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Introduction to General Knowledge Quiz
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Introduction to General Knowledge Quiz
This book has been produced for entertainment and it's sole purpose is to bring fun and further your knowledge! The quiz questions have been compiled with the readers at home in mind. A whole host of subjects and topics have been covered; ranging in difficulty levels from easy, to intermediate and advanced.
Some of the chosen subjects include; music, famous people, sport, history, geography, the solar system, nature, animals, natural disasters, countries, places, cities, anagrams, inventors and US states.
We hope you have a laugh and great fun.
Good luck!
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1. What is the name of Hitler's party that came into power in 1933?
2. How many moons does the planet Mars have?
3. How many degrees are there in a right angle?
4. Where are grasshopper's ears located?
5. In a rugby league team, how many players are there?
6. What was the name of the famous American musical that featured a young girl singing 'Tomorrow'?
7. What does Volkswagen mean in English?
8. What is the name of the newspaper where Peter Parker works in Spiderman?
9. Which band sang 'One Sweet Day' with Mariah Carey?
10. What is the fear of leaving the house otherwise known as?
11. Which sport is associated with Constantino Rocca?
12. What are the four main ingredients of a Waldorf salad?
13. Who created Noddy?
14. What is the holiest city in Islam?
15. What organisation uses the motto Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity?
16. Who was taken to the Mount at York on 7th April 1739, to be hanged for his bad deeds?
17. What do you get if you mix blue and yellow paint together?
18. What is the name of the lightest substance?
19. What is the name of the river that runs through the city of Cairo?
20. Who sang 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me' alongside George Michael?
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1. The formation of a word from a sound associated with what it is, for example buzz, sizzle or pop, is better known as what?
2. In which country is the River Darling located?
3. Who starred as the Tarzan in the first movie?
4. On a roulette wheel, what is the highest number?
5. What is the name given to an arrow maker?
6. From which country does the Akita dog breed originate?
7. Which famous girl band did Cheryl Cole belong to?
8. What is the Chemical Symbol for Iron?
9. Who had a 60's hit with the song 'Are You Lonesome Tonight'?
10. In which year did the first Afghan war take place?
11. Which two famous film stars played the leading roles in the film 'Pretty Woman'?
12. Who invented the washing machine?
13. What is the capital of Mexico?
14. What makes up 80% of the human brain?
15. What is the smallest prime number?
16. What is the highest selling book?
17. Which horse won the Melbourne Cup in 2002?
18. In the seventies, which group had the most number one hit singles in the UK?
19. What is the name given to the female part of a flower?
20. What is the main ingredient of Hummus?
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1. How many years of marriage would be celebrated by a golden anniversary?
2. In which sport is the Davis cup awarded?
3. Who discovered penicillin?
4. What is 0.88 as a percentage?
5. What flavour is Pernod?
6. Who wrote Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?
7. What is the main export out of Cuba?
8. Who is the lead singer of the pop band 'Simply Red'?
9. What do the letters LCD stand for?
10. Who founded the Ferrari automobile company?
11. What do dates grow on?
12. What is the largest State in the USA?
13. Which country's Olympic athletes sport the letters RSA on their vests?
14. Which explorer discovered the Hawaiian islands?
15. From which British sitcom did the phrase 'Lovely Jubbly' come from?
16. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a week and once in a year?
17. If you were born on Christmas day, which star sign would you belong to?
18. Which group had a hit with 'The Final Countdown' in 1987?
19. With which country was the first China war fought against?
20. What is a barracuda?
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1. What are the five human senses?
2. What is the name of main artery that carries blood to the heart?
3. Which three countries did the Vikings come from?
4. In the Bible, what was the name of the angel who visited Mary to tell her that she would have baby Jesus?
5. Where would you find the city of Kremlin?
6. The largest sand island in the world is in Australia, what is its name?
7. Which Italian football club bought David Platt for £5.5 million?
8. Who sang 'Sleeping with a Broken Heart' in 2010?
9. What is added to wine to make Port?
10. Is a baboon an ape or a monkey?
11. What is a scalene triangle?
12. What was the former name of Thailand?
13. In Shakespeare’s play who dies first, Romeo or Juliet?
14. What is the name of the New York island where The Statue of Liberty is located?
15. What straight forward word is an anagram of 'credit'?
16. What is the second largest country in the world?
17. What is three fifths of 50?
18. Who invented the ballpoint pen?
19. In a casino, what is the employee who runs the game better known as?
20. What is jaundice?
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1. Where was the FIFA World Cup held in 1986?
2. What was the name of Dorothy's dog in the Wizard of Oz?
3. In the year of 1981, which American spacecraft made its first flight?
4. Which year did Band Aid release the song 'Do They Know it's Christmas' in the UK?
5. What was the name of the famous British Admiral who only had one eye?
6. Who played Jack in the film The Titanic?
7. What is the capital of Morocco?
8. Which is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
9. What is the name of the tapestry that shows the invasion of England in the year of 1066?
10. What is the name given to the Pirate's flag that bears the skull and cross bones?
11. Who wrote the famous poem called 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'?
12. Which famous actor starred in the series 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'?
13. Who is the Greek god of music?
14. Who was the lead singer of British band called Madness?
15. Which animal is the emblem of Bacardi rum?
16. The nursery rhyme Ring a Ring o' Roses refers to which major disease outbreak?
17. Before the Euro was introduced, which currency was used in Germany?
18. What is Venison?
19. What is the meaning of Pi in Math?
20. In which Olympic sport is the wearing of a beard prohibitted?
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1. Which country is the largest tin producer in the world?
2. Which parts of the Earth have the longest summer days?
3. In the song 'The Twelve Days of Christmas', how many lord were leaping?
4. What was Hades the Greek god of?
5. What do climbers call a peak high than 3000 feet (914 metres)?
6. What was the title of the film that Robin Williams played an English teacher
called John Keating?
7. In 1999, which country voted to keep the Queen?
8. Which spirit is typically mixed with orange juice to create the cocktail known as the 'screwdriver'?
9. Which illness is also known as the kissing disease?
10. In the Bible, what did the dove return to Noah with?
11. How many straight edges does a cube have?
12. What is a cygnet?
13. What was the name of the man that killed Abraham Lincoln?
14. In the year of 1976, what was the first scheduled route for the British Concorde?
15. Who had a hit with 'Firework' in 2010?
16. What is the name given to a group of leopards?
17. What is the birthstone of the star sign Aquarius?
18. One of the members of The Rolling Stones drowned in a swimming pool, which member was it?
19. Global warming is caused by too much of which type of gas?
20. When is the UK's national flag called a Union Jack?
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