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10000 General Knowledge

Questions and Answers

Part 2
No Questions Quiz 12 Answers
1 Name the actor who played Ben Casey (both Names) Vince Edwards
2 What links Elvis Presley, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere Married in Las Vegas
3 What - advertised phrase "Even your best friends wont tell you" Listerine mouth wash
4 Who wrote Don't count your chickens before they are hatched Aesop - Milkmaid and
her Pail
5 Last Words I am Dying with the help of too many Physicians Alexander the Great
6 Man shall not live by bread alone - Which NT book Matthew 4.4
7 RL international car registration plate which country Lebanon
8 Which dinosaurs name translates as double beam Diplodocus
9 Which SF author wrote The Day it Rained Forever Ray Bradbury
10 Who said "The die is cast" (on crossing the Rubicon) Julius Caesar
11 Who composed Peter and the Wolf in 1936 (both names) Sergai Prokofiev
12 Who painted the Water Lilly Pond in 1899 (both names) Claude Monet
13 Magazine wrote "Fighting for peace" is like fucking for chastity Knave March 1977
14 In what film was line A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do Alan Ladd Shane
15 Which famous whore said - God is love but get it in writing Gypsy Rose Lee
16 Jenny Von Westphalen was married to who Karl Marx
17 What city is closest to Copacabana beach Rio de Janeiro
18 Who wrote the music for the film ET (both names) John Denver
19 In Greek legend what was Pygmalion's kingdom Cyprus
20 What was the first penal colony in New South Wales Botany Bay
21 In Hamlet who is Ophelia's father Polonius
22 Guru Nanak founded which religion Sikhism
23 What was unusual about the Gossamer Albatross aeroplane Man (pedal) powered
24 What country is nearest to the North Pole Greenland
25 If you were in Lou Grants office what city are you in Los Angeles
26 Who wrote Private Lives - 1930 - Blyth Spirit 1941 (both names) Noel Coward
27 For which company did Elvis Costello program computers Elizabeth Arden
28 In what Hitchcock film did Shirley MacLaine debut in 1956 The trouble with
Harry
29 The original Peeping Tom had what job Tailor
30 What song is sung the most Happy Birthday
31 What city is known as The worlds chocolate capital Hershey Pennsylvania
32 What is detective Hercules Poirot's brothers name Achille
33 To what family does the hippopotamus belong Pig
34 Smith most common USA name what's second Johnson
35 Who secretly married Sara Lowndes in November 1965 Bob Dylan
36 The Mbuti tribe in Africa are the worlds what Shortest race
37 Grace Metalious wrote which famous novel (and TV show) Peyton Place
38 Who said Old age isn’t so bad - considering the alternative Maurice Chevalier
39 Who composed the opera Billy Budd in 1951 (both names) Benjamin Britain
40 What film was a California cinema showing when it went on fire The Towering Inferno
41 What phantom ship is said to haunt The Cape of Good Hope The Flying Dutchman
42 In which city is the worlds oldest tennis court from 1496 Paris
43 What word appears over 46000 times in the Bible And
44 What food dishes name translates as pepper water Mulligatawny – from
India
45 In 1891 what city held the first weightlifting world championship London
46 In what magazine does Alfred E Newman appear MAD
47 What amateur Reached Wimbledon Semi final in 1977 John McEnroe (aged
18)
48 Who said Politics is the art of the possible 11 Aug 1867 Otto Von Bismarck
49 What advertised phrase Born 1820 still going strong Johnnie Walker
50 Hugh O'Brian played the lead in what Old Western series Wyatt Earp