TRY YOUR LUCK WITH GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. In what year was the first photo of The Moon taken?
    a,1840
    b,1850
    c,1860

2. Which two planets in the Solar System do not have moons?

3. Which of the planets has the most moons/satellites?

4. Which of the planets has the hottest surface temperature?

5. What was the name of the comet that smashed into Jupiter in 1994?

6. Neptune is the windiest planet in the Solar System with wind speeds reaching?
    a, 1500kmh
    b, 2000kmh
    c, 2500kmh

7. Uranus was discovered in 1781 by whom?

8. On which planet is the largest known volcano in the Solar System (presumably extinct), 600kms across 24kms high?

9. Which two planets spin in a clockwise direction?

10. Which planet has the shortest day, lasting just 9 hours 55 minutes Earth time (spins on it?s own axis one full rotation the quickest)?

ANSWERS

1. a, 1840

2. Mercury & Venus

3. Saturn, with 18(Jupiter is second and has 16)

4. Venus 465 centigrade (Mercury is second with 430 centigrade)

5. Shoemaker/Levy 9

6. b, 2000kmh

7. William Herschel

8. Mars ? Olympic Mon?s

9. Uranus & Venus

10. Jupiter

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What was the name of Yuri Gagarin's space capsule?

2. Which planet has a year which is shorter than its day?

3. What is the only sign of the Zodiac named after two living things?

4. What is the smallest planet in the Solar System?

5. What is the name of the largest constellation?

6. Ganymede and Io are moons of which planet?

7. What is the only sign of the Zodiac that is not named after a living creature?

8. Which theory states that the Universe was created after an explosion?

9. What type of creatures were Laska and Beny who went into space in 1958?

10. Who was the first American in space? 

11. Which planet is famed for its Canals?

12. What was the name of the US Space Shuttle which crashed during take-off in 1986?

13. Which is the largest asteroid in the solar system?

14. Which element makes up over 90% of the atoms in our galaxy?

15. What is the difference between meteors and meteorites?

16. With which planet do you associate the Cassini Division?

17. In 1986 which body within the solar system was explored by the European Giotto space probe?

18. Which planet, first discovered in 1930, takes 248 years to orbit the sun?

19. Triton and Nereid are satellites of which planet?

20. Which is the nearest star to the Earth, after the sun?

21. Who in 1965 became the first person to walk in Space?

22. According to the promotional trailers for the 1979 film Alien ? in space no one can hear you..? what?

23. The first space shuttle launch took place in April of which year?

24. Who had a top 10 hit with ?I?m the Urban Spaceman??

25. Who was the first woman in space?

26. What is the name of the spacecraft that landed on the moon in 1969?

27. Who directed the film 2001 ? a space odyssey?

28. According to the TV series Star Trek, what is space?

29. Which British born scientist in 1997 spent several months on the Russian spacecraft Mir?

30. Who was the first British female astronaut in space?

ANSWERS

1. Vostock 1

2. Venus

3. Gemini

4. Pluto

5. Hydra

6. Jupiter

7. Libra

8. The Big Bang Theory

9. Mice

10. John Glenn

11. Mars

12. Challenger

13. Ceres

14. Hydrogen

15. A meteorite is a meteor that has landed

16. Saturn (divisions in the rings)

17. Haley's Comet

18. Pluto

19. Neptune

20. Proxima Centuri

21. Alexy Leonov

22. Scream

23. 1981

24. Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band

25. Vantina Tereshkova

26. Apollo 11

27. Stanley Kubrick

28. The Final Frontier

29. Michael Foale

30. Helen Sharman

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What part of the body is affected by glaucoma?

2. Which bone in the body is most often broken?

3. Anaemia is caused by a deficiency of what?

4. What is the common term for acetylsalicylic acid?

5. Which of the seven vertebrae is the lowest?

6. What was the worlds first effective antibiotic?

7. Skin, hair and nails all share which component?

8. What is the tendon at the top of the human heel?

9. The tibia is better known as what bone?

10. What part of the human body is an anagram of ?elation??

11. What is the Gluteus Maximus?

12. Do veins carry blood away from or to the heart?

13. How many senses do we have?

14. What is the longest bone in the body?

15. Which organ is affected by hepatitis?

16. How many teeth do we have (if we have them all)?

17. What substance makes up most of the human body?

18. Where would you find the pituitary gland?

19. Where would you find your olfactory organs?

20. If you had renal failure, what wouldn?t be working correctly?

ANSWERS 

1. The eyes

2. The Collar Bone

3. Red Blood Cells

4. Aspirin

5. The Coccyx

6. Penicillin

7. Keratin

8. The Achilles tendon

9. The shin

10. Toenail

11. The largest muscle in your body, your buttocks

12. To the Heart

13. 5 (Touch, Smell, Sight, Hearing, Taste)

14. The Femur

15. The Liver

16. 32

17. Water

18. In the brain

19. On your face (nose)

20. Your Kidney?s

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. In maths, what is meant by three dots in a triangular formation?

