Quiz Questions

Question: To which country does the island of Bermuda belong?Answer: Britain

 

Question: What is the popular name for Middlesex Street in London?Answer: Petticoat Lane

 

Question: Which South American country is named after an explorer?Answer: Columbia

 

Question: Which earl gave his name to a boxing award?Answer: Lonsdale

 

Question: What’s the proper name for a bishop’s hat?Answer: Mitre

 

Question: In which country is the Orinoco River?Answer: Venezuela

 

Question: Which private eye had a caravan on Malibu Beach?Answer: Jim Rockford (Burt Reynolds).

 

Question: What name is given to calfskin, dressed and prepared for writing on?Answer: Vellum

 

Question: Which artist painted "Sunflowers"?Answer: Van Gogh

 

Question: When do we traditionally eat pancakes?Answer: Shrove Tuesday

 

Question: In 1884, what was invented by Lewis Waterman?Answer: Fountain Pen

 

Question: Which country did boxer Lennox Lewis represent at the Olympics?Answer: Canada

 

Question: Where does Polly Sherman work?Answer: Fawlty Towers – the waitress

 

Question: What is a female bear called?Answer: Sow

 

Question: What killer disease was controlled by Jonas Salk’s vaccine?Answer: Polio

 

Question: Suez lies at one end of the Suez Canal which city is at the other end?Answer: Port Said

 

Question: Give me the two former names of the modern Turkish city of Istanbul?Answer: Constantinople, Byzantium

 

Question: Which is the world’s tallest mammal?Answer: The Giraffe

 

Question: The Titanic had two sister ships, name both of them.Answer: Olympic and Brittanic

 

Question: Who assassinated Robert Kennedy?Answer: Sirhan Sirhan

Question: What are the young of Squirrels called?Answer: Kittens

 

Question: Which country was the first to leave the commonwealth in 1949?Answer: Ireland

 

Question: Who was the Egyptian God with the head of a Hawk?Answer: Horus

 

Question: What is the name of the creature in Lord of the Rings that calls the ring his precious?Answer: Gollum

 

Question: Name the backing group of the singer nicknamed "The Boss"?Answer: The E-Street Band

 

Question: What is the currency of Morroco?Answer: Dirhams

 

Question: What is the main element in Bronze?Answer: Copper

 

Question: What is the Capital of the state of Louisiana?Answer: Baton Rouge

 

Question: What type of fuel do jet aircraft use?Answer: Kerosene

 

Question: Who became the president of Nationalist China on Taiwan in 1949Answer: Chaang Kai-Shek

 

Question: How many fights did Muhammad Ali lose during his professional boxing career?Answer: Five - Mar 8 1971 Joe Frazier New York L 15 WORLD

 

Question: Who wrote the novel Black Beauty, first published in 1877?Answer: Anna Sewell

 

Question: What is the official national anthem of the USA.Answer: The Star Spangled Banner

 

Question: In the film “The Third Man” which character does Orsen Welles play?Answer: Harry Lime

 

Question: What creatures do the Galapagos island take their name from?Answer: Tortoises

 

Question: How many time zones does Canada have?Answer: Six

 

Question: What is the maximum number of men allowed in a tug-of-war team?Answer: Eight

 

Question: Which TV detective called people 'Pussycat'?Answer: Kojak

 

Question: How are train robbers Parker and Longbaugh better known?Answer: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

 

Question: How long is the motor race which Indianapolis is famous for?Answer: 500 miles

Question: Born Arthur Jefferson in 1890, what was this comic better known as?Answer: Stan Laurel

 

Question: What word associates a spider with the internet?Answer: Web

 

Question: Which sport is played on the largest pitch of any game?Answer: Polo

 

Question: What is the second month of the year to have exactly 30 days?Answer: June

 

Question: On which side of the road do the Japanese drive?Answer: Left

 

Question: Which colourless, odourless light gas is used to lift airships?Answer: Helium

 

Question: Which Scandinavian capital begins and ends with the same letter?Answer: Oslo

 

Question: Which Ocean's name means peaceful?Answer: Pacific

 

Question: What is the longest-lasting, non-motorized sporting event in the world?Answer: Tour de France

 

Question: In which city is 'The Untouchables' set?Answer: Chicago

 

Question: Which fruits are usually served 'belle helene'?Answer: Pears

 

Question: What is the fraction usually given as an approximation for PI?Answer: 22/7

 

Question: Who is Superman's boss?Answer: Perry White

 

Question: What is the world's most popular bottled malt whisky?Answer: Glenfiddich

 

Question: Which famous structure was built for the 1889 World Fair?Answer: The Eiffel Tower

 

Question: In which film did Al Jolson first say "You ain't heard nothing yet"?Answer: The Jazz Singer

 

Question: At sea, between which hours is the first watch?Answer: 8pm and Midnight

 

Question: With which musical instrument is Larry Adler associated?Answer: Harmonica

 

Question: What hobby or pastime would you be doing if you were using a Trug?Answer: Gardening – it’s a type of shallow basket

 

Question: What type of creature is the Aberdeen?Answer: Cow/Bull

Question: What's the real name of Tom Jones?Answer: Thomas Woodward

 

Question: Which Hollywood star's nickname was The Duke?Answer: John Wayne

 

Question: What do the Australians call the yellow dogs that are regarded as serious pests in their Country?Answer: Dingoes

