General Knowledge Quiz 62

Questions

1. What type of creature has the family name howler?

2. US Aviator Lawrence Burst Sperry (1892-1923 has attracted suggestions of being the founder of the 'Mile High Club' due to his invention of which flight aid?

3. What is the chemical name for Laughing Gas?

4. What spirit usually goes into the making of a mint julep?

5. Donatello's 15th century bronze statue of David, at the Bergello Museum in Florence, Italy, has what significantly at his feet?

6. Ergophobia is the irrational fear or what?

   1. working
   2. oneself
   3. snails
   4. the future

7. Whom did Pat Cash defeat in the 1987 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final?

8. In astrology the constellation Leo represents the Lion slain by whom?

9. In 1725 King George the First created what British chivalric honour, whose original ceremony entailed bodily cleansing?

10. In which European country is the Caledonian Canal?

11. By what name is footballer Edison Arantes do Nascimento better known?

12. A Gibus or Chapeau Claque is what sort of top hat, originally popular at the opera?

    1. white
    2. collapsible
    3. exploding
    4. made of beaver-skin

13. What type of alcoholic drink is Manzanilla?

14. Which popular UK TV police series started as a pilot episode called 'Woodentop' in 1983?

15. Which eastern European country, called Hrvatska in its own language, has the international vehicle registration code HR?

16. What was first and last European colony in China?

17. What shape is cordate?

18. What same three words are in the titles of biographical books about Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Ben Hogan, Benjamin Franklin, Condoleeza Rice and Dr Spock?

19. What is the large island state of Australia, 150 miles from its south east edge?

20. A pickerel is a young what?

    1. pike
    2. bird
    3. platypus
    4. elephant

21. Which animal represents the Chinese year 2010?

22. Otoplasty is the surgical alteration of what external body parts?

23. Who was the 20th US president, the second to be assassinated, and the second shortest serving?

24. Budapest lies on which river?

25. Copoclephily is the collecting of what?

    1. police paraphernalia
    2. co-op tokens
    3. keyrings
    4. mermaid figures

26. Which is the only Charles Dickens novel with a female narrator?

27. How many grams are in a hectogram?

28. What is the state capital of South Australia?

29. Who wrote the novel The French Lieutenant's Woman?

30. Mycology is the study of what?

    1. fungi
    2. greed
    3. the mind
    4. myspace

31. US Aviator Lawrence Burst Sperry (1892-1923) has attracted suggestions of being the founder of the 'Mile High Club' due to his invention of which flight aid?