General knowledge world questions
1. Atletica is a brand from which country?
Mexico
2. What’s a 4 line stanza called?
Quatrain
3. What links Zeng Jinlian, Sandy Allen, and Malee Duangdee?
Tall women
4. How did American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz die?
Cancer
5. Nitro is a popular brand of which drink?
Coffee
6. Almost all of the Islands are found south of the equator. True/ False?
True
7. How many strawberries are ordered for Wimbledon every year?
Approximately 24 tons
8. What is Sake?
A drink in Japan
9. What are nodes?
people in one’s social network
10. Summer Olympic sports are divided into categories based on popularity, gauged: number of national federations by what percent?
5%
11. What is the Alpha 2 code for Côte d’Ivoire?
CI
12. Which singer was known as Little Miss Dynamite?
Brenda Lee
13. Emilio Gino Segrè and Owen Chamberlain received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 for what contribution?
“for their discovery of the antiproton”
14. Name the most performed opera at the London Opera House since 1833.
La Boheme
15. Who was the first black tennis player to win the US Open?
Arthur Ashe
16. Optiphone, Lustreer, and Mirascope early names for which item?
Television
17. Cockspur grass is a type of wild grass originating from where?
tropical Asia
18. Peredur son of Efrawg is an Arthurian Tale in which mythology?
Welsh
19. Which country has its Alpha 2 code HR?
Croatia
20. Salvatore Quasimodo received the Nobel Prize in Literature in which year?
1959
21. Escaping convicts used to drop what to throw dogs off the scent?
Red Herrings
22. According to Anthropology, what is another name for a nuclear family?
Family of orientation
23. Who are also the good ones in detecting lies from others?
Good liars
24. What was the first 90-minute TV series in 1962?
The Virginian
25. What is the atomic number for Magnesium?
12
26. When did the Roman leader Gaius Marius bear?
157 BCE
27. In the US what job has an average IQ of 104?
Policeman
28. Who wrote the famous novel A Farewell to Arms?
Ernest Hemingway
29. What is the Alpha 3 code for Denmark?
DNK
30. Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank, and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm received the Nobel Prize in Physics in which year?
1958
31. Which country has its UPC barcode 865?
Mongolia
32. Mazda car is originated in which country?
Japan
33. Artman is a famous shoe brand in which country?
Iran
34. Where would you see CDEFLOPDZ?
US Eye test chart
35. What is the symbol for Aluminium?
Al
36. Which country has its Alpha 3 code CZE?
Czech Republic
37. Henry Harley Arnold was the first US pilot to do what?
Carry Mail
38. What is the UPC barcode for North Korea
867
39. The French call it The Casserole what do we call it?
The Big Dipper
40. Frederick Sanger received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1958 from which country?
Rendcomb, United Kingdom, Born: August 13, 1918
41. Palermo city is located in which country?
Italy
42. What is the Akilathirattu Ammanai?
The main source of Ayyavazhi mythology, Ayyavazhi scripture
43. Matekane AirStrip is located in which country?
Lesotho
44. What is the UN Code for the Dominican Republic?
214
45. What is the molecular formula for Hydrobromic acid
HBr
46. What is Ayotha Amirtha Gangai?
An important river in Ayyavazhi mythology.
47. Where is Appledore village located?
Kent, UK
48. What type of pet Bicolor is?
Cat
49. Which US president served hot dogs to King George VI at a picnic at his home in Hyde Park, New York?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
50. Georges Pire received the Nobel Peace Prize in which year?
1958
51. What country would you go to find Pervy Shag?
Russia
52. Where is the Appleford Railway Station located?
Appleford-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England
53. What is monogamy?
a marriage that is limited to two spouses at a time
54. What is or who carries a flabellum?
The Popes fan at Ceremonies
55. What is the molecular weight of Nitrous acid?
47.013 g/mol
56. Which film begins Friday, December 11th at 2.43 pm?
Psycho
57. Which country is richer between Ireland and Brunei Darussalam?
Ireland
58. What is the other name for Vitamin A1?
Retinol
59. Which country has its UN code 212?
Dominica
60. What links Zhenia’s Childhood, Doctor Zhivago, and My Sister, Life?
Book by Russian Nobel laureate poet Boris Pasternak
61. What is the outflow length of the Yangtze River?
6,418 km
62. Dwarf Lion is what?
Fish
63. Name a word with all the vowels in alphabetical order.
Affectious
64. Furritus Latin for little thieves is the name for which creature?
Ferrets
65. What is prosinec?
12th month (December) in the Czech language
66. Oysters are a cheap food. T/F?
False
67. Assiut Airport is located in which country?
Egypt
68. What is a synonym for Knotty?
Difficult to understand or solve.
69. Where does Berg wind blows
Berg wind is a seasonal katabatic wind blowing down the Great Escarpment from the high central plateau to the coast in South Africa,
70. What is the scientific name for Horse Gram?
Dolichos biffoeus
71. Grand Turk is the name of the ship – where would you see it?
Old Spice cologne bottle
72. What is meant by hygge?
A Danish word for a quality of coziness that comes from doing simple things such as lighting candles, baking, or spending time at home with your family
73. Where did we see a snorkasaurus?
Flintstones, it was Dino
74. What is the nationality of Cambodia called?
Cambodian
75. What is the month of March in the German language?
März
76. What is the national flower in Guyana?
Water Lily (Victoria Regia)
77. What is iqamah?
call to stand for congregational prayer.
78. What is a synonym for Laborious?
Requiring long hours, hard work
79. What is Independence Day in Gabon?
August 17
80. Which Plant has its scientific name Sorghum vulgare?
Jowar
81. You are suffering from circadian dysrhythmia what have you got?
Jet Lag
82. What is the IATA code for Asmara International Airport, Eritrea?
ASM
83. If you want to visit Appleby County town, which river do you have to cross?
River Eden
84. What is the English meaning for the French idiom – avoir la tête dans le pâté/le cul?
to feel groggy
Literal Translation: to have one’s head/arse in the pâté
85. “Slalom on Mt. Humol” is a soundtrack in which of the Indiana Jones series?
Temple of Doom
86. Who first wrote about the myth of Atlantis?
Plato
87. Which cartoon character has a girlfriend named Petunia Porky?
Pig
88. The Nuer people come from which country?
Sudan
89. Which is Shakespeare’s shortest play?
The Comedy of Errors
90. Manutius’s Virgil printed 1501 was the first time what was used?
Italic letters
91. Pulque is a beer based on what?
Cactus
92. Teide Peak is a volcano on which island?
Tenerife
93. In the UK sport of Kings what is significant about the number 18?
Max letters in a racehorse name
94. Hemmingway’s Old Man and the Sea is set in which country?
Cuba
95. NaOH is the chemical formula for what?
Sodium Hydroxide
96. You can have a troop of actors and what group of animals?
Monkeys
97. In literature and films whose father was the Earl of Dorincourt?
Little Lord Fauntleroy
98. Cliff Richards She’s So Beautiful who played every instrument?
Stevie Wonder
99. On a pencil what do the initials HB stand for?
Hard Black
100. Thou know’st ’tis common; all that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.
– lines from which play?
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2
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