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G.K. Questions with answers:1

Carl and the Passions changed band name to what ?

Beach Boys

2

How many rings on the Olympic flag

Five

3

What colour is vermilion a shade of

Red

4

King Zog ruled which country

Albania

5

What colour is Spock's blood

Green

6

Where in your body is your patella

Knee ( it's the kneecap )

7

Where can you find London bridge today

USA ( Arizona )

8

What spirit is mixed with ginger beer in a Moscow mule

Vodka

9

Who was the first man in space

Yuri Gagarin

10

What would you do with a Yashmak

Wear it - it's an Arab veil

11

Who betrayed Jesus to the Romans

Judas Escariot

12

Which animal lays eggs

Duck billed platypus

13

On television what was Flipper

Dolphin

14

Who's band was The Quarrymen

John Lenon

15

Which was the most successful Grand National horse

Red Rum

16

Who starred as the Six Million Dollar Man

Lee Majors

17

In the song Waltzing Matilda - What is a Jumbuck

Sheep

18

Who was Dan Dare's greatest enemy in the Eagle

Mekon

19

What is Dick Grayson better known as

Robin (Batman and Robin)

20

What was given on the fourth day of Christmas

Calling birds

21

What was Skippy ( on TV )

The bush kangaroo

22

What does a funambulist do

Tightrope walker

23

What is the name of Dennis the Menace's dog

Gnasher

24

What are bactrians and dromedaries

Camels (one hump or two)

25

Who played The Fugitive

David Jason

26

Who was the King of Swing

Benny Goodman

27

Who was the first man to fly across the channel

Louis Bleriot

28

Who starred as Rocky Balboa

Sylvester Stallone

29

In which war was the charge of the Light Brigade

Crimean

30

Who invented the television

John Logie Baird

31

Who would use a mashie niblick

Golfer

32

In the song who killed Cock Robin

Sparrow

33

What do deciduous trees do

Lose their leaves in winter

34

In golf what name is given to the No 3 wood

Spoon

35

If you has caries who would you consult

Dentist - its tooth decay

36

What other name is Mellor’s famously known by

Lady Chatterlys Lover

37

What did Jack Horner pull from his pie

Plum

38

How many feet in a fathom

Six

39

which film had song Springtime for Hitler

The Producers

40

Name the legless fighter pilot of ww2

Douglas Bader

41

What was the name of inn in Treasure Island

Admiral Benbow

42

What was Erich Weiss better known as

Harry Houdini

43

Who sailed in the Nina - Pinta and Santa Maria

Christopher Columbus

44

Which leader died in St Helena

Napoleon Bonaparte

45

Who wrote Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

46

What does ring a ring a roses refer to

The Black Death

47

Whose nose grew when he told a lie

Pinocchio

48

Who has won the most Oscars

Walt Disney

49

What would a Scotsman do with a spurtle

Eat porridge (it’s a spoon)

50

Which award has the words for valour on it

Victoria Cross

51

If you had pogonophobia what would you be afraid of

Beards

52

Who would take silk as part of their job

Barrister

53

Who won an Oscar for the African Queen

Bogart

54

Who sang the theme song in 9 to 5

Dolly Parton

55

What in business terms is the IMF

International Monetary Fund

56

Ringo Star narrates which children's TV series

Thomas the tank engine

57

Which country grows the most fruit

China

58

Which company is owned by Bill Gates

Microsoft

59

What would you do with a maris piper

Eat it - it’s a potato

60

In Casablanca what is the name of the nightclub

Rick's

61

What was the first James Bond book

Casino Royal

62

What kind of animal is a lurcher

Dog

63

What is the currency of Austria

Schilling

64

What is the Islamic equal to the red cross

Red Crescent

65

In fable who sold a cow for five beans

Jack ( and grew a beanstalk )

