T322 A TO Z QUIZ
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 1:05 pm
(A) Which hormone stimulates the nervous system and raises the heart rate?
ADRENALINE
(B) What name is given to the straps placed around a horse's head?
BRIDLE
(C) Which is the only member of the cat family that does not have retractable claws?
CHEETAH
(D) Excluding Oxford and Cambridge, which is the oldest University in England?
DURHAM
(E) What was the name of the UFO prophet in the sitcom Mork and Mindy?
!(F) Which literary character has a wife called Mildew and a son called Mold? (3 words)
(G) Which cheese was named after a small town near Milan?
GORGONZOLA
(H) Which chain-store was founded by Terence Conran?
(I) What name is given to the signs or badges showing that one holds an office?
INSIGNIA
(J) What type of large vehicle was named after a Hindu god?
(K) How is August Darnelle known when he is playing with his coconuts?
(L) What name is given to a feet-first toboggan?
LUGE
(M) What was the name of the race of tiny people that lived in the Emerald City?
(N) What was invented by Wallace Carothers?
(O) What name is given to the science of correcting deformities of the skeleton?
ORTHOPAEDICS
(P) What sort of birds would congregate in a covey?
(Q) What was the surname of President George Bush Snr's Vice President?
QUAYLE
(R) An edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family that was domesticated in Europe in pre-Roman times.
RADISH
(S) In America what was abolished by the 13th Amendment?
SLAVERY
(T) What is the lowest-pitched brass musical instrument?
TUBA
(U) What is the anatomical name for the womb?
UTERUS
(V) Who liked the Remington shaver so much he bought the company?
YVES ST LAURENT
(W) If a face was described as rugose what would it be?
(X) What was invented by Chester Carlson?
(Y) Which fashion designer promoted the little girl look?
(Z) What is the name of the highest mountain in Germany?
ADRENALINE
(B) What name is given to the straps placed around a horse's head?
BRIDLE
(C) Which is the only member of the cat family that does not have retractable claws?
CHEETAH
(D) Excluding Oxford and Cambridge, which is the oldest University in England?
DURHAM
(E) What was the name of the UFO prophet in the sitcom Mork and Mindy?
!(F) Which literary character has a wife called Mildew and a son called Mold? (3 words)
(G) Which cheese was named after a small town near Milan?
GORGONZOLA
(H) Which chain-store was founded by Terence Conran?
(I) What name is given to the signs or badges showing that one holds an office?
INSIGNIA
(J) What type of large vehicle was named after a Hindu god?
(K) How is August Darnelle known when he is playing with his coconuts?
(L) What name is given to a feet-first toboggan?
LUGE
(M) What was the name of the race of tiny people that lived in the Emerald City?
(N) What was invented by Wallace Carothers?
(O) What name is given to the science of correcting deformities of the skeleton?
ORTHOPAEDICS
(P) What sort of birds would congregate in a covey?
(Q) What was the surname of President George Bush Snr's Vice President?
QUAYLE
(R) An edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family that was domesticated in Europe in pre-Roman times.
RADISH
(S) In America what was abolished by the 13th Amendment?
SLAVERY
(T) What is the lowest-pitched brass musical instrument?
TUBA
(U) What is the anatomical name for the womb?
UTERUS
(V) Who liked the Remington shaver so much he bought the company?
YVES ST LAURENT
(W) If a face was described as rugose what would it be?
(X) What was invented by Chester Carlson?
(Y) Which fashion designer promoted the little girl look?
(Z) What is the name of the highest mountain in Germany?