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quizballs 11 - free quiz questions for trivia quizzes and pub quizzes

  1. The Queensberry Rules are standard rules of which sport?
  2. From which of Shakespeare's plays does the term 'salad days' originate?
  3. Which perfume house launched the 'Joy' perfume in 1930?
  4. In heraldry what colour is sable?
  5. What type of fruit is a canteloupe?
  6. Which English artist was president of the Royal Academy in 1768?
  7. Who played the Riddler in the 1995 film Batman Forever?
  8. What is the fifth sign of the Zodiac?
  9. Who invented the steam engine?
  10. Which artist painted The Watering Place?
  11. Which explorer gave Natal its name on Christmas Day 1497?
  12. An orchidectomy is the surgical removal of what?
  13. What is the name of a word which reads the same backwards as forwards?
  14. What does an ocularist make?
  15. An ennead is a group or set of how many?
  16. What do the US Marine Corps, the city of Exeter and Plymouth Argyle FC have in common?
  17. In which castle was Charles I imprisoned from 1647-48?
  18. What chemical element has the symbol Fe?
  19. What is a Maori ceremonial war-dance called?
  20. What salad is named after the Mexican Restaurateur who invented it?
  21. Who became US president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
  22. Which city hosted the 1992 Summer Olympic games?
  23. In which year did the Gunpowder Plot take place?
  24. Who was the original presenter of TV's University Challenge?
  25. Who was known as Little Sparrow?
  26. What is the minimum alcohol content under EU laws?
  27. From which English county do Bakewell tarts (technically 'Bakewell puddings') originate?
  28. What type of creature is a bandy-bandy?
  29. What is the largest gland in the human body?
  30. Who played Tom Hanks' wife in the film The Burbs?
  31. Which Hindu God is depicted with the head of an elephant?
  32. What is the young of a rabbit called?
  33. What is the collective name for a large number of islands?
  34. Peanuts is the work of which cartoonist?
  35. Who wrote the story The Old Man And The Sea?
  36. In which US city was the first juke-box installed, in the Palais Royal Saloon, 1889?
  37. Which British Prime Minister's mother, Jenny Jerome, invented the Manhattan cocktail?
  38. What was the first underground railway line in London?
  39. Which sea has no land borders?
  40. What is the currency of Iran?
  41. Who is the Roman God of the sea?
  42. What does the H in H-Bomb stand for?
  43. Which actress is the voice of Homer Simpson's mother?
  44. Lexicology is the study of what?
  45. In which country is Interpol based?
  46. What is the line called behind which darts players stand when throwing?
  47. Who was the first leader of Polish trade union Solidarity?
  48. Martial art Jeet Kune was devised by which US actor?
  49. Which pope commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
  50. Neroli is an essential oil distilled from the flowers of which fruit?

 

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