Tough Quiz Questions (aka Impossible Quiz Page 2)

Impossible Quizzes Index

Tough Questions I

1. The Falkland Islands has two newspapers, one is the Teaberry Express, can you name the other?





2. Who's pseudonyms have included Milkwood Thomas, Tedham Porterhouse and Jack Frost?
3. If Las Vegans come from Las Vegas where do Yats come from?
4. In which country are the most languages spoken?
5. Scott Abbott bought a Canadian hockey team with the money he earned from co-inventing which product?
6. What do Victorians Edward Oxford, John Francis and Roderick Maclean all have in common?
7. In 1917, children were paid to collect which naturally occurring items that were used in the manufacture of the expolsive cordite?
8. Whose short story The Birds was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name?
9. Not including Canada, can you name two member states of the Commonwealth starting with the letter 'C'?
10. How is vacuum-cleaner salesman James Wormwold described in the title of a famous book?
11. Which country supplies 95 percent or the world's commercial balsa?
12. Which European city, with more than 2,300 bridges, has a greater number of bridges than Venice and Amsterdam combined?
13. In which part of the world would you find the Noonday Gun?
14. Which Liberal Democrat Life Peer had a small role in the film Run Fatboy Run playing Libby's mother?

Answers:

1. The Penguin News
2. Bob Dylan
3. New Orleans
4. Papua New Guinea
5. The boardgame Trivial Pursuit
6. They all tried to assassinate Queen Victoria
7. Horse chestnuts or conkers
8. Daphne du Maurier
9. Cameroon and Cyprus
10. Our Man in Havana
11. Ecuador
12. Hamburg
13. Hong Kong (as also featured in the song Mad Dogs and Englishmen - 'In Hong Kong, they strike a gong, and fire off a noonday gun')
14. Floella Benjamin (former Playschool presenter)

Tougher Quiz II

1. Which Dutch model married David Walliams in 2010?
2. Who painted a naked portrait of Kate Moss in 2005 which sold for 3.9 million pounds?
3. Which popular character in Nordic countries is known as Kalle Anka in Sweden and Aku Ankka in Finland?
4. What was invented by accident in the late 19th Century by German scientist, Justus Liebig?
5. Who signs his watercolours A. G. Carrick?
6. In the sitcom Happy Days who does 'The Fonz' have a picture of in his closet next to his mirror?
7. Michelle Bachelet Jeria was the first female president of which country?
8. Who once lived with his aunt in a small village called Pett Bottom and went to the same boarding school as Tony Blair?
9. Can you name the former Swedish wife of golfer Tiger Woods?
10. Which construction has been referred to as a 'tear drop on the cheek of time'?
11. Who, in 1990, left his wife of 25 years to set up home with Elaine Mason?
12. Which British actress has the middle name Paul?
13. What did the Incas call 'the tears of the sun'?
14. Which author was first to use the term 'cold war'?
15. Which country has the world’s first two UNESCO World Heritage Sites?

Answers:

1. Lara Stone
2. Lucien Freud
3. Donald Duck
4. Marmite
5. Prince Charles
6. James Dean
7. Chile
8. Fictional character James Bond
9. Elin Nordegren
10. The Taj Mahal
11. Stephen Hawking
12. Billy Piper
13. Gold
14. George Orwell
15. Ecuador