,

6 Canadian, 7 Lucifer, 8 Thomas Gray, 9 Gerald Ford, 10 Colorado.

1 Which was the first full-length Walt Disney film?

2 Which comic strip detective was created by Chester

Gould in 1931?

3 What was the adopted name of Canadian-born beauty

expert Florence Nightingale Graham?

4 Which is the lightest metal?

5 Who wrote the opera Elektra?

6 What nationality is the author Margaret Atwood?

7 What name for the devil means ‘light bearer’ in Latin?

8 Which poet is best remembered for his Elegy Written

in a Country Churchyard?

9 Who succeeded Richard Nixon as US president?

10 Of which US state is Denver the capital?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 D H Lawrence, 2 Annuals, 3 Denim, 4 25 March, 5 Donkey, 6 Colorado,

7 Nanook of the North, 8 Gustav Mahler, 9 Anschluss, 10 Chimpanzee.

1 Who wrote Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley’s

Lover?

2 What name is given to plants which complete their lifecycle

within one year?

3 Which cotton fabric takes its name from the French

city of Nîmes?

4 On what day is the Annunciation celebrated?

5 Which domesticated member of the horse family is

also known as an ass?

6 Of which US state is Denver the capital?

7 What was the title of Robert Flaherty’s pioneering

1922 documentary film of Inuit life?

8 Who composed The Song of the Earth?

9 What name was given to the union of Austria with

Germany in 1938?

10 What type of creature was Ham, who survived a

sub‑orbital flight on 31 January 1961?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 William Blake, 2 Spain, 3 Bruce Johnston, 4 Lost, 5 Buddy Holly, 6 Muttley,

7 The drums, 8 Diseases of the ear, nose and throat, 9 Nice, 10 It’s a strait

with strong currents.

1 The watercolours of which painter and poet include

Job Confessing his Presumption God, Who Answers

from the Whirlwind?

2 Which European country administers the Canary

Islands?

3 Which member of The Beach Boys recorded the

1977 solo album Going Public?

4 What are you in New Zealand if you are ‘boohai’?

5 Which pioneering singer-songwriter was backed by

The Crickets?

6 What is the name of Dick Dastardly’s canine

companion in the cartoon series Wacky Races?

7 With which instrument was the jazz musician Buddy

Rich associated?

8 Of what is ‘otorhinolaryngology’ the scientific study?

9 Which is further east: Cannes or Nice?

10 Why might you avoid a ‘euripus’ if you were a sailor?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 1990, 2 Winnie the Pooh, 3 Echo, 4 Loki, 5 Termites, 6 Martina Hingis,

7 Neil Armstrong, 8 The Netherlands, 9 Lactose, 10 Nigel Benn.

1 In which year was Nelson Mandela released from

prison?

2 Which fictional bear is a friend of Christopher Robin?

3 In Greek mythology, which mountain nymph fell in love

with Narcissus?

4 In Norse mythology, who was the god of mischief?

5 What creatures constitute the principal food of the

aardwolf?

6 Which tennis player beat Serena and then Venus

Williams in consecutive matches at the 2001

Australian Open?

7 Who was the first man to set foot on the moon?

8 In which European country is the city of Maastricht?

9 Which carbohydrate is also called milk sugar?

10 Which boxer was known as The Dark Destroyer?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Alex Trebek, 2 Genesis, 3 Books, 4 Nebraska, 5 C, 6 Lace, 7 Isaac Asimov,

8 Alabama, 9 Major League, 10 Graphic Image Format.

1 Which Canadian TV personality is the popular

quizmaster of Jeopardy?

2 Which book of the Bible has more chapters: Exodus

or Genesis?

3 Of what does a bibliophile have a love?

4 Which US state is the largest in area: Connecticut,

Hawaii or Nebraska?

5 The disease scurvy occurs as a result of which

vitamin deficiency?

6 Which material is traditionally associated with a

thirteenth wedding anniversary?

7 Who wrote the science fiction classic novel I, Robot?

8 In which US state was the athlete Jesse Owens

born?

9 Which 1989 baseball film featured Tom Berenger and

Charlie Sheen as team-mates?

10 In computing, what does the abbreviation GIF stand

for?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Vanity Fair, 2 The Satanic Verses, 3 Ringo Starr, 4 640, 5 Hungary, 6 Desert

Storm, 7 The Crown Jewels, 8 Frederick Banting, 9 California, 10 The Boston

Strangler.

1 Becky Sharp is a character in which novel?

2 Which novel was ceremoniously burnt by a thousand

Muslims in 1989?

3 Which Beatle was married to Barbara Bach?

4 How many acres are there in a square mile?

5 Malev is the national airline of which Eastern

European country?

6 What was the name of the Allied offensive in the 1991

Gulf War?

7 What did Colonel Thomas Blood famously steal in

1675?

8 Which Canadian doctor discovered insulin?

9 Which US state has the highest population?

10 Albert de Salvo is notoriously better known by which

nickname?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 DeLorean, 2 John Goodman, 3 Jonathan and Jennifer, 4 Tenor saxophone,

5 Ch’i, 6 The Brontës, 7 Acker Bilk, 8 Orbit City, 9 Theseus, 10 Orange juice.

1 In what type of car did Michael J Fox travel through

time in the Back to the Future films?

2 Which star of the US sitcom Roseanne appeared in

the 2000 film Coyote Ugly?

3 What were the first names of the Harts in the US

drama series Hart to Hart?

4 With which musical instrument is Coleman Hawkins

associated?

5 In Chinese philosophy, what name is given to

the ethereal substance of which everything is

composed?

6 Which literary family is associated with Haworth

Parsonage in West Yorkshire?

7 Which clarinettist had a hit with Stranger on the

Shore in 1961?

8 What was the name of the city where TV’s The

Jetsons lived?

9 In Greek mythology, who killed the Minotaur?

10 What is added to vodka to make a Screwdriver

cocktail?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Japheth, 2 Puccini, 3 A Bridge Too Far, 4 Hieronymus Bosch, 5 Finnish,

6 Milton Keynes Kings, 7 The Salvation Islands (Îles du Salut), 8 Montreal,

9 Zanzibar, 10 Huron.

1 Who was the second son of Noah in the Old

Testament?

2 Who composed the opera La Bohème?

3 Which 1977 World War II film concerned the failed

Allied landings at Arnhem in Holland?

4 Who was the Dutch painter of The Garden of Earthly

Delights?

5 What nationality is golfer Rikka Hakkarainen?

6 Which BNL hockey side signed Canadian Chad

MacLeod in 1999?

7 The former penal colony of Devil’s Island belongs to

which island group?

8 The suburb of Laval is part of which major Canadian

city?

9 Which island joined with Tanganyika to form

Tanzania?

10 Georgian Bay is the north-east part of which North

American Great Lake?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 New Zealand, 2 Ursa Major, 3 Jezebel, 4 16th, 5 Abu Dhabi, 6 The Achille

Lauro, 7 Madonna, 8 Alcock and Brown, 9 Ira Gershwin, 10 K2.

1 In which country is Lake Wakatipu?

2 In which constellation is the group of stars known as

The Plough or The Big Dipper?

3 In the Old Testament, who was the wife of King Ahab?

4 In which century did the English composer and

organist Thomas Tallis live?

5 What is the capital of the United Arab Emirates?

6 Which Italian cruise liner was hijacked by the PLO in

1985?

7 Which singer and actress played Evita in the 1996 film

of that name?

8 Which pair of aviators made the first non-stop flight

across the Atlantic Ocean?

9 What was the name of the songwriting brother of

George Gershwin?

10 What is another name for the world’s second highest

mountain, Godwen Austen?

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1 In which Far Eastern country is the port city of Pusan?

2 Which European city is further north: Moscow or

Newcastle?

3 Which science fiction writer wrote the 1905 novel

A Modern Utopia?

4 What was the subject of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s

disaster novel of 1834 concerning events in 79AD?

5 What nationality is the 1991 Wimbledon tennis

champion Michael Stich?

6 Which black US athlete upset Adolf Hitler at the 1936

Berlin Olympics by winning four gold medals?

7 How many balls are used in a game of snooker?

8 Pickles the dog enjoyed worldwide fame in 1966 after

he found which sports trophy?

9 Where would you find a structure called an

‘empennage’: on a ship or on an aircraft?

10 In which European country is the ski resort of

Cervinia?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 South Korea, 2 Moscow, 3 H G Wells, 4 Pompeii and the eruption of

Vesuvius, 5 German, 6 Jesse Owens, 7 22, 8 The World Cup (soccer), 9 On

an aircraft – it’s the rear section of the fuselage/tailplane, 10 Italy.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Roger Bannister, 2 La Marseillaise, 3 Virginia, 4 Åland Islands, 5 BBMak,

6 Dusty Springfield, 7 Marco Polo, 8 Castil or Castilla, 9 Italy, 10 Josef Stalin.

1 Who was the first man to run a mile in under four

minutes?

2 What is the title of the French national anthem?

3 The drama series The Waltons was set in which US

state?

4 Lemland and Lumparland are islands in which group?

5 Which British band looking to build on US success

had a 2001 hit in the UK with Back Here?

6 Which British female vocalist claimed I Only Want to

Be With You in the UK top five in 1963?

7 Which Venetian explorer in the 14th century travelled

to China where he became a diplomat for Kublai

Khan?

8 Castles in Spain are so numerous that they have given

their name to which region and former kingdom in

Central Spain at the foot of the Cantabrian mountains?

9 Ischia is an island of which European country?

10 Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili lived from 1879 to

1953 and was educated in a Theological Seminary. By

what name was he better known?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Murphy, 2 Neptune, 3 Central Park, 4 Harp, 5 Henrik Ibsen, 6 Harry S

Truman, 7 Golan Heights, 8 Green, 9 France, 10 Mozambique.

1 Which common Irish surname means ‘descendant of

the sea warrior’?

2 Triton and Nereid are satellites of which planet?

3 Which park was officially opened in New York in

1876?

4 In a symphony orchestra, which is the only stringed

instrument not played with a bow?

5 Name the Norwegian playwright who wrote Ghosts,

An Enemy of the People and The Master Builder.

6 Which US president ordered the dropping of the first

atomic bomb?

7 Name the hilly area on the border between Syria and

Israel which was the location of several bitter Arab/

Israeli confrontations during the 1950s, 1960s and

1970s.

8 What is the middle colour of the visible spectrum?

9 Gascony was a former duchy of which country?

10 The political groups FRELIMO and RENAMO are

associated with which African country?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Lincoln, 2 In a singing style, 3 Puerto Rico, 4 Romania, 5 Cobra,

6 Plumbing, 7 Methodist, 8 Scorpio, 9 Mecca, 10 Lederhosen.

1 Which future US president was born in a small log

cabin in Kentucky in 1809?

2 What is the meaning of the musical term cantabile?

3 San Juan is the capital of which island in the West

Indies?

4 In which Eastern European country would you find the

town of Ploesti and the port of Constantsa?

5 Which snake is used by Indian snake charmers to

sway to the music of their pipes?

6 Which profession gets its name from the Latin word

for ‘lead’?

7 Which Christian denomination was started in 1799 by

John and Charles Wesley?

8 Which sign of the zodiac is between Libra and

Sagittarius?

9 What is the holiest city of the Islamic world?

10 Which article of clothing is named after the German

for ‘leather trousers’?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Tupelo, 2 ‘Colonel’ Tom Parker, 3 Tom and Jerry, 4 Kon-Tiki, 5 1951,

6 Tirpitz, 7 Italian, 8 Hudson’s Bay Company, 9 Banjul, 10 Australia.

1 In which Mississippi town was Elvis Presley born?

2 Who was Elvis Presley’s manager throughout his

career?

3 Along with Nibbles, which twosome starred in The

Two Mouseketeers, winning the 1951 Academy Award

for Best Short Subject: Cartoons?

4 Leaving Peru in 1947, Norwegian explorer Thor

Heyerdahl travelled across the Pacific on a balsa raft:

what was the name of his boat?

5 …and in which year did a documentary motion picture

of the expedition win an Academy Award?

6 Which German battleship was sunk by British

bombers at Tromsø, Norway on 12 November 1944?

7 What is the nationality of Reinhold Messner, the

first man to climb all the 14 peaks higher than 8,000

metres?

8 In 1670, which company was granted a charter by

King Charles II, giving it a trading monopoly over

the watershed of all rivers and streams flowing into

Hudson Bay?

9 What is the capital of the Republic of The Gambia?

10 In office from 11 March 1983 until 20 December 1991,

Bob Hawke was the 23rd prime minister of which

country?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Guess Who, 2 Beaufort Scale, 3 Jerry Lee Lewis, 4 Arizona, 5 S, 6 Bobby

Moore, 7 Aldous Huxley, 8 A monkey, 9 Hymenoptera, 10 Eric Clapton.

1 Which Canadian rock band scored a No 1 record in

the USA with American Woman?

2 A hurricane is categorised as Force 12 on which

scale?

3 Which singer does Dennis Quaid portray in the 1989

film Great Balls of Fire?

4 In which US state is the Grand Canyon?

5 Which letter on a typewriter keyboard is between ‘A’

and ‘D’?

6 Who captained the England team that won the 1966

Football World Cup?

7 Which British novelist wrote Brave New World?

8 What sort of creature is a drill?

9 To which order of insects do ants, wasps and bees

belong?

10 Which guitarist/singer was a member of the Yardbirds,

Bluesbreakers, Cream and Blind Faith?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The skull, 2 Four, 3 Circle Line, 4 As Far As I Know, 5 If Allah Wills It, 6 The

Moon, 7 Marlon Brando’s, 8 Dakar, 9 Transcendental meditation, 10 Clarinet.

1 The parietal bone is in which part of the human body?

2 What is the value of the brown ball in snooker?

3 On the London Underground, which line is coloured

yellow?

4 In email language, what is the meaning of the acronym

AFAIK?

5 What is the meaning of the Arabic word ‘Inshallah’?

6 Where is the Ocean of Storms?

7 Which actor’s daughter Cheyenne committed suicide

in Tahiti in 1995?

8 What is the capital of Senegal?

9 The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi trained the Beatles in

which technique?

10 Which instrument was played by jazz great Artie

Shaw?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Turandot, 2 Invertebrate, 3 Ginger, 4 Hyde Park, 5 Harvard, 6 Devon, 7 St

Paul, 8 Warsaw, 9 Kentucky, 10 Leprosy.

1 The famous aria ‘Nessun Dorma’ is sung in which

opera by Puccini?

2 What name is given to any animal without a

backbone?

3 What spice is obtained from the plant Zingiber

officinale?

4 Which London park contains the Serpentine, Rotten

Row and Speakers’ Corner?

5 Which is the oldest university in the USA?

6 In which English county is the port of Plymouth?

7 Which apostle and martyr was originally known as

Saul of Tarsus?

8 What is the capital of Poland?

9 Of which US state is Frankfort the capital?

10 Which chronic disease is caused by the bacillus

Mycobacterium leprae?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Three, 2 Irving Berlin, 3 Davy Jones, 4 John Wayne, 5 Braille,

6 Switzerland, 7 Knot, 8 Australia, 9 Boxing, 10 Steve Biko.

1 How many movements are usually in a concerto?

2 Who wrote the song White Christmas?

3 Who was the British member of The Monkees?

4 Who played the Ringo Kid in John Ford’s classic

movie Stagecoach?

5 Which system of writing developed for the blind by a

French teacher uses characters made up of raised

dots?

6 From which European country does gruyère cheese

come?

7 Which unit of speed is equal to one nautical mile per

hour?

8 Of which country is Mount Kosciusko the highest

peak?

9 With which sport are the Queensberry Rules

associated?

10 Which South African leader of the Black

Consciousness movement died in police custody in

1977?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 India, 2 Les Miserables, 3 Euro, 4 Kenneth Grahame, 5 Near death,

6 March, 7 Lemuel, 8 Femur, 9 Cindy Bear, 10 Wyoming.

1 For which country did the cricketer Sunil Gavaskar

play?

2 Jean Valjean is the hero of which novel, which was

turned into a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber?

3 What is the standard monetary unit of Spain?

4 Who wrote the children’s book The Wind in the

Willows?

5 What is the meaning of the word ‘moribund’?

6 What was the surname of the Little Women in the

book of the same name by Louisa M Alcott?

7 What is the first name of Gulliver in the book

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift?

8 What is the medical name for the human thighbone?

9 Who was the sweetheart of Yogi Bear in the cartoon

series?

10 Yellowstone National Park covers three US states:

Montana and Idaho are two, which is the third?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The Cutty Sark, 2 Weapon, 3 Margery Allingham, 4 Peanuts, 5 Wolves,

6 Spain, 7 Triple jump, 8 Romancing the Stone, 9 Gian Maria Volonté,

10 Niece.

1 Which ship, a major London tourist attraction, was

damaged by fire on the morning of 21 May 2007?

2 Is a culverin a type of weapon or a type of drainpipe?

3 Which British author created the detective Albert

Campion?

4 Which comic strip features Snoopy, Charlie Brown

and Linus?

5 The adjective ‘lupine’ relates to which family of

animals?

6 In which European country is the port of La Coruña?

7 Which athletics field event was formerly known as the

‘hop, step and jump’?

8 To which film was The Jewel of the Nile a sequel?

9 Which Italian actor starred in A Fistful of Dollars and

Lucky Luciano?

10 What relation was novelist Isabel Allende to the

overthrown Chilean president Salvador Allende?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Paul Gauguin, 2 Morocco, 3 Utah, 4 Mel Gibson, 5 I Confess, 6 Delft, 7 The

nature and effects of poisons, 8 The Dream of the Blue Turtles, 9 Phil Taylor,

10 Ray Bradbury.

1 Which modern artist’s works include the 1899 painting

Three Tahitians?

2 In which country is the port of Tangier located?

3 Salt Lake City is the capital of which US state?

4 Which actor, preparing for his 1990 role as Hamlet

said: "I’m playing Shakespeare – and I may not win"?

5 In which movie does Montgomery Clift play a priest

who is told of a murder in confessional?

6 What is the name of the earthenware, usually with a

blue and white pattern, originally made in a town in

Holland?

7 Of what is toxicology the scientific study?

8 Which studio album by Sting includes the song

Russians?

9 Which darts player is nicknamed The Power?

10 Who wrote the 1950 novel The Martian Chronicles?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Hanging, 2 Lithuania, 3 Bari, 4 Energy, 5 Sense and Sensibility, 6 Dylan

Thomas, 7 Tennessee, 8 The Louvre, 9 Ethiopia, 10 Welsh corgi.

1 To be ‘stabbed with a Bridport dagger’ is to be killed

by which method?

2 Of which former Soviet republic is Vilnius the capital?

3 Which Italian seaport is the capital of Apulia?

4 What does the ‘E’ stand for in the formula of Einstein’s

theory of relativity?

5 Which Jane Austen novel features the character Elinor

Dashwood?

