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quizballs 70 - free general knowledge questions for trivia quizzes and pub quizzes
- What does a hygrometer measure?
- Philopobia is the fear of what basic human emotion?
- What 1945 film starring Margaret Lockwood was titled after the legend of a 17th century highwaywoman?
- What is a sequence of letters called which reads the same backwards as forwards?
- Who was the first wife of poet Ted Hughes, who killed herself in 1963?
- Which English monarch was nicknamed Longshanks?
- Who composed the Funeral March sonata?
- What is a choli (pronounced 'kolee') - a midriff-baring bodice worn with a sari, a poisoned well or spring, an under-water spanner, or a mythical flying rabbit?
- What is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet?
- Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) founded what religious order?
- Leslie Poles were the first names of which writer, whose works included The Go-Between?
- In which city is Hell Gate Bridge, said to have inspired Sydney Harbour Bridge?
- The Bessemer process was invented in 1856 for the production of what material?
- In which three years did Red Rum win the Grand National?
- Which US poet wrote the Star-Spangled Banner?
- What is the basic monetary unit of Morocco?
- Which is the world's deepest ocean?
- Who wrote the 1950 novel A Town Like Alice?
- Sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials, which former chief of the Luftwaffe took cyanide the night before his scheduled hanging?
- What are the names of the mother and father dogs in the film 101 Dalmations?
- The grandfather of which English actress was leader of the Labour Party 1931-35?
- A human-being has how many pairs of chromosomes?
- Which American writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954?
- In 1978 who died after serving only 34 days as Pope?
- Who played the title role in the 1992 film My Cousin Vinnie?
- The Tamil Tigers are a rebel force in which country?
- In Greek Mythology which King was condemned to stand near fruit and water which moved away when he reached for them?
- Who was the first Prime Minister of Israel?
- According to legend who killed the lion represented by the constellation Leo?
- In 2005 Yulia Tymoshenko became the first female Prime Minister of which country?
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