General Knowledge Quiz 69

Questions

1. How many noble gases are there?

2. Who was the mother of King Edward the Sixth (1537-1553?

3. Spencer Perceval (1762-1812 is the only British Prime Minister to have been what?

   1. a professor
   2. deaf
   3. assassinated
   4. ginger

4. What gas do humans breathe out?

5. 'Sex and the City:The Movie' revealed what to be the full character name of the man usually called 'Big'?

6. Who was the mother of King Edward the Sixth (1537-1553)?

7. The fantastically expensive civet coffee is so called because the beans are?

   1. civet-brown
   2. civet eye-shaped
   3. harvested from civet dung
   4. said to be as expensive as Chanel perfume (which once contained civet musk)

8. The Wombles made their debut television appearance on which children's TV programme?

9. The UK Advertising Standards Authority announced what bus poster advert had attracted the highest number of complaints in 2009?

   1. Eurotunnel cross-channel services
   2. The Christian Party 'There definitely is a God'
   3. United Colours of Benetton
   4. Durex Condoms

10. In Greek mythology, what is the food-stealing monster with a woman's head and body, and bird's wings and claws?

11. Which English artist and cartoonist illustrated Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?

12. At the time of the northern solstice, the sun is directly over which line of latitude around the Earth?

    1. Arctic Circle
    2. Tropic of Cancer
    3. Equator
    4. Tropic of Capricorn
    5. Antarctic Circle

13. Name the exotic dancer who performed with the band Hawkwind in the 1970s?

14. Which painter is known as The Father of Impressionism?

15. What colour is the mineral rock malachite?

16. In which year was the Euro, the single European currency, introduced into the world financial markets?

17. What instrument, named from the Italian word for small, is traditionally considered to be the highest-pitched in an orchestra?

18. Mirabelle is a variety of which fruit?

19. Jazz musician Stephane Grappelli was famous for playing which instrument?

20. Which singer and actor's epitaph is 'The Best is Yet to Come'?

21. Spencer Perceval (1762-1812) is the only British Prime Minister to have been what?

    1. a professor
    2. deaf
    3. assassinated
    4. ginger

22. Which sporting champion and airline founder, nicknamed the Rat and Clockwork Mouse, featured on an Austrian postage stamp in 2005?

23. What nickname was given to the artificial life form created in 2010 by US biologist Craig Venter?

24. David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Ludovic Kennedy and David Dimbleby are among the past members of which exclusive and hedonistic Oxford club?

25. What measure of thermal resistance used in the textile industry is said to derive from the name of a Roman garment?

26. The port of Drammen is in which European country?

27. During which war was the Battle of Anzio?

28. What is the traditional timing device used by musicians which clicks at a selected rate?

29. What is the famous eastern seaboard of Nicaragua and south Honduras, named after its Native American Indian people, and more commonly known in its westernized misunderstood form?

30. What is a céilidh?

    1. a diacritical mark
    2. a Gaelic music and dance event
    3. a vegetable
    4. a telescope

31. What controversial artist designed the Chupa Chups lollipop logo?

32. Which human blood group can receive blood from any other blood group?