T259 ANOTHER A TO Z QUIZ
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:05 pm(A) In which city would you visit the Taj Mahal?
AGRA
(B) What name is given to an open-air night-time entertainment for soldiers?
BIVOUAC
(C) Which unit of measurement is equivalent to one tenth of a sea mile?
CABLE
(D) Which section of equestrianism is concerned with obedience?
DRESSAGE
(E) Who acquired the nickname of the First Lady of Jazz? (full name)
ELLA FITZGERALD
(F) What name is given to a workshop for casting metal?
FOUNDRY
(G) Which island is the most southerly of the Windward Islands?
GRENADA
(H) Which of Shakespeare's plays was set in Agincourt?
HENRY V
(I) What was the name of the Red Indian tribe led by Hiawatha?
IRQUOIS
(J) Which African city was founded in 1886?
JOHANNESBURG
(K) What name is given to the centre of a nut?
KERNAL
(L) Which five-letter word is the name given to a doctor's deputy?
LOCUM
(M) What name is given to volcanic molten rock?
MAGMA
(N) What name is given to a cloud that is produced by a cluster of stars?
NEBULA
(O) Which drug is obtained from the poppy?
OPIUM
(P) What is the collective name given to the colours of red, yellow and blue?
PRIMARY
(Q) What is the smallest member of the partridge family?
QUAIL
(R) Which famous novel was based on the life of Alexander Selkirk? (full name)
ROBINSON CRUSOE
(S) Who became the Men's Wimbledon Singles Champion in 1990? (full name)
STEFAN EDBERG
(T) What is the name of the principal male hormone in the human body?
TESTOSTERONE
(U) What is the name of the range of mountains located in Central Asia?
URALS
(V) Who composed the Four Seasons?
VIVALDI
(W) What is the largest member of the weasel family?
WOLVERINE
(X) What word describes an object shaped like a sword?
XIPHOID
(Y) What is the official name for a Tower of London guard?
YEOMAN
(Z) What is the four-letter name of a humped Indian Ox?
ZEBU
AGRA
(B) What name is given to an open-air night-time entertainment for soldiers?
BIVOUAC
(C) Which unit of measurement is equivalent to one tenth of a sea mile?
CABLE
(D) Which section of equestrianism is concerned with obedience?
DRESSAGE
(E) Who acquired the nickname of the First Lady of Jazz? (full name)
ELLA FITZGERALD
(F) What name is given to a workshop for casting metal?
FOUNDRY
(G) Which island is the most southerly of the Windward Islands?
GRENADA
(H) Which of Shakespeare's plays was set in Agincourt?
HENRY V
(I) What was the name of the Red Indian tribe led by Hiawatha?
IRQUOIS
(J) Which African city was founded in 1886?
JOHANNESBURG
(K) What name is given to the centre of a nut?
KERNAL
(L) Which five-letter word is the name given to a doctor's deputy?
LOCUM
(M) What name is given to volcanic molten rock?
MAGMA
(N) What name is given to a cloud that is produced by a cluster of stars?
NEBULA
(O) Which drug is obtained from the poppy?
OPIUM
(P) What is the collective name given to the colours of red, yellow and blue?
PRIMARY
(Q) What is the smallest member of the partridge family?
QUAIL
(R) Which famous novel was based on the life of Alexander Selkirk? (full name)
ROBINSON CRUSOE
(S) Who became the Men's Wimbledon Singles Champion in 1990? (full name)
STEFAN EDBERG
(T) What is the name of the principal male hormone in the human body?
TESTOSTERONE
(U) What is the name of the range of mountains located in Central Asia?
URALS
(V) Who composed the Four Seasons?
VIVALDI
(W) What is the largest member of the weasel family?
WOLVERINE
(X) What word describes an object shaped like a sword?
XIPHOID
(Y) What is the official name for a Tower of London guard?
YEOMAN
(Z) What is the four-letter name of a humped Indian Ox?
ZEBU
