General Knowledge Quiz 71

Questions

1. What did Irish Colonel Thomas Blood attempt to steal in May 1671?

2. Used in riot control, what is a lachrymator commonly known as?

3. The Blarney Stone is in which county of the Republic of Ireland?

4. What, in 1961, was the first animated cartoon TV show to be nominated for an Emmy?

5. Provolone is what type of foodstuff?

6. What are the four smaller inner planets of the Solar System, also called the terrestrial planets?

7. Actress Nancy Davis (born Anne Francis Robbins in 1921) became wife of which famous leader?

8. "A floating object displaces its own weight in fluid" is essentially what principle?

9. Shah Jahan of India had what built as his wife's tomb?

10. What is the name of Long John Silver's parrot in the novel Treasure Island?

11. Which TV character worked for Gateman, Goodbury and Graves funeral parlour?

12. A flittermouse is an old term for which type of creature?

13. Robert Hawke was the prime minister of which country?

14. Nyotaimori and Nantaimori refer to the rare Japanese practice of eating sushi or sashimi from what surface?

    1. Wood
    2. Leaves
    3. Newspaper
    4. a Naked Person

15. What air traffic control centre (as at 2010 commands the largest airspace in Europe?

    1. Heathrow
    2. Frankfurt
    3. Paris
    4. Prestwick

16. Penalty shoot-outs were introduced to the FIFA World Cup in which tournament (state the year of the Finals?

17. Actress Nancy Davis (born Anne Francis Robbins in 1921 became wife of which famous leader?

18. Which famous 18th century English theologian and chemist pioneered the discovery of oxygen?

19. Which English county is the setting for most of painter John Constable's works?

    1. Suffolk
    2. Norfolk
    3. Essex
    4. Cornwall

20. What is the call-sign name of the US presidential helicopter?

21. Penalty shoot-outs were introduced to the FIFA World Cup in which tournament (state the year of the Finals)?

22. In botany, if a plant is monocarpic what does it do only once?

23. Kenneth Moore portrayed which famous 2nd World War fighter pilot in the 1956 film Reach for the Sky?

24. What air traffic control centre (as at 2010) commands the largest airspace in Europe?

    1. Heathrow
    2. Frankfurt
    3. Paris
    4. Prestwick

25. Translating as 'place of the way' what Japanese word describes a facility for teaching physical skills such as martial arts?

26. The phrase 'eleven plus two' is an anagram of what phrase which also suggests a total of thirteen?

27. Over which desert did France test its first atom bomb in 1960?

28. Which Cornish castle is said to be the birth place of King Arthur?

29. Notaphily is the collecting of what?

30. Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of which country in 1877?

    1. Canada
    2. Rhodesia
    3. India
    4. Australia

31. What colour is the No 5 engine James, featured in the Thomas the Tank Engine stories?

32. In video and audio data, what does MPEG stand for?

33. In 1958, Maria Teresa de Filippis was the first woman to compete in which sport?