2. An intrusion is the collective for which group of insects ?

3. What descriptive term is applied to force 11 on the Beaufort scale?

4. The piece of cartilage which divides the nose into two separate chambers is called what?

5. What is the study of birds called?

6. In 1922 what was first used to treat diabetes?

7. What colour would litmus paper turn if you rubbed it on damp washing powder?

8. Which farm animal?s fat was a main ingredient in explosives during WW2?

9. Charolais and Dexter?s are breeds of which animal?

10. How many degrees are there in the angles of a triangle? 

Answers

1. Therefore or because

2. coakroaches 

3. violent storm

4. Septum

5. Ornithology

6. Insulin

7. Blue

8. Pig

9. Cattle

10. 180

[THE FUGITIVE]

. Which German dog was bred for digging out Badgers?

2. What weight is another name for the Snow Leopard?

3. What animal did the lions share of farmwork during the Middle Ages?

4. What is thr favourite food of the Death Watch Beetle?

5. What name is given to chicken under 1 year of age?

6. What is the lifespan of a Mayfly?

7. How many wings has a Bee ?

8. From which country does the Wombat come?

9. From which part of a cow does silverside come?

10. Why does a Glow Fly Glow?

11.   What colour is copper sulphate?

12.   Where was the first British nuclear power station?

13.   Which element is used to make the rod found inside an ordinary electric battery?

14.   Which two elements are alloyed to make brass?

15.   What instrument is used to detect radiation?

16.   Where is a bird's patella?

17.   Pulmonary refers to which part of the body?

18.   If a person has myopia what problem does he or she have?

19.   What is the chemical symbol of tin?

20.   .What did Jacques Cousteau invent? 

Answers

1. Dachshund

2. Ounce

3. The Ox

4. Wood

5. Pullet

6. 1 day

7. 4

8. Australia

9. Top of rear leg

10. To attract mates

11.   Blue

12.   Calder Hall

13.   Carbon

14.   Copper and tin

15.   Geiger counter

16.   Knee

17.   Lungs

18.   Short sighted

19.   Sn

20.   Aqualung

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What type of creature is a Portuguese man-of-war?

2. How many atoms of oxygen are there in one molecule of water?

3. What is the more common name for Hansen's disease?

4. Which zodiac sign is also called the twins?

5. In which limb would you find the humerus, ulna and radius?

6. What is the only wild monkey now living in Europe?

7. Which gas is represented by the symbol o?

8. What name is given to a bird's entire covering of feathers?

9. Which metal has the chemical symbol Ag?

10. Who developed the theory of Relativity? 

11. In a bucket of pure water, which would be the heaviest in total - the hydrogen atoms or the oxygen atoms?

12. Which form of carbon is most likely to be found in a lead pencil?

13. How many of the planets in the solar system are bigger than earth?

14. Which unit is defined, as the heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree centigrade?

15. To where did the Royal Observatory move in 1990?

16. Who invented the ZX80 computer?

17. The sun's heat is derived from the fusion of hydrogen into which other element?

18. Which organ of the human body is affected by Bright's disease?

19. Which engineer constructed the Stockton and Darlington railway and provided its first locomotives?

20. Which scientist was charged with heresy in 1633 for his view that the earth orbits the sun?

ANSWERS

1. Jellyfish

2. 1

3. Leprosy

4. Gemini

5. Arm

6. Barbary ape

7. Oxygen

8. Plumage

9. Silver

10. Einstein

11. Oxygen

12. Graphite

13. 4

14. The Calorie

15. Cambridge

16. Sir Clive Sinclair

17. Helium

18. Kidneys

19. George Stephenson

20. Galileo

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Which German dog was bred for digging out Badgers?

2. What weight is another name for the Snow Leopard?

3. What animal did the lions share of farmwork during the Middle Ages?

4. What is thr favourite food of the Death Watch Beetle?

5. What name is given to chicken under 1 year of age?

6. What is the lifespan of a Mayfly?

7. How many wings has a Bee ?

8. From which country does the Wombat come?

9. From which part of a cow does silverside come?

10. Why does a Glow Fly Glow?

11.   What colour is copper sulphate?

12.   Where was the first British nuclear power station?

13.   Which element is used to make the rod found inside an ordinary electric battery?

14.   Which two elements are alloyed to make brass?

15.   What instrument is used to detect radiation?

16.   Where is a bird's patella?

17.   Pulmonary refers to which part of the body?

18.   If a person has myopia what problem does he or she have?

19.   What is the chemical symbol of tin?

20.   .What did Jacques Cousteau invent? 

Answers

1. Dachshund

2. Ounce

3. The Ox

4. Wood

5. Pullet

6. 1 day

7. 4

8. Australia

9. Top of rear leg

10. To attract mates

11.   Blue

12.   Calder Hall

13.   Carbon

14.   Copper and tin

15.   Geiger counter

16.   Knee

17.   Lungs

18.   Short sighted

19.   Sn

20.   Aqualung