General Knowledge Quiz 16

Questions

1. What is the name of silver in heraldry?

2. What is the fastest running British bird?

3. Andy Capp is the work of which cartoonist?

4. What does a cartographer draw?

5. Who is the Greek God of the Sea?

6. What type of creature is an alcid?

7. What is the wife of a Marquess?

8. What is the currency of Egypt?

9. What is the usual anatomical name for a skull without a mandible?

10. Which British Prime Minister followed Winston Churchill's first term as PM?

11. TV chefs (UK) Simon King and David Myers are better known as?

12. With what other large building society did the Nationwide merge in the 1980's?

13. What type of fruit is a gean?

14. What is the brightest star in the night sky?

15. What is the world's second largest sea?

16. Which English city is the setting for TV's Inspector Morse?

17. Nephology is the study of what high subject?

18. In which year did Esther Rantzen launch Childline?

19. How many boroughs does New York have?

20. Which Mediterranean plant used in medicine and magic was said to shriek when pulled from the ground?

21. Ursine relates to which large furred animals?

22. Cardiff in Wales is on which river?

23. Sandra Goodrich was better known what 1960's singer?

24. What (as at August 2006 is the world's longest running children's TV programme?

25. How many British Open Golf Championships has Nick Faldo won (as at 2006?

26. In which English county is Belvoir (pronounced 'beaver' Castle?

27. Whish British Prime Minister followed Winston Churchill's first term as PM?

28. TV chefs (UK Simon King and David Myers are better known as?

29. Which Mediterranean plant used in medicine and magic was said to shriek when pulled from the ground?

30. Which perfume was named for Coco Chanel's birthday?

31. What is the art of decorative writing called?

32. In which part of the human body would you find the talus?

33. In which European city is the International Court of Justice based?

34. What type of weather is Brontophobia a fear of?

35. Sandra Goodrich was better known as what 1960's singer?

36. Which American artist died in a car crash in 1956?

37. What type of flower is a ladies slipper?

38. In what type of establishment was Lloyds of London formed in 1688?

39. A natatorium is what type of amenity?

40. Who was Henry VIII's fourth wife?

41. What (as at August 2006) is the world's longest running children's TV programme?

42. What was Elvis Presley's first record label?

43. Who designed London's Marble Arch?

44. Which American writer created Tarzan?

45. Whose autobiography is entitled Testing Times?

46. What painful custom was outlawed in China in 1912?

47. How many British Open Golf Championships has Nick Faldo won (as at 2006)?

48. What was the first UK colour TV advertisement?

49. Who was actor Tony Curtis' first wife?

50. What is the birthstone for February?

51. Who composed Peter and the Wolf?

52. In which English county is Belvoir (pronounced 'beaver') Castle?

53. What is the name of Al Pacino's character in the 1983 film Scarface?

54. Who designed Princess Diana's wedding dress?

55. If a floor or surface is marmoreal what is it made of?

56. What does JPEG stand for?

57. Who discovered Panama in 1503?