GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ NO. 96
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:26 pm1. In Trivial Pursuit, what colour are Entertainment questions?
PINK
2. In which country is the Masai Mara game reserve?
KENYA
3. Who was the third President of the United States?
THOMAS JEFFERSON
4. What makes leaves green?
CHLOROPHYLL
5. What is the highest-pitched woodwind musical instrument ?
PICCOLO
6. From which tree do koala bears eat from?
EUCALUPTUS
7. Which city was devastated by an earthquake in September 1985?
MEXICO CITY
8. In the film Fantasia, who plays the part of the sorcerers apprentice?
MICKEY MOUSE
9. What is the Italian name for Turin?
TORINO
10. How many notes are there in the musical scale?
8
11. What?s the capital of Cyprus?
NICOSIA
12. What name is given to the vast grassy plains of Russia?
STEPPES
13. What is the name of the ficticious suburb where Coronation Street is set?
14. How many quavers equal a minim?
4
15. Tartrazine colours food ? but what colour?
YELLOW
16. What colour are Bart Simpson?s shorts?
BLUE
17. In the film 'Cry Freedom' Denzil Washington plays which figure?
STEVE BIKO
18. How many eyes does a bee have?
5
19. Name the Mayor in "The Dukes Of Hazzard"?
BOSS HOGG
20. How many hoops are used in a game of croquet?
6
21. How many moons has the planet Mars?
2
22. In which US city was Martin Luther King born?
ATLANTA
23. In which year did the French Revolution start?
1789
24. In the Bible what was the first bird to be released from the Ark?
RAVEN
25. Which American city is known as The Big Apple?
NEW YORK
26. Who wrote the 1939 novel Finnegans Wake?
JAMES JOYCE
27. Which US television company has a Peacock as its logo?
NBC
28. What was the nationality of Mata Hari?
DUTCH
29. Who is the actress who plays Phoebe in 'Friends'?
LISA KUDROW
30. Which Australian city is the capital of Queensland?
BRISBANE
31. Who invented the clockwork radio in 1993?
TREVOR BAYLIS
32. How many great pyramids are situated at Giza, Egypt?
3
33. What character did Michael Douglas play in the movie ' Romancing the Stone'?
JACK COLTON
34. What is the name of the largest lake in Africa?
VICTORIA
35. What is the name for a male Goose?
GANDER
36. Which is the world's smallest ocean?
ARCTIC
37. What does a tegestologist collect?
BEER MATS
38. What is H is another name for a 'Mouth Organ'?
HARMONICA
39. Who invented the Saxophone?
ADOLPHE SAX
40. In which comic did Spiderman first appear?
MARVEL
41. In Iranian Mythology Tishtrya was the god of what?
RAIN
42. In which country would actor Russell Crowe born?
NEW ZEALAND
43. Which gas is used in airships?
HELIUM OR HYROGEN
44. What is the square root of 25?
5
45. What is the name given to a pregnancy outside the womb?
ECTOPIC
46. In which continent is Siberia?
ASIA
47. Which is the longest river in South America?
AMAZON
48. What kind of creature is a Lamprey?
EEL
49. How many lenses does each human eye have?
1
50. Who killed Achilles at Troy?
PARIS
PINK
2. In which country is the Masai Mara game reserve?
KENYA
3. Who was the third President of the United States?
THOMAS JEFFERSON
4. What makes leaves green?
CHLOROPHYLL
5. What is the highest-pitched woodwind musical instrument ?
PICCOLO
6. From which tree do koala bears eat from?
EUCALUPTUS
7. Which city was devastated by an earthquake in September 1985?
MEXICO CITY
8. In the film Fantasia, who plays the part of the sorcerers apprentice?
MICKEY MOUSE
9. What is the Italian name for Turin?
TORINO
10. How many notes are there in the musical scale?
8
11. What?s the capital of Cyprus?
NICOSIA
12. What name is given to the vast grassy plains of Russia?
STEPPES
13. What is the name of the ficticious suburb where Coronation Street is set?
14. How many quavers equal a minim?
4
15. Tartrazine colours food ? but what colour?
YELLOW
16. What colour are Bart Simpson?s shorts?
BLUE
17. In the film 'Cry Freedom' Denzil Washington plays which figure?
STEVE BIKO
18. How many eyes does a bee have?
5
19. Name the Mayor in "The Dukes Of Hazzard"?
BOSS HOGG
20. How many hoops are used in a game of croquet?
6
21. How many moons has the planet Mars?
2
22. In which US city was Martin Luther King born?
ATLANTA
23. In which year did the French Revolution start?
1789
24. In the Bible what was the first bird to be released from the Ark?
RAVEN
25. Which American city is known as The Big Apple?
NEW YORK
26. Who wrote the 1939 novel Finnegans Wake?
JAMES JOYCE
27. Which US television company has a Peacock as its logo?
NBC
28. What was the nationality of Mata Hari?
DUTCH
29. Who is the actress who plays Phoebe in 'Friends'?
LISA KUDROW
30. Which Australian city is the capital of Queensland?
BRISBANE
31. Who invented the clockwork radio in 1993?
TREVOR BAYLIS
32. How many great pyramids are situated at Giza, Egypt?
3
33. What character did Michael Douglas play in the movie ' Romancing the Stone'?
JACK COLTON
34. What is the name of the largest lake in Africa?
VICTORIA
35. What is the name for a male Goose?
GANDER
36. Which is the world's smallest ocean?
ARCTIC
37. What does a tegestologist collect?
BEER MATS
38. What is H is another name for a 'Mouth Organ'?
HARMONICA
39. Who invented the Saxophone?
ADOLPHE SAX
40. In which comic did Spiderman first appear?
MARVEL
41. In Iranian Mythology Tishtrya was the god of what?
RAIN
42. In which country would actor Russell Crowe born?
NEW ZEALAND
43. Which gas is used in airships?
HELIUM OR HYROGEN
44. What is the square root of 25?
5
45. What is the name given to a pregnancy outside the womb?
ECTOPIC
46. In which continent is Siberia?
ASIA
47. Which is the longest river in South America?
AMAZON
48. What kind of creature is a Lamprey?
EEL
49. How many lenses does each human eye have?
1
50. Who killed Achilles at Troy?
PARIS
