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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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Below are the quiz answers. Here are the quiz questions without answers.

Question 40 was clarified - thanks A Duffy - 25 Sep 2007. Question 9 was clarified to exclude Australia and continental land masses - thanks M McLeary - 19 Nov 2009.

 

quizballs 4 - free quiz questions and answers for trivia quizzes and pub quizzes

1. The character Shylock appears in which Shakespeare play? The Merchant Of Venice
2. Who released an album in 1999 called Brand New Day? Sting
3. If a creature is edentulous what has it not got? Teeth
4. What were the eldest sons of the Kings of France called? Dauphin
5. What is the fourth sign of the Zodiac? Cancer
6. Who is the Greek God of wine? Dionysus (Bacchus was the Roman God of wine)
7. P&O, the shipping line, stands for what? Peninsular and Oriental
8. What was Radar's surname in MASH? O'Reilly
9. Excluding Australia and continental land masses what is the largest island in the world? Greenland
10. Who was the founder of the Body Shop company? Anita Roddick
11. In which year (or decade) were parking meters introduced in the UK? 1958 (1950's)
12. Who wrote the novel Dracula? Bram Stoker
13. What is a baby seal called? Pup
14. What is the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain more popularly known as? Eros
15. What is the name of Don Quixote's horse? Rosinante (or Rocinante or Rozinante - all three versions arise in different editions of the book)
16. Which actresses play Rosemary and Thyme in the TV series about two gardening sleuths? Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris
17. During which war was the Battle of Marne? First World War
18. In the human body what is Varicella commonly known as? Chicken Pox
19. How many valves does a trumpet have? Three
20. Brock is a nickname for which animal? Badger
21. What is the name of the RAF's aerobatics team? The Red Arrows
22. Which football club did Alan Sugar own? Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs)
23. Who is the Roman Goddess of the hunt? Dianna
24. What type of creature is an alewife? Fish
25. What is the metal or plastic end of a shoelace called? Aglet
26. What is the world's third largest desert? The Gobi Desert (500,000 square miles)
27. What was Lancelot Brown famous for designing? Gardens (aka Capability Brown)
28. Which artist was born in Bradford in 1937? David Hockney
29. What was the BBC's first TV pop music programme? Six-Five Special
30. Which English city had the Roman name Camulodonum? Colchester
31. What is an ecdysiast? Striptease artist
32. What is the main vegetable ingredient in the dish Borsht? Beetroot
33. With which country did the UK have the long-running 'Cod War' disputes over fishing rights? Iceland
34. Who was given the name 'Fourth Man' when he was revealed as a spy in 1979? Anthony Blunt
35. Which two English Cathedrals have copies of the Magna Carta? Salisbury and Lincoln
36. How many years of marriage is celebrated on the Ivory anniversary? Fourteen
37. What famous landmark was moulded in gold during a bullion robbery in the 1951 film The Lavender Hill Mob? The Eiffel Tower
38. Who was known as the Sun King? Louis the Fourteenth
39. Who was the first American in space? Alan Shephard (5 May 1961)
40. How many players are there in an Australian Rules football team (on the field at the same time)? Eighteen (there are also four replacements on the bench who can be interchanged whenever during the game - thanks A Duffy)
41. Who invented the elevator in 1853? Elisha Otis
42. At which ski resort would you see the Cresta Run? St Moritz
43. In which English county is Scotney Castle? Kent
44. White Lion pubs are named after which English King's heraldic symbol? Edward the Fourth
45. What is the mouthpiece of a recorder called? Fipple
46. In which month is St Swithin's Day? July (15th)
47. What every-day item was named after Mrs Gamp in Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit? Umbrella
48. In what year did the USA adopt the Stars and Stripes flag? 1777
49. In which ocean are the Canary Islands? Atlantic
50. The authorised version of the Holy Bible was made at the order of which King? James the First (1611)

 

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