 

Question: The song "New York, New York" is from which Leonard Bernstein musical?Answer: "On The Town"

 

Question: Who wrote the novel "The 39 Steps"?Answer: John Buchan

 

Question: Who was Crockett's partner in 'Miami Vice'?Answer: Tubbs

 

Question: How many funnels did the Titanic have?Answer: Four

 

Question: Is the bottom stripe on the USA flag red or white?Answer: Red

 

Question: What is the sum of degrees in the internal angles in a triangle?Answer: 180 degrees

 

Question: What is the national bird of New Zealand?Answer: The kiwi

 

Question: What type of dogs are commonly kept by Eskimos?Answer: Huskies

 

Question: Who managed the first English side to win the European Cup?Answer: Matt Busby

 

Question: The Beatles' last live performance was at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. In what year was this?Answer: 1966

 

Question: How many countries border San Marino?Answer: 1 (Italy)

 

Question: What is the only river which flows both north and south of the equator?Answer: The Congo

 

Question: Which two US cities are joined by Route 66?Answer: Chicago & Los Angeles

 

Question: What was Operation Dynamo in World War II?Answer: The evacuation at Dunkirk

 

Question: In days gone by, what did a Nob Thatcher do for a living?Answer: Made wigs.

 

Question: What name is given to plants that last for many years?Answer: Perennials

 

Question: Allegedly this horse pulled the fastest milk-cart in the west, what was his name?Answer: Trigger

Question: What kind of fighting was outlawed in Britain in 1819 because the Army was losing too many of its Officers?Answer: Duelling

 

Question: Which vehicle took its name from the fact that it was made to be used for general purposes?Answer: Jeep (GP)

 

Question: What does PVC stand for as in the compound PVC?Answer: Polyvinyl Chloride

 

Question: What are the next four words in the first line of the popular rhyme which starts 'Remember, remember the fifth of November'?Answer: Gunpowder, treason and plot

 

Question: Which musical features the song 'Memory'?Answer: Cats

 

Question: Which system of weight is used for precious metals?Answer: Troy

 

Question: What do the Americans call Old Glory?Answer: The Flag.

 

Question: In which 1990 film did Sean Connery play a defecting Soviet submarine commander?Answer: The hunt for Red October

 

Question: A Morgan, A Small Dog, A Liner and an Iron, where will you find them together?Answer: A Monopoly board

 

Question: In golf what is the American term for a bunker?Answer: Sandtrap

 

Question: Parker and Barrow were the surnames of which famous couple?Answer: Bonnie and Clyde

 

Question: In 1603, a drunken James VI of Scotland en route to take the throne of England reputedly knighted a piece of meat. This allegedly gave rise to what name?Answer: Sirloin

 

Question: In cricket how many runs are scored when the ball hits a helmet left on the ground by the fielding team?Answer: 5

 

Question: Which US city is known as the ‘the big easy’?Answer: New Orleans

 

Question: Before he changed his name, what was Cassius Clay’s middle name?Answer: Marcellus

 

Question: What name is given to a Poem consisting of 14 linesAnswer: Sonnet

 

Question: Michael Bloomberg succeeded whom as Mayor of New York?Answer: Rudi Giuliani

 

Question: In which town do the Flintstone’s live?Answer: Bedrock

 

Question: What was the name of Bruce Wayne’s butler?Answer: Alfred

 

Question: The Equator runs through Ecuador, Brazil and which other South American country?Answer: Columbia

Question: Name 2 of the five James Bond films that have titles of only one word?Answer: Goldfinger, Goldeneye, Moonraker, Octopussy, Thunderball

 

Question: What is the name of the international agreement that established a code for the treatment of prisoners of war?Answer: Geneva convention

 

Question: What is the general term used to describe the woman in charge of a religious community of women - for example nuns?Answer: Mother Superior

 

Question: Islamic law states that after having sex with a lamb it is a mortal sin to do what?Answer: Eat it (If you do, you get what’s coming to you)

 

Question: How long is a pole used in pole-vaulting, in feet?Answer: 16

 

Question: Pope John Paul II was born where?Answer: Poland

 

Question: Thor Heyerdal's raft the 'kon-tiki' was made of what type of wood?Answer: Balsa

 

Question: How many players are allowed in the circle in a netball match?Answer: 4

 

Question: The word Beelzebub appears in Queen’s bohemian rhapsody, what does it refer to?Answer: The devil

 

Question: What is the name of the mascot on the bonnet of a Rolls Royce?Answer: The spirit of ecstasy

 

Question: Who founded the Methodists?Answer: John Wesley

 

Question: Where, in a household, would you find a magnetron?Answer: In a microwave oven.

 

Question: Which unattractive sounding fruit is a cross between a grapefruit and a tangerine?Answer: The ugli fruit.

 

Question: What is the name of the layer between the crust and the core of the earth?Answer: The mantle.

 

Question: Which bird brought an olive branch to Noah after the flood?Answer: The dove

 

Question: Which river forms the boundary between Texas and Mexico?Answer: Rio Grande

 

Question: What is the second question asked of Mastermind contestants?Answer: Your occupation

 

Question: What is belladonna commonly known as?Answer: Deadly Nightshade.

 

Question: What is the offspring of a donkey and a horse called?Answer: A mule (or a hinny)

 

Question: In anatomy what are the nates?Answer: The buttocks.