GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ NO. 117
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:49 pm1 Who built a plane called the Spruce Goose?
HOWARD HUGHES
2 What are lust, pride, anger, envy, sloth, avarice and gluttony known collectively as?
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
3 How many Oscars did the film Slumdog Millionaire win?
8
4 Proverbially, what is the best policy?
HONESTY
5 Who wrote the autobiography Long Walk to Freedom?
NELSON MANDELA
6 What is the symbol for copper?
Cu
7 What does terraqueous mean?
CONSISTING OF LAND AND WATER, AS THE EARTH
8 What is the favourite film of former U.S. president Bill Clinton – Lolita, High Noon or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
HIGH NOON
9 Who was Australia’s Prime Minister from 1972-75?
GOUGH WHITLAM
10 What is the American equivalent of a chemist’s shop?
DRUGSTORE
11 How many keys are on a piano?
88
12 Which famous Italian operatic tenor lived from 1873 to 1921?
ENRICO CARUSO
13 Who recently said: “ ... and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations”?
U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
14 Is the African republic of Tanzania north or south of the Equator?
SOUTH
15 What is the scientific term for stone fruit?
DRUPE
16 Diablo was the horse of which television western hero?
THE CISCO KID
17 Where was the Statue of Zeus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World?
OLYMPIA (GREECE)
18 What is mined in Coober Pedy?
OPALS
19 What is the name of the last letter of the Greek alphabet?
OMEGA
20 What date are the Ides of March?
15TH
21 On which river is Vienna?
DANUBE
22 The Dog on the Tuckerbox is a bronze monument on the Hume Highway near which New South Wales town?
GUNDAGAI
23 Which northern Italian city is the setting for Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet?
VERONA
24 What was the middle name of former SA premier Don Dunstan?
ALLAN
25 Name Donald Duck’s three nephews.
HUEY - DUEY - LOUIE
26 The former Russian city of Leningrad changed its name to what in 1991?
ST. PETERSBURG
27 Grandmother’s Fan, Flying Geese, Irish Chain and Goose Tracks are all what?
QUILT DESIGNS
28 Which of Walt Disney’s Seven Dwarfs is narcoleptic?
SLEEPY
29 What does the musical direction “poco a poco” mean?
GRADUALLY
30 What does an ornithologist study?
BIRDS
31 How many wheels are on 74 unicycles?
74
32 A trilogy is a group of how many related things?
3
33 What is the largest country in Central America?
NICARAGUA
34 In the nursery rhyme, who couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again?
ALL THE KINGS HORSES AND ALL THE KINGS MEN
35 Oscar the Grouch is a character in which children’s television series?
SESAME STREET
36 In bullfighting, what is “la estocada”?
THE KILLING OF THE BULL
37 What number does Tyson Edwards wear for AFL team Adelaide?
9
38 Name the Darling family’s dog in Peter Pan.
NANA
39 What does a hippophobe fear?
HORSES
40 In which country is the River Po?
ITALY
41 What kind of person is a black sheep?
A PERSON REGARDED AS A FAILURE / DISAPPOINTMENT TO FAMILY OR GROUP
42 Bananas ripen after being picked – true or false?
TRUE
43 What do the letters RSPCA stand for?
ROYAL SOCEITY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
44 Who was U.S. president immediately before Ronald Reagan?
JIMMY CARTER
45 What is a grilse?
A YOUNG SALMON RETURNING TO THE SEA FOR THE 1ST TIME
46 Name the dog which adopted the Gregg family in the TV series Bachelor Father.
JASPER
47 Who was King Henry VIII’s third wife?
JANE SEYMOUR
48 To make a hard decision is to bite the what?
BULLETT
49 How many eyes does a spider have?
8
50 Which Australian capital city was named after the wife of an English king?
ADELAIDE
HOWARD HUGHES
2 What are lust, pride, anger, envy, sloth, avarice and gluttony known collectively as?
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
3 How many Oscars did the film Slumdog Millionaire win?
8
4 Proverbially, what is the best policy?
HONESTY
5 Who wrote the autobiography Long Walk to Freedom?
NELSON MANDELA
6 What is the symbol for copper?
Cu
7 What does terraqueous mean?
CONSISTING OF LAND AND WATER, AS THE EARTH
8 What is the favourite film of former U.S. president Bill Clinton – Lolita, High Noon or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
HIGH NOON
9 Who was Australia’s Prime Minister from 1972-75?
GOUGH WHITLAM
10 What is the American equivalent of a chemist’s shop?
DRUGSTORE
11 How many keys are on a piano?
88
12 Which famous Italian operatic tenor lived from 1873 to 1921?
ENRICO CARUSO
13 Who recently said: “ ... and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations”?
U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
14 Is the African republic of Tanzania north or south of the Equator?
SOUTH
15 What is the scientific term for stone fruit?
DRUPE
16 Diablo was the horse of which television western hero?
THE CISCO KID
17 Where was the Statue of Zeus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World?
OLYMPIA (GREECE)
18 What is mined in Coober Pedy?
OPALS
19 What is the name of the last letter of the Greek alphabet?
OMEGA
20 What date are the Ides of March?
15TH
21 On which river is Vienna?
DANUBE
22 The Dog on the Tuckerbox is a bronze monument on the Hume Highway near which New South Wales town?
GUNDAGAI
23 Which northern Italian city is the setting for Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet?
VERONA
24 What was the middle name of former SA premier Don Dunstan?
ALLAN
25 Name Donald Duck’s three nephews.
HUEY - DUEY - LOUIE
26 The former Russian city of Leningrad changed its name to what in 1991?
ST. PETERSBURG
27 Grandmother’s Fan, Flying Geese, Irish Chain and Goose Tracks are all what?
QUILT DESIGNS
28 Which of Walt Disney’s Seven Dwarfs is narcoleptic?
SLEEPY
29 What does the musical direction “poco a poco” mean?
GRADUALLY
30 What does an ornithologist study?
BIRDS
31 How many wheels are on 74 unicycles?
74
32 A trilogy is a group of how many related things?
3
33 What is the largest country in Central America?
NICARAGUA
34 In the nursery rhyme, who couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again?
ALL THE KINGS HORSES AND ALL THE KINGS MEN
35 Oscar the Grouch is a character in which children’s television series?
SESAME STREET
36 In bullfighting, what is “la estocada”?
THE KILLING OF THE BULL
37 What number does Tyson Edwards wear for AFL team Adelaide?
9
38 Name the Darling family’s dog in Peter Pan.
NANA
39 What does a hippophobe fear?
HORSES
40 In which country is the River Po?
ITALY
41 What kind of person is a black sheep?
A PERSON REGARDED AS A FAILURE / DISAPPOINTMENT TO FAMILY OR GROUP
42 Bananas ripen after being picked – true or false?
TRUE
43 What do the letters RSPCA stand for?
ROYAL SOCEITY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
44 Who was U.S. president immediately before Ronald Reagan?
JIMMY CARTER
45 What is a grilse?
A YOUNG SALMON RETURNING TO THE SEA FOR THE 1ST TIME
46 Name the dog which adopted the Gregg family in the TV series Bachelor Father.
JASPER
47 Who was King Henry VIII’s third wife?
JANE SEYMOUR
48 To make a hard decision is to bite the what?
BULLETT
49 How many eyes does a spider have?
8
50 Which Australian capital city was named after the wife of an English king?
ADELAIDE
