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No Questions Quiz 16      Answers
1 What member of the weasel family is over 1 meter or 3 feet long Badger
2 Capability Brown was a famous Landscape Gardener 1st name  Lancelot
3 Boccaccios collection of ten stories are known as what  Decameron
4 What do fennel leaves taste of     Aniseed
5 What country is the home of the Ashanti people   Ghana
6 12 is the atomic number of which metal    Magnesium
7 What was Beethoven's only opera     Fidelio
8 In which of Aristophanes plays do the women refuse sex  Lysistrata
9 Which Australian writer won the Nobel prize in 1973   Patrick White
10 What is a hypocaust      Roman Heating
System
11 What 18th century German soldier told very tall tales of himself Baron Munchhausen
12 Which country imports the most champagne    Great Britain
13 Thomas Keneally wrote which book (Oscar winning film)  Schindler's Ark
14 What is the name of the metal discs set in a tambourines rim  Jingles
15 Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Handel, Liszt, Ravel what in common Bachelors
16 What were China 14 Raduga 14 Himwari 3    Orbiting satellites
17 What is a Flemish Giant      Rabbit
18 Somerset Maugham, A J Cronin, Richard Gorden - in common  Not Writers - Doctors
19 What does Stet mean to a printer     Let the Original stand
20 In Paris what are FD Roosevelt Stalingrad Louis Blanc  Metro Stations
21 English writer - Died Typhoid - Drank Paris water - Prove safe Arnold Bennett 1931
22 What food item in French literally means twice cooked  Biscuit
23 What religions sacred writings are divided into the Tripitaka   Buddhism
24 Herodotus the Greek is known as the father of what   History
25 The old French Royal family - Boy Scouts share what symbol  Fleur-de-lis
26 We have used the Latin phrase ad hoc - what literally mean  For this special
purpose
27 Which dancer died in 1927 strangled by scarf on car wheel  Isadora Duncan
28 What do astronomers call the red sky before sunrise   Aurora
29 A beast of prey sometimes called a glutton - what is it   Wolverine
30 French novelist - nearly 100 books all La Comedie Humaine  Honor'e de Balzac
31 What is the correct name for food permitted under Moslem laws Hal-al
32 What country is known to its inhabitants as Suomen Tasavalta  Finland
33 What French blue cheese (similar to stilton) is made ewes milk Roquefort
34 A Suffragan has what job      Bishop - no parish -
helps other
35 Segmental, Primitive, Doucine, Elliptical are types of what  Arch (in construction)
36 Who got Judas job as the twelfth apostle    Matthias
37 Which famous horse race was won Urban sea, Carnegie, Lammtarra Prix de l'arc de
Triomphe
38 Elvis Stojko was an ice skating word champion - what country  Canada
39 What animals make up the Suidae family    Pigs
40 What is the word (derived from Malay) for unhusked rice  Paddy
41 Joel Chandler Harris wrote which series of stories   Uncle Remus
42 We have heard of the Renaissance - what's it literally mean  Rebirth
43 In film making what does a Blimp do    Covers camera -
reduce noise
44 Where would you find a Walloon     South Belgium -
Native Flemish
45 What do we call what the Japanese call Oshugatsu   New Year
46 Tete-beche is a familiar term in which hobby   Stamp Collecting
47 Good King Wenceslas was the King of which country  Bohemia (Germany)
48 Sir Jack Cohen founded what     Tescos - supermarkets
49 What does rabbi literally mean     My Master
50 What port lies at the mouth of the Swan river   Freemantle (Perth)
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51 Who starred in the film Sixth Sense     Bruce Willis
52 KLM is the national airline of which country    Holland
53 Name the most famous English artist who painted mostly horses George Stubbs
54 Who were Curier Ellis and Acton Bell    Bronte sisters - pen
names
55 What is the official title of the ambassador of the Pope  Nuncio
56 Chaconne, Rigadoon, Passepied are all types of what   Old style dances
57 What British birds lay only one egg during the nesting season  Fulmar or Guillemot
58 Who would use a Jigger, Buzz, Flagging iron, Round shaver, Adze Cooper - making
barrels
59 What pop group had a "Message in a Bottle"    Police
60 If an Italian was having Pranzo what would they be having  Lunch
61 What currency consists of 100 Groschen    Austrian Schilling
62 In Greek mythology who created man    The demigod
Promethus
63 Hibernia was the Roman name for which country   Ireland
64 Mincing Lane in London is traditionally home of what trade  Tea
65 What sport is played at Smiths Lawn    Polo
66 What are fallows, lutinos and opalines    Budgerigars
67 In Paris there are two islands - Ile de la Cite and what   Ile St-Louise
68 Mapother IV is the real surname of what film star   Tom Cruise
69 Jean-Christopher Denner invented what musical instrument  Clarinet
70 Mendavoy and Martinez are characters in which TV show  NYPD Blue
71 Fredrick Bulsara was the lead singer of what pop group  Queen - Freddie
Mercury
72 The Titanic has a sister ship - name it    The Olympic
73 What was sharkskin once used as     Sandpaper
74 What does an otologist study     The ear and its
diseases
75 What is the essential ingredient in a Mornay sauce   Cheese
76 Sardines are the young of which fish    Pilchard
77 Who wrote Oedipus Rex      Sophocles
78 The Camorra was the forerunner of what organisation in the USA The Mafia
79 What is a Havana Brown      A Small Rabbit
80 What did Simon of Cyrene do in The Bible    Carry Christ's cross
81 In what sport is a stimpmeter used     Golf - measure greens
pace
82 Gene Hackman sheriff Big Whiskey - got Oscar - What film  Unforgiven
83 What countries flag red circle on green background   Singapore
84 Georgius Panayiotou became famous under what name (both)  George Michael
85 Capers are pickled flower seeds of what plant   Nasturtium
86 In 1925 at Windsor Bookies went on strike - against what  Betting Tax
87 What is a doucet       A Stags Testicle
88 What is the worlds largest sand island northeast of Brisbane  Fraser island
89 FT (London) Dow Jones (USA) what is Japans Share Index called Nikkei
90 Who was the leader of the wolf pack in The Jungle Book  Akala
91 What's the difference between sleeping gorillas and men  Gorillas don’t snore
92 Nobody Does it Better was sung in which Bond film   The Spy Who Loved
Me
93 Halcyon is the poetic name for which bird    Kingfisher
94 Who had a hit with Sylvia's Mother     Dr Hook
95 Who composed the music for the opera The Tales of Hoffman  Jacques Offenbach
96 In the Bible from whom did David steal his wife Bathsheba  The Hittite warrior
Uriah
97 The Cassegranian, Gregorian and Schmidt are types of what  Telescopes
98 Shakespeare - Antony, Romeo, Othello - what in common  Suicide
99 What instrument is sometimes called the clown of the orchestra Bassoon
100 What world capital city is heated by volcanic springs   Reykjavik (Iceland)