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10000 General Knowledge

Questions and Answers

Part 1
No Questions Quiz 11 Answers
1 What fashion did General Ambrose Burnside start in Civil War Sideburns
2 In what village do Tom Sawer and Huckleberry Finn live St Petersburg
3 What Opera's story is about a female cigar factory worker Carmen
4 E is the international car registration plate for which country Spain (Espania)
5 USA has most roads what country has second most India
6 In the Chinese calendar what year follows Monkey Chicken
7 What river flows through 8 countries and four capitols Danube
8 What does the word Desert (from Latin desertus) translate as Abandoned
9 In 1848 The London Daily News carried the worlds fist what Weather report /
forecast
10 What is a Kakapoo Nocturnal New
Zealand Parrot
11 Part of the human body can expand 20 times its normal size Stomach 0.5 litres to
5 litres
12 In the 1920s Dr Ida Rolf developed Rolfing as what alt therapy Deep Massage
13 Which dinosaurs name translated as speedy predator Velociraptor
14 Price one kilo went from $63 to $260 in 1976 when sale illegal Ivory
15 The island of Yap has the worlds largest what Coins up to 12 feet
across
16 Which tennis player was sued by his fan club Jimmy Connors
17 What animal - faster horse - longer no h20 camel - see behind Giraffe
18 What is a chemically castrated cock called Capon
19 Nessus killed Hercules - What was Nessus Centaur
20 Eva Shain was the first woman to do what Judge pro heavy
boxing Match
21 Ben Franklin invented it - Britain tried it in 1916 - What Daylight saving Time
22 In which country is Mount Aspiring National Park New Zealand (South
Island)
23 Alfred Wallace coined which phrase - Wrongly given to Darwin Survival of the Fittest
24 Who won the first Nobel prize for Physics in 1901 - gave away Wilhelm Roentgen
25 What countries days include Fire day, Water day and wood day Japan Tue Wed Thu
26 What city has the longest metro system London
27 Yoga (the meditation) is a Sanskrit word meaning what Union
28 What was invented 1903 - patented 1906 G C Beilder Photocopier
29 Which SF author invented the idea of the com Satellite Arthur C Clark
30 What country consumes the most coal each year China
31 What was Hebe the goddess of Youth
32 What are a Galliard, Sarabande, Morisca and Courente Dance Types
33 Who composed the overture Hebrides (Fingals cave) two names Felix Mendelssohn
34 Tanjong Panger Container Terminal where worlds largest con port Singapore
35 What would an anemometer measure Wind Speed
36 In Britain pool and snooker players call it side - what USA name English
37 What form modern sculpture invented Calder named Dechamp The Mobile
38 What book featured Topsy who growed Uncle Toms Cabin –H
B Stowe
39 Where - accident 1953 - motor sport killed 83 spectators Le Mans
40 James Outram invented what Tramways
41 If you were eating calemare - what are you snacking on Squid
42 Which women injured riding, eloped with a poet, dog called Flash Elizabeth Barret
Browning
43 The Bermuda Bowl is world championship in which game Bridge
44 ROK international car registrations which country Korea
45 USA has most cars what country has second most Japan
46 All Sikhs must possess five things - one is a Kangha - what is it Comb
47 What colour graded slope do expert skiers use Black
48 Randy Newman said short people don’t have what Reason to Live
49 To which gentleman's club did Phineas Fogg belong The Reform
50 What’s the only alt therapy fully recognised Western medicine Osteopathy