General Knowledge Quiz 45

Questions

1. According to legend who killed the lion represented by the constellation Leo?

2. What are the names of the mother and father dogs in the film 101 Dalmations?

3. The grandfather of which English actress was leader of the Labour Party 1931-35?

4. A human-being has how many pairs of chromosomes?

5. Which American writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954?

6. In 1978 who died after serving only 34 days as Pope?

7. Who played the title role in the 1992 film My Cousin Vinnie?

8. The Tamil Tigers are a rebel force in which country?

9. In Greek Mythology which King was condemned to stand near fruit and water which moved away when he reached for them?

10. Who was the first Prime Minister of Israel?

11. Sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials, which former chief of the Luftwaffe took cyanide the night before his scheduled hanging?

12. In 2005 Yulia Tymoshenko became the first female Prime Minister of which country?

13. What 1945 film starring Margaret Lockwood was titled after the legend of a 17th century highwaywoman?

14. 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?

15. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556 founded what religious order?

16. Leslie Poles were the first names of which writer, whose works included The Go-Between?

17. Sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials, which former chief of the Luftwaffe took cyanide the night before his scheduled hanging?

18. In Greek Mythology which King was condemned to stand near fruit and water which moved away when he reached for them?

19. In 2005 Yulia Tymoshenko became the first female Prime Minister of which country?

20. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) founded what religious order?

21. Philopobia is the fear of what basic human emotion?

22. What 1945 film starring Margaret Lockwood was titled after the legend of a 17th century highwaywoman?

23. What is a sequence of letters called which reads the same backwards as forwards?

24. Who was the first wife of poet Ted Hughes, who killed herself in 1963?

25. Which English monarch was nicknamed Longshanks?

26. Who composed the Funeral March sonata?

27. 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?

28. What is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet?

29. What does a hygrometer measure?

30. Leslie Poles were the first names of which writer, whose works included The Go-Between?

31. In which city is Hell Gate Bridge, said to have inspired Sydney Harbour Bridge?

32. The Bessemer process was invented in 1856 for the production of what material?

33. In which three years did Red Rum win the Grand National?

34. Which US poet wrote the Star-Spangled Banner?

35. What is the basic monetary unit of Morocco?

36. Which is the world's deepest ocean?

37. Who wrote the 1950 novel A Town Like Alice?