6 Which Welsh poet wrote the radio play Under Milk

Wood?

7 Of which US state is Nashville the capital?

8 Which French museum contains the Venus de Milo

and the Mona Lisa?

9 In which African country is the state of Tigré?

10 Which breed of dog has Cardigan and Pembroke

varieties?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The Kid, 2 Pacific, 3 Las Vegas, 4 Alexander Archipenko, 5 Ballet, 6 San

Quentin, 7 A lookout, 8 Danube, 9 Virginia, 10 Smetana.

1 What was the name of Prince’s character in the 1984

film Purple Rain?

2 In which ocean are the Marshall Islands?

3 Which US city was the setting for Ross and Rachel’s

drunken marriage in the sitcom Friends?

4 Which sculptor’s works include the 1921 bronze

Turning Torso?

5 If you suffer from ‘balletomania’, for what do you have

a passion?

6 Which US prison is nicknamed Big Q?

7 What is a ‘cockatoo’ to an Australian criminal?

8 Which river flows through the Austrian capital, Vienna?

9 In which US state was the TV drama The Waltons

set?

10 Who was the Czech composer of the opera

The Bartered Bride?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The Lethe, 2 Amphitrite, 3 Calliope, 4 Manitou, 5 Dutch, 6 Osiris, 7 Cyclops,

8 Saturn, 9 Pasiphae, 10 Jupiter.

1 In Greek and Roman mythology, what name was

given to the river in the underworld, the water of which

caused those who drank it to forget their former lives?

2 In Greek mythology, who was the goddess of the sea

and the wife of Poseidon?

3 In Greek legend, who was the goddess of epic poetry

and chief of the nine muses?

4 In the mythology of native North Americans, what did

they call their great spirit?

5 What nationality was the 17th century landscape

painter Meindert Hobbema?

6 Who was the ancient Egyptian god of the dead,

renewal and rebirth?

7 In Greek legend, Polyphemus was one of which race

of giants?

8 Who was the Roman god of agriculture and the father

of the gods?

9 The minotaur was the offspring of a bull and the wife

of King Minos – what was her name?

10 Juno was the wife of which god?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Doctor No, 2 Spaghetti Western, 3 Morgan Le Fay, 4 Thunderbird, 5 The

Devil, 6 Pepé le Pew, 7 Corsica, 8 Farce, 9 Limp Bizkit, 10 Vostok I.

1 What was the first James Bond film?

2 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a typical example

of which film sub-genre?

3 Who was the sister of the legendary King Arthur?

4 Which giant bird legend is common to many native

North American tribes?

5 Black Donald is otherwise known as whom in Scottish

folklore?

6 What was the name of the Looney Tunes amorous

skunk?

7 Which island in the Mediterranean lies directly to the

north of Sardinia?

8 What name is given to a comic drama that uses

improbable and exaggerated situations, usually with

stereotyped characters?

9 Whose album of 2001 was entitled Chocolate Starfish

and the Hotdog-Flavoured Water?

10 What was the name of the spacecraft which conveyed

Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 John Derek, 2 Jainism, 3 Air Traffic Controllers, 4 Aaron Copland, 5 Eli

Whitney, 6 Marlon Brando, 7 Caliph, 8 Mali, 9 Kent, 10 Happy Feet.

1 Actresses Ursula Andress and Linda Evans were both

married to which actor and director?

2 Which religion’s most sacred books contain the

teachings of Mahavira?

3 In 1981, President Reagan announced the dismissal of

12,000 striking members of the PATCO Trade Union.

What was their occupation?

4 Which 20th century US composer wrote Appalachian

Spring?

5 Before making a fortune from the manufacture of

firearms, which US inventor is best remembered for

his invention of the cotton gin?

6 In 1994, which reclusive US actor published his

autobiography Songs My Mother Taught Me?

7 What title was given to the rulers of Baghdad and

later the sultans of the Ottoman Empire until it was

abolished in 1924?

8 Which African country was formerly called French

Sudan?

9 Which British county is nicknamed ‘The Garden of

England’?

10 The 2007 Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

Oscar was awarded to which film?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Osmium, 2 Cecil Frank Powell, 3 Iron, 4 The Warta, 5 Alicia Markova,

6 Danny DeVito, 7 Peri Gilpin, 8 Bridge, 9 Drew Barrymore, 10 Björk.

1 Os is the symbol for which chemical element?

2 Which Nobel prize-winning physicist was born in

Tonbridge, Kent, in 1903?

3 Which has the higher melting point: copper or iron?

4 What is the name of the Polish river on which the city

of Poznan stands?

5 Which famous English ballerina was born Lilian Alicia

Marks?

6 Which actor plays a sleazy tabloid publisher in the

1997 film LA Confidential?

7 Who plays Roz Doyle in the sitcom Frasier?

8 With which card-game is Ely Culbertson associated?

9 Little Girl Lost is a biography of which Hollywood

actress?

10 Which singer has been given exclusive use of the

island of Ellidaey by the Icelandic government?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Cameroon, 2 Spanish, 3 Syracuse, New York, 4 Crystal, 5 Mel Gibson,

6 Daphne Du Maurier, 7 Fish, 8 Plague, 9 El Salvador, 10 W B Yeats’s.

1 Of which country is Douala the capital?

2 What is the official language of the Central American

country El Salvador?

3 In which US city is the Everson Museum of Art?

4 Which substance is usually associated with a 15th

wedding anniversary?

5 Which Hollywood actor provided the voice of Rocky

the Rooster in the animated film Chicken Run?

6 Who wrote the novels Jamaica Inn and Rebecca?

7 What type of creature is a ‘moderlieschen’?

8 What is the collective noun for locusts?

9 In which country are the Ilopango and Izalco

volcanoes?

10 Which poet’s volumes include 1899’s The Wind

Amongst the Reeds?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Errol Flynn, 2 Arcturus, 3 Boris Godunov, 4 Starlight Express, 5 The Who,

6 William Wallace, 7 John McEnroe, 8 Stan Laurel, 9 Douglas MacArthur,

10 Jamie Lee Curtis.

1 Which Australian-born actor wrote the autobiography

My Wicked, Wicked Ways?

2 What is the brightest star in the constellation Boötes?

3 Which Russian tsar was the subject of a play by

Pushkin and an opera by Mussorgsky?

4 Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical was performed

on rollerskates?

5 Pete Townshend is associated with which rock group?

6 Which historical character was played by Mel Gibson

in Braveheart?

7 Which US tennis player defeated Bjorn Borg in the

1981 Men’s Singles Final at Wimbledon?

8 By what name was Arthur Stanley Jefferson known,

as the comic partner of Oliver Hardy?

9 Which US general was famous for vowing “I shall

return”?

10 By what name is Lady Haden-Guest better known as

a Hollywood actress?

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Quiz No 240

1 How many countries changed their currencies to the

Euro in January 2002?

2 Which Hungarian-born actress provided the voice of

Bianca in the Disney Rescuers films?

3 In which English county is the Vale of Eden?

4 What was artist John Callcott Horsley the first to

design?

5 What is a two-man bobsleigh called?

6 Which beauty contest was the brainchild of Eric

Morley, who died in 2000?

7 In which German city would you see the Brandenburg

Gate?

8 In computing, for what does HTML stand?

9 Which imaginary country was the setting for The

Prisoner of Zenda?

10 Which state underwent several recounts to decide the

outcome of the 2000 US presidential election?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 12, 2 Eva Gabor, 3 Cumbria, 4 Christmas card, 5 Boblet, 6 Miss World,

7 Berlin, 8 Hyper Text Markup Language, 9 Ruritania, 10 Florida.

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Quiz No 241

1 Who was the mother of Liza Minnelli?

2 Which English river flows through Newcastle,

Gateshead and Jarrow?

3 Which unit of distance is equal to the mean distance

from the Earth to the Sun?

4 Of which country was Mohammed Riza Pahlavi the

shah until 1979?

5 What name was given to the military alliance

between the Soviet Union and East European states

signed in 1955?

6 In Hinduism, what name is given to the sum of one’s

actions carried forward from one life to the next?

7 Which of the apostles refused to believe in the

resurrection until he had seen Christ?

8 Which US dancer, singer and actor was born

Frederick Austerlitz?

9 Which German town is famous for its castle which

was used as a high-security POW camp in World

War II?

10 Who wrote the play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are

Dead?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Judy Garland, 2 Tyne, 3 Astronomical unit, 4 Iran, 5 Warsaw Pact, 6 Karma,

7 St Thomas, 8 Fred Astaire, 9 Colditz, 10 Tom Stoppard.

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Quiz No 242

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Gordon Lightfoot, 2 John Higgins, 3 Coyote, 4 Hymenoptera, 5 Pitchblende,

6 Spain and Portugal, 7 Lotus, 8 Assisi, 9 Morocco, 10 Plant diseases and

parasites.

1 In 1971, which Canadian folk singer released the

international hit If You Could Read My Mind?

2 Who won the 2007 World Championship snooker title?

3 Which canine mammal is also known as a prairie

wolf?

4 Which order of insects includes bees and wasps?

5 Which blackish mineral is the principal source of

radium and uranium?

6 The River Douro in south-west Europe forms part of

the border between which two countries?

7 In Greek mythology, which fruit induced forgetfulness

in those who ate it?

8 Which town in Umbria, Italy, was the birthplace of

St Francis?

9 In which African country is the port of Agadir, which

was largely destroyed by an earthquake in 1960?

10 Of what is phytopathology the scientific study?

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1 In Canada, what is the RCMP?

2 By what name is the European freshwater fish tinca

tinca better known?

3 In which South American country did the ballroom

dance the tango originate?

4 Which British dramatist wrote A Man for all Seasons

and the screenplay for Lawrence of Arabia?

5 In which Italian city is the Uffizi Art Gallery, which

contains the art treasures of the Medici family?

6 Which syndrome is also called myalgic

encephalomyelitis?

7 Which substance used as a form of riot control is also

called ‘lachrymator’?

8 Which armoured military vehicle was invented by

Ernest Swinton?

9 What name is given to the tough fibrous cords that

connect muscles to bones?

10 Which is the largest of the Canary Islands?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 2 Tench, 3 Argentina, 4 Robert Bolt,

5 Florence, 6 Chronic fatigue syndrome, 7 Teargas, 8 Tank, 9 Tendons,

10 Tenerife.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 U2, 2 Matt LeBlanc, 3 Wild Bill Hickok, 4 Windhoek, 5 Switzerland,

6 Jeeves, 7 Ariel, 8 Jihad, 9 Lucille Ball, 10 Giant’s Causeway.

1 Which Irish band released their tenth studio album All

That You Can’t Leave Behind in 2000?

2 Which Friends actor starred in the film Lost in Space?

3 Which wild west frontiersman was shot dead while

playing poker in Deadwood in 1976?

4 What is the capital of Namibia?

5 In which European country is the city of Winterthur?

6 What is the name of Bertie Wooster’s manservant in

the stories by P G Wodehouse?

7 In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, what is the name of

the spirit that does Prospero’s bidding?

8 What name is usually given to a holy war waged on

behalf of Islam as a religious duty?

9 Which US comedienne married Desi Arnaz in 1940?

10 What name is given to the promontory of basalt

columns on the coast of Antrim in Northern Ireland?

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Quiz No 245

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Shere Khan, 2 Achmed Sukarno, 3 Adolf Hitler, 4 Shaun Ryder, 5 Bandy,

6 Badminton, 7 Atlantic City, 8 Seven: January, March, May, July, August,

October and December, 9 Centigrade, 10 Amelia Earhart.

1 What is the name of the tiger in Rudyard Kipling’s

The Jungle Books?

2 Who was the first president of the Republic of

Indonesia?

3 Who did German army officer Von Stauffenberg

attempt to assassinate in 1944?

4 Who was the lead singer of the group Black Grape?

5 Valeriy Maslov of the USSR won eight gold medals

between 1961 and 1977 at the World Championships

of which team game?

6 In which sport might you perform a Danish swipe?

7 On which US city was the first Monopoly game

based?

8 How many months of the year have 31 days?

9 What was the former name for the temperature scale

now called Celsius?

10 Who was the first woman to make a solo flight across

the Atlantic Ocean?

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Quiz No 246

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Aficionado, 2 Canada, 3 Paparazzi, 4 Fluorine, 5 Gibraltar, 6 Glycerine,

7 France, 8 Switzerland, 9 The Pharos Lighthouse, 10 Atlantic.

1 Which word beginning with the letter ‘A’ and derived

from the Spanish for ‘affection’, describes an ardent

supporter of a particular interest or hobby?

2 Snooker players Bob Chaperon, Alain Robedoux and

Jim Wych all originate from which country?

3 Named after a character in Fellini’s film La Dolce Vita,

what is the name given to photographers who follow

celebrities?

4 F is the chemical symbol for which highly reactive,

pale yellow halogen gas?

5 What is the name of the British territory on the Iberian

Peninsula?

6 Which sweet, syrupy organic liquid is the basis of all

fats and oils and is also used in the manufacture of

explosives?

7 The letters RF on a stamp would indicate it is from

which country?

8 In which country does the River Rhine rise?

9 Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

was located near present-day Alexandria in Egypt?

10 In which ocean does Iceland lie?

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Quiz No 247

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Brittany, 2 In good faith, 3 Cirrhosis, 4 Bratislava, 5 Abacus, 6 India, 7 Mike

Myers, 8 Haggis, 9 Butterfly, 10 Citrus.

1 What is the English name for the French region of

Bretagne?

2 What does the Latin term ‘bona fide’ mean?

3 What name is given to the formation of fibrous tissue

in an organ, especially in the liver?

4 What is the capital of Slovakia?

5 Which early calculating device consists of balls strung

on wires or rods and set in a frame?

6 In which country is the town of Dum-Dum?

7 Which comedian plays the ‘groovy’ spy Austin

Powers?

8 Which traditional Scottish dish may be boiled in a

sheep’s stomach?

9 What sort of winged creature is a monarch?

10 To which genus of plants do oranges, lemons and

limes belong?

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Quiz No 248

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Richard Wagner, 2 Swimming, 3 Stockholm, 4 Conway Twitty, 5 Ringo Starr,

6 Epistles, 7 New Guinea, 8 Beef, 9 Titian, 10 Aberfan.

1 Who wrote the opera Lohengrin?

2 In which sport did Janet Evans win three gold medals

at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, setting a new

world record in the 400-metre freestyle event which

lasted until Laure Manaudou broke it in May 2006?

3 In which European capital city was actress Ingrid

Bergman born?

4 Which country music singer and earlier rock singer of

Rockin’ Robin was born Harold Lloyd Jenkins?

5 Which member of the Beatles was born Richard

Starkey?

6 What name is given to the 21 books of the New

Testament that were written as letters?

7 Irian Jaya forms the western part of which island?

8 With which meat is horseradish sauce traditionally

served?

9 Which Venetian painter of the Renaissance gave his

name to a shade of red?

10 Which Welsh mining village was the scene of a 1966

disaster that killed more than 100 children?

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Quiz No 249

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Westminster, 2 The months of the year, 3 Windpipe, 4 A pig, 5 Lake Como,

6 Cancer, 7 Cullinan, 8 Parkinson’s Law, 9 Short Take Off and Landing,

10 Nehru.

1 In which London borough are the Houses of

Parliament situated?

2 What did George Eliot describe as “snowy, flowy,

blowy, showery, flowery, bowery, hoppy, croppy,

droppy, breezy, sneezy and freezy”?

3 In the human body, what is the more common name

for the trachea?

4 Which creature sold a ring to the owl and the

pussycat, for one shilling?

5 The resort towns of Tremezzo and Menaggio are on

the shores of which Italian lake?

6 Which of the tropics lies immediately to the north of

Cuba: Cancer or Capricorn?

7 Found in the Premier Diamond Mine in Transvaal in

1905, what is the name of the largest diamond ever

found?

8 Whose law states that “work expands so as to fill the

time available for its completion”?

9 In aviation, what is meant by the abbreviation STOL?

10 Which Indian statesman had the nickname Pandit?

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Quiz No 250

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 H Rider Haggard, 2 Barry Humphries, 3 Sleepwalking, 4 Start again from

the beginning, 5 Vienna, 6 Samurai, 7 Uzbekistan, 8 Double bass, 9 Micro,

10 Mercury.

1 Which British adventure novelist wrote King Solomon’s

Mines and She?

2 Which Australian comedian’s characters include

Sir Les Patterson?

3 Which sleep disorder is also known as

somnambulism?

4 What does the musical term ‘da capo’ mean?

5 Which European city is famous for its Spanish riding

school?

6 What was the name of the caste of warriors in feudal

Japan?

7 In which country of the former Soviet Union is the city

of Samarkand?

8 With which instrument is jazz musician Charlie Mingus

associated?

9 In the metric system, what word stands for ‘one

millionth’?

10 Hg is the chemical symbol for which element?

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Quiz No 251

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Luxembourg, 2 Joan Rivers, 3 The eye, 4 Persephone, 5 Medusa, 6 Bolshoi,

7 The digeridoo, 8 Enrico, 9 Balearics, 10 James I.

1 The Ardennes are a range of hills which extend

through France, Belgium and which other country?

2 Which US comedienne once said “I don’t work out. If

God wanted us to bend over, he’d put diamonds on

the floor.”?

3 Presbyopia affects which part of the body?

4 In Greek mythology, who was the goddess of the

underworld and the daughter of Zeus and Demeter?

5 In Greek mythology, who was the only mortal

gorgon?

6 Founded in Moscow in 1780, what is the name of

Russia’s principle ballet company?

7 Which deep-toned Aboriginal wind instrument was

popularised by Rolf Harris?

8 What was the first name of the famous Italian tenor

Caruso, who died in 1921?

9 In which island group is Ibiza?

10 The authorized version of the English Bible, which

appeared in 1611, is named after which king?

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Quiz No 252

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Bachman Turner Overdrive, 2 Hexateuch, 3 Charles Darwin, 4 Hymn,

5 Arthur, 6 Tanzania, 7 Mae West, 8 Boney M, 9 Angels With Dirty Faces,

10 Montserrat Caballe.

1 Which Canadian rock band had a massive hit with

Takin’ Care of Business?

2 What name is given to the first six books of the Bible?

3 Who famously sailed in HMS Beagle?

4 What type of song is a doxology?

5 Who was the legendary son of British king Luther

Pendragon?

6 Zanzibar is an island off which country?

7 Which actress has a life-jacket named after her?

8 Whose first No 1 hit was Rivers of Babylon?

9 In which film does Pat O’Brien play a priest, father

Connoly, and James Cagney play a gangster, Rocky

Sullivan?

10 With which opera singer did Freddie Mercury

re‑record Barcelona in 1992?

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Quiz No 253

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The White House, 2 Polaroid, 3 Lead, 4 Laptop computer, 5 Jupiter, 6 Nine,

7 Yellow, 8 Explorer, 9 Helium, 10 Heat.

1 Which building has the address of 1600 Pennsylvania

Avenue, Washington DC, USA?

