General Knowledge Quiz 21

Questions

1. What is the collective term for a group of woodpeckers?

2. Which famous US architect designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in 1916?

3. Ichthyology is a branch of zoology concerning which creatures?

4. W Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence is based on the life of which painter?

5. How many international caps did English footballer Stanley Matthews (later Sir Stanley Matthews) win?

6. Who became leader of the People's National Party in Jamaica in 1969?

7. What element is mixed with Iron to make cast iron?

8. Which type business traditionally has three balls hanging outside?

9. What is the fictional Scottish island setting of the 1973 film The Wicker Man?

10. Which famous Mormon church leader and educational pioneer died in Salt Lake City in 1877?

11. Which US actress's real name is Mary Cathleen Collins?

12. In which body of water are the Balearic Islands?

13. Who was hanged in Edinburgh in 1829 for multiple murder in supplying doctors with corpses for dissection?

14. Mariolatry is the idolatrous worship of whom?

15. Who said in a radio broadcast in 1939, "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia" ?

16. What is Zurich's main river?

17. In 1987 a French court found which Gestapo chief guilty of war crimes and sentenced him to life imprisonment?

18. What is the name of the Cambridge University College that was originally for women only?

19. Who was King of Egypt from 1936-52?

20. In which European town is the Menin Gate Memorial to missing British and Commonwealth soldiers?

21. Sounding like a placename, what is the traditional pronged spear used for catching Salmon called?

22. Which country had the Roman name Mauritania (also spelled Mauretania?

23. Which country (at July 2007 boasts the world's longest suspension bridge span between towers?

24. What does OAPEC (not OPEC stand for?

25. In 1987 a French court found which Gestapo chief guilty of war crimes and sentenced him to life imprisonment?

26. W Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence is based on the life of which painter?

27. How many international caps did English footballer Stanley Matthews (later Sir Stanley Matthews win?

28. Which famous Mormon church leader and educational pioneer died in Salt Lake City in 1877?

29. Who was hanged in Edinburgh in 1829 for multiple murder in supplying doctors with corpses for dissection?

30. Who said in a radio broadcast in 1939, "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia" ?

31. What is the name of the Cambridge University College that was originally for women only?

32. Jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton played which instrument?

33. In the human body which gland secretes the hormone insulin?

34. The state of Nebraska was sold to the USA in 1803 by which country?

35. Tala is the basic monetary unit of which country?

36. Carrageen is an edible variety of what?

37. Who composed the opera Turandot?

38. Which English cathedral has 'The Clock with no Face'?

39. Who was the first woman to walk in space?

40. Spiro Agnew was US vice-president to which president?

41. In which European town is the Menin Gate Memorial to missing British and Commonwealth soldiers?

42. The Lowell Observatory is in which US state?

43. Who was the president of Chile from 1974-90?

44. What is the world's smallest republic?

45. Who played the prison warden in the 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz?

46. Sounding like a placename, what is the traditional pronged spear used for catching Salmon called?

47. Who succeeded Michael Foot as leader of the Labour Party in the UK?

48. What Latin phrase means operational method, or the way a job is done?

49. Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire, England, is famous for which annual event?

50. Which country had the Roman name Mauritania (also spelled Mauretania)?

51. The Laughing Cavalier is a work by which painter?

52. What type of rock is carbonado?

53. What is limnophobia a fear of?

54. Ribes Nigrum is the Latin name for which fruit?

55. What type of animal is a Garron?

56. In which US city was the 2006 Super Bowl held?

57. Which country (at July 2007) boasts the world's longest suspension bridge span between towers?

58. What does OAPEC (not OPEC) stand for?

59. In which country was fashion designer Rifat Ozbek born?

60. What is the main ingredient of guacamole?

61. Which country has the international car registration DZ?

62. In which city is the United Nations headquarters?