General Knowledge
What P is sometimes referred to as
block and tackle?
Answer:
Pulley.
For what purpose would a gardener
use a Dibber?
Answer:
Making holes.
What J is a device used to raise
an object too heavy to deal with by hand?
Answer:
Jack.
Ball-pein, club, claw and bush are
types of which tool?
Answer:
Hammer
Which African animal’s name means
‘river horse’?
Answer:
Hippopotamus
Which Indian religion was founded
by Guru Nanak?
Answer:
Sikhism
What is the most distant of the
giant planets?
Answer:
Neptune
What is the capital of Austria?
Answer:
Vienna
What in printing do the letters
‘u.c.’ stands for?
Answer:
Upper case
Which eye infection is sometimes
called pinkeye?
Answer:
Conjunctivitis
What sort of creature is an
iguana?
Answer:
A lizard
What, politically, does UDI stand
for?
Answer:
Unilateral declaration of independence.
Wagga Wagga is a city in which
Australian state?
Answer:
New South Wales.
Which Indian religion celebrated
the 300th anniversary of its founding in 1999?
Answer:
Sikhism.
What do the initials FBI stand
for?
Answer:
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By what name is the fruit of the
plant Ananas comosus known?
Answer:
Pineapple.
Donne stag is German for which day
of the week?
Answer:
Thursday.
What type of citrus fruit is a
shamouti?
Answer:
Orange.
Apiphobia is a fear of what?
Answer:
Bees.
Which Asian capital city was known
as Batavia until 1949?
Answer:
Jakarta.
Which astronomical unit os
distance is greater, a parsec or a light year?
Answer:
A parsec.
The ancient city of Carthage is
now in which country?
Answer:
Tunisia.
What in Russia is Izvestia?
Answer:
A newspaper.
Which is the world's windiest
continent?
Answer:
Antarctica.
In the book Treasure Island what
is the name of the ship?
Answer:
Hispaniola.
In which part of the body are the
deltoid muscles?
Answer:
Shoulder.
E is the international car
registration letter for which country?
Answer:
Spain.
Vienna stands on which river?
Answer:
Danube.
What type of camel has two lumps?
Answer:
Bactrian Camel
In the MG motor car, what do the
letters MG stand for?
Answer:
Morris Garages.
The name of which Roman god means
'shining father' in Latin?
Answer:
Jupiter.
What is the central color of a
rainbow?
Answer:
Green.
Which French city is a meeting
place for the European Parliament?
Answer:
Strasbourg.
What part of the body consists of
the duodenum, the jejunum and the ileum?
Answer:
Small intestine.
Annapurna is a mountain in which
mountain range?
Answer:
Himalayas.
What kind of foodstuff is Monterrey Jack?
Answer:
(It was also a cartoon’s name ‘what’s
for breakfast?'
What is the name of a person,
plant or animal which shuns the light?
Answer:
Lucifugous.
What, in field of optics, is biconvex?
Answer:
A lens which is convex on both sides.
Which country was invaded in Iraq
in 1980?
Answer:
Iran.
What did Johann Galle discover in
1846?
Answer:
Neptune.
What, in internet terminology,
does SMTP stand for?
Answer:
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
How is October 24 1929 remembered?
Answer:
Black Thursday.
The River Danube flows into which
sea?
Answer:
The Black Sea.
Which strait separates the North
and South islands of New Zealand?
Answer:
Cook Strait.
What, in internet terminology,
does FTP stand for?
Answer:
File Transfer Protocol.
Who wrote Black Beauty?
Answer:
Anna Sewell.
What is the capital of Poland?
Answer:
Warsaw.
Ice-cream was first produced in
which country in the 17th century?
Answer:
Italy.
In medicine, what does the acronym
SARS stand for?
Answer:
Severe Acute Respiratory System.
Which popular name for Netherlands
is actually a low-lying region of the country?
Answer:
Holland.
Which Shakespeare play was set in
Elsinore Castle, Denmark?
Answer:
Hamlet.
Who said: 'Genius is 1%
inspiration and 99% perspiration'?
Answer:
Edison.
The Kyukyu Island chain lies between
en which two countries?
Answer:
Japan & Taiwan.
Which fibrous protein is the major
constituent of hair, nails, feathers, beaks and claws?
Answer:
Keratin.
Which fruit is Morello a
variety?
Answer: Sour Cherry.
Which explorer discovered Victor is
fall in Africa?
Answer:
David Livingstone.
Who was the last king of Egypt?
Answer:
Farouk.
What is the literal meaning of the
word mafia?
Answer:
Barging.
Which war lasted 16 years longer
than its name implies?
Answer:
The Hundred Years’ War.
What is the national sport of
Malaysia and Indonesia?
Answer:
Badminton.
Which is the shallowest of the
Great Lakes?
Answer:
Lake Erie.
What name is given to minute or
microscopic animals and plants that live in the upper layers of fresh and salt
water?
Answer:
Plankton.
Which country was originally named
Cathay?
Answer:
China.
Sinhalese is a language spoken in
which country?
Answer:
Sri Lanka.
The San Francisco river flows
through which country?
Answer:
Brazil.
In which sport do teams compete
for the Dunhill Cup?
Answer:
Golf.
Which Shakespeare character's last
words are: 'The rest is silence'?
Answer:
Hamlet.
In economics, whose law states
that: 'bad money drives out good money'?
Answer:
Gresham's
Who made the first navigation of
the globe in the vessel Victoria?
Answer:
Magellan.
Which mountaineer on being asked
why he wanted to climb Everest said: 'Because it's there'?
Answer:
George Mallory.
What was the former name for Sri
Lanka?
Answer:
Ceylon.
Of which Middle East, country is
Baghdad the capital?
Answer:
Iraq.
How many arms does a squid have?
Answer:
Ten.
Which indoor game is played with a
shuttlecock?
Answer:
Badminton.
Do stalactites grow upwards or
downwards?
Answer:
Downwards.
What food is also called garbanzo?
Answer:
Chick-pea.
What is the quality rating for
diesel fuel, similar to the octane number for petrol?
Answer:
Catane number.
Which German city and port is at
the confluence of the rivers Neckar and Rhine?
Answer:
Mannheim.
Where in Europe are the only wild
apes to be found?
Answer:
Gibraltar.
The Brabanconne is the national anthem
of which country?
Answer:
Belgium.
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