General Knowledge Quiz #67

General Knowledge Quiz #67

Questions

1. The Hundred Years War, during the 13th and 14th centuries, was fought between which two countries?
2. In a right-angled triangle whose shortest sides are eight and six metres how long is the other side?
3. Loosely translated, Aleph Beth Gimel Daleth are the first four letters of what alphabet: Inuit; Hebrew; Portuguese; or Tellytubby?
4. Which city, home to Coca-Cola HQ, hosted the 1996 Summer Olympic games?
5. What is the previous and common alternative name of the Indian city Mumbai?
6. Which Shakespeare character is known as The Moor of Venice?
7. What is a car marque, a software company and the national flower of Egypt?
8. What country's name derives from an Iroquois word for village?
9. In Japan the word Mikado originally referred to what: the emperor; a theatre; an early form of electoral proportional representation; or sushi rice?
10. What word, orginally meaning female slave in Greek, refers to a woman who gives support and help to a pregnant woman before, during and after childbirth?
11. Whose state funeral was on 15 December 1840, nineteen years after his death and burial in an unmarked grave?
12. A navarin casserole is cooked using which type of meat?
13. The archaeological site of the ancient city of Troy is in which country?
14. In 1834 who invented raised point writing using a six dot system enabling the blind to read?
15. IPO - the UK government agency responsible for the protection of ideas, patents, copyright, etc., stands for what?
16. How many triangles are on a backgammon board?
17. Name the Green Party leader and its first parliamentary MP, who won the Brighton Pavilion seat in the UK May 2010 general election?
18. What is the technical term for the hollow at the back of the knee, sometimes called the knee pit?
19. Bibliomania is the compulsive collecting or hoarding of what?
20. Fremantle prison, which was closed in 1991 and is now a heritage site, is in which country?
21. Which Caribbean island, especially capital city Plymouth, suffered long term devastation after the previously dormant Soufriere Hills Volcano began erupting in 1995?
22. Richard Beckinsale's character Alan Moore featured in which in UK TV series?
23. Who is the only woman, up until 2010, ever to have run for leadership of the British Labour Party?
24. In which city is the Galileo Galilei airport: Barcelona; Zurich; Pisa; or Helsinki?
25. What word, from Latin meaning 'I shall please' refers to a control substance used in drug trials which has no chemical effect?
26. The tennis club which hosts the Wimbledon Championships was founded originally in 1868 for playing which sport?
27. What is the main element of pewter, used for tableware and vases, etc?
28. A symbol comprising three dots, which if joined form an upright equilateral triangle, represents what word?
29. What condiment brand features the Palace of Westminster on its label?
30. What geographic term for a bay derives originally from the Greek word kolpos meaning bosom?

1. The Hundred Years War, during the 13th and 14th centuries, was fought between which two countries?

   England and France
2. In a right-angled triangle whose shortest sides are eight and six metres how long is the other side?

   Ten metres 
3. Loosely translated, Aleph Beth Gimel Daleth are the first four letters of what alphabet: Inuit; Hebrew; Portuguese; or Tellytubby?

   Hebrew
4. Which city, home to Coca-Cola HQ, hosted the 1996 Summer Olympic games?

   Atlanta
5. What is the previous and common alternative name of the Indian city Mumbai?

   Bombay
6. Which Shakespeare character is known as The Moor of Venice?

   Othello
7. What is a car marque, a software company and the national flower of Egypt?

   Lotus
8. What country's name derives from an Iroquois word for village?

   Canada 
9. In Japan the word Mikado originally referred to what: the emperor; a theatre; an early form of electoral proportional representation; or sushi rice?

   The emperor
10. What word, orginally meaning female slave in Greek, refers to a woman who gives support and help to a pregnant woman before, during and after childbirth?

    Doula
11. Whose state funeral was on 15 December 1840, nineteen years after his death and burial in an unmarked grave?

    Napoleon Bonaparte 
12. A navarin casserole is cooked using which type of meat?

    Lamb 
13. The archaeological site of the ancient city of Troy is in which country?

    Turkey 
14. In 1834 who invented raised point writing using a six dot system enabling the blind to read?

    Louis Braille
15. IPO - the UK government agency responsible for the protection of ideas, patents, copyright, etc., stands for what?

    Intellectual Property Office
16. How many triangles are on a backgammon board?

    Twenty-four
17. Name the Green Party leader and its first parliamentary MP, who won the Brighton Pavilion seat in the UK May 2010 general election?

    Caroline Lucas
18. What is the technical term for the hollow at the back of the knee, sometimes called the knee pit?

    Popliteal fossa 
19. Bibliomania is the compulsive collecting or hoarding of what?

    Books
20. Fremantle prison, which was closed in 1991 and is now a heritage site, is in which country?

    Australia 
21. Which Caribbean island, especially capital city Plymouth, suffered long term devastation after the previously dormant Soufriere Hills Volcano began erupting in 1995?

    Montserrat
22. Richard Beckinsale's character Alan Moore featured in which in UK TV series?

    Rising Damp
23. Who is the only woman, up until 2010, ever to have run for leadership of the British Labour Party?

    Margaret Beckett
24. In which city is the Galileo Galilei airport: Barcelona; Zurich; Pisa; or Helsinki?

    Pisa 
25. What word, from Latin meaning 'I shall please' refers to a control substance used in drug trials which has no chemical effect?

    Placebo
26. The tennis club which hosts the Wimbledon Championships was founded originally in 1868 for playing which sport?

    Croquet 
27. What is the main element of pewter, used for tableware and vases, etc?

    Tin 
28. A symbol comprising three dots, which if joined form an upright equilateral triangle, represents what word?

    Therefore
29. What condiment brand features the Palace of Westminster on its label?

    HP Sauce
30. What geographic term for a bay derives originally from the Greek word kolpos meaning bosom?

    Gulf