General Knowledge Quiz 46

Questions

1. Which Native American leader's real name was Goyathlay?

2. Which English cartoonist created the St Trinian schoolgirls?

3. What can sufferers of prosopagnosia not recognize?

4. Which World War Two leader was nicknamed the Desert Fox?

5. Who was the first socialist President of France?

6. Grenache is a variety of which fruit?

7. What is the oldest surviving professional association football club in the world (as at 2009)?

8. What is the state capital of New South Wales, Australia?

9. Who was wife to Henry II and mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John?

10. Sigourney Weaver portrayed which zoologist in the 1988 film Gorillas in the Mist?

11. In which country is the port of Dakar?

12. Name the Oxford and Cambridge reserve crews which compete before the Thames Boat Race main event?

13. Fucus (pronounced 'fewcus' is a type of what?

14. What car maker announced in early 2009 plans to reintroduce the iconic DS marque?

15. What is a 'mazur' - a Polish folk dance; an Italian picnic table; a Chinese fighting snail; or a puppy or kitten born with only three legs?

16. Which music hall singer was famed for her rude songs, including 'I Sits Among the Cabbages and Peas'?

17. Which two pre-decimal coins remained longest in valid circulation after British currency decimalisation in 1971?

18. What is the oldest surviving professional association football club in the world (as at 2009?

19. Sigourney Weaver portrayed which zoologist in the 1988 film Gorillas in the Mist?

20. The Stasi were the secret police of which country?

21. Palermo is the capital of which island?

22. Name the Oxford and Cambridge reserve crews which compete before the Thames Boat Race main event?

23. Fucus (pronounced 'fewcus') is a type of what?

24. The Irish city of Limerick is on which river?

25. What car maker announced in early 2009 plans to reintroduce the iconic DS marque?

26. What is a 'mazur' - a Polish folk dance; an Italian picnic table; a Chinese fighting snail; or a puppy or kitten born with only three legs?

27. What colour is the flesh of a lychee?

28. A hendecagon is a plane figure with how many straight sides?

29. Who was the only guest vocalist to feature on a Led Zeppelin album?

30. The Reverse Frankensteiner is a move in what performance art form?

31. In which English county is Windsor Castle?

32. Which music hall singer was famed for her rude songs, including 'I Sits Among the Cabbages and Peas'?

33. Which two pre-decimal coins remained longest in valid circulation after British currency decimalisation in 1971?

34. La Brabanconne is the national anthem of which European country?

35. Which city hosted the 1964 Summer Olympic Games?

36. What date is St Swithin's Day?

37. What was the Italian cruise liner hijacked by terrorists in October 1985?

38. Which Shakespeare play features in the Cole Porter musical 'Kiss Me, Kate'?