Sample Quiz 2
1 What colour is vermilion
Scarlet
2 In place names such as Barnstaple what does staple mean
Post
3 What was the name of The Lone Ranger's horse
Silver
4 Four out of five Indian restaurant owners are from which country
Bangladesh
5 What does the musical term dolente mean
Sadly
6 Who was the Norse god of the sky and thunder
Thor
7 What colour is a white rhino
Dirty brownish grey it comes from the Afrikaans word for wide in this case the lips
8 What is Arachnaphobia the irrational fear of
Spiders
9 From which country do basketball team Honka Espoo hail
Finland
10 What happens in the game of Monopoly when you throw three successive doubles
Go to Jail
11 What was Europe's first wide bodied airliner
Airbus A300
12 Which car company manufacture the Nubira
Daewoo
13 What is the state capital of New York
Albany
14 What colour is the cross on the flag of the Dominican republic
White
15 What Part of France did the Romans call Vasconia
Gascony
16 In American slang how much is a sawbuck
Ten dollars
17 In which English city is Temple Meads railway station
Bristol
18 What is the penalty in golf for lifting your balls out of casual water
No penalty
19 What is a white ant better known as
Termite
20 FIDE is the governing body of which game
Chess
21 What spirit is added to red wine to create port
Brandy
22 Who wrote Shirley Valentine
Willy Russell
23 What activity is featured in the magazine Winkers World
Tiddlywinks
24 Who starred with John Travolta in the film "Broken Arrow"
Christian Slater
25 What is the collective noun for Caterpillars
Army
26 Which office other than Pope does the Pope automatically hold
Bishop of Rome
27 I is the chemical symbol for which element
Iodine
28 Who succeeded Matthew Kelly on You Bet
Darren Day
29 What is said to be the UK's loudest bird
Bittern
30 What colour flag in motor racing means an ambulance is on the track
White
31 What is New Mexico's state flower
Yucca
32 Which author lived in a house called Chawton
Jane Austen
33 What would have been your job in times gone by if your surname was Hind
Farm labourer
34 In the early 2000's The Birds Eye brand had a make-over, losing its famous logo in favour of the now familiar 'red eye' logo. What was the old logo
Albatross
35 How many seconds are there in an hour
Three thousand six hundred
36 If you were put on Allopurinol what illness would you be likely to be suffering from
Gout
37 What was former Labour Party leader Michael Foot's middle name
Mackintosh
38 What is the motto of the Stock Exchange
My Word is my Bond
39 Where are the European headquarters of the International Monetary Fund
Geneva
40 'Earth has not anything to show more fair' is the first line of a poem by whom
William Wordsworth
41 Which Law of Physics states that the extension or compression of a spring is directly proportional to the force applied to it
Hookes Law
42 How many times a year does the moon go round the sun
Once
43 What is the ancient counting frame using wires and beads called
Abacus
44 What is a yurt
Mongol tent
45 The Waterloo Cup is contested in which two sports
Bowls and Greyhound Racing
46 Which Hollywood actress was paid 2,000,000 for saying one word in a Simpson cartoon
Liz Taylor
47 With which sport would you associate David Broome
Show jumping
48 What landmark marks the eastern end of the South Downs
Beachy Head
49 What was the name of the cruise ship seized by hijackers in the Mediterranean in 1985
Achille Lauro
50 What is the nickname of the Royal Signals Motorcycle Display team
The White Helmets