66

How did Alfred Nobel make his money

He invented Dynamite

67

Who was the first man to run a sub four minute mile

Roger Bannister

68

What are Munroes

Mountains in Scotland

69

Which car company makes the Celica

Toyota

70

Air Lingus is the national airline of which country

Republic of Ireland or Eire

71

Who discovered radium

The Curies

72

What does an alopecia sufferer lack

Hair

73

Who painted The Haywain

John Constable

74

Triskadeccaphobia is the fear of what

Number 13

75

What is a baby rabbit called

Kit or Kitten

76

Which country had The Dauphin as a ruler

France

77

Who did Michael Caine play in the Ipcress File (both names)

Harry Palmer

78

Who won Euro song contest Save All Your Kisses For Me

Brotherhood of Man

79

Which country had the guns of Naverone installed

Turkey

80

Ictheologists study what

Fish

81

What is a Winston Churchill

Cigar

82

Who or what lives in a formicarium

Ants

83

What type of acid is used in car batteries

Sulphuric

84

It’s a flock of sheep what's a group of owls called

Parliament

85

What animal would you find in a form

Hare

86

Who in books and films was the man of bronze

Doc Savage

87

Who was Stan Laurels partner

Oliver Hardy

88

What kind of food is Cullan Skink

Fish

89

What is classified by the A B O system

Blood Groups

90

What plant does the Colorado beetle attack

Potato

91

Where did the Pied Piper play

Hamlin

92

To where in France do the sick make pilgrimages

Lourdes

93

In which city was the famous black hole

Calcutta

94

Christopher Cockerel invented what

Hovercraft

95

Ray Bolger played who in The Wizard of Oz

Scarecrow

96

Sabotage is French - What did the saboteurs use

Shoes - sabot means shoe

97

Which part of the human body contains the most gold

Toenails

98

If you had rubella what would you have caught

German Measles

99

Mohs scale hardest substance is diamond - what's the softest

Talc

100

La Giaconda is better known as what

Mona Lisa

1

Who wrote the Opera Madam Butterfly

Puccini

2

What links - Goa - Kerula - Assam - Bihar

India

3

Eric Arthur Blaire was the real name of which author

George Orwell

4

Names - Baker Cook obvious what did Cordwainer do

Shoemaker

5

Which country do Sinologists study

China

6

Rudy Stevens became famous under which name

Barbara Stanwyck

7

Which non alcoholic cordial is made from pomegranates

Grenadine

8

What is Orchesis - either professional or amateur

Art of Dancing

9

Taken literally what should you see in a Hippodrome

Horses

10

Who wrote the Man in the Iron Mask

Alexander Dumas

11

Which 1993 Disney film starred Bet Middler as a witch

Hocus Pocus

12

Who piloted the first flight across the English channel

Louis Bleriot

13

What was the first James Bond film

Dr No

14

What 1991 film won best film, actor, actress, director Oscars

Silence of the Lambs

15

What was the capital of Ethiopia

Addis Ababa

16

Aescapalious emblem staff snake Greek Roman god of what

Medicine

17

Giacomo Agostini - 122 Grand Prix 15 world titles what sport

Motorcycle Racing

18

What is the largest state in the USA

Alaska

19

Led Deighton trilogy Game Set Match What 3 Capitals

Berlin MexicoLondon

20

Alan Stuart Konigsberg famous as who

Woody Allen

21

Which human rights organisation founded 1961 got Nobel 1977

Amnesty International

22

Whose autobiography was The long walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

