GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ NO. 116
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:13 pm1 What is the largest salt lake in SA?
LAKE EYRE
2 Which country uses the abbreviation LBA in the Olympic Games?
LIBYA
3 Name the character who speaks the last line of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet: “Go, bid the soldiers shoot.”
FORTINBRAS
4 Who is fifth in line to the British throne?
PRINCESS BEATRICE OF YORK
5 Which U.S. singer-actor was nicknamed Ol’ Blue Eyes?
FRANK SINATRA
6 Who wrote the book Prizzi’s Honour?
RICHARD CONDON
7 What was the surname of the title character in the 1992 film Wayne’s World?
CAMPBELL
8 Who is the hero of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson’s book Kidnapped?
DAVID BALFOUR
9 To which fellow performer is U.S. actor Katie Holmes married?
TOM CRUISE
10 What is the medical name for the lower jaw bone?
THE MANDIBLE
11 What is savoir faire?
TACT
12 The name of which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle begins with R?
RAPHAEL
13 In which Spanish city is Alhambra Palace?
GRANADA
14 Cows are sacred to Hindus - true or false?
TRUE
15 What colour is the skin of a granny smith apple?
GREEN
16 Stag Party was the original working title of which magazine?
PLAYBOY
17 Who won the 1983 Melbourne Cup?
KIWI
18 In the phonetic alphabet, what is the word for O?
OSCAR
19. How many lines are in a limerick?
5
20. What is the study of birds’ eggs called?
OOLOGY
21 What is an orlop?
LOWEST DECK ON A SHIP
22 Lambda is the 11th letter of which alphabet?
GREEK
23 Blabby, Flabby, Dippy and Woeful were all what?
REJECT NAMES FOR THE 7 DWARFS
24 In ballet, what is the name of the pose in which one leg is stretched horizontally behind and the body lowered forward from the hips?
ARABESQUE
25 Which was the first country to allow women to vote?
NEW ZEALAND (1893)
26 What is the alternate title of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera Ruddigore?
THE WITCHES CURSE
27 With what is the game of euchre played?
CARDS
28 A club sandwich usually has how many layers of filling?
2
29 What was the real name of English author Lewis Carroll?
CHARLES LUDWIG DODGSON
30 Who created the comic strip Peanuts?
CHARLES SCHULZ
31 Where is the Ocean of Storms?
ON THE MOON
32 What does “on cloud nine” mean?
IN A STATE OF BLISS
33 In which year was Israel established?
1948
34 What are you doing if you’re “tickling the ivories”?
PLAYING THE PIANO
35 Which is larger – a grandmother clock or a grandfather clock?
GRANDFATHER CLOCK
36 Who had a werewolf doll called Woof-Woof in the TV comedy The Munsters?
EDDIE MUNSTER
37 Name the first Australian woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
FANNY DURACE (SWIMMING 1912)
38 In which year did U.S. president Richard Nixon resign?
1974
39 To which section of an orchestra does the trombone belong?
BRASS
40 Which oceans are linked by the Panama Canal?
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC
41 What does the expression “like a bear with a sore head” mean?
GRUMPY
42 How many hours are in a week?
168
43 Name the British engineer who invented the jet engine.
SIR FRANK WHITTLE
44 What does “nota bene” mean?
NOTE WELL
45 In which country is the port of Inchon?
SOUTH KOREA
46 What is a handlebar moustache?
A MOUSTACHE WITH WAXED CURVED UP ENDS
47 For how many years are U.S. presidents elected?
4
48 Goldfish originally came from which country?
CHINA
49 Who directed Jurassic Park in 1993?
STEPHEN SPIELBERG
50 In which city was U.S. president John F. Kennedy assassinated in 1963?
DALLAS
LAKE EYRE
2 Which country uses the abbreviation LBA in the Olympic Games?
LIBYA
3 Name the character who speaks the last line of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet: “Go, bid the soldiers shoot.”
FORTINBRAS
4 Who is fifth in line to the British throne?
PRINCESS BEATRICE OF YORK
5 Which U.S. singer-actor was nicknamed Ol’ Blue Eyes?
FRANK SINATRA
6 Who wrote the book Prizzi’s Honour?
RICHARD CONDON
7 What was the surname of the title character in the 1992 film Wayne’s World?
CAMPBELL
8 Who is the hero of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson’s book Kidnapped?
DAVID BALFOUR
9 To which fellow performer is U.S. actor Katie Holmes married?
TOM CRUISE
10 What is the medical name for the lower jaw bone?
THE MANDIBLE
11 What is savoir faire?
TACT
12 The name of which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle begins with R?
RAPHAEL
13 In which Spanish city is Alhambra Palace?
GRANADA
14 Cows are sacred to Hindus - true or false?
TRUE
15 What colour is the skin of a granny smith apple?
GREEN
16 Stag Party was the original working title of which magazine?
PLAYBOY
17 Who won the 1983 Melbourne Cup?
KIWI
18 In the phonetic alphabet, what is the word for O?
OSCAR
19. How many lines are in a limerick?
5
20. What is the study of birds’ eggs called?
OOLOGY
21 What is an orlop?
LOWEST DECK ON A SHIP
22 Lambda is the 11th letter of which alphabet?
GREEK
23 Blabby, Flabby, Dippy and Woeful were all what?
REJECT NAMES FOR THE 7 DWARFS
24 In ballet, what is the name of the pose in which one leg is stretched horizontally behind and the body lowered forward from the hips?
ARABESQUE
25 Which was the first country to allow women to vote?
NEW ZEALAND (1893)
26 What is the alternate title of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera Ruddigore?
THE WITCHES CURSE
27 With what is the game of euchre played?
CARDS
28 A club sandwich usually has how many layers of filling?
2
29 What was the real name of English author Lewis Carroll?
CHARLES LUDWIG DODGSON
30 Who created the comic strip Peanuts?
CHARLES SCHULZ
31 Where is the Ocean of Storms?
ON THE MOON
32 What does “on cloud nine” mean?
IN A STATE OF BLISS
33 In which year was Israel established?
1948
34 What are you doing if you’re “tickling the ivories”?
PLAYING THE PIANO
35 Which is larger – a grandmother clock or a grandfather clock?
GRANDFATHER CLOCK
36 Who had a werewolf doll called Woof-Woof in the TV comedy The Munsters?
EDDIE MUNSTER
37 Name the first Australian woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
FANNY DURACE (SWIMMING 1912)
38 In which year did U.S. president Richard Nixon resign?
1974
39 To which section of an orchestra does the trombone belong?
BRASS
40 Which oceans are linked by the Panama Canal?
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC
41 What does the expression “like a bear with a sore head” mean?
GRUMPY
42 How many hours are in a week?
168
43 Name the British engineer who invented the jet engine.
SIR FRANK WHITTLE
44 What does “nota bene” mean?
NOTE WELL
45 In which country is the port of Inchon?
SOUTH KOREA
46 What is a handlebar moustache?
A MOUSTACHE WITH WAXED CURVED UP ENDS
47 For how many years are U.S. presidents elected?
4
48 Goldfish originally came from which country?
CHINA
49 Who directed Jurassic Park in 1993?
STEPHEN SPIELBERG
50 In which city was U.S. president John F. Kennedy assassinated in 1963?
DALLAS
TIP