General Knowledge
In which country is the River
Spey?
Answer:
Switzerland.
Which international environmental
pressure group was founded in 1971?
Answer:
Greenpeace.
What is the capital of Morocco?
Answer:
Rabat.
How many balls are on the table at
the start of a game of pool?
Answer: Sixteen.
In which country is the volcano
Mount Aso?
Answer: Japan.
What name is given to inflammation
of one or more joints, causing pain,swelling and restriction of movement?
Answer: Arthritis.
Which mineral is the main source
of mercury?
Answer: Cinnabar.
What A is the national airline of
Russia, code name SU?
Answer: Aeroflot.
What would be kept in a quiver?
Answer: Arrows.
What 'zoology' is concerned
with the study of unidentified flying objects?
Answer: Ufology.
Coal and long tailed are types of
which bird family?
Answer: Tit.
In the game of darts, what is the
value of the outer bull?
Answer: 25.
In which part of the human body is
the cochlea?
Answer: Ear.
What is the modern name of the
rocky fortress which the Moor s named Gabel-al-Tarik (the Rock of Tarik)?
Answer: Gibraltar.
What was the name of German
terrorist Andreas Baader's female partner?
Answer: Ulrike Meinhof.
And what was the name of the urban
guerrilla organization they headed?
Answer: The Red Army Faction.
Which German bacteriologist
discovered Salvarsan, a compound used in the treatment of syphilis, before the
introduction of antibiotics?
Answer: Paul Ehrlich.
Which ancient Roman satirist wrote
the 16 Satires?
Answer: Juvenal.
Who became the Queen of
Netherlands in 1980?
Answer: Beatrix.
Who was the last British king to
appear in battle?
Answer: George II.
What is the art of preparing,
stuffing and mounting the skins of animals to make lifelike models called?
Answer: Taxidermy.
What is the Beaufort scale used to
measure?
Answer: Wind speed.
What is the technical name for
abnormally high blood pressure?
Answer: Hypertension.
What part of eye is responsible
for its color?
Answer: The iris.
The letter RF on a stamp would
indicate it is from which country?
Answer: France.
What is the meaning of the musical
term cantabile?
Answer: In a singing style.
San Juan is the capital of which
island in the West Indies?
Answer: Puerto Rico.
Which profession gets its name
from the Latin word for lead?
Answer: Plumbing.
On which part of the body do
grasshoppers have their ears?
Answer: Hind legs.
Who wrote children's stories about
the land of Narnia?
Answer: C.S. Lewis.
What is the second planet from the
sun?
Answer: Venus.
What is the highest mountain in
the Alps?
Answer: Mont Blanc.
Of which Caribbean country is
Port-au-Prince the capital?
Answer: Haiti.
Which German city is associated
with the legend of the Pied Piper?
Answer: Hameln, or Hamelin.
What name is given to the wind
pattern that brings heavy rain to South Asia from April to September?
Answer: Monsoon.
What is the first book of the New
Testament?
Answer: The Gospel according to Saint
Matthew.
What name is given to the time
taken for half the atoms in a sample of a radioactive isotope to decay?
Answer: Half-life.
Who was president of Kenya from
1964 to 1978?
Answer: Jomo Kenyatta.
Which German author wrote the
anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front?
Answer: Erich Maria Remarque.
Which country had a police force
called the Tonton Macoutes?
Answer: Haiti.
What would you find in formicary?
Answer: Ants.
Who was the first British
sovereign to make regular use of Buckingham Palace when in residence in London?
Answer: Queen Victoria.
Where is Sofia the capital?
Answer: Bulgaria.
What is meant by the musical term
andante?
Answer: At a moderate tempo.
In a bullfight, what is the
mounted man with a lance called?
Answer: A picador.
Which team has a soccer team
called Ajax?
Answer: Amsterdam.
Which Dutch explorer discovered
New Zealand?
Answer: Abel Tasman.
Who became first black world
heavyweight boxing champion in 1918?
Answer: Jack Johnson.
The name of which city in South
America means Vale of Paradise?
Answer: Valparaiso.
Which gas used in advertising
signs has the symbol Ne?
Answer: Neon.
Which branch of mathematics uses
symbols to represent unknown quantities?
Answer: Algebra.
What does the abbreviation RAF
stand for?
Answer: Royal Air Force.
What name is given to the use of
live animals in the experiments?
Answer: Vivisection.
Viti Levu is the largest island of
which country?
Answer: Fiji.
The Golden Arrow was a famous
train that ran from Paris to which destination?
Answer: Monte Carlo.
Which country fought on both sides
during World War II?
Answer: Italy.
What centigrade temperature is gas
mark 6 equal to?
Answer: 200 degrees C.
In the game of chess, which piece
is called Springer in Germany?
Answer: Knight.
What is the meaning of the Russian
word 'Mir'?
Answer: Peace.
Who, in World War II, was Axis
Power?
Answer: Germany, Italy. Japan.
Which scientist used kites to
conduct electrical experiments?
Answer: Benjamin Frankline.
What is the longest river in
France?
Answer: Loire.
Which inventore had a research
laboratory at Menlo Park?
Answer: Edison.
Which birds fly in groups called
skeins?
Answer: Geese.
In medicine, which is the most
widespread parasitic infection?
Answer: Malaria.
What nationality was the explorer
Ferdinand Magellan?
Answer: Portuguese.
Which Italian city is called
Firenze in Italian?
Answer: Florence.
What is Australia’s largest city?
Answer: Sydney.
Which term meaning 'lightning war'
was used to describe military tactics used by Germany in World War-II?
Answer: Blitzkrieg.
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