GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ NO. 143
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:52 pm1 What is Africa’s most populated country?
NIGERIA
2 What and where is the Sea of Tranquillity?
A PLAIN ON THE MOON
3 Which marathon runner was named 1983 Australian of the Year?
ROBERT DE CASTELLA
4 What was the theme song of the television series Ally McBeal?
SEARCHIN MY SOUL
5 Which country is home to the world’s largest Muslim population?
INDONESIA
6 In which year was Australian singer Kylie Minogue born?
1968
7 Which US tennis champion was nicknamed Little Mo?
MAUREEN CONNALLY
8 Name the two sister ships of the Titanic.
OLYMPIC AND BRITANNIC
9 In which musical does Raoul sing “share each day with me” to Christine?
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
10 What is New Zealand’s highest mountain?
MT COOK
11 Tommy Traddles is a character in which book by English author Charles Dickens?
DAVID COPPERFIELD
12 Which of the Seven Wonders of the World was located at Olympia?
STATUE OF ZEUS
13 Who is Winnie-the-Pooh’s best friend?
PIGLET
14 Which year is the setting for the musical My Fair Lady – 1892, 1912 or 1932?
1912
15 What is the square root of 121?
11
16 What does the expression “carry on like a pork chop” mean?
TO BEHAVE IN A SILLY MANNER
17 Proverbially, what is the better part of valour?
DISCRETION
18 In which American city was US President Barack Obama born?
HONOLULU
19 Which country has the most universities?
INDIA
20 What is the world’s deepest ocean?
PACIFIC
21 What is androphobia?
FEAR OF MEN
22 Who was governor of South Australia from 1971-76?
SIR MARK OLIPHANT
23 Robbing Peter to Pay Paul, Rose of Sharon, Cats and Mice, Drunkard’s Path and Jacob’s Ladder are all what?
QUILT DESIGNS
24 Who recorded the 1965 hit (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction?
THE ROLLING STONES
25 What is the second planet from the sun?
VENUS
26 Who was Ethiopia’s last emperor?
HAILE SELASSIE
27 Who created the comic strip cat Garfield?
JIM DAVIS
28 In which country was Greenpeace founded?
CANADA
29 In which country is Mickey Mouse known as Topolino?
ITALY
30 The flag of which country has horizontal bands of red, white and black, with an eagle in the centre?
EGYPT
31 How many pockets does a snooker table have?
6
32 By what are covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, sloth and anger collectively known?
SEVEN DEADLY SINS
33 Jim Bolger was prime minister of which country from 1990-97?
NEW ZEALAND
34 What was the name of the driver of the car in which Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in 1997?
HENRI PAUL
35 What is the name of the character singing the Joe Dolce song Shaddap You Face?
GIUSEPPE
36 What is the capital of France?
PARIS
37 What is digamy?
A 2ND LEGAL MARRIAE=GE
38 What did Costa Rica constitutionally abolish in 1948?
IT;S ARMY
39 Ray Groom was premier of which Australian state from 1992-96?
TASMANIA
40 What was the name of John Travolta’s character in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever?
TONY MANERO
41 What is often referred to as Japan’s national sport?
SUMO WRESTLING
42 What is the alternative title of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Grand Duke?
THE STATUTORY DUEL
43 Which vitamin is also known as ascorbic acid?
C
44 What did English poet William Wordsworth describe as “emotion recollected in tranquillity”?
POETRY
45 Who wrote the play Cat On a Hot Tin Roof?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
46 The iced soup gazpacho comes from which country?
SPAIN
47 What is the name of the Australian international women’s hockey team?
HOCKEYROOS
48 Which letter lies between H and K on a standard keyboard?
J
49 What is a hongi – a Maori greeting expressed by rubbing noses, an internet cafe in Japan or a sailing yacht with a fixed fin keel?
