S.No. | Questions |
Answer |
1. | Who wrote the Opera Madam Butterfly | Puccini |
2. | What links – Goa – Kerula – Assam – Bihar | India |
3. | Arthur Blaire was the real name of which author | Eric George Orwell |
4. | Names – Baker Cook obvious what did Cordwainer do | Shoemaker |
5. | Which country do Sinologists study | China |
6. | Rudy Stevens became famous under which name | Barbara Stanwyck |
7. | Which non alcoholic cordial is made from pomegranates | Grenadine |
8. | What is Orchesis – either professional or amateur | Art of Dancing |
9. | Taken literally what should you see in a Hippodrome | Horses |
10. | Who wrote the Man in the Iron Mask | Alexander Dumas |
11. | Which 1993 Disney film starred Bet Middler as a witch | Hocus Pocus |
12. | Who piloted the first flight across the English channel | Louis Bleriot |
13. | What was the first James Bond film | Dr No |
14. | Consumption was the former name of which disease | Tuberculosis |
15. | Which American state is nicknamed The Diamond State | Delaware |
16. | What 1991 film won best film, actor, actress, director Oscars | Silence of the Lambs |
17. | What was the capital of Ethiopia | Addis Ababa |
18. | Aescapalious emblem staff snake Greek Roman god of what | Medicine |
19. | Giacomo Agostini – 122 Grand Prix 15 world titles what sport | Motorcycle Racing |
20. | What is the largest state in the USA | Alaska |
21. | Led Deighton trilogy Game Set Match What 3 Capitals | Berlin MexicoLondon |
22. | Alan Stuart Konigsberg famous as who | Woody Allen |
23. | Which human rights organisation founded 1961 got Nobel 1977 | Amnesty International |
24. | Whose autobiography was The long walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela |
25. | What was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter | Tutankamen tomb |
26. | Clyde Tonbaugh discovered what planet in 1930 | Pluto |
27. | Who won the women’s heptathlon at Seoul in 1988 | Jackie Joyner-Kersey |
28. | Who wrote Northanger Abbey | Jayne Austin |
29. | Who ran through the streets naked crying Eureka | Archimedes |
30. | Who composed the Brandeberg concertos full names | Johan Sebastian Bach |
31. | Who won the World Series in 1987 | Minnesota twins |
32. | What is the correct term of address to the Pope | Your Holiness |
33. | In which city was Alexander Graham Bell born in 1847 | Edinburgh |
34. | What martial arts name means gentle way | Judo |
35. | Jean Claude Killy famous in which sport | Skiing |
36. | Kimberlite contains what precious item | Diamonds |
37. | Who directed Dr Strangelove – 2001 – The Shining (full name) | Stanley Kubrick |
38. | Rene Lalique – Art Nouveau designer worked what material | Glass |
39. | Who composed the ballets Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker | Tchaikovsky |
40. | AG Bell opened school in Boston in 1872 for Teachers of what | The Deaf |
41. | Benjamin Kubelsky 1894 fame as what | comedian Jack Benny |
42. | the Old Testament what book comes between Obadiah In Micah | Jonah |
43. | Robin Williams dressed in drag for which 1993 film | Mrs Doubtfire |
44. | Which chess piece could be a member of the church | Bishop |
45. | Which German word means lightning war used in WW2 | Blitzkrieg |
46. | Broccoli belongs to what family of plants | Cabbage |
47. | Who designed the first Iron ship the Great Britain in 1845 | I. Kingdom Brunel |
48. | Whose boat Bluebird was recently raised from Coniston water | Donald Campbell |
49. | In 1951 which (of two) car companies introduced power steering Buick | Chrysler |
50. | Who wrote Catch 22 (both names) | Joseph Heller |