General Knowledge Quiz 47

Questions

1. In the first episode of the TV series Dallas which character took his new wife home to meet his family?

2. Who wrote the novel The Murders in the Rue Morgue?

3. Which singer and winner of the 2002 Mercury Music Prize was born Niomi McLean-Daley?

4. Which retail chain changed their corporate font in 2009 from Futura to Verdana?

5. What is the standard duration of a chukka in the sport of field polo?

6. What is the title of the first James Bond film?

7. Who was the first president of independent Russia (as distinct from USSR, the Soviet Union)?

8. What merchant bank collapsed in 1995 due to unauthorised debts accumulated by trader Nick Leeson?

9. In the US and Canada, Labor Day falls on the first Monday of which month?

10. What was the name and call-sign of the Apollo Eleven lunar module?

11. Which country was previously called Siam?

12. How many players in total are bound together from both sides in forming a rugby union scrum?

13. Pogonophobia is a fear of what (usually male characteristic?

14. What does an arctophilist collect: shrunken heads, teddy bears, tiny boats made from sugar, or antique door-frames?

15. Which Guns 'n' Roses song is based on a short story by Del James called Without You?

16. What is the fruit of the blackthorn (prunus spinosa?

17. What is the medical condition in which a person has an extreme tendency to fall asleep at inappropriate times?

18. Which singer and winner of the 2002 Mercury Music Prize was born Niomi McLean-Daley?

19. Who was the first president of independent Russia (as distinct from USSR, the Soviet Union?

20. What merchant bank collapsed in 1995 due to unauthorised debts accumulated by trader Nick Leeson?

21. In a theatre what is the job of a visagiste?

22. In the first episode of the TV series Dallas which character took his new wife home to meet his family?

23. How many players in total are bound together from both sides in forming a rugby union scrum?

24. Which English county is known locally as Kernow?

25. Pogonophobia is a fear of what (usually) male characteristic?

26. What does an arctophilist collect: shrunken heads, teddy bears, tiny boats made from sugar, or antique door-frames?

27. Who was the last surviving of the literary Bronte sisters?

28. Which Guns 'n' Roses song is based on a short story by Del James called Without You?

29. In which year was the Wall Street Crash?

30. Lake Van is in which European country?

31. Titan and Ganymede are what in our Solar System?

32. Who runs the Greendale post office in the children's TV show Postman Pat?

33. In Greek mythology what is a nymph called who inhabits a wood or a tree?

34. In cricket what is a batsman's score of nought commonly called?

35. GBJ is the international vehicle registration for where?

36. What is the fruit of the blackthorn (prunus spinosa)?

37. What would a silkworm grow to become if permitted to do so?

38. The Domesday Book was made by order of which English monarch?

39. Who played Dr Who in the 1965 film Dr Who and the Daleks?

40. What is the medical condition in which a person has an extreme tendency to fall asleep at inappropriate times?