Alphabet Quiz 2

Questions

1. N - What is the name of the essential oil distilled from the blossoms of the bitter orange?

2. Z - What is the name of the optical toy in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved?

3. Y - In the games of bridge and whist, what is the name of a hand with no card above a nine?

4. X - What imaginary wonderful place is portrayed in Samuel Coleridge's poem 'Kubla Khan'?

5. W - What is the name of a salad made from apples, walnuts, celery and mayonnaise?

6. V - In Scandinavian mythology, what were each of Odin's handmaids known as, who chose heroes to be slain in battle?

7. U - What is the twentieth letter of the Greek alphabet?

8. T - What is the name of a dark red fruit produced by crossing a blackberry with a raspberry?

9. S - What is a waiter called who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant?

10. R - What word means the killing of a king?

11. Q - What is the name of the large muscle at the front of the thigh which acts to extend the leg?

12. P - What was the title assumed by an ancient British chief claiming supreme power?

13. O - What is the name of a form of dungeon, where prisoners were usually forgotten, only accessible by a trap door in the ceiling of the dungeon?

14. A - What is the name of an object or design resembling a cross with a loop instead of a top arm, used in ancient Egypt as a symbol of life?

15. M - What is grape juice called before or during fermentation?

16. L - What is the US state capital of Michigan?

17. K - What is the medical term for the inlammation of the cornea of the eye?

18. J - What is the name of the coarse brown sugar made in India from the sap of palm trees?

19. I - What is the study of visual imagary and its symbolism?

20. H - Balbir Singh was a three-time Olympic medal winner in which sport?

21. G - What is the name of the Good Witch of the South in the 1900 children's novel 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'?

22. F - What is a lively Spanish dance for two people, typically accompanied by castanets or guitar?

23. E - What is the practice of training shrubs and trees to grow flat against a wall or fence?

24. D - What is the loincloth worn by male Hindus called?

25. C - What is a thick soup, usually made with fish or seafood?

26. B - What is the name of the game in which small balls are hit into numbered holes on a board, with pins as obstructions?