quizballs 70 - general knowledge quiz - questions & answers
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The spelling of the answers to questions 4 and 29 was corrected - thanks D Albury - 3 Feb 2010.
quizballs 70 - free general knowledge quiz - questions and answers for trivia quizzes and pub quizzes
- What does a hygrometer measure? Humidity
- Philopobia is the fear of what basic human emotion? Love (falling in and being in love)
- What 1945 film starring Margaret Lockwood was titled after the legend of a 17th century highwaywoman? The Wicked Lady
- What is a sequence of letters called which reads the same backwards as forwards? Palindrome
- Who was the first wife of poet Ted Hughes, who killed herself in 1963? Sylvia Plath
- Which English monarch was nicknamed Longshanks? Edward the First
- Who composed the Funeral March sonata? Frederic Chopin (properly Frédéric François Chopin)
- What is a choli (pronounced 'kolee') - a midriff-baring bodice worn with a sari, a poisoned well or spring, an under-water spanner, or a mythical flying rabbit? A midriff-baring bodice worn with a sari
- What is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet? Zeta
- Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) founded what religious order? The Society of Jesus (or the Jesuits)
- Leslie Poles were the first names of which writer, whose works included The Go-Between? L P Hartley
- In which city is Hell Gate Bridge, said to have inspired Sydney Harbour Bridge? New York
- The Bessemer process was invented in 1856 for the production of what material? Steel (after Henry Bessemer)
- In which three years did Red Rum win the Grand National? 1973, 1974, 1977
- Which US poet wrote the Star-Spangled Banner? Francis Scott Key (in 1814)
- What is the basic monetary unit of Morocco? Dirham
- Which is the world's deepest ocean? Pacific (10,924m at its deepest, in the Mariana Trench)
- Who wrote the 1950 novel A Town Like Alice? Nevil Shute
- Sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials, which former chief of the Luftwaffe took cyanide the night before his scheduled hanging? Hermann Goring (fully Hermann Wilhelm Göring)
- What are the names of the mother and father dogs in the film 101 Dalmations? Perdita and Pongo
- The grandfather of which English actress was leader of the Labour Party 1931-35? Angela Lansbury (George Lansbury was the grandfather)
- A human-being has how many pairs of chromosomes? Twenty-three
- Which American writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954? Ernest Hemmingway
- In 1978 who died after serving only 34 days as Pope? Pope John Paul the First (Albino Luciani, of Italy)
- Who played the title role in the 1992 film My Cousin Vinnie? Joe Pesci
- The Tamil Tigers are a rebel force in which country? Sri Lanka
- In Greek Mythology which King was condemned to stand near fruit and water which moved away when he reached for them? Tantalus
- Who was the first Prime Minister of Israel? David Ben-Gurion (1948-53 and 1955-63)
- According to legend who killed the lion represented by the constellation Leo? Hercules (or Heracles)
- In 2005 Yulia Tymoshenko became the first female Prime Minister of which country? Ukraine
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