2 What type of camera was invented by Edwin Land in

1948?

3 What element has the symbol Pb?

4 Introduced in 1982, of what was the Epson HX-20 the

first of its kind?

5 Which planet has a Great Red Spot as wide as the

Earth?

6 How many sides has a nonagon?

7 What colour is formed by mixing green and red light?

8 What was the name of the first US satellite, launched

on 31 January 1958?

9 After hydrogen, what is the second most abundant

element in the universe?

10 What is measured by a calorimeter?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Santa Anna, 2 Oboe, 3 Sleep inducing, 4 White Star, 5 Robinson Crusoe,

6 Papa, 7 The Bourse, 8 Time flies, 9 12, 10 Jim Jones.

1 Which general commanded the Mexican troops at the

Battle of the Alamo?

2 Which woodwind instrument is descended from

an ancient Middle Eastern folk instrument called a

shawm?

3 What is the meaning of the word ‘soporific’?

4 The Titantic was a vessel belonging to which shipping

line?

5 Alexander Selkirk was the inspiration for which

fictional character?

6 If ‘A’ is ‘alpha’ and ‘K’ is ‘kilo’, what is ‘P’?

7 What is the name of the French Stock Exchange?

8 What is the meaning of the Latin phrase ‘tempus

fugit’?

9 How many glasses would you get out of a magnum of

Champagne?

10 Who was the cult leader of The People’s Temple, who

convinced hundreds of his followers to commit suicide

in Guyana in 1978?

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Quiz No 255

1 Who directed the films The Leopard, The Damned

and Death in Venice?

2 From which plant is Mexican tequila distilled?

3 The childhood disease rickets is caused by a

deficiency of which vitamin?

4 Which garden pest is also known as a thunder fly?

5 What name is given to the study and history of

words?

6 Which South American soldier and statesman was

known as The Liberator?

7 In which South American country is the port of Fray

Bentos?

8 Of which African country is Conakry the capital?

9 Which island in the Pacific Ocean was settled by

mutineers from the Bounty and Tahitian women in

1790?

10 What name is given to an ionised gas produced at

extremely high temperature?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Luchino Visconti, 2 Agave, 3 D, 4 Thrip, 5 Etymology, 6 Simon Bolivar,

7 Uruguay, 8 Guinea, 9 Pitcairn, 10 Plasma.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 John Wayne, 2 Saturn, 3 Gilbert Keith, 4 Crane, 5 Throw Momma From the

Train, 6 Dante Alighieri, 7 The Jockey Club, 8 Maurice Chevalier, 9 Damocles,

10 The Netherlands.

1 Which film star was known as ‘The Duke’?

2 Of which planet is Hyperion a satellite?

3 What were the first names of author G K Chesterton?

4 Which long-necked wading bird has crowned,

whooping and sandhill varieties?

5 Which was the first film to be directed by Danny

DeVito?

6 Which Italian poet wrote The Divine Comedy?

7 Which organization controls horseracing and

racehorse breeding in Great Britain?

8 Which French entertainer starred in the films Love in

the Afternoon and Gigi?

9 Which courtier of Dionysius the Elder had to sit

beneath a sword hanging by a single thread?

10 Which European country was the first to legalise

euthanasia?

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Quiz No 257

1 Which of the knights of the Round Table had an

adulterous affair with Guinevere?

2 What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?

3 In the Old Testament, which city was captured by

Joshua when its walls fell at the blast of the Israelites’

trumpets?

4 Which famous battle is known as Custer’s Last Stand?

5 What are the names of Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen

of Verona?

6 In which film did Peter Sellers play the US president,

an ex-Nazi scientist and a British RAF officer?

7 The Monument in London was designed by Sir

Christopher Wren to commemorate which event of

1666?

8 What was the name of the state council of ancient

Rome?

9 What was the name of the principal legislative

assembly of Russia from 1906 to 1917?

10 What type of Spanish music and dance was

developed by Andalusian gypsies?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Sir Lancelot, 2 Sicily, 3 Jericho, 4 Little Big Horn, 5 Valentine and Proteus,

6 Doctor Strangelove, 7 The Great Fire of London, 8 The Senate, 9 The

Duma, 10 Flamenco.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Bob Hope, 2 Fritz Lang, 3 Aardvark, 4 Civil Service, 5 Jamaica, 6 Jacob,

7 Yeti, 8 Paul Theroux, 9 Bristol, 10 Abdomen.

1 Which British-born US comedian starred in the films

Paleface and The Cat and the Canary?

2 Who directed the 1926 classic silent film Metropolis?

3 Which nocturnal animal takes its name from the

Afrikaans for ‘earth pig’?

4 What name is given to the bureaucracy that

implements government policies?

5 Kingston is the capital of which island in the West

Indies?

6 In the Old Testament, who was the father of Joseph?

7 Which Tibetan word is another name for the

Abominable Snowman?

8 Who wrote the novel Mosquito Coast?

9 In which English city is the Clifton Suspension Bridge?

10 What name is given to the part of the body between

the diaphragm and the pelvis?

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Quiz No 259

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Enola Gay, 2 Leukaemia, 3 Vladivostok, 4 Rhode Island, 5 Hadrian’s Wall,

6 Czechoslovakia, 7 Cygnus, 8 Austrian, 9 Ezra Pound, 10 Grand Banks.

1 What was the name of the plane which dropped the

atomic bomb on Hiroshima?

2 From which disease did tenor Jose Carreras recover,

to resume his career in 1988?

3 At which Pacific port does the Trans-Siberian Railway

terminate?

4 Which is the smallest state of the USA?

5 In the UK, which Roman frontier was 73 miles

long and ran from Wallsend-on-Tyne in the east to

Bowness on the Solway Firth in the west?

6 In which country was tennis player Martina

Navratilova born?

7 Which constellation takes its name from the Latin for

‘swan’?

8 What nationality was the psychiatrist Sigmund Freud?

9 Which US poet and critic broadcast fascist

propoganda during World War II?

10 What name is given to the group of underwater

plateaus south-east of Newfoundland, around which

are the richest fishing grounds in the world?

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Quiz No 260

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 David, 2 Mercury, 3 Limelight, 4 Sir Isaac Newton, 5 Konrad Adenauer,

6 Len Deighton, 7 St Petersburg, 8 The Mean Machine, 9 Janus, 10 Joaquin

Rodrigo.

1 What was the first name of novelist D H Lawrence?

2 Cinnabar is the chief ore which metallic element?

3 Which Charlie Chaplin film was banned in the USA?

4 Which English physicist and mathematician was born

on Christmas Day 1642?

5 Who was the first chancellor of West Germany?

6 Which English novelist wrote The Ipcress File?

7 Which Russian city was formerly called Leningrad?

8 What was the name of Dick Dastardly’s car in the

cartoon Wacky Races?

9 After which Roman god is January named?

10 Which Spanish composer wrote the Concierto de

Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Rat, 2 1912, 3 Rimsky-Korsakov, 4 Sweet Molly Malone, 5 Steppenwolf,

6 Michael Collins, 7 A barrel, 8 James Joyce, 9 Timberwolf, 10 North Sea.

1 What type of creature created panic at the Lipton

Tennis Championships in March 1997, causing a

match between Venus Williams and Ginger Helgeson

to be held up for 18 minutes, until the creature was

caught?

2 In which year did the Titanic sink?

3 Who wrote the opera The Snow Maiden?

4 According to a traditional Irish song, who “wheeled

her wheelbarrow, through the streets broad and

narrow”?

5 Which rock band, best remembered for their song

Born to be Wild, took their name from a 1920s novel

by Herman Hesse?

6 In 1969, when Armstrong and Aldrin became the first

men to walk on the moon, who piloted the orbiting

capsule and stayed aboard?

7 What measurement of petroleum is defined as 42 US

gallons?

8 Who wrote Finnegan’s Wake?

9 What is another name for the grey or white wolf?

10 In which sea is the Dogger Bank?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Lake Superior, 2 Antarctica, 3 Hyena, 4 Walter Matthau, 5 Braemar, 6 The

Amish, 7 Amplitude Modulation, 8 One million, 9 Louis XIV, 10 Supernova.

1 Which of the Great Lakes in North America is the

largest?

2 On which continent are the McMurdo Dry Valleys to

be found?

3 Which scavenging, dog-like animal has striped,

spotted and brown varieties?

4 Who made up The Odd Couple with Jack Lemmon?

5 Which Scottish village hosts the best-known Highland

Games?

6 Which religious group featured in the film Witness?

7 In radio, what does ‘AM’ stand for?

8 How many millimetres are there in a kilometre?

9 Which French monarch was known as ‘The Sun

King’?

10 What name is given to a star that explodes and

increases in brightness by a million times or more?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Fencing, 2 Eire, 3 Macbeth, 4 Ankara, 5 Aneurism, 6 Louis XIV, 7 Richard II,

8 Bass Strait, 9 Dry cleaning, 10 Portugal.

1 Foil, epée and sabre are disciplines in which sport?

2 Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are the two main political

parties of which country?

3 Who killed Duncan I, King of the Scots from 1034 to

1040?

4 What is the capital of Turkey?

5 What name is given to a swelling in the wall of an

artery, caused by a weakness?

6 Madame Du Barry was the last mistress of which

French king?

7 Anne of Bohemia was queen to which English king?

8 Which sea channel separates the mainland of

Australia from Tasmania?

9 What name is given to the cleaning of fabrics or

garments using a solvent other than water?

10 In which European country is the village of Fatima, a

centre of Roman Catholic pilgrimage?

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Quiz No 264

1 Which actress played Scarlett O’Hara in the 1939

film Gone With the Wind?

2 Which ski resort is famous for the Cresta Run?

3 What name for an irregular soldier or freedom fighter

comes from the Spanish for ‘small war’?

4 What is the usual date of the vernal or spring

equinox?

5 Which French city is famous for its annual 24-hour

race?

6 The disease scurvy is caused by a deficiency of

which vitamin?

7 By what name is Swiss-born French architect

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret known?

8 What name is given to the placenta when it is

expelled following delivery of a baby?

9 What was the first name of Argentinian revolutionary

Che Guevara?

10 Which fortified wine takes its name from Jerez de la

Frontera, where it was originally made?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Vivien Leigh, 2 St Moritz, 3 Guerilla, 4 21 March, 5 Le Mans, 6 C,

7 Le Corbousier, 8 Afterbirth, 9 Ernesto, 10 Sherry.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Peter Jennings, 2 Faye Weldon, 3 Turkey, 4 David Boreanaz, 5 Golf (it is the

women’s world amateur team trophy), 6 Sheep, 7 The organs of a mummified

body, 8 A tail, 9 Roulette, 10 Knight.

1 Which Canadian journalist anchored the ABC World

News Tonight for over 20 years?

2 Who wrote the novel Life and Loves of a She Devil?

3 In which country was shipping magnate Aristotle

Onassis born?

4 Who played Angel in a television spin-off series from

the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

5 For which sport is the Espirito Santo Trophy

awarded?

6 Louping ill is a disease of which animal?

7 In ancient Egypt, what would a canopic jar have

contained?

8 In zoology, if something is acaudal, what does it

lack?

9 In which gambling game is the phrase ‘a cheval’

used?

10 Which chesspiece makes L-shaped moves?

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Quiz No 266

1 Which US novelist created the detective Philip

Marlowe?

2 Which Swiss resort on Lake Geneva hosts an annual

television festival which awards a Golden Rose?

3 From which European language is the South African

‘Afrikaans’ derived?

4 On which New York island are Broadway, Wall Street

and Central Park?

5 Which coastal region on the Adriatic Sea gives its

name to a dog with a spotted coat?

6 Which US comedienne and actress was born Caryn

Johnson?

7 Which rock star was born Gordon Sumner?

8 In which country was Britain’s adopted tennis player

Greg Rusedski born?

9 Which warm, dry wind is named after the North

American native word for ‘snow-eater’?

10 What was the name of the ship belonging to the

environmental pressure group Greenpeace, which

was sunk by French intelligence agents?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Raymond Chandler, 2 Montreux, 3 Dutch, 4 Manhattan, 5 Dalmatia,

6 Whoopi Goldberg, 7 Sting, 8 Canada, 9 Chinook, 10 Rainbow Warrior.

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Quiz No 267

1 At which film festival are the Golden Lions awarded?

2 Which ship, launched in 1906, became the basis of

battleship design for more than 50 years?

3 Who wrote the music for the ballet Coppélia?

4 Who was the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 in

Olympic competition?

5 Which actor made his final film appearance as

Proximo in Gladiator?

6 From which country does the wine Tokay come?

7 Which South African Zulu organization was founded

by Chief Buthelezi in 1975?

8 Which colourless acid found in sour milk is used in the

preservative E270?

9 What is the common name of the poisonous plant

hyoscyamus niger which yields the drug hyoscyamine?

10 Who wrote the 1937 novel The Citadel?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Venice, 2 Dreadnought, 3 Delibes, 4 Nadia Comaneci, 5 Oliver Reed,

6 Hungary, 7 Inkatha, 8 Lactic acid, 9 Henbane, 10 A J Cronin.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 A cow, 2 Horse, 3 Mexico, 4 Anklebone, 5 Africa, 6 Toto, 7 Muggles, 8 1760,

9 To Have and Have Not, 10 Cousin.

1 In the fairy story Jack and the Beanstalk, what does

Jack exchange for magic beans?

2 The adjective ‘equine’ is used to describe which

animal?

3 Tamale is a dish native to which country?

4 What is the non-technical name for the part of the

body called the talus?

5 In which continent are the Atlas mountains?

6 In The Wizard of Oz, what is the name of the dog

belonging to Dorothy?

7 By what name are non-wizards known in the Harry

Potter books of J K Rowling?

8 How many yards make up one mile?

9 Which was the first film to feature Lauren Bacall?

10 In the stories by J R R Tolkien, what relation is Frodo

to Bilbo Baggins?

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1 By what name was jazz composer and pianist

Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe better known?

2 What is the name of the alphabet used for writing

Russian?

3 What were the names of The Blues Brothers played

by John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd in the 1908 film?

4 Which was the first film of the National Lampoon’s

series to star Chevy Chase?

5 Who played the lead in the film Life of Brian?

6 Which British dramatist wrote The Caretaker and

The Birthday Party?

7 Which is the brightest star in the constellation Leo?

8 Which holiday is observed on the first Monday in

September in the US?

9 What is the executive capital and largest city of

Tanzania?

10 Which hand tool was used for threshing grain until

the mid-19th century?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Jelly Roll Morton, 2 Cyrillic, 3 Jake and Elwood, 4 National Lampoon’s

Vacation, 5 Graham Chapman, 6 Harold Pinter, 7 Regulus, 8 Labor Day, 9 Dar

Es Salaam, 10 Flail.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 He wrote the music, 2 Madonna, 3 The Stars and Stripes, 4 240, 5 The

Sioux, 6 Tropic of Capricorn, 7 The Champs Elysees, 8 Valves, 9 The

Netherlands, 10 Corfu.

1 What contribution did Dimitri Tiomkin make to the film

High Noon?

2 Which singer appears in the 1993 film Body of

Evidence?

3 Which flag is also known as Old Glory?

4 Prior to 1971, how many pennies were there in an

British pound?

5 Which tribe was led by Crazy Horse?

6 Which line of latitude lies 23.5 degrees south of the

Equator?

7 Which Paris boulevard runs from the Arc de Triomphe

to the Place de la Concorde?

8 What does a natural trumpet not have?

9 The River Rhine flows through which country

immediately before entering the North Sea?

10 Which Greek island lies close to the coast of Albania?

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Quiz No 271

1 How many tentacles has a squid?

2 What was the stage name of actress Harlean

Carpentier, the original Blonde Bombshell?

3 Of which fruit is morello a variety?

4 Which Irish novelist, famous for his ghost stores,

wrote Uncle Silas and In a Glass Darkly?

5 Which presidential retreat in the Appalachian

Mountains was the venue for peace agreements

between Israel and Egypt in the 1970s?

6 What was the nationality of the composer César

Franck?

7 Which unorthodox US chess player beat Boris

Spassky in Reykjavik in 1972, to become World

Champion?

8 What sort of beans are used to make baked beans?

9 By what name is the mouth organ also known?

10 Which rare antelope is the national emblem of South

Africa?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Ten, 2 Jean Harlow, 3 Cherry, 4 Sheridan le Fanu, 5 Camp David, 6 Belgian,

7 Bobby Fischer, 8 Haricot, 9 Harmonica, 10 Springbok.

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1 What sort of labour-saving device was patented by

Isaac Merrit Singer in 1851?

2 Which Ukrainian town was the site of a nuclear

reactor explosion in 1986?

3 What name is given to vegetarians who will not eat

any food of animal origin whatsoever?

4 Transylvania is a part of which eastern European

country?

5 Which skin condition is also known as hives and

nettle rash?

6 At the foot of which famous mountain is the Swiss ski

resort of Zermatt?

7 What name is given to a blade that can be attached

to the muzzle of a firearm?

8 Which men’s athletics competition consists of ten

events over two days?

9 Who wrote The Spy Who Came In From the Cold

and A Small Town in Germany?

10 Which US science fiction writer founded the Church

of Scientology?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Sewing machine, 2 Chernobyl, 3 Vegans, 4 Romania, 5 Urticaria,

6 Matterhorn, 7 Bayonet, 8 Decathlon, 9 John le Carré, 10 L Ron Hubbard.

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1 In which country is Mount Sir Sandford in the Selkirk

Mountains?

2 Who were the two male leads in the 1997 film Blood

and Wine?

3 Who was the designer of the British aircraft the

Spitfire, which was used in the Battle of Britain?

4 Who is the female star of the 2000 film The Next Best

Thing?

5 Which Oscar-winning actress played Pearl Slaghoople

in the 1994 film The Flintstones?

6 Who played Mr Step in the 1997 film Spice World?

7 Who won the 1998 World Championship snooker title?

8 In fencing, what is a ‘balestra’?

9 What type of creature is a jumping mouse: a bird or a

rodent?

10 What is the name given to the end of a hammer head

opposite to the striking face?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Canada, 2 Michael Caine and Jack Nicholson, 3 Reginald Mitchell,

4 Madonna, 5 Elizabeth Taylor, 6 Michael Barrymore, 7 John Higgins,

8 A short jump forward, 9 Rodent, 10 Pein.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Nixon and Ford, 2 Every 76 years, 3 “How can they tell?”, 4 Four, 5 Frans

Hals, 6 Colon, 7 Goebbels, 8 Hallmark, 9 Jesse, 10 Manhattan.

1 Under which two US presidents did Henry Kissinger

serve as Secretary of State?

2 How often does Halley’s Comet visit Earth?

3 What did Dorothy Parker famously remark when told

of the death of President Coolidge?

