Vowel Quiz #1

Vowel Quiz #1

Questions

1. What was the title given to the daughters of the Kings of Spain and Portugal who were not the heir to the throne?
2. The Royal Navy flagship aircraft carrier, which along with its Harrier jump jets was withdrawn from service late 2010, is HMS what?
3. What is a word made from the initials of other words in a phrase or sequence?
4. What is the fine-grained, usually white, variety of gypsum used for carving?
5. What is the lair of a fox?
6. What is the final and longest section of the human small intestine?
7. What means relating to or similar to bears?
8. What is a system of muscle-building without moving joints?
9. What is a death notice, sometimes with a biography, in a newspaper?
10. What is the play by Shakespeare featuring the court jester Touchstone?
11. Before the Euro, what was the basic monetary unit of Portugal?
12. What is a dish sprinkled with breadcrumbs or grated cheese and browned?
13. What is the scarlet banner of Saint Dennis used by early French kings when setting out for war?
14. What food has the varieties Elstar, Almata and Cortland?
15. What is the inner and larger of the two bones in the human forearm?
16. What is the process in which hair and small blemishes are removed from the body by the application of heat using electric current?
17. What is the flat round cake made from flaky pastry and filled with currants, named after a town in Greater Manchester, England?
18. What is a three-dimensional figure with eight plane faces?
19. What is a bottomless pit or chasm, a very deep gorge, or a reference to something unfathomable and usually threatening or chaotic, such as hell?
20. What is the code of silence which prohibits speaking about, or divulging information about, criminal activities, used by the Mafia?
21. The River Amazon flows into which ocean?
22. What is the Southern India savoury steamed cake made of rice and served with chutney?
23. What is the Roman numeral LXXXVIII?
24. What is the African antelope whose male of the species have lyre-shaped horns?
25. What is the capital of Ghana?
26. What was the tribe of ancient Britons of Eastern England whose queen was Boudica (Boadicea)?
27. The fundamental philosophical and devotional epic stories Mahabharata and Ramayana originated in Sanskrit in which ancient country?
28. What is the edible sea snail of the genus Haliotis, which has an ear-shaped shell with a pearly interior?
29. What is the Japanese martial art, similar to judo, which uses grappling, throws, and non-resistance, to debilitate opponents?

1. What was the title given to the daughters of the Kings of Spain and Portugal who were not the heir to the throne?

   Infanta
2. The Royal Navy flagship aircraft carrier, which along with its Harrier jump jets was withdrawn from service late 2010, is HMS what?

   Ark Royal
3. What is a word made from the initials of other words in a phrase or sequence?

   Acronym (see amusing and interesting acronyms)
4. What is the fine-grained, usually white, variety of gypsum used for carving?

   Alabaster
5. What is the lair of a fox?

   Earth
6. What is the final and longest section of the human small intestine?

   Ileum
7. What means relating to or similar to bears?

   Ursine
8. What is a system of muscle-building without moving joints?

   Isometrics
9. What is a death notice, sometimes with a biography, in a newspaper?

   Obituary
10. What is the play by Shakespeare featuring the court jester Touchstone?

    As You Like It
11. Before the Euro, what was the basic monetary unit of Portugal?

    Escudo
12. What is a dish sprinkled with breadcrumbs or grated cheese and browned?

    Au Gratin
13. What is the scarlet banner of Saint Dennis used by early French kings when setting out for war?

    Oriflamme
14. What food has the varieties Elstar, Almata and Cortland?

    Apple
15. What is the inner and larger of the two bones in the human forearm?

    Ulna
16. What is the process in which hair and small blemishes are removed from the body by the application of heat using electric current?

    Electrolysis
17. What is the flat round cake made from flaky pastry and filled with currants, named after a town in Greater Manchester, England?

    Eccles
18. What is a three-dimensional figure with eight plane faces?

    Octohedron
19. What is a bottomless pit or chasm, a very deep gorge, or a reference to something unfathomable and usually threatening or chaotic, such as hell?

    Abyss
20. What is the code of silence which prohibits speaking about, or divulging information about, criminal activities, used by the Mafia?

    Omerta
21. The River Amazon flows into which ocean?

    Atlantic
22. What is the Southern India savoury steamed cake made of rice and served with chutney?

    Idli
23. What is the Roman numeral LXXXVIII?

    Eighty-eight
24. What is the African antelope whose male of the species have lyre-shaped horns?

    Impala
25. What is the capital of Ghana?

    Accra
26. What was the tribe of ancient Britons of Eastern England whose queen was Boudica (Boadicea)?

    Iceni (or Eceni)
27. The fundamental philosophical and devotional epic stories Mahabharata and Ramayana originated in Sanskrit in which ancient country?

    India
28. What is the edible sea snail of the genus Haliotis, which has an ear-shaped shell with a pearly interior?

    Abalone
29. What is the Japanese martial art, similar to judo, which uses grappling, throws, and non-resistance, to debilitate opponents?

    Aikido