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25 Questions and Answers About the Word 'New'
Questions
- Which Cornish resort is widely regarded as the surf capital of the UK?
- The New Model Army fought in which war?
- Apart from man and not including marine animals, what is New Zealand's only native mammals?
- Which American state is nicknamed the Garden State?
- Which famous driver came second in the 1979 '24 Hours of Le Mans' sports car race?
- What country was once named New France?
- What's the first book of the New Testament?
- The name of which dance developed in the late 1950s in Rio de Janeiro means "new trend" or "new wave" in Portuguese?
- On January 14th 1878, what new invention was demonstrated to Queen Victoria?
- Whose Dynamic Tension methods were advertised with "Let Me Prove in 7 Days That I Can Make You a New Man!"?
- Which British pop group were formed in London in 1969 by Keith Potger?
- New England is a region comprising of 6 American states, can you name all six?
- New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of which island?
- Which political and cultural magazine was founded on 12 April 1913, and had connections with the socialist Fabian Society?
- Who wrote the science fiction novel Brave New World?
- Starting from February 12th, Chinese New Year 2021 is the year of which animal?
- Which ship, with a name meaning 'new land' in Latin, is best known for carrying the 1910 British Antarctic Expedition?
- What name was given to a series of programs, public work projects, and reforms enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939?
- In which city would tourists visit the Lotus Temple?
- The New Forest is located mostly in which English county?
- Which British fashion retailer with a chain of high street shops was founded in 1969 by Tom Singh?
- How many American state names begin with the word New?
- Which common term means people who have recently acquired wealth?
- Which British secret agent TV series produced between 1976 and 1977 was a sequel to a 1960s series created by Sydney Newman?
- Which group had "a brand new combine harvester"?
Answers:
- Newquay
- English Civil War (formed in 1645 by the Parliamentarians)
- Bats
- New Jersey
- (Actor) Paul Newman
- Canada
- Matthew
- Bossa Nova
- The telephone (it was demonstrated by Alexander Graham Bell)
- Charles Atlas
- The New Seekers
- Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
- Manhattan Island
- New Statesman
- Aldous Huxley
- Ox
- Terra Nova
- The New Deal
- New Delhi (India)
- Hampshire
- New Look
- Four (New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, and New York)
- Nouveau riche (nouveau means new in French)
- The New Avengers
- The Wurzels (in the lyrics of the song Combine Harvester)