General Knowledge Quiz 61

Questions

1. Born Betty Joan Perske, which actress starred in The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not?

2. Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas are traditional English (and Welsh) seasonal names in what?

   1. law courts
   2. horse-racing
   3. farming
   4. road-mending

3. Which painting was stolen from the Louvre in Paris in 1911 and kept for two years by museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia?

4. Which British prime minister wrote History of the English Speaking Peoples?

5. Loperamide is used to treat what medical condition?

   1. water on the knee
   2. sore throat
   3. impotence
   4. diarrhoea

6. St James's Palace in London was commissioned by which British monarch?

7. Technically a berry or fruit, brinjal is the Indian name for which 'vegetable'?

8. The Irish Derby is held at which racecourse?

9. The cephalothorax and the opisthosoma are body sections of what?

   1. arachnids (spiders, etc)
   2. humans
   3. birds
   4. fire-engines

10. Credited with popularising the girl's name Wendy in a famous children's book, who also wrote the stage play The Admirable Crichton?

11. In which European city is the Charles Bridge?

12. To which Scottish island did Bonnie Price Charlie escape, dressed as a maid, in 1746?

13. What nation won the European Football Championship after first failing to qualify for the finals tournament?

14. Flame, Birds-eye and Quilted refer to decorative varieties of what wood commonly used in musical instruments?

15. Arthur Wellesley (1769-1845 is better known by what title?

16. Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas are traditional English (and Welsh seasonal names in what?

    1. law courts
    2. horse-racing
    3. farming
    4. road-mending

17. The cephalothorax and the opisthosoma are body sections of what?

    1. arachnids (spiders, etc
    2. humans
    3. birds
    4. fire-engines

18. What Latin term is used to mean 'word for word', or 'exactly the same words'?

19. In what state is the highest mountain in the USA?

20. Arthur Wellesley (1769-1845) is better known by what title?

21. The expression of high quality 'blue ribbon' or 'blue ribband' equates to what French term?

22. What element has the highest melting point of any metal - symbol W, otherwise known as wolfram?

23. What country has the largest forested area?

24. Ichthyology is the study of what?

25. Who was the next president of the USA after Gerald Ford?

26. A cope is a long ceremonial cloak worn by a member of what profession?

    1. clergy
    2. judge
    3. nurse
    4. magician

27. A heptahedron is a solid figure with how many plane sides?

28. Which poet wrote the lines: "And when those deep and burning moments pass'd, And Juan sunk to sleep within her arms.." ?

29. The Shore Durometer devised by Albert Shore in the 1920s measures what quality of materials such as rubber and plastics?

30. A gymnophobia sufferer fears what?

    1. exercise
    2. nudity
    3. public buildings
    4. ball-games

31. Offaly, Westmeath, Carlow and Cavan are counties of which country?

32. Michelle Robinson is the maiden name of which famous wife?

33. What memorable song line from American Pie by Don McLean refers to the day a plane crash killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper?