Gold Quiz
All the questions in this quiz are about gold or have the word gold in the question or answer.
Questions
- What's the chemical symbol for gold?
- The Golden Temple is located in which Indian city?
- The Golden State is a nickname for which U.S. state?
- What term is given to gold that has been hammered into thin sheets by beating and is often used for gilding?
- What was the name of the ship captained by Francis Drake in his circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580?
- Which groups' 1967 cover version of 'Silence is Golden' reached number one on the UK Singles Chart?
- Which United States Army base in Kentucky is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository which houses a large portion of America's official gold reserves?
- What mythical object did alchemists seek to turn base metals into gold?
- Which well known parody award is given annually to the worst actor of the previous year?
- Which area on the coast of Catalonia, Spain, between Alcanar and Cunit, has a name meaning 'Golden Coast' in English?
- Which member of Spandau Ballet wrote both the music and lyrics to the 1983 song Gold?
- Which annual celebration has the celebratory colours purple, green, and gold?
- What carat gold is also called pure gold or 100 per cent gold?
- How many olympic gold medals does Sebastian Coe have?
- The Golden Girls is an American TV sitcom about four older women who share friendship and a home in which U.S. state?
- Gold Hill is a steep cobbled street in the town of Shaftesbury, in Dorset, famous for which 1970s advert?
- The Gold Coast is a coastal city in which country?
- Can you name the only metal that has almost the exact same density as gold?
- Who was the original presenter of the British television game show Going for Gold?
- According to the Bible, a gold idol in the form of which animal was made by the Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai?
- The Golden Buddha, the world's largest solid-gold statue, is located in which city?
- Which retired American professional golfer was nicknamed the Golden Bear?
- Which European city was the first city to mint its own gold coins in 1252?
- What six letter word links snooker player Steve Davis and the Welcome Stranger?
- The mineral iron pyrite is also known as what?
- In Ian Fleming's 1959 novel Goldfinger, who is the only female in the United States known to be running an organized crime gang?
Answers:
- Au
- Amritsar
- California
- Gold leaf
- Golden Hind (originally named Pelican, but Drake renamed her mid-voyage in 1578)
- The Tremeloes
- Fort Knox
- Philosopher's Stone
- The Golden Raspberry Awards (also known in short as Razzies and Razzie Awards)
- Costa Daurada
- Gary Kemp
- Mardi Gras
- 24 carat gold
- Two gold medals
- Florida
- Hovis advert
- Australia
- Tungsten
- Henry Kelly
- Calf (golden calf)
- Bangkok
- Jack Nicklaus
- Florence, Italy
- Nugget (Steve Davis's nickname was the Golden Nugget and the Welcome Stranger is the name of the biggest alluvial gold nugget ever found)
- Fool's gold
- Pussy Galore