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Medium-Level Quiz Questions
Questions I
- What name is given to the line on a ship's side showing the limit of legal submersion when loaded with cargo under various sea conditions?
- Which country is the natural habitat of the emu?
- Who created the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot?
- In which European city is the Trevi Fountain?
- On precisely what date did the Victorians celebrate the start of the twentieth century?
- What line from the film Jaws made the AFI's 100 Greatest Movie quotes of all time?
- How many Bronte sisters were there?
- In which British city did Burke and Hare sell corpses to Dr. Robert Knox?
- Which artist painted urban landscapes with people often referred to as "matchstick men"?
- Goulash originally comes from which country?
Answers:
- Plimsoll line
- Australia
- Agatha Christie
- Rome
- 1st January, 1901
- You're gonna need a bigger boat
- Three
- Edinburgh
- L S Lowry
- Hungary
Questions II
- Pure gold is how many carats?
- Name the main female character, whose often played by a man, in the pantomime Aladdin?
- Which American State is called the 'Golden State'?
- What units is the intensity of sound measured in?
- The River Severn is the longest river in the UK, can you name the second longest?
- Give the surname of the two American brother generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane?
- Which musician narrated the children's TV series Thomas the Tank Engine?
- Scurvy is a disease resulting from the lack of which vitamin?
- Which city was the first in the world to have a population of over one million?
- The American TV show Friends is set in which city?
Answers:
- 24 carats
- Widow Twankey
- California
- Decibels
- River Thames
- The Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur)
- Ringo Starr
- Vitamin C
- Rome
- New York City
Medium Trivia III
- Where does a football team only ever line up in a 1-2-5-3 formation?
- Name the science that deals with the motion of projectiles?
- In which month of the year is Thanksgiving, a holiday celebrated in the United States?
- Who wears the Ring of the Fisherman?
- 'Working Holiday', 'Paid Volunteer' and 'Same Difference' are all examples of what type of speech?
- Who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
- In which American state is the only place in the world where both alligators and crocodiles live together?
- When an aircraft exceeds the sound barrier what sort of loud boom can sometimes be heard?
- In which language were Anne Frank's diaries originally written?
- In traditional occupations what did a cooper make?
Answers:
- On a table football game
- Ballistics
- November
- The pope
- Oxymorons
- Lewis Carrol
- Florida
- A sonic boom
- Dutch
- Barrels