23

What was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter

Tutankamen tomb

24

Clyde Tonbaugh discovered what planet in 1930

Pluto

25

Who won the women's heptathlon at Seoul in 1988

Jackie Joyner-Kersey

26

Who wrote Northanger Abbey

Jayne Austin

27

Who ran through the streets naked crying Eureka

Archimedes

28

Who composed the Brandeberg concertos full names

Johan Sebastian Bach

29

Who won the World Series in 1987

Minnesota twins

30

What is the correct term of address to the Pope

Your Holiness

31

In which city was Alexander Graham Bell born in 1847

Edinburgh

32

Who composed the ballets Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker

Tchaikovsky

33

AG Bell opened school in Boston in 1872 for Teachers of what

The Deaf

34

Benjamin Kubelsky 1894 fame as what comedian

Jack Benny

35

In the Old Testament what book comes between Obadiah - Micah

Jonah

36

Robin Williams dressed in drag for which 1993 film

Mrs Doubtfire

37

Which chess piece could be a member of the church

Bishop

38

Which German word means lightning war used in WW2

Blitzkrieg

39

Broccoli belongs to what family of plants

Cabbage

40

Who designed the first Iron ship the Great Britain in 1845

I. Kingdom Brunel

41

Whose boat Bluebird was recently raised from Coniston water

Donald Campbell

42

in 1951 which (of two) car companies introduced power steering

Buick - Chrysler

43

Who wrote Catch 22 (both names)

Joseph Heller

44

Which country set up the world’s first chemistry lab in 1650

Netherlands

45

What links the names Botvinik, Tal, Karpov, Fischer

Chess World Champs

46

What is the national flower of Japan

Chrysanthemum

47

Bombardier Billy Wells was seen on many Rank films - why

Hit Gong

48

Where in France do claret wines come from

Bordeaux

49

What did mathematician John Napier invent in 1614

Logarithms

50

What was the world’s first high level programming language 1957

IBM FORTRAN

51

Consumption was the former name of which disease

Tuberculosis

52

Which American state is nicknamed The Diamond State

Delaware

53

What are the Sirocco, Mistral and Chinook

Winds

54

Who wrote about Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

55

Who, at USA customs declared, nothing but my genius

Oscar Wilde

56

Issur Danielovitch became famous a who

Kirk Douglas

57

Who sailed in the Golden Hind

Sir Francis Drake

58

What was the name of the plantation in Gone with the Wind

Tara

59

Who won the 1988 Superbowl

Washington Redskins

60

Which group believes in The Great Architect of the Universe

Freemasons

61

Robert Alan Zimmerman real name of who

Bob Dylan

62

Processed Galena produces which metal

Lead

63

Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels (both names)

Jonathon Swift

64

What is a Ha Ha

Sunken Fence

65

In Japan what is Seppuku

Hari Kari - suicide

66

Who discovered blood circulation

William Harvey

67

The dunnock is another name for which common bird

Hedge Sparrow

68

If someone said they were from Hellas - which country

Greece

69

Who was the son of Zeus and Maia - Gods Messenger

Hermes

70

Roy Scherer jr became famous as who

Rock Hudson

71

Who wrote Brave New World (full name)

Aldus Huxley

72

What links Calabria, Liguria, Puglia and Veneto

Regions of Italy

73

Which city in Rajasthan has riding breeches named after it

Jodhpur

74

Portugal has had six Kings with what first name

John

75

What martial arts name means gentle way

Judo

76

Jean Claude Killy famous in which sport

Skiing

77

Kimberlite contains what precious item

Diamonds

78

Who directed Dr Strangelove - 2001 - The Shining (full name)

