Quiz (05.02.2005)
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Section One Questions
1. Carbon, Oxygen and which other element makes up carbohydrates?
2. Which fictional character, created by Mary Shelley, had the first name of Viktor?
3. Which of the following is not a continent? North America, Central America or South America?
4. In which battle was Nelson killed?
5. How many strings are on a violin?
6. What is the English name for the constellation with the Latin name `Ursa Major`?
7. How many legs does an ant have?
9. Which city is known as the `Eternal City`?
10. Who invented the telephone?
11. Which singer is famous for his `moonwalk` dance?
12. The word `cerebral` refers to which part of the body?
13. Which of the following is a palindrome: acrabradabra, race car, whoosh
14. What colour are the stars on the Australian flag?
15. Great Britain declared war on Germany after they invaded which country in 1939?
16. Which female singer had a 1990 hit album called `The Immaculate Collection`?
17. What is the name given to a young bear?
18. What animal is known as the ship of the desert?
19. Which character is Arthur Conan Doyle most famous for creating?
20. In which American city are Madison Square Gardens?
21. Whose last words were `Et tu, Brute`?
22. Who had a number one hit in 1984 with `Hello`?
23. How many prime numbers are there between 10 and 20?
24. What name is given to the fear of spiders?
25. Which of the following isn`t one of the famous Bronte sisters? Charlotte, Anne or Emma?
26. What continent is sometimes known as the `Dark Continent`?
27. Which David Lynch film was based on the life of John Merrick?
28. Who released the album `The Joshua Tree` in 1987?
29. Claustrophobia is the fear of what?
30. Who supplied the voice of the genie in the 1992 film `Aladdin`?
Section 2 Questions
31. What type of camera did George Eastman invent?
32. What is the minimum number of strokes required to score 147 in a game of snooker?
33. Who wrote 'The Maltese Falcon'?
34. Which Bank is made of sand in the North Sea?
35. Which film with Bob Hoskins is also the name of a painting?
36. To which country would you be flying if you landed at Limassol airport
37. In the order of accession to the British throne, who is the first female ?
38. Who wrote Black Beauty ?
39. Holden Caulfield appears in which, once controversial, novel?
40. What are the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire collectively known as?
41. What starts an oyster developing a pearl in its shell?
42. Which Ben won 11 Oscars in 1959?
43. On a Premier League Football pitch, one particular piece of equipment must either be an ACME Thundered, or an ACME Tornado. What is it ?
44. What goes with Old Lace in the title of the Cary Grant film?
45. What is the official country home of US Presidents' ?
46. In Italian, what does the word Pizza mean?
47. Which playing card is sometimes referred to as the `black lady`?
48. The name of which commonly used house-hold object comes from the Latin word meaning `admire` or `to wonder at`?
49. In the Walt Disney film `Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs`, what were the names of the seven dwarfs?
50. What are the first four characters of Wimbledon's postcode ?
51. What two drinks are used to made a `Black Velvet`?
52. From which animal does cashmere wool come from ?
53. What happened in London on 30th July 1966?
54. In “Only Fools and Horses” what does Trigger call Rodney ?
55. What sort of Hunter was Robert de Niro in the film with Meryl Streep?
56. What name is given to the leading male character in a pantomime - usually played by a girl ?
57. In Greek legend, who turned everything he touched into gold?
58. Babara Millicent Roberts is better known by what name?
59. According to the nursery rhyme, if the third little piggy had roast beef, what did the fourth have?
60. What 1975 film features the characters of Riff Raff, Magenta and Doctor Frank-n-Furter?
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