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quizballs 103 - free general knowledge quiz - questions and answers for trivia quizzes and pub quizzes
- Whose unemployment benefits records from 1963-4 referring to "...Mr Woodward's amateur singing interests and flamboyant dress..." were auctioned in 2010? Tom Jones
- Neat, kine, and beeves are old collective words for what: cattle; children; soldiers; or straw-bales? Cattle
- Ben Drew achieved a 2010 number one album fronting which band? Plan B
- Ehud Barak succeeded Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister of which country in 1999? Israel
- What acid occurs naturally in bee and ant venom? Formic acid
- Wiki means what in Hawaiian: Free; Quick; Easy; or Knowledge? Quick
- Put these ancient body units of length in order, smallest to biggest: Span Palm Cubit Digit? Digit, Palm, Span, Cubit (basically, a digit was a fingerwidth, a palm was four of these, a span was three palms or twelve digits, and a cubit was the forearm or the forearm including the outstretched hand, anything between 6-9 palms or 24-36 digits, depending on the country/era/interpretation)
- International telephone dialling codes for Africa generally begin with what number? 2
- What word for a monstrously large creature or organization derives from the original Egyptian meaning of 'water-ox', and more specifically, probably the hippopotamus? Behemoth (the original Egyptian word was pe-ehe-mau)
- Which UK government ex-minister referred to himself as a "cab for hire" when secretly filmed attempting to sell his capability to influence government policy? Stephen Byers
- Oxford Boat Race squad twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss became multi-millionaires after a court battle with what website that they claimed stole their idea? Facebook
- What is two-thirds of five-eighths? Five-twelfths (or 0.41666666... etc, or recurring or repeating, to use the technical terms)
- The UK company, Banbury Postiche, is famous for making which items that are worn on the body? Wigs
- What traditional leatherworking tools became cockney rhyming slang for testicles? Cobblers awls (cobblers = balls - see cockney rhyming slang - an awl is a piercing tool)
- How many horns does the British minotaur dung beetle have? Three
- In which country did a military coup overthrow president Juan Peron in 1955? Argentina
- Whose memoir was re-titled 'A Journey' shortly before its Autumn 2010 publication, because apparently the publishers were concerned that the author's chosen title 'The Journey' might seem too 'messianic' and arrogant? Tony Blair
- The United States Bullion Depository in Kentucky was formerly known by what name, which has become a metaphorical reference for an impregnable building? Fort Knox
- What number is a hurricane-force storm on the conventional Beaufort Wind Force Scale: 9; 10; 11; or 12? 12 (see the weather and climate quizballs 38)
- Globo Esporte, which carried the headline 'HAHAHAHAHAHAHA' following Argentina's 4-0 defeat by Germany in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, is a newspaper in which country? Brazil
- What is the vivid blue semi-percious stone, historically mined in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province and prized by the ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Greeks and Romans? Lapis lazuli
- Cape Wrath is on the coast of which country? Scotland (interestingly, apparently the only place in the northern hemisphere where all British armed forces train together)
- A 'bible bump' is an old colloquial term for what medical condition? A ganglion cyst (a swelling on or around tendons of the hand or wrist - it was believed that hitting such a cyst with a bible would cause it to disperse)
- Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002) was more commonly known as whom? The Queen Mother (or Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - wife George VI, and mother of Elizabeth II)
- What element, whose symbol derives from its Greek name hydrargyrum, meaning watery silver, melts at minus 38.83 °C and yet boils at 356.73 °C ? Mercury (symbol Hg)
- What would a person normally do with perique? Smoke it (usually in a pipe - it's a strong flavoured high quality black tobacco grown in Louisiana USA)
- What is the traditional name of the woven tape used in dressmaking or millinery for stiffening fabric? Petersham
- If under consistently fair conditions, a tossed coin lands heads upwards twice in succession, what are the strict theoretical mathematical chances that the next toss will land tails upwards: One-in-Two; Three-to-Two; Two-to-One; or Seven-to-Four? One-in-two (or 50%, just as theoretically it would be after any number of consecutive heads)
- In Richard Sheridan's 1770s play The Rivals what appropriately named character is noted for her amusing misuse of words? Mrs Malaprop (a malapropism - from the French phrase mal à propos, meaning ill-suited - is a mistaken and usually funny word or expression, for example "It's great to be back on terracotta.." attributed to John Prescott, and Del Boy from TV's Only Fools and Horses)
- What US state's capital city is named after gold prospector Joseph Juneau (1836-99)? Alaska (Juneau)
- Who was the first female presenter on UK TV's Top of The Pops, who made only one appearance in 1982 to celebrate BBC Radio One's 15th birthday? Annie Nightingale
- In boxing what does RSC stand for? Referee Stopped Contest
- What colourless odourless liquid, E number E422, is used in foods as a sweetener, thickener and humectant (to maintain moistness)? Glycerol (or glycerine or glycerin)
- The Galapagos Islands lie in which body of water? Pacific Ocean
- In Scrabble what points value is a letter K tile? Five
- The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is in which country? Spain (Galicia)
- What is a small lift called which carries food and other goods between floors in a building: Muteserver; Blindsteward; Dumbwaiter; or Silentwaitress? Dumbwaiter
- UK politicians David Owen, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and Bill Rodgers, known as The Gang of Four, defected from the Labour Party in 1981 to form which party? Social Democratic Party
- What is the main stock market index of Hong Kong? Hang Seng Index
- Name the sportsman who replaced 'Scotty', breaking a relationship enduring over 10 years and 72 victories including several world championships - and what/who is Scotty? Tiger Woods - his putter
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