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Quiz
- Which country invented the first paper making process?
- Who wrote the novel Nineteen Eighty-four?
- Who ruled before Queen Victoria?
- What name is given to the longest part of the large intestine?
- Liverpool is a metropolitan county on the eastern side of which estuary?
- What does a bibliophile collect?
- What's the American word for a kitchen or bathroom tap?
- What word means an obstacle created by a sharp double bend on a motor-racing track?
- What did John Logie Baird invent?
- Which European city relies entirely on its waterways for transport?
- In which decade was Mount Everest conquered for the first time?
- Which planet is closest to the sun?
- Which theory descibes how the universe expanded?
- Which metal used to make batteries is also the lightest metal in the periodic table?
- The word feline relates to what type of animal?
- What is the name of Long John Silver’s parrot in Treasure Island?
- What name is given to the study of fossils?
- Craftsman Antonio Stradivari is considered to be the most distinguished maker of what?
- Who was the second husband of Josephine Bonaparte?
- What 'L' is a substance that helps reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact?
- What's another name for a polygraph?
- What name is given to the small ceremonial mallet commonly used by an auctioneer?
- Hydrophobia is the irrational fear of what?
- In which ocean would you find the Canary Islands?
- The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military landing operation on which island?
- Wildebeest are what sort of animals?
- The Abolitionist movement in the United States of America was an effort to end what?
- Idi Amin served as the president of which country from 1971 to 1979?
- Name the city with the largest population in the United States?
- What canal opened to traffic in 1914?
- The phrase "Et tu, Brute?" was used by William Shakespeare in which play?
- In which U.S. state would you find the Grand Canyon?
- Which British runner became the first person to run a mile under 4 minutes?
- Which gas is the major constituent of ordinary air?
- What does the acronym RAM stand for?
- What does the word hubris mean?
- In Peter and the Wolf what instrument represents the duck?
- What reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Australia?
- Which festival is celebrated in New Orleans on Shrove Tuesday?
- Muscles are attatched to bones by what?
Answers
- China
- George Orwell
- King William IV
- Colon
- Mersey Estuary
- Books
- Faucet
- Chicane
- Television
- Venice
- 1950s (1953)
- Venice
- The Big Bang
- Lithium
- Cats
- Captain Flint
- Palaeontology
- Violins
- Emperor Napoleon I
- Lubricants?
- Lie detector
- A gavel
- Water
- Atlantic
- Cuba
- Antelope
- Slavery
- Uganda
- New York City
- Panama
- Julius Caesar
- Arizona
- Roger Bannister
- Nitrogen
- Random Access Memory
- Excessive pride or self-confidence
- Oboe
- Great Barrier Reef
- Mardi Gras
- Tendons