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QUIZ 175- 08.05.06
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1
1.
Which common everyday object has an inertia reel?
CAR SEAT BELT
2.
How was Malcolm Little better known?
MALCOLM X
3.
What nationality was Mick Jagger's wife, Bianca?
NICARAGUAN
4.
What is the world's largest animal-made structure?
THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
5.
Who was condemned to roll a stone up a hill forever?
SISYPHUS
6.
What name is given to someone who races pigeons?
PIGEON FANCIER
7.
What is the largest single gold object in the world?
THE COFFIN OF TUTANKHAMEN
8.
In Moscow, what is Tsar Kolokol?
A BELL (the world's heaviest)
9.
If Monday's child is 'fair of face', what is Wednesday's child?
FULL OF WOE
10.
What was the occupation of Jack Ketch?
HANGMAN
GEOGRAPHY
1.
In France, which of these is not a port; Brest, Toulouse or St Nazaire?
TOULOUSE
2.
What is measured on the Mercalli scale?
EARTHQUAKES
3.
What is the Earth's precession?
ITS WOBBLE (on its axis)
4.
Which of these is a town in Canada; Popeye, Pinocchio or Pugwash?
PUGWASH
5.
What is a mesa?
A TABLE-TOPPED MOUNTAIN
6.
Viti Levu is the largest island in which Pacific group?
FIJI
7.
Who discovered the Angel Falls in Venezuela?
(JIMMY) ANGEL
8.
Of which US state is Raleigh the state capital?
NORTH CAROLINA
9.
Which is the chief river of Burma?
THE IRRAWADDY
10.
What is the highest point in Britain?
BEN NEVIS
FILM
1.
Which unlikely person played a missionary in the film Shanghai Surprise?
MADONNA
2.
Take My Breath Away is the theme from which film?
TOP GUN
3.
Who played Kevin Costner's wife in JFK?
SISSY SPACEK
4.
In which film does Whoopie Goldberg attack visitors with a giant toothbrush?
JUMPING JACK FLASH
5.
Who played The Waco Kid in the film Blazing Saddles?
GENE WILDER
6.
The Full Monty cast were steelworkers in which city?
SHEFFIELD
7.
From which film does the following come - "Those of you lucky enough to
have your lives take them with you. However, leave the limbs you've lost. They
belong to me now"?
KILL BILL (VOLUME 1)
8.
In Lord of the Rings, what is the name of Gandalf's horse?
SHADOWFAX
9.
Who played the Captain of the ship in the 1998 blockbuster film The Titanic?
BERNARD HILL
10.
Which duo starred in the Oscar winning films Quiet Please; The Little Orphan
and The Milky Way?
TOM & JERRY
TRUE OR FALSE
1.
Comedian Ronnie Corbett had a football trial with Heart of Midlothian but he
was too small?
TRUE
2.
The locofoco was a self-igniting cigar?
TRUE
3.
A gibus was a collapsible top hat?
TRUE
4.
In America and Canada "ice" is classed as a food and has a sell by
date?
TRUE
5.
Bournemouth became a city as part of the millennium celebrations?
FALSE (BRIGHTON)
6.
Eva Peron was once President of Argentina?
FALSE
7.
Oak was the only type of wood used by Thomas Chippendale?
FALSE (MAHOGANY)
8.
Country & Western star Dolly Parton was born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky?
FALSE (LORETTA LYNN)
9.
Batavia is now known as Jakarta (Indonesia)?
TRUE
10.
The original stuffed toys on which the Winnie the Pooh stories are based, can
be found in the New York Public Library?
TRUE
THE ARTS & LITERATURE
1.
Which was the first James Bond novel to be published?
CASINO ROYALE
2.
What nationality was Little Lord Fauntleroy?
AMERICAN
3.
Who painted The Bathers and La Loge?
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
4.
In which opera is there an Anvil Chorus?
IL TRAVATORE
5.
What is the title of the Dante's poem that comprises the Inferno; the Purgatorio
and the Paradiso?
DIVINA COMEDIA (the devine comedy)
6.
Which British artist painted a series of screaming popes based on a portrait
of Innocent X by Velazquez?
FRANCIS BACON
7.
Who wrote Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog?
DYLAN THOMAS
8.
Who wrote stories about the fox and the grapes; the lion and the mouse and the
dog and his reflection?
AESOP
9.
In which City is La Fenice (the Phoenix) opera house?
VENICE
10.
Which Irish playwright wrote The Plough And The Stars?
SEAN O'CASEY
ANIMALS
1.
What type of animal is a whaler - a horse, a dog, a seabird or a beetle?
A HORSE
2.
What type of animal is a Poland China?
PIG
3.
Harlequin and Muscovy are breeds of what?
DUCK
4.
What type of creature is a corvid?
A BIRD
5.
Which dinosaur's name means thunder lizard?
BRONTOSAURUS
6.
Which animal is the hedgehog's only natural predator in the English countryside?
THE BADGER (big trucks are not animals!)
7.
Which insect lives in a nest called a vespiary?
A WASP (from the Latin Vespa for annoying motor scooter)
8.
What extinct relative of the elephant had varieties called woolly and imperial?
MAMMOTH
9.
On which continent did the Barbary Lion live until becoming extinct in the wild
in the 1920's?
AFRICA
10.
Which wading bird has crowned, whooping and sandhill varieties?
CRANE
TELEVISION
1.
Which character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer was played by Alyson Hannigan?
WILLOW
2.
Which comedy series of the 90s was set in a leisure center?
THE BRITTAS EMPIRE
3.
How are Florrie, Pom and Fimbo known in the children's TV programme?
THE FIMBLES
4.
Anna Ford, Angela Rippon, David Frost, Robert Kee & Michael Parkinson were
the original five presenters of which show that went on air in 1983?
TV AM
5.
What are the names of Ned Flanders' two sons?
TODD & ROD
6.
What is the name of the island in the Pacific that is home to International
Rescue?
TRACY ISLAND
7.
Which TV Sitcom had the theme tune 'It's Cold Outside'?
RED DWARF
8.
Which TV series features a talking cat called Salem?
SABRINA (The Teenage Witch)
9.
In which long-running TV series would you have found the Briggs family, the
Hurley family, the Hayward family and the Renault family amongst others?
TWIN PEAKS
10.
Whose idea of paradise was a giant turnip?
BALDRICK (BLACKADDER)
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2
1.
Who was the leader of the Labour Party before Tony Blair?
JOHN SMITH
2.
In which country was the French Foreign Legion founded?
ALGERIA
3.
After how many years of marriage is a pearl wedding anniversary?
THIRTY
4.
In which country do soldiers wear a kilt known as a fustanella?
GREECE
5.
In classical mythology, who did Athene turn into a spider?
ARACHNE
6.
What is the word for the mark above certain vowels in German words such as Munchen?
UMLAUT
7.
Which Texan City is named after the general who won Texas' independence from
Mexico?
HOUSTON
8.
Which disease used to be called consumption?
TUBERCULOSIS
9.
From which birds do humans contract psittacosis?
PIGEONS
10.
Which beverage may be black or green?
TEA
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