General Knowledge 98

Question 1

Mexican Aztecs spoke what language?

Answer 1

Nahuatl

Question 2

Bram Stoker’s first name is short for what?

Answer 2

Abraham

Question 3

What did Bram Stoker write?

Answer 3

Dracula

Question 4

Ghurkas come from which country?

Answer 4

Nepal

Question 5

The Black Sea is off the north coast of which country?

Answer 5

Turkey

Question 6

When did the first man go into space?

Answer 6

1961

Question 7

Catoptrophobia is the fear of what?

Answer 7

Mirrors

Question 8

Dutch Guiana is the former name of which country?

Answer 8

Suriname

Question 9

Charles Ludwidge Dodgson is the real name of which author?

Answer 9

Lewis Carrol

Question 10

Edmonton is the capital of which Canadian province?

Answer 10

Alberta

Question 11

Author of Discworld?

Answer 11

Terry Pratchett

Question 13

After the Nile and the Amazon, what is the world’s third longest river?

Answer 13

The Mississippi

Question 14

Duffle coats are named after a town in which country?

Answer 14

Belgium

Question 15

Harare was known as what until 1987?

Answer 15

Salisbury

Question 16

Dystychiphobia is a fear of what?

Answer 16

Accidents

Question 17

Beta-blockers stop the secretion of which hormone?

Answer 17

Adrenaline

Question 18

Canton is the former name of which Chinese city?

Answer 18

Guangzhou

Question 19

Giovanni Agnelli founded which car company?

Answer 19

Fiat

Question 20

Bright’s Disease affects which organ in the human body?

Answer 20

Kidneys - nephritis or glomerulonephritis

Question 21

What is the common name for the clavicle?

Answer 21

Collar bone

Question 22

What are a male and female rabbit called?

Answer 22

A buck and a doe

Question 23

Boroughs of New York?

Answer 23

Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.

Question 24

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by whom?

Answer 24

John Wilkes Booth

Question 25

Bulgarian currency?

Answer 25

Lev

Question 26

Edward Ferrars and Elinor Dashwood are characters in which novel?

Answer 26

Sense and Sensibility