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This is a page from the Quizballs zone of the Businessballs website. Quizballs provides free quiz questions and answers for trivia quizzes, team games, pub quizzes, general knowledge, learning and amusement. Use the quiz and questions and answers to suit your purposes, either as a stand-alone quiz, or to cut and paste to make your own quizzes.

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Question 18 was replaced (15 Dec 2007) due to complexity and variations (the European ruling Habsberg family ruled at various times a lot more than Spain as suggested) of reforming a simple question and answer. Question 33 was also clarified (thanks D Albury). Question 8 was corrected (10 Mar 2007) to 'equilibrist' instead of 'equilibris', and Question 42 was clarfied (7 Apr 2007) to refer to 'tribe of people' instead of simply 'where' (thanks M Weetch). Question 23 was replaced by another (15 Sep 2006) due to the complexity of interpreting proximity of planets to Earth. Proximities are always changing because all planets are on their own quite different orbits round the Sun. Incidentally Venus has the closest orbit to that of Earth's orbit (thanks S Edwards for pointing out the anomalies). The answer to question 11 was corrected to the Sunday Express - thanks C O'Hara - 3 May 2010.

 

quizballs 16 - free quiz questions and answers for trivia quizzes and pub quizzes

1. What is the capital of Peru? Lima
2. Who became US president after John F Kennedy was assassinated? Lyndon B Johnson
3. Who wrote the book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? Washington Irving
4. What does an acrophobic fear? Heights
5. Which band released an album entitled Wish You Were Here? Pink Floyd
6. Who is the Roman god of fire? Vulcan
7. What is a carrick bend a type of? Knot
8. What is an equilibrist? Tightrope walker
9. Whose husband was Cosmopolitan magazine's first nude centrefold? Germaine Greer
10. In which English county is the ancient monument Stonehenge? Wiltshire
11. Which Sunday newspaper was founded by Lord Beaverbrook in 1918? The Sunday Express
12. What is the collective name for a group of beavers? Colony
13. Who discovered penicillin? Alexander Fleming (1928)
14. What type of creature is a hairstreak? Butterfly
15. Which film starring Robert Redford is set in Wakefield Prison Farm? Brubaker
16. Aileen Wuornos was notorious for being the world's first what? Female serial killer
17. What type of fruit is a McIntosh? Apple (named after Canadian farmer John McIntosh)
18. Which Home Secretary, later becoming Prime Minister, was criticised for closely observing the Siege of Sidney Street in 1911? Winston Churchill (later Sir Winston Churchill)
19. Kulfi is a type of which Indian food? Ice-cream
20. Eugene the Jeep featured in which comic strip? Popeye
21. Who sang the theme tune to the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies? Sheryl Crow
22. What is Oenology the study of? Wine
23. What acid is associated with muscles in the body experiencing oxygen debt? Lactic acid
24. In 1960 which country had the first ever woman prime minister? (Ceylon) Sri Lanka (Sirimavo Bandaranaike)
25. Nephritis is the inflamation of which part of the body? Kidneys
26. Who played the father in the 1950 film Father Of The Bride? Spencer Tracy
27. What are classified using the Munsell system? Colours
28. If an insect is apterous what has it not got? Wings
29. In which country would you find the Southern Alps? New Zealand
30. What does OPEC stand for? Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
31. Padauk is a type of what natural substance? Wood
32. How many carats is pure gold? 24
33. What was the first name of Sir Winston Churchill's wife? Clementine
34. What was the Rolling Stones' first UK number 1 hit? It's All Over Now
35. What is the bullet-proof screen on a military vehicle called? Mantlet
36. The Battle of Naseby was fought during which war? English Civil War (June 1645)
37. How many hulls does a catamaran have? Two
38. Jazz singer Eleanor Gough McKay was better known by which name? Billie Holiday
39. In which country is Africa's highest ski resort? Morocco
40. If a dish is parmentier what is it cooked or served with? Potatoes
41. In boxing what weight is between a flyweight and a featherweight? Bantamweight
42. Boudicca (Boadicea) was queen of which tribe of people? The Iceni (of Eastern England, who for a brief period around AD60 joined with other tribes to re-take London and St Albans from the occupying Roman forces)
43. What type of plant is a saguaro? Cactus
44. Which designer was made famous by his headwear worn by his mother Gertrude? David Shilling
45. In which city were the 1972 Summer Olympics held? Munich
46. Which politician came second in the 2001 Tory Party leadership contest? Kenneth Clarke
47. What colour is stone lapis lazuli? Blue
48. What is a camel with one hump called? Dromedary
49. What spirit is used to make a Harvey Wallbanger? Vodka
50. Who took over from Richard Whiteley as the presenter of TV's Countdown? Des Lynham

 

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