4 How many movements are usually in a symphony?

5 Who painted The Laughing Cavalier?

6 In human anatomy, what is the name of the large

intestine?

7 Which Nazi, together with his wife and six children,

committed suicide in 1945?

8 What is the name given to the official stamp on gold

and other precious metals?

9 In the Bible, who is the father of David?

10 Which cocktail consists of whisky and sweet

vermouth?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Highlander, 2 Endeavour, 3 Kirsty MacColl, 4 Thomas Malory, 5 Guy

Ritchie, 6 Sri Lanka, 7 Billie Holiday, 8 Canada, 9 Bird, 10 Elijah.

1 Which 1986 film features the Queen song Who Wants

to Live Forever?

2 What was the name of the ship in which Captain Cook

discovered Australia?

3 Which female British singer-songwriter was killed in a

speedboat accident in 2000?

4 Who wrote Le Morte d’Arthur?

5 Which film director married Madonna at Skibo Castle?

6 Of which country is Colombo the capital?

7 Which US jazz singer was known as ‘Lady Day’?

8 Of which country did Jean Chrétien become prime

minister in 1993?

9 What sort of creature is a curassow?

10 In the Old Testament, which prophet was carried up to

heaven in a fiery chariot?

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Quiz No 276

1 Of which Central African country was Milton Obote

the president from 1966 to 1971 and from 1980 to

1985?

2 Which German author wrote the short novel Death in

Venice?

3 What was the official newspaper of the Communist

Party in the old Soviet Union?

4 What name was given to the bubonic plague epidemic

which ravaged Europe in the 14th century?

5 Which famous actor played Bill Sykes in the 1968 film

version of Oliver!?

6 Which director made a cameo appearance in every

one of his films from The Lodger of 1926 onwards?

7 Which 1990 film starred Al Pacino as a cop in pursuit

of a criminal played by Robert De Niro?

8 Which country takes its name from the Latin word for

‘southern’?

9 What is the general name for any hoofed mammal?

10 Which Roman highway running across Italy was

named after Appius Claudius Caecus?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Uganda, 2 Thomas Mann, 3 Pravda, 4 The Black Death, 5 Oliver Reed,

6 Alfred Hitchcock, 7 Heat, 8 Australia, 9 Ungulate, 10 Appian Way.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The Red Baron, 2 The Queen Mary, 3 Krill, 4 Jimi Hendrix, 5 Cassandra,

6 Antelope, 7 Kremlin, 8 Herod the Great, 9 Belgian, 10 Dominicans.

1 What was the nickname of the German World War I

pilot Manfred von Richthofen?

2 Which former British liner is a tourist attraction at

Long Beach, California?

3 Which small marine crustaceans are the principal

food of whales?

4 Which US guitarist and singer who died in 1970 had

a hit with Purple Haze?

5 In Greek mythology, who was the daughter of King

Priam, whose prophesies were not believed?

6 What sort of creature is a klipspringer?

7 Which word for the citadel of any Russian city was

once synonymous with the Soviet government?

8 Which king of Judaea ordered the Massacre of the

Innocents?

9 What nationality was the surrealist painter René

Magritte?

10 Which Roman Catholic order of friars is known as the

Black Friars?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Pluto, 2 John Logie Baird, 3 Purgatory, 4 Antelope, 5 Kidneys, 6 St David,

7 Bees, 8 Spaniel, 9 Jakarta, 10 Pecan.

1 Which dwarf planet has a moon called Charon?

2 Which Scottish electrical engineer gave a public

demonstration of television in 1925?

3 In religious doctrine (especially Roman Catholic) what

name is given to the place or state in which souls are

believed to undergo a limited amount of suffering to

make amends for their sins?

4 What type of creature is a waterbuck?

5 Renal is an adjective relating to which part of the

body?

6 Who is the patron saint of the country of Wales?

7 Apiphobia is a fear of what?

8 King Charles and English springer are types of which

breed of dog?

9 Which Asian capital city was known as Batavia until

1949?

10 Which edible nut of the American hickory tree is

similar to a walnut?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Tokyo, 2 0 degrees, 3 Platinum, 4 Washington, 5 Plankton, 6 Guillotine,

7 Erbium, 8 A flatworm, 9 Platelets, 10 Lake Erie.

1 What is the capital of Japan?

2 What is the latitude of the Equator?

3 Which precious metal has the symbol Pt?

4 In which US state is the city of Seattle?

5 What name is given to minute or microscopic animals

and plants that live in fresh or salt water?

6 Which beheading device was used extensively in the

French Revolution?

7 Which element has the symbol Er?

8 What sort of creature is a planarian?

9 What name is given to the tiny disc-shaped structures

in blood, that help it to clot?

10 Which is the shallowest of the Great Lakes of North

America?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Robert Ludlum, 2 Gawain, 3 Greece, 4 Percival Lowell, 5 George

Washington, 6 Christopher Fry, 7 David Lloyd George, 8 Five, 9 Triton, 10 11.

1 Which US author wrote The Holcroft Covenant and

The Icarus Agenda?

2 In Arthurian legend, which Knight of the Round Table

was the son of King Lot?

3 Which country is the setting for the Shakespeare play

A Midsummer Night’s Dream?

4 Which US astronomer predicted the existence of a

planet beyond Neptune?

5 A portrait of which US president was sold for

20 million dollars in March 2001?

6 Which English dramatist wrote The Lady’s Not For

Burning?

7 Who was the first British prime minister to use

Chequers as his country residence?

8 With which boy band did Ritchie Neville spring to

fame?

9 Which US nuclear-powered submarine was the first

vessel to circumnavigate the world underwater?

10 How many films did Fred Astaire make with Ginger

Rogers?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Ben Kingsley, 2 Julie Andrews, 3 Wilfred Owen, 4 Ethel Merman, 5 James

Galway, 6 Ewan McGregor, 7 Australia, 8 Bette Davis, 9 Basilica, 10 Martyr.

1 Who played Gandhi in the 1985 film of the same

name?

2 Which British-born female Hollywood star was given

the nickname ‘Hockey Stick’?

3 Who wrote the First World War poem Dolce et

Decorum Est?

4 Which US singer and entertainer was known as ‘The

Golden Foghorn’?

5 Which Irish flautist is known as ‘The Man with the

Golden Flute’?

6 Who played the manipulative junkie Renton in the film

Trainspotting?

7 Which country is the setting for the 1971 film

Walkabout?

8 Who appeared in Dangerous, Jezebel and Whatever

Happened to Baby Jane?

9 What word describes an ancient Roman building used

for administration and also applies to a church such as

St Peter’s in Rome?

10 What word meaning ‘a person who suffers death

rather than denounce their belief in a cause or religion’

comes from the Latin for ‘witness’?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Victor Borge, 2 Dale Carnegie, 3 Hawaii, 4 Red Square, 5 Danish,

6 George, 7 Paul Ingle, 8 Soliloquy, 9 Karl Marx, 10 Pinniped.

1 Which Danish-born comedian and pianist died in

2000 at the age of 91?

2 Who wrote the influential book How to Win Friends

and Influence People?

3 In which US state is the headland known as Diamond

Head?

4 Which famous square is on the east side of the

Kremlin in Moscow?

5 What nationality was the composer Carl Nielsen?

6 What was the first name of the famous furniture

designer Heppelwhite?

7 Which British boxer needed emergency surgery after

a fight in December 2000?

8 What name is given to a monologue in which a

character in a play speaks his thoughts aloud?

9 Which sociologist, historian and economist co-wrote

the Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels?

10 What name is given to an aquatic mammal with four

limbs modified into flippers?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Maurice Micklewhite, 2 Kristallnacht, 3 Salvador Dali, 4 Deuteronomy,

5 Queen Victoria, 6 Cigar, 7 Paul Newman, 8 Colorado, 9 Sir Henry Wood,

10 A fungus.

1 Under what name was actor Michael Caine knighted?

2 What name is given to the night of anti-Jewish rioting

which took place in Germany on 9 November 1938?

3 Which Spanish artist painted The Persistence of

Memory?

4 What is the fifth book of the Old Testament?

5 Which British monarch died in January 1901?

6 Coronas, cheroots and panatellas are types of what?

7 Which US actor starred in the films Cool Hand Luke

and The Hustler?

8 In which US state is Mount Elbert the highest peak in

the Rocky Mountains?

9 Which English conductor founded the Promenade

Concerts in London?

10 What is a fly agaric?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Gretna Green, 2 Robert Kennedy, 3 Trees, 4 1979, 5 Fungi, 6 Norway

spruce, 7 Pressure, 8 The PLO, 9 St Timothy, 10 The Last King of Scotland.

1 Which Scottish village was famous for clandestine

marriages?

2 Which member of the Kennedy political dynasty was

assassinated in 1968?

3 What does a dendrophobiac fear?

4 In which year did Margaret Thatcher first become

British prime minister?

5 What collective name is given to organisms such as

moulds, mildews and mushrooms?

6 Most commonly used as a Christmas tree, by what

name is the tree picea abies better known?

7 What is measured in pascals and millibars?

8 Which terrorist organization hijacked the cruise ship

Achille Lauro in 1985?

9 To which disciple did St Paul address two New

Testament epistles?

10 Forest Whitaker won the Best Actor Oscar in 2007 for

his performance in which film?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Germany, 2 Pistil, 3 Adenoids, 4 Milan, 5 Cadmus, 6 Switzerland and Italy,

7 Bobsleigh, 8 Ice hockey, 9 American, 10 Tracey Ullman.

1 The Zugspitze is the highest mountain of which

European country?

2 What is the name of the female reproductive part of a

flower?

3 What is the name given to the mass of lympoid tissue

at the back of the throat behind the uvula?

4 In which Italian city is the famous La Scala Opera

House?

5 Which Phoenician prince in Greek mythology slew

the dragon guarding the Spring of Ares?

6 The Monte Rosa Massif stands on the borders of

which European countries?

7 Which winter sport are Anton Fischer and Jeffrey

Jost associated?

8 Which sport is played by the New Jersey Devils?

9 What nationality is golfer Colleen Walker?

10 Which female singer had a 1983 Top Ten hit with the

song Move Over Darling?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Aaron, 2 Brazil nut, 3 Absolute zero, 4 Ohio, 5 Lizard, 6 Tracery,

7 Eustachian tube, 8 The Bee Gees, 9 Warren Beatty, 10 James Cameron.

1 In the Old Testament, who was the elder brother of

Moses?

2 Which nut comes from the South American tree

Bertholletia excelsa?

3 What name is given to the lowest temperature that can

theoretically be obtained?

4 In which US state is Cincinnati?

5 What sort of creature is a chuckwalla?

6 What name is given to the decorative stonework

supporting the glass in Gothic windows?

7 Which tube connects the middle ear with the throat?

8 Which family group had No 1 hits in the 1970s with

Tragedy and Night Fever?

9 Who played the title role in the 1991 gangster film

Bugsy?

10 Name the Canadian who directed Titanic and later

proclaimed himself ‘King of the World’ at the Academy

Awards?

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1 The Egyptian god Apis took the form of which

animal?

2 What is the highest number on a roulette wheel?

3 In which African country did the Coptic church

originate?

4 Who scored England’s only try when they beat

Australia 20-17 in the 2003 Rugby World Cup final in

Sydney?

5 By what name is the plant solanum tuberosum,

introduced into England by Sir Walter Raleigh, better

known?

6 Which highly venomous snake can extend its neck

ribs to form a hood?

7 Which instrument in an aircraft measures height

above sea level?

8 Which metallic element has the symbol K?

9 By what abbreviation is polyvinyl chloride better

known?

10 In horticulture, what name is given to the propagation

method in which part of one plant is transferred onto

another?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 A bull, 2 36, 3 Egypt, 4 Jason Robinson, 5 Potato, 6 Cobra, 7 Altimeter,

8 Potassium, 9 PVC, 10 Grafting.

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1 What name is given to the extensive grasslands of the

interior of North America?

2 What name is given to marks on the body of a living

person, resembling the wounds that Christ received on

the cross?

3 What is the capital city and chief port of Tasmania?

4 Who was the first boxer to beat Muhammad Ali as a

professional?

5 Which English artist noted for his pictures of swimming

pools was the subject of the 1974 film A Bigger

Splash?

6 Which Charles Dickens novel features the character

Fagin?

7 Which naval administrator is famous for his diary,

which includes descriptions of the plague and the

Great Fire of London?

8 In Norse mythology, what was the home of the

principal gods, linked to Earth by the rainbow bridge

Bifrost?

9 Which light silvery white metallic element has the

symbol Mg?

10 Who is head of state of Monaco?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Prairies, 2 Stigmata, 3 Hobart, 4 Joe Frasier, 5 David Hockney, 6 Oliver

Twist, 7 Samuel Pepys, 8 Asgard, 9 Magnesium, 10 Prince Albert II.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Toronto Blue Jays, 2 Police helicopter, 3 Swan, 4 Large Indian antelope,

5 Sicily, 6 A type of wallpaper, 7 Wear it: it’s a garment, 8 Bob Hope,

9 Chicago, 10 Ugandan.

1 In 1992, which Canadian baseball team became the

first non-US team to win baseball’s coveted World

Series?

2 In North American slang, what is a ‘sky bear’?

3 Which bird makes its first appearance on the seventh

day of Christmas in the song The Twelve Days of

Christmas?

4 What type of creature is a ‘nilgai’?

5 Which island of the Mediterranean Sea is separated

from Italy by the Straits of Messina?

6 What is ‘lincrusta’?

7 What might you do in East Africa if you had a

‘kanzu’?

8 Which comedian thinks he has only two weeks to live

in the 1939 comedy Never Say Die?

9 Which city is the setting for the 1973 film The Sting?

10 What nationality was WBC Super Featherweight

Boxing Champion Cornelius Boza Edwards?

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1 Which French fashion designer launched the first

‘ready-to-wear’ collection for men, in 1960?

2 Who was the first black officer to hold the highest

military post in the USA?

3 Which novel by Jeffrey Archer describes the

competition between four men to become prime

minister?

4 The powerful defoliant sprayed by US forces in

Vietnam was known by what name?

5 Which animal is also called a honey-badger?

6 Which pop star bought a piano which belonged to

John Lennon for more than £1 million at auction in

2000?

7 Who was the Greek goddess of agriculture?

8 Which food additive is also known as MSG?

9 What kind of animal was Flipper in the 1960s TV

series of that name?

10 Which US author wrote The Catcher in the Rye?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Pierre Cardin, 2 Colin Powell, 3 First Among Equals, 4 Agent Orange,

5 Ratel, 6 George Michael, 7 Demeter, 8 Monosodium glutamate, 9 Dolphin,

10 J D Salinger.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The Chiffons, 2 Charlton Heston, 3 Roger Vadim, 4 Myanmar, 5 Indonesia,

6 October, 7 Timor, 8 Amrita, 9 The Jets and The Sharks, 10 Mick Jagger.

1 Which girl group had a 1966 hit with the song Sweet

Talking Guy?

2 Which actor directed and starred in the 1973 film

Antony and Cleopatra?

3 Who was the first husband of actress Brigitte Bardot?

4 In 1989, Burma changed its name to what?

5 What did the Netherlands East Indies become in

1945?

6 In which month is the horserace Le Prix de l’Arc de

Triomph run?

7 Which island in Indonesia is the largest of the Lesser

Sunda Islands?

8 In Hindu mythology, what is the food of the gods that

bestows immortality?

9 What are the names of the rival gangs in the 1961 film

West Side Story?

10 Which rock star produced the 2001 film Enigma?

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1 In Greek mythology, who was the daughter of

Agamemnon who helped her brother Orestes to kill

her mother Clytemnestra?

2 Which famous invention did James Hargreaves name

after his daughter?

3 In Norse mythology, what was the name of the hall

to which the Valkyries carried the bodies of fallen

warriors?

4 Which Old Testament character maintained his faith

in God, despite losing his family, property and health?

5 In which year did Margaret Thatcher become the first

woman prime minister of the United Kingdom?

6 Which Indian city gives its name to a type of riding

breeches?

7 What is the capital of Algeria?

8 Which French patriot was otherwise known as the

Maid of Orléans?

9 What is the largest city in South Africa?

10 From which Indian Ocean port of call could you visit

the Pettah Bazaar and the Cinnamon Gardens?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Electra, 2 Spinning Jenny, 3 Valhalla, 4 Job, 5 1979, 6 Jodhpur, 7 Algiers,

8 Joan of Arc, 9 Johannesburg, 10 Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Michael J Fox, 2 Lillehammer in Norway, 3 The tit, 4 Salt, 5 The Institution

of Holy Communion at the Last Supper, 6 Snow leopard, 7 Polish, 8 25,

9 Bethlehem, 10 Belgium, France and Germany.

1 Which Canadian actor starred in the Back to the

Future trilogy of films?

2 Where were the 1994 Winter Olympic Games held?

3 Coal and long-tailed are types of which bird?

4 What chemical substance is formed by the interaction

of an acid and a base?

5 In the Christian church, Maundy Thursday

commemorates which event?

6 The ounce is another name for what type of leopard?

7 What nationality was the composer Chopin?

8 In a game of darts, what is the value of the outer bull?

9 In the Christmas carol, which town is known as Royal

David’s City?

10 With which three countries does Luxembourg share

borders?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Nick-Nack, 2 Table tennis, 3 Azores, 4 Japan, 5 All Saints, 6 Three,

7 Professor Pat Pending, 8 Canadian, 9 Jennifer Lopez, 10 Sweden.

1 Who did Hervé Villechaize play in the Bond film

The Man With the Golden Gun?

2 The Swaythling Cup is competed for in which sport?

3 São Miguel is the largest of which group of Atlantic

islands belonging to Portugal?

4 Honshu and Hokkaido are two of the main islands of

which country?

5 Which girl group had a 2000 No 1 single with the

song Black Coffee?

6 In snooker, how many points is the green ball worth?

7 Who drove the Ring-a-Ding Convert-a-Car in the

cartoon series Wacky Races?

8 What nationality is canoeist Renn Crichlow?

9 Which solo artiste had a 1999 Top Ten single with

Waiting for Tonight?

10 Olof Palme first became prime minister of which

country in 1969?

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1 Christiania is the former name of which European

capital city?

2 Which actor directed and starred in the 1983 film

Sudden Impact?

3 Who was the Roman goddess of the hunt and of the

Moon?

4 Which pop singer was born Reginald Dwight?

5 Which husband and wife team created the television

puppet series Thunderbirds?

6 On which sea is the port of Odessa in Ukraine?

7 What is Eithne Ni Bhraonain’s more familiar name?

8 Which Biblical herd ran into the sea and drowned after

being driven mad?

9 In which year did Italian fascist dictator Benito

Mussolini die?

10 Who composed the soundtrack for the film Titanic?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Oslo, 2 Clint Eastwood, 3 Diana, 4 Elton John, 5 Gerry and Sylvia

Anderson, 6 Black Sea, 7 Enya, 8 The Gadarene swine, 9 1945, 10 James

Horner.

