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10000 General Knowledge

Questions and Answers

Part 1
No Questions Quiz 16 Answers
1 What member of the weasel family is over 1 meter or 3 feet long Badger
2 Capability Brown was a famous Landscape Gardener 1st name Lancelot
3 Boccaccios collection of ten stories are known as what Decameron
4 What do fennel leaves taste of Aniseed
5 What country is the home of the Ashanti people Ghana
6 12 is the atomic number of which metal Magnesium
7 What was Beethoven's only opera Fidelio
8 In which of Aristophanes plays do the women refuse sex Lysistrata
9 Which Australian writer won the Nobel prize in 1973 Patrick White
10 What is a hypocaust Roman Heating
System
11 What 18th century German soldier told very tall tales of himself Baron Munchhausen
12 Which country imports the most champagne Great Britain
13 Thomas Keneally wrote which book (Oscar winning film) Schindler's Ark
14 What is the name of the metal discs set in a tambourines rim Jingles
15 Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Handel, Liszt, Ravel what in common Bachelors
16 What were China 14 Raduga 14 Himwari 3 Orbiting satellites
17 What is a Flemish Giant Rabbit
18 Somerset Maugham, A J Cronin, Richard Gorden - in common Not Writers - Doctors
19 What does Stet mean to a printer Let the Original stand
20 In Paris what are FD Roosevelt Stalingrad Louis Blanc Metro Stations
21 English writer - Died Typhoid - Drank Paris water - Prove safe Arnold Bennett 1931
22 What food item in French literally means twice cooked Biscuit
23 What religions sacred writings are divided into the Tripitaka Buddhism
24 Herodotus the Greek is known as the father of what History
25 The old French Royal family - Boy Scouts share what symbol Fleur-de-lis
26 We have used the Latin phrase ad hoc - what literally mean For this special
purpose
27 Which dancer died in 1927 strangled by scarf on car wheel Isadora Duncan
28 What do astronomers call the red sky before sunrise Aurora
29 A beast of prey sometimes called a glutton - what is it Wolverine
30 French novelist - nearly 100 books all La Comedie Humaine Honor'e de Balzac
31 What is the correct name for food permitted under Moslem laws Hal-al
32 What country is known to its inhabitants as Suomen Tasavalta Finland
33 What French blue cheese (similar to stilton) is made ewes milk Roquefort
34 A Suffragan has what job Bishop - no parish –
helps other
35 Segmental, Primitive, Doucine, Elliptical are types of what Arch (in construction)
36 Who got Judas job as the twelfth apostle Matthias
37 Which famous horse race was won Urban sea, Carnegie, Lammtarra Prix de l'arc de
Triomphe
38 Elvis Stojko was an ice skating word champion - what country Canada
39 What animals make up the Suidae family Pigs
40 What is the word (derived from Malay) for unhusked rice Paddy
41 Joel Chandler Harris wrote which series of stories Uncle Remus
42 We have heard of the Renaissance - what's it literally mean Rebirth
43 In film making what does a Blimp do Covers camera –
reduce noise
44 Where would you find a Walloon South Belgium –
Native Flemish
45 What do we call what the Japanese call Oshugatsu New Year
46 Tete-beche is a familiar term in which hobby Stamp Collecting
47 Good King Wenceslas was the King of which country Bohemia (Germany)
48 Sir Jack Cohen founded what Tescos - supermarkets
49 What does rabbi literally mean My Master
50 What port lies at the mouth of the Swan river Freemantle (Perth)