General Knowledge 99

Question 1

A methusalah of wine contains how many bottles?

Answer 1

8

Question 2

A match of 3 games of bridge is called a what?

Answer 2

A rubber

Question 3

Tiananmen Square year?

Answer 3

1989

Question 4

What year did General Franco become a dictator in Spain?

Answer 4

1939

Question 5

Corfu is geographically closest to which mainland country?

Answer 5

Albania

Question 6

As whom was Lev Davidovitch Bronstein better known?

Answer 6

Trotsky

Question 7

Asia Minor made up a large percentage of what modern country?

Answer 7

Turkey

Question 8

A pollack is what type of fish?

Answer 8

Cod

Question 9

Collective name for foxes?

Answer 9

Skulk

Question 10

Spheksophobia?

Answer 10

Fear of wasps

Question 11

Ailurophobia?

Answer 11

Fear of cats

Question 12

After what god is Wednesday named?

Answer 12

Woden

Woden (or Wodan) is the chief god of the pagan Anglo-Saxon pantheon, the English counterpart to the Norse god Odin, known as a god of war, wisdom, magic (runes), poetry, and as the divine ancestor of Anglo-Saxon kings, with his name living on in “Wednesday” (Woden’s Day).

Question 13

A pollack is what kind of fish?

Answer 13

Cod

Question 14

Spheksophobia is a fear of what?

Answer 14

Wasps

Question 15

Ailurophobia is a fear of what?

Answer 15

Cats

Question 16

After which god is Wednesday named?

Answer 16

Woden (Anglo Saxon equivalent of Odin - king of the gods).

Question 17

Who wrote the Water Babies

Answer 17

Charles Kingsley

Question 18

Of what was Juventas the Roman Goddess of?

Answer 18

Youth

Question 19

Study of reptiles?

Answer 19

Herpetology

Question 20

Scott reached the South Pole in Jan of which year?

Answer 20

1912

Question 21

How many locks in the Panama Canal?

Answer 21

6

Question 22

Which year was Nelson Mandela freed?

Answer 22

1990

Question 23

Who was the daughter of Zeus and Leda?

Answer 23

Helen

Question 24

For which bird can the collective noun be either a building or a clamour

Answer 24

A rook

Question 25

Piano Sonata No 14 by Beethoven is also known as?

Answer 25

The Moonlight Sonata

Question 26

Rapa Nui is also known as?

Answer 26

Easter Island

Question 27

How may wheels does a hansom cab have?

Answer 27

2

Question 28

What was Biro's first name?

Answer 28

Lazlo

Question 29

What is the groove under the nose called?

Answer 29

The philtrum

Question 30

How high is a basketball hoop?

Answer 30

10 feet

Question 31

What is a tanager

Answer 31

A bird

Question 32

Berlin stands on what river?

Answer 32

The Spree

Question 33

A racehorse that has never won a race is given what name?

Answer 33

Maiden

Question 34

Currency of Libya

Answer 34

Dinar

Question 35

What singer, nicknamed Little Sparrow, died aged 43 in 1963?

Answer 35

Edif Piaf

Question 36

Name of the Lone Ranger's horse?

Answer 36

Silver

Question 37

Which element is used in vulcanising rubber?

Answer 37

Sulphur

Question 38

Amathophobia is a fear of what?

Answer 38

Dust

Question 39

Amathophobia?

Answer 39

Fear of dust