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Penny Lane, 2 Sky, 3 Toulouse-Lautrec, 4 Leonardo Da Vinci, 5 The Marx

Brothers, 6 Alaska, 7 Disinfectant, 8 Bolivia, 9 Lady Godiva, 10 Calligraphy.

1 A barber, a banker and a fireman all feature in the

lyrics of which Beatles song?

2 Which semi-classical instrumental group included

John Williams and Herbie Flowers?

3 Which French post-Impressionist painted poster

designs connected with the Moulin Rouge?

4 Who painted The Virgin of the Rocks in the early

16th century?

5 Which family of comic actors starred in the films Duck

Soup and A Night at the Opera?

6 What is the largest state of the United States of

America?

7 What name is given to an agent that kills germs or

prevents them from multiplying?

8 Of which South American country is La Paz the

administrative capital?

9 Which English noblewoman is said to have ridden

naked through the streets of Coventry?

10 What name is given to the art of handwriting?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Somerset Maugham, 2 David Coulthard, 3 King John, 4 The Italian Job,

5 Kenya, 6 Morocco, 7 The Orient Express, 8 Fermentation, 9 Paul Scofield,

10 Nicaragua.

1 Which author wrote The Moon and Sixpence?

2 Which driver halted Michael Schumacher’s run of six

successive victories by winning the 2001 Brazilian

Grand Prix?

3 Which king was the subject of Shakespeare’s first

history play?

4 Which Michael Caine film ends with a bus on the edge

of a cliff?

5 In which African country did the Mau Mau operate in

the 1950s?

6 In which African country is the city of Fez?

7 Which famous first class train was inaugurated in

1883, running from Paris to the Black Sea?

8 What name is given to the conversion of sugar to

alcohol by the action of yeast?

9 Who played the part of Sir Thomas Moore in the 1966

film A Man for All Seasons?

10 Of which country was Daniel Ortega head of state?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 St Patrick, 2 Salvation Army, 3 Wind speed, 4 Texas, 5 Rachel Kempson,

6 Hydra, 7 George II, 8 Michael Watson, 9 Pasadena, 10 Beatrix.

1 Who is the patron saint of Ireland?

2 Which international Christian organization was

founded by William Booth in 1865?

3 What is the Beaufort Scale used to measure?

4 In which US state is the city of Houston?

5 Who is the mother of actress Vanessa Redgrave?

6 In Greek mythology, which many-headed monster was

killed by Heracles as one of his Twelve Labours?

7 Who was the last British king to appear in battle?

8 Which boxer won a compensation against the

BBBC in 1999, eight years after a fight against Chris

Eubank?

9 In which Californian city is the Rosebowl Game played

annually?

10 Who became Queen of The Netherlands in 1980?

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Quiz No 299

1 Which port city can be seen to its best advantage from

the top station of the Fløyen mountain railway?

2 What name is given to the extensive grasslands of

eastern Russia and Central Asia?

3 Which spectacular cave on the Hebridean island

of Staffa inspired the Hebrides Overture by

Mendelssohn?

4 Who wrote The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles

Dare?

5 Which US actor starred in the films The Magnificent

Seven, Bullitt and Papillon?

6 Do stalagmites grow upwards or downwards?

7 Hilversum is the location of which country’s main radio

and television broadcasting centre?

8 Which gas used in advertising signs has the symbol

Ne?

9 What is the name of the small transverse flute that is

accompanied by drums in military bands?

10 Which branch of mathematics uses symbols to

represent unknown quantities?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Bergen, Norway, 2 Steppes, 3 Fingal’s Cave, 4 Alistair MacLean, 5 Steve

McQueen, 6 Upwards, 7 Holland, 8 Neon, 9 Fife, 10 Algebra.

303

Quiz No 300

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Husky, 2 Whooping cough, 3 Simon Peter, 4 Obi, 5 1961, 6 Kevin Crossley-

Holland, 7 Shania Twain, 8 Shooting, 9 Italy, 10 Cirrus.

1 Of which breed of sledge dog is the Siberian the best

known?

2 What is the disease ‘pertussis’ more commonly known

as?

3 Which of the disciples of Jesus was the brother of

Andrew, and a fisherman?

4 What is the broad sash tied in a large flat bow at the

back and worn as part of Japanese national costume

called?

5 In which year did Malta become independent?

6 Who wrote the 2001 children’s book At the Crossing?

7 Which solo artist had a 1999 Top 10 single with

Man! I Feel Like A Woman?

8 UIT is the international governing body of which sport?

9 In which country is the seaport of Trieste?

10 Which are the highest type of clouds, stratocumulus or

cirrus?

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Quiz No 301

1 What name is given to the European blister beetle,

once used in powdered form as a supposed

aphrodisiac?

2 What is astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s real first name?

3 Of which US state is Madison the capital?

4 What nationality was the painter and etcher Paul

Klee?

5 Which British spy defected to the Soviet Union in

1951 with Guy Burgess?

6 Which British actress married Laurence Olivier in

1961?

7 In Arthurian legend, what was the name of the wizard

who counselled King Arthur?

8 What is the capital of Thailand?

9 What is the innermost planet of the Solar System?

10 What is the name of the official Washington

residence of the US president?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Spanish fly, 2 Edwin, 3 Wisconsin, 4 Swiss, 5 Donald Maclean, 6 Joan

Plowright, 7 Merlin, 8 Bangkok, 9 Mercury, 10 The White House.

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Quiz No 302

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Pamela Lee Anderson, 2 Smoothly, 3 Pelota, 4 One million, 5 Eyelid,

6 Zeus, 7 Miners, 8 Carbolic, 9 H G Wells, 10 Billie Jean Moffitt.

1 Which Canadian actress starred in Baywatch and

also married and divorced rock drummer Tommy

Lee?

2 What is meant by the musical expression ‘legato’?

3 In which sport do the players wear a shaped wicker

basket attached to the forearm?

4 How many bytes are there in a megabyte?

5 The ciliary body is in which part of the human body?

6 Aphrodite was the daughter of which Greek god?

7 In the 1870s in Pennsylvania, the Molly Maguires

were a secret organisation of what type of worker?

8 Phenol is also called what type of acid?

9 Who wrote The Shape of Things to Come?

10 What was the surname of Billie Jean King when she

reached her first Wimbledon Singles Final in 1962?

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Quiz No 303

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Cremona, 2 Belgium, 3 Alabama, 4 Orion, 5 Kramer vs Kramer, 6 Soil,

7 Coconut, 8 Blushing, 9 Darkness, 10 Gulliver’s Travels.

1 Which town in northern Italy is famous for violins

made there by the Stradivari family?

2 The port of Ghent is in which country?

3 Which US state is known as ‘The Heart of Dixie’?

4 The stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka together make

up the ‘belt’ of which prominent constellation?

5 In which 1979 film did Meryl Streep win her first

Oscar?

6 Of what is pedology the study?

7 Copra is the dried kernel of which fruit?

8 What are you doing if you are in a state of

erubescence?

9 What does a nyctophobiac fear?

10 In which classic book are there are race of apelike

people called Yahoos?

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Quiz No 304

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Cyanide, 2 Ben Hur, 3 Ross, 4 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 5 Mary Quant,

6 Sarah Michelle Gellar, 7 Erich Maria Remarque, 8 Istanbul, 9 Captain

Jean‑Luc Picard, 10 Sievert.

1 Which poison is represented by the letters Cn?

2 Which film was advertised as having a cast of

125,000?

3 What was the surname of the uncle and nephew who

discovered the north magnetic pole?

4 Which English poet wrote The Rime of the Ancient

Mariner?

5 Which English fashion designer opened the boutique

Bazaar in the Kings Road in 1957?

6 Which actress starred as Buffy the Vampire Slayer in

the TV series of the same name?

7 Who wrote the novel All Quiet on the Western Front?

8 In which city is the former cathedral of Hagia Sophia?

9 What is the name of Patrick Stewart’s character in

Star Trek: The Next Generation?

10 What is the SI derived unit of radiation dose

equivalent?

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Quiz No 305

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 1962, 2 12, 3 Samuel de Champlain, 4 Latvia, 5 Tatum O’Neal, 6 The 6th

Day, 7 Italy, 8 Birmingham, 9 London, 10 Nick Hornby.

1 In which year did Marilyn Monroe die, aged 36?

2 How many months are there in the Sikh calendar?

3 Who founded the city of Quebec in 1608?

4 Which country lies between Estonia and Lithuania?

5 Which film actress did the tennis player John

McEnroe marry in 1986?

6 Which 2000 film saw Arnold Schwarzenegger

coming face to face with his clone?

7 In which European country is the ski resort of

Madonna di Campiglio?

8 From which English city would a Brummie come?

9 Which city is the setting for the 1957 film The Prince

and the Showgirl?

10 Who wrote the novel About a Boy, which was

adapted into a 2002 film starring Hugh Grant?

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Quiz No 306

1 Which fabric used especially for military uniforms

gets its name from a Hindi word meaning ‘dustcoloured’?

2 What is the name of the small flap that prevents food

and fluid from entering the windpipe?

3 What name is given to the compilation of

dictionaries?

4 Who was the leader of the Gunpowder Plot?

5 Which US track and field athlete won four gold

medals at the 1984 Olympics?

6 Of which European country was Enver Hoxha leader

from 1954 to 1985?

7 Which specialized agency of the United Nations is

known by the initials WHO?

8 Who was the Greek goddess of love, identified with

the Roman goddess Venus?

9 What colour is a female blackbird?

10 In Egyptian mythology, what was the name of the

jackal-headed god of the dead?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Khaki, 2 Epiglottis, 3 Lexicography, 4 Robert Catesby, 5 Carl Lewis,

6 Albania, 7 World Health Organisation, 8 Aphrodite, 9 Brown, 10 Anubis.

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Quiz No 307

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The heel, 2 Twin Peaks, 3 Pakistani, 4 Paul McCartney, 5 Cape Breton

Island, 6 Alexandre Dumas, 7 Bute, 8 Tennessee Williams, 9 Two,

10 Catherine Deneuve.

1 What name is given to the back part of a golf club

head where it bends to join the shaft?

2 Which cult TV series featured Kyle MacLachan as

agent Dale Cooper?

3 What nationality is cricketer Usman Afzaal?

4 Under the pseudonym of Apollo C Vermouth, who

produced I’m the Urban Spaceman by the Bonzo

Dog Do-Dah Band?

5 On which island is the Canadian seaport of Sydney?

6 Who was the author of the classic novel The Three

Musketeers?

7 Rothesay is a town on the east coast of which

Scottish island?

8 Who wrote the 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire?

9 How many moons has Mars?

10 Which French actress stars in the 1969 comedy film

The April Fools, with Jack Lemmon?

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Quiz No 308

1 Which island boasts the Dettifoss and Gullfoss

waterfalls and the Hekla volcano?

2 Which country lies between Estonia and Lithuania?

3 Which French sculptor is famous for works such as

The Kiss and The Thinker?

4 Which adult male singing voice is lower than tenor

and higher than bass?

5 Approximately how long is the Great Wall of China: is

it 1400 miles, 1500 miles or 1600 miles?

6 Which Turkish city was formerly known as Byzantium

and Constantinople?

7 To which famous literary figure was Anne Hathaway

married?

8 What was the name of the wife of Odysseus, who

remained faithful during his long absence?

9 From which former province of Spain did Cervantes’

Don Quixote come?

10 Which former Spice Girl was appointed as a Goodwill

Ambassador for the UN Population Fund?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Iceland, 2 Latvia, 3 Auguste Rodin, 4 Baritone, 5 1500 miles, 6 Istanbul,

7 William Shakespeare, 8 Penelope, 9 La Mancha, 10 Geri Halliwell.

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Quiz No 309

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Apple, 2 William Shatner, 3 Torpedo, 4 Venezuela, 5 Sardinia, 6 St Nicholas,

7 Georgetown, 8 Saracens, 9 Carl Orff, 10 Babe Ruth.

1 Which hi-tech company introduced the iPod sound

carrier system?

2 Which Canadian actor portrayed Captain Kirk in the

original Star Trek television show?

3 What name is given to a self-propelled underwater

missile?

4 In which South American country does the Orinoco

River originate?

5 Of which island in the Mediterranean Sea is Cagliari

the capital?

6 Who is the patron saint of sailors?

7 What is the capital of Guyana?

8 What term was used by Europeans in the Middle Ages

to refer to Muslims?

9 Which German composer wrote the cantata Carmina

Burana?

10 Which famous US baseball player was known as

‘The Sultan of Swat’?

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Quiz No 310

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 American football, 2 Borzoi, 3 Television, 4 The Grateful Dead, 5 Lizard,

6 Madagascar, 7 Alaska, 8 Nero, 9 Benazir Bhutto, 10 Botany Bay.

1 What sport is played by the Carolina Panthers?

2 What is another name for the Russian Wolfhound?

3 In 1926, what did Variety magazine describe as “a

new development in radio”?

4 Which rock band disbanded four months after the

death of its founder, Jerry Garcia?

5 What kind of creature is a ‘blind snake’?

6 The Mozambique Channel separates which island

from mainland Africa?

7 In which US state is Anchorage?

8 By what name was Roman emperor Lucius Domitius

Ahenobarbus better known?

9 In 1988, who became the first woman elected to

govern a Muslim nation?

10 Where was the first convict settlement established in

Australia?

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Quiz No 311

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Baptists, 2 The Louvre, 3 Sioux, 4 South Carolina, 5 South America,

6 Sikhism, 7 Tadpoles, 8 St Ignatius Loyola, 9 Alberta, 10 Sirocco.

1 What name is given to members of a Protestant

church which baptises only those considered old

enough to accept the Christian faith?

2 In which museum and art gallery is the statue Venus

de Milo housed?

3 Which confederation of native North American Plains

tribes was also known as the Dakota?

4 Of which US state is Columbia the capital?

5 What is the fourth largest continent?

6 Which Indian religion was founded by Guru Nanak?

7 What name is given to the aquatic larvae of frogs and

toads?

8 Who was the Spanish founder of the Jesuits?

9 Of which Canadian province is Edmonton the capital?

10 Which hot wind blows from the deserts of North

Africa, across the Mediterranean to southern Europe?

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Quiz No 312

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Athens, 2 Miguel Indurain, 3 Yugoslavia, 4 Decathlon, 5 Seven, 6 Anthony

Trollope, 7 Western Australia, 8 George Harrison, 9 Dinosaur, 10 A policeman.

1 Which city hosted the 2004 Olympic Games?

2 Which cyclist won the Tour de France from

1991‑1995?

3 In which country was tennis star Monica Seles born?

4 In which event did Daley Thompson win two Olympic

gold medals?

5 What is the value of the black ball in snooker?

6 Who wrote the 1875 novel The Way We Live Now?

7 In which Australian state is Lake Disappointment?

8 Which of the Beatles is following the other three

across a zebra crossing on the album cover for

Abbey Road?

9 Which creature’s name derives from the Greek phrase

‘fearful lizard’?

10 In Australian slang, what is a ‘jonnop’?

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Quiz No 313

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Jonah, 2 Sitting, 3 Pigmy owl, 4 Eminem, 5 The Sex Pistols, 6 A llama,

7 A bangle, 8 Naphtali, 9 Italy, 10 Brazil.

1 Which book of the Bible has more chapters: Jonah or

Micah?

2 In heraldry, if an animal is sejant, how is it

represented?

3 Which is the smallest European owl?

4 Which controversial rap star appeared at the 2001

Brit Awards with a mask and chainsaw?

5 Which anarchic punk band had a UK top 5 hit in 1977

with God Save the Queen?

6 What type of animal is the emperor turned into in the

2000 Disney film The Emperor’s New Groove?

7 In Sikhism, what is a kara?

8 In the Bible, who was the sixth son of Jacob?

9 In which European country might one find a

spectacled salamander?

10 In which South American country is the Itatinga

waterfall?

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Quiz No 314

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Jim Henson, 2 Curaçao, 3 Elizabeth I, 4 Swedish, 5 Hercule Poirot, 6 North

Island, 7 Jessica Mitford, 8 The Elephant Man, 9 Chow Chow, 10 Lee Remick.

1 Which puppeteer created The Muppets?

2 Which island of the Netherlands Antilles gives its

name to a liqueur flavoured with orange peel?

3 Which English monarch was known as ‘The Virgin

Queen’?

4 What nationality was former World Heavyweight

Boxing Champion Ingemar Johansson?

5 Which detective died in Agatha Christie’s novel

Curtain?

6 Which is the smaller of the two main islands of New

Zealand?

7 Which English-born writer wrote The American Way of

Death?

8 By what name was Joseph Merrick known when he

appeared in freak-shows?

9 Which breed of dog is noted for its blue-black tongue?

10 Which US actress starred in Anatomy of a Murder,

Days of Wine and Roses and The Omen?

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Quiz No 315

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Paul Anka, 2 15 Minutes, 3 Osteoporosis, 4 Lyle Lovett, 5 Gemini, 6 Ice

hockey, 7 Brazil, 8 16, 9 France, 10 Volleyball.

1 Which Ottawa-born singer, composer and teen idol

wrote Frank Sinatra’s anthem My Way?

2 Which 2001 film starred Robert De Niro and Kelsey

Grammer?

3 What is the medical term for weakening of the

bones?

4 Which country singer and actor married Julia Roberts

in 1993?

5 In which constellation are the stars Castor and

Pollux?

6 Wayne Gretzky is a legend in which sport?

7 Which country won the 1970 Football World Cup?

8 With how many pieces does a player start a game of

chess?

9 In which country is the Magny-Cours motor racing

circuit?

10 Which team game was originally called mintonette?

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Quiz No 316

1 Which 1995 Jean Becker film starred Gerard

Depardieu and Vanessa Paradis?

2 In which decade did gangster Al Capone die?

3 In which year did Texas gain independence from

Mexico?

4 What shape is a ‘clevis’?

5 Rathlin Island lies between which two parts of the

British Isles?

6 If you have ‘hypermnesia’ what are you good at?

7 The name of which god of the Philistines in the Old

Testament meant ‘lord of flies’?

8 What was the name given to the journey of about

6,000 miles undertaken by around 100,000 Chinese

communists between 1934 and 1935?

9 Who was the author of the play The Glass

Menagerie?

10 Who played Carolyn in the film American Beauty?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Elisa, 2 1940s, 3 1836, 4 ‘U’ shaped, 5 Scotland and Northern Ireland,

6 Remembering, 7 Beelzebub, 8 The Long March, 9 Tennessee Williams,

10 Annette Bening.

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Quiz No 317

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Milan, 2 Dutch, 3 Charles II, 4 Stevie Smith, 5 Celeriac, 6 French, 7 Deep

Blue, 8 23rd, 9 Ivan, 10 Argentina.