Stanley Kubrick

79

Rene Lalique - Art Nouveau designer worked what material

Glass

80

Who created the children's land of Narnia and Lion Witch Wardrobe

Clive Staples Lewis

81

What animal lives in a drey

Squirrel

82

Why is Louise Brown - born 1978 famous

First test tube baby

83

The title of whose book translates as my struggle

Adolf Hitler

84

Anna Mary Robinson - famous American painter - what name

Grandma Moses

85

In which country would you find the Negev desert

Israel

86

Which character has been played by the most actors

Sherlock Holmes

87

In Greek mythology a Hamadryads spirit guarded what

Trees

88

Jocasta was the wife of Laius and the mother of who

Oedipus

89

Who wrote The Rights of Man - and The Age of Reason

Thomas Paine

90

What is the capital of Sicily

Palermo

91

What was invented by Dr Edward Land in 1947

Polaroid

92

Syd Barett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason - Group

Pink Floyd

93

Carlo Collodi created which famous children's character

Pinocchio

94

What is mainly extracted from pitchblende

Uranium

95

Which connects Delft, Sevres, Wedgwood, Chelsea

Porcelain

96

Which country introduced the worlds first diesel loco in 1912

Germany

97

in 1656 Christian Huygens invented what type of timekeeper

Pendulum clock

98

Duvali, Dushira and Holi are religious days in which religion

Hindu

99

In what industry did John Davidson Rockefeller get rich

Oil

100

The Mau Mau were terrorists in which country late 50s early 60s

Kenya

1

What movie cast included James Garner, Richard Attenbourough,

The Great Escape

Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasance, James Coburn, Gordon Jackson, Angus McPhee among many others 2

If you suffer from epistaxis what is wrong

Nosebleed

3

In which book would you find the manservant Pas Partout

Around the world in 80 days

4

What animals name translates as water horse

Hippopotamus

5

In Greek mythology who killed the Gorgon

Perseus

6

Which two metals are alloyed to make pewter

Tin and Lead

7

In 1899 the Eastman company in the USA produced first what

Kodak 1 - hand held roll film cam

8

What links - Sarte, Neitzsche, Russell and Decartes

Philosophers

9

In 1643 Evangalisa Torichelli invented the first what

Barometer

10

Which Spanish painter has first exhibition at 16 - also 4 year blue

Pablo Picasso

11

Where did the mutineers of the Bounty settle

Pitcairn Islands

12

What is the longest river in Italy

Po

13

What does a polyandric women have more than one of

Husband

14

What links Brazil, Uruguay, Mozambique and Angola

Colonies of Portugal

15

What is the American equivalent of the Irish Poteen

Moonshine

16

Who was the last king of Troy killed by Achilles son Pyrrhus

Priam

17

In 1911 the archaeologist Hiram Bingham discovered what lost city

Machu Picchu

18

Who won the Superbowl in 1989

San Francisco 49 ers

19

Who wrote the book Billy Budd also Moby Dick

Herman Melville

20

Which highwayman rode the horse Black Bess

Dick Turpin

21

Barry Allen was the alter ego of which DC comic superhero

The Flash

22

In 1901 which brand of car was seen for the first time

Mercedes

23

Brisbane is the state capital of which SE Australian state

Queensland

24

In Norse mythology what is the name of the ultimate battle

Ragnarok

25

In 1890 the first electric what opened in London

Underground railway

26

Who wrote the children's novel Swallows and Amazons

Arthur Ransom

27

Oil seed rape belongs to which plant family

Mustard

28

Which Norwegian politicians name became a word for traitor

Vidkun Quisling

29

What is the capitol of Morocco

Rabat

30

What shape were the sailors plates in Nelsons navy

Square Thus Square meal

31

What religion links Weasak, Dhrammacacka, and Bhodi day

Buddhist

32

Linus Torwalds invented and wrote what

Linux computer operating system

33

The bander macaque has which commoner name

Rhesus Monkey

34

Zambia and Zimbabwe used to be called what

Rhodesia

35

What is the staple food of one third of the worlds population

Rice

36

Paul Robeson the singer of old man river had what profession

Lawyer

37

Rene Laennac invented which aid for doctors in 1810

Stethoscope

38

Jagger, Richards, Wyman, Jones, Watts, Stewart - which band

The Rolling Stones

39

What digit does not exist in Roman Numerals

Zero

40

Who was nicknames The desert Fox (both Names)