A MAOI GREETING EXPRESSED BY RUBBING NOSES
50 What is the more common name of the human body’s hallux?
BIG TOE
NIGERIA
2 What and where is the Sea of Tranquillity?
A PLAIN ON THE MOON
3 Which marathon runner was named 1983 Australian of the Year?
ROBERT DE CASTELLA
4 What was the theme song of the television series Ally McBeal?
SEARCHIN MY SOUL
5 Which country is home to the world’s largest Muslim population?
INDONESIA
6 In which year was Australian singer Kylie Minogue born?
1968
7 Which US tennis champion was nicknamed Little Mo?
MAUREEN CONNALLY
8 Name the two sister ships of the Titanic.
OLYMPIC AND BRITANNIC
9 In which musical does Raoul sing “share each day with me” to Christine?
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
10 What is New Zealand’s highest mountain?
MT COOK
11 Tommy Traddles is a character in which book by English author Charles Dickens?
DAVID COPPERFIELD
12 Which of the Seven Wonders of the World was located at Olympia?
STATUE OF ZEUS
13 Who is Winnie-the-Pooh’s best friend?
PIGLET
14 Which year is the setting for the musical My Fair Lady – 1892, 1912 or 1932?
1912
15 What is the square root of 121?
11
16 What does the expression “carry on like a pork chop” mean?
TO BEHAVE IN A SILLY MANNER
17 Proverbially, what is the better part of valour?
DISCRETION
18 In which American city was US President Barack Obama born?
HONOLULU
19 Which country has the most universities?
INDIA
20 What is the world’s deepest ocean?
PACIFIC
21 What is androphobia?
FEAR OF MEN
22 Who was governor of South Australia from 1971-76?
SIR MARK OLIPHANT
23 Robbing Peter to Pay Paul, Rose of Sharon, Cats and Mice, Drunkard’s Path and Jacob’s Ladder are all what?
QUILT DESIGNS
24 Who recorded the 1965 hit (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction?
THE ROLLING STONES
25 What is the second planet from the sun?
VENUS
26 Who was Ethiopia’s last emperor?
HAILE SELASSIE
27 Who created the comic strip cat Garfield?
JIM DAVIS
28 In which country was Greenpeace founded?
CANADA
29 In which country is Mickey Mouse known as Topolino?
ITALY
30 The flag of which country has horizontal bands of red, white and black, with an eagle in the centre?
EGYPT
31 How many pockets does a snooker table have?
6
32 By what are covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, sloth and anger collectively known?
SEVEN DEADLY SINS
33 Jim Bolger was prime minister of which country from 1990-97?
NEW ZEALAND
34 What was the name of the driver of the car in which Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in 1997?
HENRI PAUL
35 What is the name of the character singing the Joe Dolce song Shaddap You Face?
GIUSEPPE
36 What is the capital of France?
PARIS
37 What is digamy?
A 2ND LEGAL MARRIAE=GE
38 What did Costa Rica constitutionally abolish in 1948?
IT;S ARMY
39 Ray Groom was premier of which Australian state from 1992-96?
TASMANIA
40 What was the name of John Travolta’s character in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever?
TONY MANERO
41 What is often referred to as Japan’s national sport?
SUMO WRESTLING
42 What is the alternative title of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Grand Duke?
THE STATUTORY DUEL
43 Which vitamin is also known as ascorbic acid?
C
44 What did English poet William Wordsworth describe as “emotion recollected in tranquillity”?
POETRY
45 Who wrote the play Cat On a Hot Tin Roof?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
46 The iced soup gazpacho comes from which country?
SPAIN
47 What is the name of the Australian international women’s hockey team?
HOCKEYROOS
48 Which letter lies between H and K on a standard keyboard?
J
49 What is a hongi – a Maori greeting expressed by rubbing noses, an internet cafe in Japan or a sailing yacht with a fixed fin keel?
A MAOI GREETING EXPRESSED BY RUBBING NOSES
50 What is the more common name of the human body’s hallux?
BIG TOE