1 In which Italian city is Leonardo da Vinci’s famous

fresco painting The Last Supper to be found?

2 What nationality was the artist Jan Vermeer?

3 Which English monarch acknowledged his Roman

Catholicism on his deathbed in 1685?

4 Which English poet and novelist wrote Not Waving,

but Drowning?

5 Which variety of celery is grown for its turnip-like,

edible root?

6 What is the most commonly-spoken language in

Quebec, Canada?

7 What was the name of the IBM computer that beat

reigning World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov in a

six-game series in New York in 1997?

8 “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want” is the first

line of which Psalm?

9 What name is the Russian equivalent of John?

10 Carlos Menem, Leopoldo Galtieri and Juan Peron

have all been presidents of which country?

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Quiz No 318

1 How many players are in a polo team?

2 Whose stories include The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?

3 Who sang the title song for the 1965 film What’s New

Pussycat?

4 Who wrote the 1937 book Of Mice and Men?

5 Which republic occupies the western part of the island

of Hispaniola?

6 On which river is the German industrial city of

Cologne?

7 Which bowed stringed instrument is the alto of the

violin family?

8 What is the derived SI unit of electrical resistance?

9 Which comedian stars in the 1923 silent comedy

Safety Last?

10 Which Walt Disney film was recreated as a stage

musical in London in 1999?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Four, 2 Washington Irving, 3 Tom Jones, 4 John Steinbeck, 5 Haiti, 6 Rhine,

7 Viola, 8 Ohm, 9 Harold Lloyd, 10 The Lion King.

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Quiz No 319

1 Which billionaire stood as a candidate in the US

presidential elections in 1992 and 1996?

2 What sort of creature is a ‘mud puppy’?

3 Who did Pat Cash beat in the Men’s Final of

Wimbledon in 1987?

4 What name is given to the outermost region of the

Sun’s atmosphere?

5 Which character in Greek mythology fell in love with

his own reflection?

6 Who wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of

Natural Selection?

7 Which prolific US author wrote Riders of the Purple

Sage?

8 Which is the sixth book of the Old Testament?

9 Which US lawman killed Billy the Kid?

10 Which young Jewish girl is famous for the diary

she kept while her family hid from the Nazis in

Amsterdam?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Ross Perot, 2 Salamander, 3 Ivan Lendl, 4 Corona, 5 Narcissus, 6 Charles

Darwin, 7 Zane Grey, 8 Joshua, 9 Pat Garrett, 10 Anne Frank.

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Quiz No 320

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Piccolo, 2 Jack Hobbs, 3 Athens, 4 Oliver Twist, 5 Jethro, 6 Grace Kelly,

7 Pole vault, 8 Dorothy Parker, 9 Belmont Stakes, 10 Cyclops.

1 Which is the highest-pitched woodwind instrument in

an orchestra?

2 Who was the first professional England cricketer to

be knighted?

3 What is the capital of Greece?

4 In which novel by Charles Dickens does the

character Bill Sykes appear?

5 In the Old Testament, which Midianite priest became

Moses’ father-in-law?

6 Which US actress became Princess Grace of

Monaco?

7 With which athletics event is Sergey Bubka

associated?

8 Which US writer claimed that “men seldom make

passes at girls who wear glasses”?

9 What is the oldest of the three classic races that

constitute the American Triple Crown?

10 In Greek mythology, what name was given to a

one‑eyed giant?

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Quiz No 321

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Sri Lanka, 2 Pennine Way, 3 Uzbekistan, 4 Massachusetts, 5 Hip, 6 Handel,

7 Eisenhower, 8 Blake Edwards, 9 Bishop, 10 Joy Adamson.

1 On which island is the Sinharaja Forest Reserve?

2 Which UK national trail runs from Edale to Kirk

Yetholm?

3 Of which former Soviet state is Tashkent the capital?

4 Off which US state is the island of Nantucket, a former

whaling centre?

5 Which bone of the body is also called the innominate

bone?

6 Who composed the Water Music and Music for the

Royal Fireworks?

7 Which US president was nicknamed ‘Ike’?

8 Who directed The Pink Panther films?

9 Which chess piece can only move diagonally?

10 Who wrote the 1960 book Born Free?

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Quiz No 322

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Glasgow, 2 Portugal, 3 D, 4 Ghana, 5 South Korean, 6 Denmark,

7 Saskatchewan, 8 Detroit, 9 1950s, 10 Joe Louis.

1 In which Scottish city is the University of Strathclyde?

2 Which country was known by the Romans as

Lusitania?

3 Rickets is a disease caused by a deficiency of which

vitamin?

4 From which country was the seventh Secretary

General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan?

5 …and what was the nationality of his successor,

Ban Ki-moon?

6 In which European country might one be awarded

The Order of the Elephant?

7 SK is the abbreviation of which Canadian province?

8 In which US city is the Henry Ford Museum?

9 In which decade of the 20th century did Japan join the

United Nations?

10 Which boxer was known as ‘The Brown Bomber’?

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Quiz No 323

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Mediterranean, 2 Basketball, 3 Baize, 4 Hockey, 5 Jeremiah, 6 Rugby

League, 7 Oslo, 8 Stephen Hawking, 9 Karel Capek, 10 Isabella.

1 Which sea was known to the Romans as Mare

Internum?

2 Which sport was invented by James Naismith in

1891?

3 What fabric covers a snooker table?

4 Shinty is a form of which sport?

5 Which book of the Bible has more chapters: Jeremiah

or Job?

6 In which sport does a hooter sound at the end of the

game?

7 What is the capital of Norway?

8 Which scientist wrote A Brief History of Time?

9 Which author introduced the word ‘robot’ into the

modern vocabulary?

10 What was the first name of the 19th century English

cookery writer, Mrs Beeton?

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Quiz No 324

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Scalene, 2 Bird, 3 Principal Skinner, 4 Moonlight, 5 Simon and Garfunkel,

6 Europe, 7 22, 8 Tusks, 9 Slalom, 10 Mexico.

1 What sort of triangle has sides all of a different length?

2 In the Peanuts cartoon strip, what sort of creature is

Woodstock?

3 In The Simpsons, who is headmaster at Bart and

Lisa’s school?

4 What is the nickname of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata

No 14?

5 Which pop duo were originally called Tom and Jerry?

6 Point Marroqui is the most southerly point of which

continent?

7 How many yards in a chain?

8 What is another name for the upper incisor teeth of

elephants?

9 Which form of competitive skiing derives its name

from a Norwegian word meaning ‘sloping track’?

10 In which country are the Sierra Madre mountains?

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Quiz No 325

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Red, 2 Before a main meal (hors d’oeuvres), 3 Abraham, 4 Jonathan

Swift, 5 Arnold Palmer, 6 Hugh Gaitskell, 7 Beirut, 8 Litre, 9 Ronan Keating,

10 Horse.

1 What is the colour of the pigment vermilion?

2 When in Russia would you eat zakuski?

3 Which Old Testament patriarch was the founder of the

Hebrew religion?

4 Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?

5 Which US golfer, credited with popularising the sport,

won The Open Championship in 1961 and 1962?

6 Who succeeded Clement Attlee as Labour party

leader in 1955?

7 What is the capital of Lebanon?

8 What metric unit of volume is equal to one cubic

decimetre?

9 Which member of Boyzone had a solo No 1 hit in

1999?

10 What sort of creature is a palamino?

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Quiz No 326

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Lorne Michaels, 2 Paraffin, 3 Sulphuric acid, 4 Lotte Lenya, 5 India,

6 Tungsten, 7 Aborigines, 8 Iceland, 9 Tchaikovsky, 10 Panama.

1 Name the Canadian comic mastermind behind

Saturday Night Live.

2 What is the usual British name for the fuel also called

kerosene?

3 Which acid has the chemical formula H2SO4?

4 Which actress and singer was married to Kurt Weill?

5 In which country is the city of Meerut, where a famous

mutiny began in 1857?

6 Which hard-grey metallic element is also known as

wolfram?

7 What name is given to the hunters and gatherers who

inhabited Australia before European settlement?

8 On which island is the volcano Hekla?

9 Who wrote the ballets Swan Lake and The

Nutcracker?

10 Of which Central American country was General

Noriega the leader?

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ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Edward VIII, 2 Bob Dylan, 3 Westerns, 4 Basketball, 5 Dr Seuss, 6 Love’s

Labours Lost, 7 Boys’ Town, 8 Jack London, 9 David, 10 The White Tower.

1 Which British king abdicated in 1936?

2 Which veteran singer-songwriter won the award for

Best Original Song at the 2001 Oscars?

3 With what sort of books is author Louis L’Amour

chiefly associated?

4 With which sport is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

associated?

5 Who wrote the book The Cat in the Hat?

6 Which Shakespeare play features Ferdinand, the

King of Navarre?

7 Which community for homeless boys was founded by

Father Edward Flanagan in Nebraska in 1917?

8 What was the pen-name of the author John Griffith

Chaney?

9 Abigail was one of the wives of which Biblical king of

Israel?

10 By what name is the central keep of the Tower of

London known?

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Quiz No 328

1 Which Austrian city, twice the venue for the Winter

Olympics, is the capital of the province of Tirol?

2 Which US novelist wrote The Bostonians and

The Turn of the Screw?

3 What sort of creature is a mandrill?

4 Which Thracian gladiator led a revolt against Rome in

73BC?

5 By what name is propanone, used as a solvent in nail

varnish remover, more commonly known?

6 What ancient name is given to the land between the

Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq?

7 Which city on the River Vienne is the centre of the

French porcelain industry?

8 How many teeth has the normal human adult?

9 Which city replaced Rio de Janeiro as the capital of

Brazil in 1960?

10 Which sweet yellow liqueur, consisting of brandy and

eggs, originated in The Netherlands?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Innsbruck, 2 Henry James, 3 Monkey, 4 Spartacus, 5 Acetone,

6 Mesopotamia, 7 Limoges, 8 32, 9 Brasilia, 10 Advocaat.

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Quiz No 329

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Newt Scamander, 2 Norway, 3 Lion, 4 Katharine of Aragon, 5 Dashiel

Hammett, 6 Northern lights, 7 California, 8 Yogi Bear, 9 World War II, 10 Bob

Dylan.

1 What pen-name does J K Rowling use as the author

of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?

2 Children’s TV favourite Pingu was created in which

country?

3 A griffin has the body of which animal?

4 Who was the first wife of King Henry VIII of England?

5 Who created the detective Sam Spade?

6 What is another name for the atmospheric

phenomenon aurora borealis?

7 In which US state is the hi-tech industrial region

known as Silicon Valley?

8 On television, who regarded himself as being

“smarter than the average bear”?

9 In which war did the Battle of Leyte Gulf take place?

10 Which legendary US vocalist had a top five single in

1969 with Lay Lady Lay?

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Quiz No 330

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, 2 Catfish, 3 Communication, 4 An outlaw,

5 Pond skater, 6 Transistor, 7 Iceland, 8 The Birdman of Alcatraz, 9 Galaxies,

10 Whales.

1 Which off-beat song gave Ian Dury his only UK

number one single?

2 Which fish gets its name from its long whisker-like

barbels?

3 Of what is semiotics the study?

4 What was a bushranger in 19th and 20th century

Australia?

5 Which long-legged insect is also known as a water

strider?

6 What name is given to a semiconductor with three or

more electrodes?

7 In which country is the Althing, the world’s oldest

parliament?

8 Used as the title of a Hollywood film based on his life

story, what was Robert Franklin Stroud’s nickname?

9 Which astronomical features may be spiral, barred or

elliptical?

10 Of which family of creatures is the porpoise the

smallest member?

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Quiz No 331

1 What form of transport is a ‘travois’?

2 What is another word for an alligator pear?

3 Which country in Africa is immediately west of

Egypt?

4 In which game is a ‘cayman’ used?

5 Which US state is further north: Alabama or Utah?

6 Which Spanish artist’s paintings included 1934’s

Girl Reading at a Table?

7 If an actor ‘dries’ what does he or she do?

8 In which industry would neroli oil be used?

9 What is the square root of 16?

10 Which legendary singer/songwriter was killed on

8 December 1980?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 A sled, 2 Avocado, 3 Libya, 4 Shinty, 5 Utah, 6 Pablo Picasso, 7 Forgets his

or her lines, 8 Perfumery, 9 Four, 10 John Lennon.

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Quiz No 332

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Lorne Greene, 2 Lewis Carroll, 3 Saudi Arabia, 4 50, 5 Pacific Ocean,

6 Jane Austen, 7 Fort Knox, 8 Episode 1, 9 David Lean, 10 Capillaries.

1 Which Canadian newsreader went on to play the

patriarch in the hit TV show Bonanza?

2 Which British writer penned The Hunting of the

Snark?

3 Of which country was Faisal Ibn Abdul Aziz king, from

1964 to 1975?

4 What does the number L represent in Roman

numerals?

5 Which is the world’s deepest ocean?

6 Who wrote the novels Emma and Persuasion?

7 Which Kentucky army post is the location of the US

gold bullion depository?

8 What was the title of the fourth Star Wars film to be

made?

9 Who directed the films Lawrence of Arabia, The

Bridge on the River Kwai and Dr Zhivago?

10 What is the name of the small blood vessels that

connect small arteries with small veins?

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Quiz No 333

1 If it were possible to sail due north from the north

coast of Scotland (the Arctic ice being your only

barrier!) in which country would you make landfall?

2 The name of which alcoholic drink is derived from the

Gaelic ‘uisge beatha’, meaning ‘the water of life’?

3 After which English scientist is the SI unit of electrical

capacitance, the farad, named?

4 By what name was blues and folk singer Huddie

Ledbetter known?

5 What sort of creature is a sea butterfly?

6 What name is given to the movement for reunification

of the various branches of the Christian church?

7 By what name was Scottish King Robert I known?

8 Which city is known as Firenze to the Italians?

9 Who wrote the music to the operas The Marriage of

Figaro and Don Giovanni?

10 Which term translates as ‘lightning war’ and was

used to describe military tactics used by Germany in

World War II?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Russia, 2 Whisky, 3 Faraday, 4 Leadbelly, 5 Mollusc, 6 Ecumenical

Movement, 7 Robert the Bruce, 8 Florence, 9 Mozart, 10 Blitzkrieg.

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Quiz No 334

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 14 February, 2 Bermuda, 3 Neil Young, 4 Thrombosis, 5 Oasis, 6 Germany,

7 A J Cronin, 8 Izmir, 9 Sergei Eisenstein, 10 Spencer Perceval.

1 When is the feast day of St Valentine?

2 Of which British crown colony is Hamilton the capital?

3 Name the unpredictable Canadian musician who

composed Heart of Gold?

4 What is the term for the formation of a blood clot

inside a blood vessel?

5 Of which band was guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs

a founder member?

6 In which European country are the forested highlands

of Hunsrück?

7 Who wrote The Citadel and Hatter’s Castle?

8 Which Turkish city was formerly known as Smyrna?

9 Which noted Soviet filmmaker directed Battleship

Potemkin and Alexander Nevsky?

10 Who is the only British prime minister to have been

assassinated?

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Quiz No 335

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Croesus, 2 Charles Lamb, 3 Zeus, 4 National Aeronautics and Space

Administration, 5 Margaret Court, 6 Moscow, 7 The Swiss Family Robinson,

8 Zucchini, 9 Wounded Knee, 10 Vulture.

1 Who was the last king of Lydia, famous for his wealth?

2 Which essayist and critic collaborated with his sister

Mary on Tales From Shakespeare?

3 Who was the supreme deity of Greek mythology?

4 What do the initials NASA stand for?

5 Who was the first Australian to win the Women’s

Singles title at Wimbledon?

6 What is the capital of Russia?

7 Which well-known children’s story was written by

Swiss author Johann Weiss?

8 What is the vegetable ‘courgette’ known as in the

USA?

9 What was the South Dakota site of the last major

battle between North American natives and US troops

in 1890?

10 What sort of creature is a lammergeier?

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Quiz No 336

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Crystals, 2 Chelsea, 3 Fur or animal skin, 4 Canada, 5 Five, 6 Isles of

Scilly, 7 Denmark, 8 Esther, 9 Caribbean Community and Common Market,

10 58 weeks.

1 Of what is chrystallophobia the fear: crystals or the

colour green?

2 Which football team won the first UK FA Cup final at

the new Wembley Stadium, in 2007?

3 Of what is doraphobia the fear?

4 Which country administers the Queen Charlotte

Islands?

5 How many digits has a bear on each foot?

6 In which group of UK islands would one find Tresco

and St Mary’s?

7 Which country was called Dania by the Romans?

8 Which book of the Bible has more chapters: Esther or

Ruth?

9 Which international organization goes by the

acronym CARICOM?

10 What is the average gestation period of a camel:

28 weeks or 58 weeks?

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Quiz No 337

1 Which narcotic was removed from Coca Cola’s

formula in 1905?

2 Which rock star’s leather trousers were sold for

£28,000 at Sotheby’s in 1996?

3 Who starred as the athlete fighting for his free will in

the 1975 film Rollerball?

4 What sort of animal was the star of the 1995 Babe?

5 In which country is a ‘grosz’ a monetary unit?

6 Which country in Africa is immediately west of

Western Zambia?

7 In the US, what is a ‘flack’?

8 Where was William Rufus killed by an arrow in 1100?

9 What is the English equivalent of a ‘dome fastener’?

10 What was unusual about the three albums by Eva

Cassidy which reached No 1 in the UK charts in

2001‑2003?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Cocaine, 2 Jim Morrison, 3 James Caan, 4 Pig, 5 Poland, 6 Angola,

7 A press or publicity agent, 8 New Forest, 9 Press stud, 10 They were all

issued posthumously.

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Quiz No 338

1 What is the second planet from the sun?

2 Of which Caribbean country is Port-au-Prince the

capital?

3 What name is given to the wind pattern that brings

heavy rain to south Asia from April to September?

4 In which US state is the volcano Mount St Helen’s?

5 What is fermented to make the Japanese drink known

as sake?

6 By what name was Russian Tsar Peter I known?

7 Which breed of tail-less short-haired cat was originally

bred on the Isle of Man?

8 Which European country was ruled by Antonio de

Oliveira Salazar from 1932 to 1968?

9 Which region of the USA comprises the states of

Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,

Rhode Island and Connecticut?

10 Which five-line form of comic verse was popularised

by Edward Lear in the 19th century?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Venus, 2 Haiti, 3 Monsoon, 4 Washington, 5 Rice, 6 Peter the Great, 7 Manx

cat, 8 Portugal, 9 New England, 10 Limerick.

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Quiz No 339

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The Soviet Union, 2 Hair, 3 Pacific, 4 Shire horse, 5 Deciduous tree with

edible fruits, 6 Sicily, 7 Canada, 8 Paraguay, 9 Eagle, 10 Ballistics.

1 What did Winston Churchill refer to as “a riddle

wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”?