Erwin Rommel

41

What aid to archaeologists from 197 bc was found in Egypt 1799

Rosetta Stone

42

Which annual sporting event between 2 teams started in 1829

The University Boat Race

43

Who was the jeweller to the Russian Court famous Easter eggs

Faberge

44

What type of food is Taramasalata

Cured /smoked cod roe

45

What links Samuel Delaney, Fredrick Pohl, Harlan Ellison

Science Fiction

46

Randolph Crane became famous as which cowboy actor

Randolph Scott

47

Ageusia is the loss of which sense

Taste

48

Which Irish political parties name translates as we ourselves

Sein Fein

49

Henry Ford used assembly line in 1908 but someone before 1901

Ransome Olds

50

Who performed the first heart transplant in South Africa

Christian Barnard

51

What is the common name for the star Sirius

Dog Star

52

What calculating aid was invented by William Oughtred in 1662

Slide Rule

53

Which Athenian philosopher wrote nothing - immortalised by Plato

Socrates

54

Who designed the WW 1 plane Camel and co designed Hurricane

Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith

55

Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull were born in which US state

South Dakota

56

In 1666 Jesuit Bark was used as a prevention against what

Malaria

57

In 1971 which USA space probe was first to orbit another planet

Mariner 9

58

What links Catalonia, Andalusia, Cantabria, Galicia

Regions of Spain

59

Ingemar Stenmark won record 85 world cup races in what sport

Skiing

60

Who wrote the music for the ballets Firebird and Rites of Spring

Igor Stravinsky

61

What common legal item literally means under penalty

Subpoena

62

Who was the only person to win world titles on bikes and cars

John Surtees

63

What is the oldest swimming stroke

Breaststroke 16th century

64

Which European country is divided into areas called Cantons

Switzerland

65

Which medical tool was developed by Sanctorius in 1612

Thermometer

66

What weapon was invented by Ernest Swinton used in 1916

Tank

67

Which mythological King chained grapes rose water fell

Tantalus

68

Who created Tarzan (all names) in 1914

Edgar Rice Burroughs

69

Camellia Sinesis evergreen shrub better known as what

Tea

70

In 1901 who first transmitted radio signals across Atlantic

Marconi

71

Who won six consecutive Wimbledon titles in the 1980s

Martina Navratilova

72

What Italian building material translates as baked earth

Terracotta

73

What links Buddy Holly, Lyndon Johnston, Janice Joplin

State of Texas

74

Which eponymous character was Thane of Cawder Glaimes

Macbeth

75

Who wrote the 39 steps (both names)

John Buchan

76

Who won the Superbowl in 1987

New York Giants

77

What is the food tofu made from

Soya Bean Curd – via Soya milk

78

Who was the son of Poseidon and Ampherite

Triton

79

Annie Mae Bullock became famous under which name (both)

Tina Turner

80

What linked Armenia, Georgia, Latvia and Moldavia

USSR

81

What is the state capitol of New Jersey

Trenton

82

Who won an Oscar for best supporting actor in Spartacus 1960

Peter Ustinov

83

What was invented by James Dewer in 1872

Vacuum or thermos flask

84

Who was the Roman goddess of the hearth

Vesta

85

Viticulture is the growing of what plants

Vines

86

In 1953 what was first successfully transmitted in the USA

Colour Television

87

Who wrote the Thin Man in 1934 (both names)

Dashiell Hammett

88

Angel falls Venezuela Highest but where second Highest

Yosemite USA

89

Whitcome Judson in 1891 invented what for fastening shoes

Zip Fastener

90

Who sold Louisiana to the USA in 1803

Napoleon

91

Gregory Pincus, John Rock, Gerhart Domangk developed what

Oral Contraceptive

92

The Gloucester E 28/39 first flew in 1941 - what was unusual

Whittle Jet Engine

93

Women compete between USA and UK in Wightman Cup - Sport

Tennis

94

Woolworth's - the 5 /10 cent store started in which us state 1979

Lancaster Pennsylvania

95

Which actress starred in the original King Kong in 1933 (both)

Fay Wray

96

Except Australia 1 New Zealand 1 USA all since 1870 want?

America's Cup

97

What's missing from ale that’s included in beer

Hops

98

Until 1971 what was the name of Zaire

Congo

99

Karl Lienstater discovered which medical breakthrough in 1901

ABO Blood Groups

100

Who is the only American president elected unopposed

George Washington 1798 1792

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