GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ NO. 146
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 8:45 pm1 What is the craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries called?
LEXICOGRAPHY
2 In the late 1950s, which Australian company manufactured Deep Image Radiola television sets?
AWA
3 Which Australian opera singer was known as La Stupenda?
DAME JOAN SUTHLAND
4 How many vertices does a cube have?
8
5 Who played Carol Brady in the television situation comedy series The Brady Bunch?
FLORENCE HENDERSON
6 What was Risorgimento?
THE 19TH CENTURY MOVEMENT FOR THE POLITICAL UNIFACATION OF ITALY
7 The song When the Children Are Asleep comes from which musical?
CAROUSEL
8 Heraklion is the capital of which Greek island?
CRET
9 What does caseous mean?
OF OR LIKE CHEESE
10 Who is South Australia’s Industry Minister?
TOM KOUTSANTONIS
11 On which Fijian island is the capital Suva?
VITI LEVU
12 Which animal is the symbol of the Republican Party in the US?
ELEPHANT
13 What was the home planet of the title character in the television situation comedy series ALF?
MELMAC
14 Which country has the Olympics abbreviation MLT?
MALTA
15 Beginning in 1999, how many successive wins did US cyclist Lance Armstrong have in the Tour de France?
SEVEN
16 What is the collective noun for a group of lions?
A PRIDE
17 In which year was Greenpeace, an international organisation of conservation activists, formed?
1971
18 What is phalacrophobia?
THE FEAR OF BECOMING BALD
19 In which language is “konichiwa” a form of greeting?
JAPANESE
20 To which placegetter in a race or other competition is a bronze medal awarded?
3RD
21 In the original series of the children’s television program The Mickey Mouse Club, what day of the week was Circus Day?
THURSDAY
22 Which South Australian film director was born in Uganda in 1953?
SCOTT HICKS
23 How many seconds are in an hour?
3600
24 In which Italian city is the Grand Canal?
VENICE
25 In which year was Sesame Street first seen on US television - 1969, 1979 or 1989?
1969
26 Which organisation, formed in 1961, campaigns for the release of prisoners of conscience?
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
27 What is the capital of Hawaii?
HONOLULU
28 What was the codename of fighter pilot Jimmy Wilder (Harry Connick Jr) in the 1996 film Independence Day?
RAVEN
29 The majority of taxis in Melbourne are what colour?
YELLOW
30 Who was Australia’s foreign affairs minister from 1996-2007?
ALEXANDER DOWNER
31 In golf, what is a birdie?
ONE UNDER PAR
32 Central Park is the tallest building in which Australian capital city?
PERTH
33 What do the letters LAN stand for in computing?
LOCAL AREA NETWORK
34 In which year were the Olympic Games held in Melbourne?
1956
35 What are Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal and Viminal?
THE 7 HILLS OF ROME
36 Which European city is the setting for the musical The Phantom of the Opera?
PARIS
37 Who composed the opera The Marriage of Figaro?
MOZART
38 How old is US singer Neil Diamond?
69
39 Who are “the haves and the have-nots”?
THE RICH AND THE POOR
40 Name the eight major planets.
MERCURY, VENUS, EARTH, MARS, JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS, NEPTUNE
41 What was the middle name of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas?
MARLAIS
42 Which racecourse is the venue for the Kentucky Derby each May?
CHURCHILL DOWNS
43 Which city will host the 2012 Olympic Games?
LONDON
44 Who directed the 1993 film The Piano?
JANE CAMPION
45 What is a nephogram?
A PHOTOGRAPH OF CLOUDS
46 “Who’s there?” is the first line of which play by William Shakespeare?
HAMLET
47 Which country is known as the Land of the White Elephant?
THAILAND
48 What nationality is Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass?
GERMAN
49 Who wrote the book Captains Courageous?
RUDYARD KIPLING
50 Podia is a plural of which word?
PODIUM
LEXICOGRAPHY
2 In the late 1950s, which Australian company manufactured Deep Image Radiola television sets?
AWA
3 Which Australian opera singer was known as La Stupenda?
DAME JOAN SUTHLAND
4 How many vertices does a cube have?
8
5 Who played Carol Brady in the television situation comedy series The Brady Bunch?
FLORENCE HENDERSON
6 What was Risorgimento?
THE 19TH CENTURY MOVEMENT FOR THE POLITICAL UNIFACATION OF ITALY
7 The song When the Children Are Asleep comes from which musical?
CAROUSEL
8 Heraklion is the capital of which Greek island?
CRET
9 What does caseous mean?
OF OR LIKE CHEESE
10 Who is South Australia’s Industry Minister?
TOM KOUTSANTONIS
11 On which Fijian island is the capital Suva?
VITI LEVU
12 Which animal is the symbol of the Republican Party in the US?
ELEPHANT
13 What was the home planet of the title character in the television situation comedy series ALF?
MELMAC
14 Which country has the Olympics abbreviation MLT?
MALTA
15 Beginning in 1999, how many successive wins did US cyclist Lance Armstrong have in the Tour de France?
SEVEN
16 What is the collective noun for a group of lions?
A PRIDE
17 In which year was Greenpeace, an international organisation of conservation activists, formed?
1971
18 What is phalacrophobia?
THE FEAR OF BECOMING BALD
19 In which language is “konichiwa” a form of greeting?
JAPANESE
20 To which placegetter in a race or other competition is a bronze medal awarded?
3RD
21 In the original series of the children’s television program The Mickey Mouse Club, what day of the week was Circus Day?
THURSDAY
22 Which South Australian film director was born in Uganda in 1953?
SCOTT HICKS
23 How many seconds are in an hour?
3600
24 In which Italian city is the Grand Canal?
VENICE
25 In which year was Sesame Street first seen on US television - 1969, 1979 or 1989?
1969
26 Which organisation, formed in 1961, campaigns for the release of prisoners of conscience?
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
27 What is the capital of Hawaii?
HONOLULU
28 What was the codename of fighter pilot Jimmy Wilder (Harry Connick Jr) in the 1996 film Independence Day?
RAVEN
29 The majority of taxis in Melbourne are what colour?
YELLOW
30 Who was Australia’s foreign affairs minister from 1996-2007?
ALEXANDER DOWNER
31 In golf, what is a birdie?
ONE UNDER PAR
32 Central Park is the tallest building in which Australian capital city?
PERTH
33 What do the letters LAN stand for in computing?
LOCAL AREA NETWORK
34 In which year were the Olympic Games held in Melbourne?
1956
35 What are Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal and Viminal?
THE 7 HILLS OF ROME
36 Which European city is the setting for the musical The Phantom of the Opera?
PARIS
37 Who composed the opera The Marriage of Figaro?
MOZART
38 How old is US singer Neil Diamond?
69
39 Who are “the haves and the have-nots”?
THE RICH AND THE POOR
40 Name the eight major planets.
MERCURY, VENUS, EARTH, MARS, JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS, NEPTUNE
41 What was the middle name of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas?
MARLAIS
42 Which racecourse is the venue for the Kentucky Derby each May?
CHURCHILL DOWNS
43 Which city will host the 2012 Olympic Games?
LONDON
44 Who directed the 1993 film The Piano?
JANE CAMPION
45 What is a nephogram?
A PHOTOGRAPH OF CLOUDS
46 “Who’s there?” is the first line of which play by William Shakespeare?
HAMLET
47 Which country is known as the Land of the White Elephant?
THAILAND
48 What nationality is Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass?
GERMAN
49 Who wrote the book Captains Courageous?
RUDYARD KIPLING
50 Podia is a plural of which word?
PODIUM