2 Of what is the horn of a rhinoceros made?

3 In which ocean are the Midway Islands?

4 Developed in England from war-horses, what is the

largest breed of horse?

5 Native to Europe, what is a medlar?

6 On which Mediterranean island is Palermo?

7 Mount Logan is the highest peak in which country?

8 Which country in South America was originally

inhabited by the Guarani Indians?

9 What is a score of two strokes less than par for a hole

in golf called?

10 What name is given to the study of the flight dynamics

of projectiles?

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Quiz No 340

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Orang utan, 2 Kingsley Amis, 3 Julia Roberts, 4 Pork, 5 Billy Bunter,

6 Venom, 7 Sweet potato, 8 Lusaka, 9 Montmartre, 10 Lusitania.

1 Which great ape is found solely in Borneo and

Sumatra?

2 Who wrote the novels Lucky Jim and The Old Devils?

3 Who plays the female lead in the 1999 film Notting

Hill?

4 With which meat is apple sauce usually served?

5 Which famous pupil of Greyfriars School featured in

stories by Frank Richards?

6 What is the name given to the poison secreted by

snakes and scorpions?

7 In New Zealand, what is a kumera?

8 What is the capital of Zambia?

9 Which district of Paris is famous for its street artists

and the basilica of Sacré Coeur?

10 Which British liner was sunk by a German submarine

on 7 May 1915?

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Quiz No 341

1 Of which group of peoples was Arnakuagsak the

goddess responsible for ensuring hunters were able to

catch enough food and that people remained healthy

and strong?

2 By what initials was the Committee of State Security

Secret Police of the Soviet Union known?

3 Which religious leader issued the fatwa against

Salman Rushdie because of his book Satanic Verses?

4 Which of the Apollo space missions made the first

manned lunar landing?

5 Which important vitamin is also called ascorbic acid?

6 By what name is an elk known in North America?

7 Which metallic element has the symbol Rh?

8 Which legendary Trojan leader is the hero of Virgil’s

most famous work?

9 What was the surname of the British royal family until

it was changed to Windsor in 1917?

10 What name is given to an industry in which the market

is supplied by only one supplier?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Inuit, 2 KGB, 3 Ayatollah Khomeini, 4 Apollo 11, 5 C, 6 Moose, 7 Rhodium,

8 Aeneas, 9 Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 10 Monopoly.

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Quiz No 342

1 What sort of creature is a prairie dog?

2 In which US state is Dodge City?

3 How many legs has a lobster?

4 In which country is the city of Eindhoven?

5 In which year were the Winter Olympics held in

Grenoble, France?

6 What name is given to the fatty substance released by

sebaceous glands?

7 Which star of the film Billy Elliot won the Best Actor

award at the 2001 BAFTAs?

8 How many feet are there in one yard?

9 Which winter sport event combines cross-country

skiing and rifle shooting?

10 Who was the first athlete to win two Olympic

marathons?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Rodent, 2 Kansas, 3 10, 4 Holland, 5 1968, 6 Sebum, 7 Jamie Bell, 8 Three,

9 Biathlon, 10 Abebe Bikila.

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Quiz No 343

1 What kind of books does the specialist publisher

Baedeker produce?

2 What name is given to the indigenous Polynesian

people of New Zealand?

3 What name is given to the leader of congregational

prayer in a mosque?

4 Invented by Leo Baekeland, what was the first

plastic?

5 Which island in San Francisco Bay was the site of a

notorious maximum security prison?

6 What was Antonio Stradivari famous for

manufacturing?

7 Which is the largest island in the Canadian Arctic?

8 What name is given to an abnormally low

concentration of sugar in the blood?

9 What name is given to rodents of the family

sciuridae?

10 What name is given to the hereditary condition in

which blood does not clot properly?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Travel guide books, 2 Maoris, 3 Imam, 4 Bakelite, 5 Alcatraz, 6 Violins,

violas and cellos, 7 Baffin Island, 8 Hypoglycaemia, 9 Squirrels,

10 Haemophilia.

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Quiz No 344

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Sailing, 2 Fisher, 3 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 4 Richard Nixon, 5 Moonies,

6 337, 7 Manchuria, 8 Judaism, 9 Zeta, 10 Arizona.

1 At which sport did Iain Percy win a gold medal at the

2000 Olympics?

2 Which shipping forecast area lies immediately east of

Forties?

3 Which 1953 film starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane

Russell featured the song Diamonds are a Girl’s Best

Friend?

4 Which former US president wrote the 1985 book

No More Vietnams?

5 What is the name by which members of the

Unification Church are more commonly known?

6 What is the average gestation period (in days) of a

horse?

7 Which Chinese province was invaded by Japan in

1931 and not relinquished until 1945?

8 In which religion is the Beth Din the court of

judgment?

9 Which letter of the Greek alphabet is the equivalent

of the letter ‘Z’?

10 Which US state is larger in area: Arizona or

Colorado?

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Quiz No 345

1 What was the name of the driver of the car in which

Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed?

2 Which light gas is used for inflating airships and

balloons?

3 In which year did Elizabeth II become Queen?

4 What name is given to an area of desert where water

is available?

5 What is the capital of The Netherlands?

6 Which Shakespeare play features the character

Shylock?

7 Which radioactive metallic element has the symbol

Th?

8 Which British naturalist, writer and zoo curator penned

My Family and Other Animals?

9 Which is the world’s largest inland sea?

10 What name is given to the rounded underground base

of the stem of a daffodil, tulip or onion?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Henri Paul, 2 Helium, 3 1952, 4 Oasis, 5 Amsterdam, 6 The Merchant of

Venice, 7 Thorium, 8 Gerald Durrell, 9 Caspian Sea, 10 Bulb.

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Quiz No 346

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Liqueurs, 2 Three, 3 Suffolk, 4 Engelbert Humperdinck, 5 1381, 6 Auguste

Comte, 7 Birkenhead, 8 Trachoma, 9 Green, 10 L S Lowry.

1 What name is given to sweetened alcoholic drinks

such as Benedictine, Chartreuse and Curaçao?

2 How many horns had the dinosaur triceratops?

3 In which English county is Bury St Edmunds?

4 Which German composer is best known for the opera

Hansel and Gretel?

5 In which year was the Peasants’ Revolt?

6 Which French philosopher coined the term

‘sociology’?

7 Which Merseyside port is linked to Liverpool by road

and rail tunnels?

8 Which chronic eye infection is the world’s most

common cause of blindness?

9 What colour is the variety of beryl known as emerald?

10 Which British painter was famous for his industrial

scenes dotted with matchstick figures?

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Quiz No 347

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Cannibalism, 2 League of Nations, 3 OPEC, 4 Mars, 5 1952, 6 Shintoism,

7 It is the world’s largest underground lake, 8 Chicken, 9 Mexico City,

10 Vancouver.

1 What was the strange crime of German computer

technician Armin Meiwes, who was brought to trial in

2003?

2 Which organization was replaced by the United

Nations in 1945?

3 Which organization was initially formed by Iran, Iraq,

Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela in 1960?

4 Which planet comes first in Gustav Holst’s The

Planets Suite?

5 Following the end of World War II, until which year did

the US occupy Japan?

6 What is the main religion of Japan?

7 In what respect is the Lost Sea in the US state of

Tennessee the world’s largest lake?

8 Cochin, Welsummer and Light Sussex are all breeds

of which animal?

9 Which capital city, a one-time Olympics venue, stands

at over 2,500 metres above sea level and has a

museum dedicated to Leon Trotsky?

10 Which city started out as Gastown and is now the

largest city in British Columbia?

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Quiz No 348

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Cupid, 2 Hamlet, 3 Dakar, 4 Wind, 5 Liver, 6 T S Eliot, 7 Cupronickel,

8 Germany, 9 Cygnus, 10 Seven.

1 Which god of love is the Roman counterpart of Eros?

2 Ethan Hawke played the title rôle in a 2000 film

version of which Shakespeare play?

3 What is the capital of Senegal?

4 What sort of weather phenomenon is a khamsin?

5 To which organ of the body does the adjective

‘hepatic’ relate?

6 Which poet and dramatist wrote The Waste Land and

The Cocktail Party?

7 Which alloy of copper and nickel is used for coins?

8 In which country is Elvis Presley’s character stationed

in the 1960 film GI Blues?

9 Of which constellation is Deneb the brightest star?

10 What is the minimum number of points needed to win

a tie-break in tennis?

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Quiz No 349

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The Boston Tea Party, 2 Nicole Kidman, 3 Owl, 4 John Keats, 5 C,

6 Lumière, 7 Cuckoo, 8 San Francisco, 9 Saskatchewan, 10 Fish.

1 Which expression of hostility towards Britain took

place in Boston in 1773?

2 Who was Tom Cruise’s second wife?

3 Which nocturnal bird of prey has (among others)

snowy and tawny varieties?

4 Which English romantic poet wrote Endymion?

5 Scurvy is caused by a deficiency of which vitamin?

6 What was the surname of the French brothers who

pioneered motion pictures in the late 19th century?

7 Which bird with a distinctive call lays its eggs in the

nests of other birds?

8 The Golden Gate Bridge is a feature in which US city?

9 Of which Canadian province is Regina the capital?

10 What sort of creature is a dace?

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Quiz No 350

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Donald Sutherland, 2 Antarctica, 3 Ermine, 4 Amundsen, 5 Agatha

Christie, 6 Espalier, 7 Robert Redford, 8 South African, 9 Robert Graves,

10 Oberammergau.

1 Which Canadian actor is the father of Kiefer

Sutherland?

2 Which continent comprises the land around the South

Pole?

3 What name is given to a stoat in its white winter coat?

4 Which Norwegian explorer beat Scott’s expedition to

the South Pole in 1911?

5 Who wrote the detective novels Murder on the Orient

Express and Death on the Nile?

6 What name is given to a shrub or tree trained to grow

flat against a wall or a trellis?

7 Which actor starred in the films All the President’s

Men and Out of Africa?

8 What was the nationality of author Laurens van der

Post?

9 Who wrote the autobiographical work Goodbye to All

That?

10 Which Bavarian town is famous for its Passion Play

which is performed every ten years?

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Quiz No 351

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Elliott, 2 Cheese, 3 Lyndon B Johnson, 4 Holiday Inn, 5 Ascuncion, 6 Au,

7 Henry Mancini, 8 Charlton Heston, 9 Scottish, 10 A musical instrument.

1 What was the name of the boy who befriended ET in

the film of that name?

2 Of what is Roquefort a type?

3 Who was president of the USA from 1963 to 1969?

4 The song White Christmas comes from which film?

5 What is the capital of Paraguay?

6 What is the chemical symbol for gold?

7 Which US film composer won Oscars for his work on

Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Victor/Victoria?

8 Which actor said “I have played three presidents,

three saints and two geniuses: if that doesn’t create

an ego problem, nothing does”?

9 What nationality was the explorer Mungo Park?

10 What is a clavicord?

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Quiz No 352

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 The Battle of Actium, 2 Wisconsin, 3 James, 4 Max Planck, 5 20, 6 Heel,

7 Bel canto, 8 Sir Arthur Sullivan, 9 Magpie, 10 Primrose.

1 In which decisive naval battle did Octavian defeat

Mark Antony in 31BC?

2 Of which US state is Madison the capital?

3 What is Paul McCartney’s real first name?

4 Which German physicist formulated the quantum

theory?

5 What number is between five and one on a

dartboard?

6 In Greek legend, by which part of his body was

Achilles held when he was dipped in the River Styx?

7 Which musical term literally means ‘beautiful singing’

in Italian?

8 Who wrote the music for the hymn Onward Christian

Soldiers?

9 Which bird of the crow family has the Latin name

pica pica?

10 To which family of plants does cyclamen belong?

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Quiz No 353

1 Which section of the Mediterranean Sea contains the

Cyclades and Dodecanese Islands?

2 What name is given to the rate of upward change of

the velocity of a moving body?

3 Which English crime writer created Lord Peter

Wimsey?

4 What was the ancient name for the Dardanelles, the

straits separating European and Asian Turkey?

5 In Greek mythology, which daughter of Demeter was

carried off by Hades, who made her queen of the

underworld?

6 Who wrote the novel The Cruel Sea, based on his

own experiences in World War II?

7 Which US president was assassinated by John

Wilkes Booth?

8 Which entrepreneur founded the Virgin Record

Company in 1969?

9 What name is given to a precipitation that has

absorbed sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from

the atmosphere?

10 What sort of creature is a hairstreak?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Aegean Sea, 2 Acceleration, 3 Dorothy L Sayers, 4 Hellespont,

5 Persephone, 6 Nicholas Monsarrat, 7 Abraham Lincoln, 8 Richard Branson,

9 Acid rain, 10 Butterfly.

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Quiz No 354

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Beginners’ All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, 2 Denmark, 3 France,

4 Jacques Cousteau, 5 Florence, 6 Rhône, 7 Joe DiMaggio, 8 Montana,

9 George Bernard Shaw, 10 The Phantom.

1 What does the computer programming language

BASIC stand for?

2 Zeeland, Fyn, Lolland, Falster and Bornholm are the

principals islands of which country?

3 Which country is the most popular destination for

foreign tourists?

4 Which French oceanographer commanded the

research vessel Calypso?

5 Which city is the capital of the Tuscany region of

Italy?

6 Immortalized by the rhyme, the bridge of Avignon in

France crosses which river?

7 Which baseball player featured in the lyrics of Simon

and Garfunkel’s Mrs Robinson?

8 The Flathead Lake Monster is said to exist in which

US state?

9 Who wrote Arms and the Man and Man and

Superman?

10 Into which superhero did Jim McGuire of the Daily

World Newspaper turn after falling into a tankful of

chemicals?

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Quiz No 355

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Ontario, 2 William Hogarth, 3 Muckle Flugga, 4 Gloria Swanson, 5 64,

6 Delirium tremens, 7 Boris Karloff, 8 Howard Hawks, 9 Green, 10 Inter Milan.

1 In which Canadian province is Algonquin Provincial

Park?

2 Which English artist is best known for A Rake’s

Progress?

3 What is the northernmost point of the British Isles?

4 Which former silent film star is best known for her

portrayal of Norma Desmond in the 1950 film Sunset

Boulevard?

5 How many squares has a chessboard?

6 Which feature of chronic alcoholism is known as the

DTs?

7 Which horror film actor was born William Henry

Pratt?

8 Who directed the films To Have and Have Not, The

Big Sleep and Rio Bravo?

9 What colour is the ball worth three points in snooker?

10 For which soccer club did Ronaldo leave Barcelona?

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Quiz No 356

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Beau Geste, 2 Queen, 3 Zinc, 4 Pakistan, 5 Veins, 6 John Wyndham,

7 Hinduism, 8 Tower Bridge, 9 Central Intelligence Agency, 10 Young Men’s

Christian Association.

1 Which famous story of the French Foreign Legion was

written by P C Wren?

2 What is the most powerful piece in a game of chess?

3 Which bluish-white metallic element has the symbol

Zn?

4 In which country did General Zia ul-Haq lead a military

coup in 1977?

5 What name is given to blood vessels which carry

oxygen-depleted blood to the heart?

6 Who wrote The Day of the Triffids?

7 The Vedas are the basic scriptures of which religion?

8 Which bridge across the River Thames has a central

portion which lifts to enable ships to pass through it

into the Pool of London?

9 What does the abbreviation CIA stand for?

10 What do the initials YMCA stand for?

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Quiz No 357

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Lionel Ritchie, 2 Aintree, 3 Uruguay, 4 Mika Hakkinen, 5 Hawaii, 6 Tuvalu,

7 Kenya, 8 Rat, 9 Majorca, 10 The Golden Cockerel.

1 Which singing artist fronted The Commodores for

12 years before going solo in 1982?

2 At which racecourse is the English Grand National

run?

3 The port of Salto is the second largest city of which

South American country?

4 Which Finn was the 1998 Australian Formula 1 Grand

Prix winner?

5 In which US state is the Kilauea volcano?

6 Of which country is Funafuti the capital?

7 In which African country are the Karuru and Gura

waterfalls?

8 Which animal represents the year 2008 in the Chinese

calendar?

9 On which Mediterranean island is the author Robert

Graves buried?

10 In which opera by Rimsky Korsakov does King Dodon

appear?

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Quiz No 358

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Bridget Jones, 2 Lake Ladoga, Russia, 3 KwaZulu/Natal, 4 Heinrich

Himmler, 5 Norma Jean, 6 West Side Story, 7 Menelaus, 8 North Dakota,

9 Robert Mitchum, 10 Jamaica.

1 Which fictional diarist was created by Helen Fielding?

2 What is the largest lake in Europe?

3 Which South African province was formerly known as

Natal?

4 Which Nazi politician led the SS from 1929 and the

Gestapo from 1936?

5 What were Marilyn Monroe’s real first names?

6 Which musical has won the most Oscars?

7 Who was the husband of Helen of Troy?

8 Of which US state is Bismarck the capital?

9 Which US actor starred in Cape Fear, Thunder Road

and The Winds of War?

10 In which country did reggae music originate?

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Quiz No 359

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Diana Krall, 2 Apollo 12, 3 St Valentine’s Day, 4 Bazaar, 5 Halley’s, 6 Sextet,

7 Pablo Picasso, 8 Eddie Murphy, 9 Olivia de Havilland, 10 Bazooka.

1 Which Canadian jazz diva married English musician

Elvis Costello in 2003?

2 Which Apollo space mission was manned by Charles

Conrad, Alan Bean and Richard Gordon?

3 The film Picnic at Hanging Rock begins on which

day, normally associated with love?

4 What word comes from the Persian for a public

market district of a town?

5 Which comet is shown on the Bayeux Tapestry?

6 What name is given to a musical composition for six

instruments?

7 Which Spanish painter was noted for his Blue Period

in the early 20th century?

8 Which actor played eight rôles in the 2000 film sequel

Nutty Professor II: the Klumps?

9 Which US actress was the elder sister of Joan

Fontaine?

10 What nickname was given to the M9A1 shoulder-held

rocket launcher of World War II?

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Quiz No 360

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Sydney, 2 Asia, 3 Agatha Christie, 4 Ellen, 5 1440, 6 Chicago, 7 Pisces,

8 Pig, 9 Top Gun, 10 Herbie.

1 Which is Australia’s largest city by population?

2 A rickshaw would typically be used as a form of

transport in parts of which continent?

3 Who wrote the whodunnit novel The Murder of Roger

Ackroyd?

4 What was the first name of Sigourney Weaver’s

character Ripley in the Alien films?

5 How many minutes are there in one day?

6 Which US city is nicknamed ‘The Windy City’?

7 What is the twelfth sign of the zodiac?

8 What sort of animal is Snowball in George Orwell’s

Animal Farm?

9 Take My Breath Away was the 1986 Oscar-winning

song from which film?

10 What was the name of the car in the film The

Lovebug?

