General Knowledge Quiz 70

Questions

1. 2009 was the Chinese Year of the what?

   1. Dragon
   2. Ox
   3. Rat

2. How many Grand Slam doubles (including mixed doubles) titles did Martina Navratilova win?

   1. 11
   2. 21
   3. 41

3. Which chemical element was once used (with hindsight, irresponsibly and dangerously) in luminous markings on watches, clocks and instrument dials?

   1. Radium
   2. Plutonium
   3. Uranium

4. Myosis affects which part of the human body?

   1. Neck
   2. Stomach
   3. Eye

5. English novelist William Godwin fathered which novelist daughter?

   1. George Eliot
   2. Mary Shelley
   3. Jane Austen

6. Which of these words produces a new word each time a letter is removed, until and including the last remaining letter?

   1. Startling
   2. Roadsweeper
   3. Benchmarking

7. What is the biggest selling English-language daily newspaper in India, and (as at 2010) the eighth biggest selling of all newspapers globally?

   1. The Times of India
   2. The Indian Sun
   3. The Indian Independent

8. Hangi is a traditional New Zealand Maori method of cooking using a?

   1. Spit
   2. Pit
   3. Clay oven

9. What colour is the gemstone peridot?

   1. Blue
   2. Yellow
   3. Green

10. Chicago's St Valentine's Day Massacre (of seven Bugs Moran gang members by those of Al Capone) was in which year?

    1. 1919
    2. 1929
    3. 1939

11. Pilliwinks was a medieval instrument of torture used mainly on which part of the body?

    1. Fingers and thumbs
    2. Feet
    3. Head

12. John Fetterman, Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has what tattooed on the inside of his left forearm?

    1. His zipcode (postcode
    2. His blood group
    3. The Lord's Prayer

13. Native to Australia, what creature is a pardalote (which in Greek means 'spotted'?

    1. Fish
    2. Bird
    3. Dog

14. The world's largest electricity generating plant (as at 2010, the Three Gorges Dam, is in which country?

    1. Argentina
    2. China
    3. Canada

15. Chicago's St Valentine's Day Massacre (of seven Bugs Moran gang members by those of Al Capone was in which year?

    1. 1919
    2. 1929
    3. 1939

16. How many Grand Slam doubles (including mixed doubles titles did Martina Navratilova win?

    1. 11
    2. 21
    3. 41

17. Which chemical element was once used (with hindsight, irresponsibly and dangerously in luminous markings on watches, clocks and instrument dials?

    1. Radium
    2. Plutonium
    3. Uranium

18. What is the biggest selling English-language daily newspaper in India, and (as at 2010 the eighth biggest selling of all newspapers globally?

    1. The Times of India
    2. The Indian Sun
    3. The Indian Independent

19. Native to Australia, what creature is a pardalote (which in Greek means 'spotted')?

    1. Fish
    2. Bird
    3. Dog

20. The artist El Greco was born on which Greek island?

    1. Crete
    2. Corfu
    3. Rhodes

21. Carpology is the study of what?

    1. Fish
    2. Fruits and seeds
    3. Bones

22. The Gaillard Cut is part of which canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?

    1. Suez Canal
    2. Panama Canal
    3. Welland Canal

23. You might see a Haka at a game of what?

    1. Polo
    2. Rugby
    3. Ice hockey

24. Which US president is depicted on the Purple Heart medal?

    1. Abraham Lincoln
    2. Theodore Roosevelt
    3. George Washington

25. John Fetterman, Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has what tattooed on the inside of his left forearm?

    1. His zipcode (postcode)
    2. His blood group
    3. The Lord's Prayer

26. With varieties including Gutedel in Germany, and Pierre Galet in Switzerland, Chasselas is a variety of which fruit?

    1. Raspberry
    2. Grape
    3. Apple

27. Morbilli is the technical term for which childhood illness?

    1. Mumps
    2. Whooping cough
    3. Measles

28. Which 19th century poet and novelist, when age twenty-six, married his thirteen year old cousin?

    1. Victor Hugo
    2. Edgar Allan Poe
    3. Oscar Wilde

29. Originating in early central American culture, where on the body would a huarache be worn?

    1. Foot
    2. Head
    3. Arm

30. The world's largest electricity generating plant (as at 2010), the Three Gorges Dam, is in which country?

    1. Argentina
    2. China
    3. Canada

31. Cryptozoology refers to the study of creatures which are?

    1. Underground
    2. Dead
    3. Mythical

32. In the 1991 film Reservoir Dogs, Michael Madson played which character?

33. Ombrophobia is an irrational fear of what?

    1. Men
    2. Rain
    3. Alcohol

34. Russian musician Maxim Vengerov is famous for playing which instrument?

    1. Piano
    2. Flute
    3. Violin

35. Who wrote the play, Look Back In Anger?

    1. Arthur Miller
    2. Tom Stoppard
    3. John Osborne

36. What job did Kurt Russell's character have in the 1987 film Overboard?

    1. Plumber
    2. Carpenter
    3. Electrician