General Knowledge Quiz 65

Questions

1. What is the square root of two-hundred and eighty-nine?

2. A dibber (or dibble is used in what?

   1. gardening
   2. bingo
   3. brain surgery
   4. boating

3. What railway line is green on the traditional map of the London Underground (Tube?

4. The Roman numerals DCLXVI equate to what number?

5. In Charles Kingsley's 1863 novel The Water-Babies, addressing child labour and Victorian morality, what is the boy Tom's occupation?

6. Nicholas Briggs is the long-time voice of which TV evil force?

7. In what European city is the historic port of Piraeus?

8. What name, adapted from the male term, refers to a female tree-feller, popularised in Britain during World War II?

9. Which footballer scored all of England's five goals in their 1975 5-0 defeat of Cyprus?

10. Eyjafjallajokull is what?

    1. a Norwegian football club
    2. an Alaskan horse
    3. a disease of the feet
    4. Iceland's volcano responsible for the air-traffic paralysing ash cloud

11. Who against huge odds knocked defending champion John Higgins out of the 2010 World Snooker Championship?

12. ICO - the UK agency responsible for data protection, privacy and freedom of information - stands for what?

13. What word for a wild or half-tamed horse derives from the Spanish word for rough wood and specifically a knot in wood?

14. A 'Coney Island whitefish' is slang for a what?

    1. a battered sausage
    2. a professional wrestling throw
    3. a floppy hair-style
    4. a discarded condom

15. What is the traditional name for a spot on a domino?

16. Yukon and Nunavut are Federal Territories of which country?

17. How many degrees is each angle in an equilateral triangle?

18. What does Samantha Cameron have tattooed on her ankle?

    1. the Conservative Party tree emblem
    2. a Union Jack
    3. a skull and cross-bones
    4. a dolphin

19. What creature is a pismire?

20. Who first published and popularised the stories Snow White, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood?

21. What title was shared by three different songs which achieved UK or US number one positions within a few months of each other during 1984-85?

22. In the 2010 Formula One motor racing season how many points are awarded to the winning driver of a Grand Prix?

23. Before 'Poppy Appeal' what words appeared on the central black buttons of poppies sold in Poppy Appeal in the UK every year?

24. What word, meaning 'crown' in Latin, refers to a visible electrical discharge and a planetary halo?

25. Who wrote the lines, "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night..." ?

26. Cambridge Late Pine, Redgauntlet and Elsanta are varieties of what fruit?

27. Japanese Haiku poetry is generally said to contain how many lines and how many syllables when presented in English?

28. Which politician, buried in Westminster Abbey in 1833, campaigned for more than 50 years against British slavery?

29. A dibber (or dibble) is used in what?

    1. gardening
    2. bingo
    3. brain surgery
    4. boating

30. Keflavik International Airport is in which country?

31. What railway line is green on the traditional map of the London Underground (Tube)?