364

Quiz No 361

1 If you are performing ‘oscitancy’, what are you doing?

2 What was the title of Kylie Minogue’s first UK No 1

single?

3 Which veteran rock group released an album in 1966

entitled Don’t Stop?

4 Which Canadian group recorded the 2000 album

Maroon?

5 Approximately how many islands constitute the

Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea: is it 220, 320 or

420?

6 In US politics, who carries the nickname ‘the Veep’?

7 In which European country is the town of Gouda?

8 What is an ‘elf-cup’?

9 Which English monarch was crowned in 1558?

10 What is a ‘caparison’?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Yawning, 2 I Should Be So Lucky, 3 Status Quo, 4 Bare Naked Ladies,

5 220, 6 Vice-president, 7 The Netherlands, 8 A type of fungus, 9 Queen

Elizabeth, 10 An ornamental covering for a horse.

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Quiz No 362

1 In which sport is the term ‘hookcheck’ often used?

2 Cardinal Richelieu was the chief minister of which

French monarch?

3 What sort of creatures transmit Lyme disease?

4 What nationality is swimmer Pieter van den

Hoogenband?

5 In which city is the US governing body of basketball,

the NBA, based?

6 Who wrote the stage play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?

7 What name is given to the strap which runs between

the reins and the girth of a horse and prevents it from

carrying its head too high?

8 Which river flows through the Sea of Galilee?

9 Gatun Lake is part of which canal?

10 In which ocean are the volcanic D’Entrecasteaux

Islands?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Ice hockey, 2 Louis XIII, 3 Ticks, 4 Dutch, 5 New York, 6 Tennessee

Williams, 7 (Running) Martingale, 8 River Jordan, 9 Panama Canal, 10 Pacific.

366

Quiz No 363

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Premium Bonds, 2 Conscription, 3 The Verve, 4 Dead Sea, 5 Anne of

Cleves, 6 Guitar, 7 Vampires, 8 Sanskrit, 9 Golda Meir, 10 Windmill.

1 Which UK government securities, introduced in 1956,

entitle the holders to participate in a prize draw?

2 What name is given to the compulsory enlistment of

recruits for military service?

3 Which group had a hit with Bitter Sweet Symphony in

1997?

4 What is the name of the large salty lake which lies

between Israel and Jordan?

5 Who was the fourth wife of Henry VIII?

6 Which stringed instrument is featured in Rodrigo’s

Concierto de Aranjuez?

7 Which characters of Eastern European folklore are

repelled by crucifixes, garlic and the light of day?

8 What is the classic literary language of the Hindu

scriptures?

9 Which Russian-born woman was prime minister of

Israel from 1969 to 1974?

10 What wind-powered device was first built in Persia

around 500AD?

367

Quiz No 364

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Entebbe, 2 Bric-a-brac, 3 Toga, 4 Kindergarten, 5 XIX, 6 Snakes,

7 St Matthew, 8 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 9 Puccini, 10 Turin.

1 In 1976, Israeli troops stormed a hijacked plane at

which Ugandan airport?

2 Which French term meaning ‘odds and ends’ is used

in English for miscellaneous small objects, ornaments,

trinkets, etc?

3 Name the loose-fitting garment consisting of a piece

of cloth, draped around the body and worn by the

citizens of ancient Rome?

4 What kind of school literally means ‘children’s garden’

in German?

5 How is 19 written in Roman numerals?

6 What type of creatures are the eastern diamondback,

and fer de lance?

7 One of the apostles, he was a tax collector until he

became a follower of Jesus; he is the patron saint of

accountants, banks and customs officers – can you

name him?

8 George Lazenby played James Bond only once – in

which film?

9 Who wrote the opera Tosca?

10 Which city was the first capital of the kingdom of Italy,

until 1865?

368

Quiz No 365

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Jim Carrey, 2 Androcles, 3 Edward Jenner, 4 Blue Whale, 5 Eland,

6 London, 7 Cyclops, 8 Epiphany, 9 Krakatoa, 10 Ejector seat.

1 Which Canadian comic starred in The Mask and

Liar Liar?

2 Which Roman slave is associated with a lion?

3 Which physician coined the word ‘vaccination’?

4 What is the world’s largest living mammal?

5 What is the world’s largest species of antelope?

6 In which city was the first underground railway line,

opened in 1863?

7 What was the name of the one-eyed, man-eating

giants in Greek mythology?

8 Which Christian festival commemorates the coming of

the Magi?

9 Which Indonesian volcano erupted in 1883, killing over

36,000 people and creating the loudest explosions in

recorded history?

10 Which aircraft safety system was invented by James

Martin?

369

Quiz No 366

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Margaret Lawrence, 2 Woodrow Wilson, 3 Cary Grant, 4 Kookaburra,

5 Richard Hannay of The Thirty-Nine Steps, 6 Tabitha, 7 The Rainbow,

8 Andes, 9 Computers, 10 Foxes.

1 Which beloved and accomplished Canadian author

wrote The Stone Angel and Dance on the Earth?

2 Who followed William Taft as US president?

3 Which actor was born Archibald Alexander Leach?

4 Which of these birds (if any) can fly: kookaburra,

ostrich, kiwi, cassowary?

5 Who have Robert Donat, Kenneth More and Robert

Powell all played on film?

6 What was the name of the daughter of Samantha and

Darrin in Bewitched?

7 Which D H Lawrence novel concerns several

generations of the Brangwen family?

8 Aconcagua is the highest peak in which mountain

chain?

9 Of what is cyberphobia the irrational fear?

10 The adjective ‘vulpine’ relates to which family of

animals?

370

Quiz No 367

1 Which former Chilean dictator was arrested in

London in 1998?

2 What do the initials OPEC stand for?

3 Which Shakespeare play features the characters

Mercutio and Tybalt?

4 Which Dutch artist painted The Anatomy Lesson of

Doctor Tulp and The Night Watch?

5 In which US state is the city of San Diego?

6 Which New Testament apostle was martyred on an

X-shaped cross?

7 What name is given to the stiffening of a body after

death?

8 Who was the Greek goddess of war and wisdom?

9 Which island country was formerly known as the

Malagasy Republic?

10 What is the official language of the principality of

Liechtenstein?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 General Pinochet, 2 Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries,

3 Romeo and Juliet, 4 Rembrandt van Rijn, 5 California, 6 St Andrew, 7 Rigor

mortis, 8 Athena, 9 Madagascar, 10 German.

371

Quiz No 368

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Steve McQueen, 2 HearSay, 3 P G Wodehouse, 4 Ngaio Marsh, 5 50,

6 Atlantic, 7 Elephant, 8 Tetanus, 9 Joad, 10 English.

1 Who was married to actress Ali McGraw from 1973

to 1978?

2 Kym Marsh was the first member to leave which

manufactured pop group?

3 Who wrote the books which were adapted for the TV

series Jeeves and Wooster?

4 Who created the character Chief Inspector Roderick

Alleyn?

5 How many white stars are on the national flag of the

USA?

6 In the film The Hunt for Red October, in which ocean

does the action take place?

7 A howdah is a seat used for riding on the back of

which animal?

8 What is another term for lockjaw?

9 What is the name of the family featured in the John

Ford film The Grapes of Wrath?

10 What nationality was the composer Edward Elgar?

372

Quiz No 369

1 Which Australian medical service began in Cloncurry

in Queensland in 1928?

2 Which is the nearest star to Earth?

3 What is the name of the famous ghost ship seen in

bad weather off the Cape of Good Hope?

4 Which British-born South African financier had an

African country named after him?

5 In which Scottish town was the Royal and Ancient

Golf Club founded in 1754?

6 What is the name for the flame-like electrical

discharge that sometimes occurs above ship’s masts

in thundery weather?

7 Of which Canadian province is St John’s the capital?

8 What is the medical name for the tube (also called

the gullet) by which food travels from the mouth to

the stomach?

9 Which French novelist and aviator wrote The Little

Prince?

10 Which city in Florida is closest to the Walt Disney

World complex?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Flying Doctor Service, 2 The Sun, 3 The Flying Dutchman, 4 Cecil Rhodes

(Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe), 5 St Andrew’s, 6 St Elmo’s Fire, 7 Newfoundland,

8 Oesophagus, 9 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 10 Orlando.

373

Quiz No 370

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Moscow, 2 Personal Computer Memory Card International Association,

3 19th, 4 *N Sync, 5 A light year, 6 Off the Wall, 7 Maine, 8 Beatrice Lillie,

9 Rhea, 10 The Lion-heart (or Coeur de Lion).

1 In which European city are the Pushkin Museum of

Fine Arts and the Kremlin?

2 In computing what does PCMCIA stand for?

3 In which century did British biologist Thomas Henry

Huxley live?

4 Which boy band recorded the 2001 single Pop?

5 What unit of distance used in astronomy is equal to

0.3066 of a parsec?

6 Which 1979 record album by Michael Jackson spent

over 170 weeks in the UK album chart?

7 The St John River, which forms part of the

international boundary between the US and Canada,

rises in which state?

8 Which Canada-born revue singer’s films included

1967’s Thoroughly Modern Millie?

9 Who was the wife of Cronus and mother of Zeus in

Greek mythology?

10 What was the nickname of King Richard I of

England?

374

Quiz No 371

1 Which is the chief island of the Society Islands in

French Polynesia?

2 Mount Cook is the highest mountain of which nation in

the South Pacific?

3 What name is given to an agent which causes

cancer?

4 What sort of creature is a margay?

5 Which US silversmith was famous for his night ride to

warn the people of Massachusetts of the approach of

British troops?

6 Which item of clothing is named after the officer who

led the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean

War?

7 Of which country is Margrethe II the reigning queen?

8 Which prophetic book is the last in the New

Testament?

9 Which French mime artiste was best known for his

white-faced character Bip?

10 Which reed-like plant was used by the ancient

Egyptians to make paper?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Tahiti, 2 New Zealand, 3 Carcinogen, 4 Cat, 5 Paul Revere, 6 Cardigan,

7 Denmark, 8 Revelation, 9 Marcel Marceau, 10 Papyrus.

375

Quiz No 372

1 If you suffer from apnoea, what are you unable to do?

2 The Italian dessert ‘tiramisu’ derives its name from

which phrase?

3 In horticulture, what does the word ‘ananthous’ mean?

4 Which Phrygian goddess of nature was often called

‘the mother of the gods’?

5 What nationality is cyclist Paolo Bettini?

6 In aeronautics, which organization is represented by

the initials ESA?

7 In which year did John Logie Baird first transmit

pictures between London and Glasgow using

telephone lines?

8 The large moon Miranda is a satellite of which planet

of the solar system?

9 Symbolic, connectionist and evolutionary are the three

types of what?

10 Which US stand-up comedian and film actor appeared

as a conman in the 1997 film The Spanish Prisoner?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Breathe, 2 Pull me up, 3 Having no flowers, 4 Cybele, 5 Italian, 6 European

Space Agency, 7 1927, 8 Uranus, 9 Artificial intelligence, 10 Steve Martin.

376

Quiz No 373

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 German, French and Italian, 2 Gibraltar, 3 Brazil, 4 Nevil Shute, 5 Agatha

Christie, 6 12, 7 Germany, 8 Mediterranean, 9 Belgium, 10 Tripoli.

1 What are the three main languages of Switzerland?

2 Where in Europe are the only wild apes to be found?

3 Which country is the world’s largest producer of

coffee?

4 Who wrote On the Beach and A Town Like Alice?

5 Who created the detective Hercule Poirot?

6 How many pairs of ribs are in the human body?

7 In which country does the River Danube rise?

8 The Levant is a general name given to the eastern

shores of which sea?

9 Which country is nicknamed ‘the cockpit of Europe’,

because of the number of battles fought on its soil

throughout history?

10 What is the capital of Libya?

377

Quiz No 374

1 Which Russian leader was first associated with the

policies of Glasnost and Perestroika?

2 Which former American football star was acquitted of

murder in October 1995?

3 What name is given to the tiles used in a mosaic?

4 Which country hosted the Football World Cup in

1990?

5 What is the name given to the common foot infection

caused by a fungus?

6 Which former British coin was worth a quarter of an

old (pre-decimal) penny?

7 From which track event was Ben Johnson disqualified

after winning at the 1998 Olympics?

8 In which year did Salt Lake City, USA, hold the

Winter Olympics?

9 Which English seaside resort became a city in the

year 2000?

10 Which Welsh artist painted portraits of George

Bernard Shaw, Dylan Thomas and James Joyce?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Mikhail Gorbachev, 2 O J Simpson, 3 Tesserae, 4 Italy, 5 Athlete’s foot,

6 Farthing, 7 100 metres sprint, 8 2002, 9 Brighton and Hove, 10 Augustus

John.

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Quiz No 375

1 What was the Roman name for London?

2 Which Christmas carol concerns the plants ilex

aquifolium and hedera helix?

3 By what name was Yugoslav President Josip Broz

known?

4 On which of the Iles de Salut of French Guiana was

Alfred Dreyfuss imprisoned?

5 What sort of creature is a devil’s coach-horse?

6 Which non-metallic element has the symbol I?

7 What was the popular name for Ronald Reagan’s

Strategic Defense Initiative?

8 Of which small Mediterranean island country is

Valletta the capital?

9 In which year did the Titanic sink on its maiden

voyage?

10 In Greek mythology, by what name were the giant

children of Uranus and Gaea known?

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Londinium, 2 The Holly and the Ivy, 3 Tito, 4 Devil’s Island, 5 Beetle,

6 Iodine, 7 Star Wars, 8 Malta, 9 1912, 10 The Titans.

379

Quiz No 376

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Azerbaijan, 2 The Rescuers, 3 James Dean, 4 Icarus, 5 Arizona, 6 Orca or

killer whale, 7 Anne Boleyn, 8 The id, 9 Danish, 10 Antelope.

1 Of which former Soviet republic is Nagorna-Karabakh

an autonomous region?

2 What was the title of the 1977 Disney animation

featuring two heroic mice?

3 Which US actor starred in the films East of Eden and

Rebel Without a Cause?

4 In Greek mythology, who was the son of Daedalus,

who plunged to his death when he flew too close to

the sun?

5 The Painted Desert lies in which US state?

6 Which large, intelligent black and white predator is a

member of the dolphin family?

7 Who was the second wife of King Henry VIII of

England?

8 In Freudian psychology, what name is given to the

part of the unconscious mind governed by instinctive

forces?

9 What nationality was the philosopher Soren

Kierkegaard?

10 What sort of creature is a bongo?

380

Quiz No 377

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Douglas Bader, 2 Kelsey Grammer, 3 Five, 4 Ice hockey, 5 Sophie Ellis

Bextor, 6 Marilyn Manson, 7 Technetium, 8 Paris, 9 Acquired Immune

Deficiency Syndrome, 10 Integrated Services Digital Network.

1 The 1956 film Reach for the Sky is based on whose

life story?

2 Who voiced Stinky Pete in the film Toy Story 2?

3 How many times did Bobby Jones win the US

Amateur Championship in golf?

4 In which sport is the Conn Smythe Trophy awarded?

5 Which female singer recorded the 2001 album Read

My Lips?

6 Which singer recorded the 2000 album Holy Wood

(In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)?

7 Which was the first element to be created artificially?

8 In which European capital city is the Institut Pasteur

based?

9 Which condition does the acronym AIDS stand for?

10 In computing, what does ISDN stand for?

381

Quiz No 378

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Elbe, 2 Wind-formed patterns in ice and snow, 3 Flat-topped mountain,

4 London (circa 1811), 5 Agra, 6 Cornwall, 7 Moon, 8 Bavaria, 9 Shadowfax,

10 Simon Wiesenthal.

1 The German port of Hamburg lies near the mouth of

which major European river?

2 In Arctic regions, what kind of features are sastrugi?

3 In the Americas, what is a mesa?

4 Which city was the first in the world to have a

population of more than one million?

5 The Taj Mahal is located near to which Indian city?

6 St Michael’s Mount lies off the coast of which English

county?

7 To where would you have to travel in order to stand by

the Marsh of Decay?

8 What is the English name for the Bayern region of

Germany?

9 In Lord of the Rings, what was the name of Gandalf’s

white horse?

10 Which famous Nazi-hunter died in Vienna in 2005,

aged 96?

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Quiz No 379

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Charles Dickens, 2 John Wayne, 3 Fruit and vegetables, 4 Renee Zellweger,

5 Automatic pilot, 6 Alan Sillitoe, 7 Buffy, 8 Jupiter, 9 Austrian, 10 Cobalt.

1 Who wrote Bleak House?

2 Which actor’s real name was Marion Michael

Morrison?

3 What would a costermonger sell?

4 Which actress played the title rôle in the film

adaptation of Bridget Jones’s Diary?

5 ‘George’ is an informal name for which feature of an

aircraft?

6 Who wrote The Loneliness of the Long Distance

Runner?

7 How is Sarah Michelle Gellar better known to millions?

8 Ganymede is a satellite of which planet?

9 What nationality was the composer Wolfgang

Amadeus Mozart?

10 For which element is Co the chemical symbol?

383

Quiz No 380

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Mexico, 2 221b Baker Street, 3 Bosworth Field, 4 Dostoevsky, 5 The back,

6 Ku Klux Klan, 7 Charles Dickens, 8 Forum, 9 Alexander Graham Bell,

10 Concertina.

1 The Yucatan Channel lies between Cuba and which

country in Central America?

2 Which address in London is famous for being the

fictional home of Sherlock Holmes?

3 King Richard III of England was killed at which battle

that ended the War of the Roses?

4 Which Russian author’s books include The Idiot and

The Devils?

5 Which part of the body is affected by lumbago?

6 Which US white supremacist organization is identified

by the letters KKK?

7 Who wrote The Old Curiosity Shop?

8 What was the name for a Roman marketplace that

was the civic centre of a town?

9 Which Scottish scientist and inventor patented the

telephone in 1876?

10 Which hexagonal accordion-like musical instrument

was invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone?

384

Quiz No 381

ANSWERS FOR THE BELOW 10 QUIZ QUESTIONS::

1 Extremely low temperatures, 2 Aconite, 3 Lech Walesa, 4 Spitfire, 5 Alfred

Hitchcock, 6 Yorick, 7 Hippocrates, 8 Mexico, 9 Brad Pitt, 10 Carl Gustav

Jung.

1 What does a ‘cryometer’ measure?

2 Which plant is also known as Monk’s Hood?

3 Which former Polish shipyard electrician was awarded

the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize?

4 With which British World War II fighter plane is

Reginald Mitchell especially associated?

5 Which British film director made Psycho and

The Birds?

6 Who was the king’s jester in Shakespeare’s Hamlet?

7 Which Greek physician gave his name to an oath

taken by medical students?

8 In which country is the city of Tijuana?

9 Who played the title rôle in the film Meet Joe Black?

10 Which Swiss psychiatrist originated the concept of

introvert and extrovert personalities?

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