TRY YOUR LUCK WITH GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

[THE FUGITIVE]

A famous former film star was killed in a car crash in 1982. What was her full name ... ? [G---- -----]
Answer : Grace Kelly
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Name this female prison reformer, born in 1780, married into a Quaker family and lived in the east end of London and Norwich. [Elizabeth ---]
Answer : Elizabeth Fry
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American Dennis Tito became famous as the first WHAT in 2001 ... ? [Space -------]
Answer : Space Tourist
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This anthropologist and Explorer born in 1914, created the balsa raft Kon Tiki in which he sailed 8,000 km. [Thor H--erd---]
Answer : Thor Heyerdahl
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At what address did the murderer Christie live ... ? [10 R------ton Place]
Answer : 10 Rillington Place
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Billed as the society wedding of the decade, what are the surnames of Ben and Kate who married on September 20th 2003 ... ? [R----child and Go------h]
Answer : Rothschild and Goldsmith
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By what characters name is Paul OGrady better known ... ? [Lily ------]
Answer : Lily Savage
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Who was the first Governor of the Bank of England from 1694 to 1697. [Sir John H------]
Answer : Sir John Houblon
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For what is the Italian Michaelangelo Antonioni best known ... ? [F--- D-------]
Answer : Film Director
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Goldie Hawn was born in which decade of the 20th century ... ?
Option : 1930s
Option : 1940s
Option : 1950s
Option : 1960s
Answer : 1940s

[THE FUGITIVE]

In 1970 ... ?
Option : 1 in 7 UK families owned a car
Option : 1 in 13 UK families owned a car
Option : 1 in 20 UK families owned a car
Option : 1 in 100 UK families owned a car
Answer : 1 in 7 UK families owned a car
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In 1951 the UK population was ... ?
Option : About 10,000,000
Option : About 25,000,000
Option : About 30,000,000
Option : About 50,000,000
Answer : About 50,000,000
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In 1950 the average UK annual salary was ... ?
Option : £13
Option : £30
Option : £70
Option : £101
Answer : £101
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Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1957. True or False ... ?
Option : True
Option : False
Answer : False
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Which entertainment competition was first televised in 1956 ... ? [---------- ---- -------]
Answer : Eurovision Song Contest
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In 1952 who was elected Conservative Prime Minister ... ? [------- ---------]
Answer : Winston Churchill
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In 1950 which country demanded that Britain remove all its troops from a waterway ... ?
Answer : Egypt
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1953 saw the public premiere of the Irish play Waiting for -----
Answer : Godot
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In 1959 ... ?
Option : 1 in 3 UK families owned a car
Option : 1 in 7 UK families owned a car
Option : 1 in 15 UK families owned a car
Option : 1 in 50 UK families owned a car
Answer : 1 in 3 UK families owned a car
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In 1956 what did British Rail rename its Third Class service ... ? [------ -----]
Answer : Second Class

[THE FUGITIVE]

Which of these is NOT one of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom ... ?
Option : England
Option : Scotland
Option : Wales
Option : Republic of Ireland
Answer : Republic of Ireland
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Who is the current head of state in the UK ...? [Queen --------- --]
Answer : Queen Elizabeth II
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What is the world's oldest golf course ... ?
Option : The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
Option : Musselburgh Links' Old Golf Course
Option : Royal Dornoch Golf Club
Option : Gleneagles
Answer : Musselburgh Links' Old Golf Course
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Which of the following is NOT one of Shakespeare's plays ... ?
Option : The Winter's Tale
Option : Bartholomew Fayre: A comedy
Option : Troilus and Cressida
Option : The Tragedy of Cymbeline
Answer : Bartholomew Fayre: A comedy
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King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry whom ... ? [W----- S------]
Answer : Wallis Simpson
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What day is Guy Fawkes Night ... ?
Option : November 5
Option : October 31
Option : November 15
Option : November 11
Answer : November 5
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What is the world's oldest association football club ... ?
Option : Blackburn Rovers F.C.
Option : Sheffield F.C.
Option : AFC Bournemouth
Option : West Ham United F.C.
Answer : Sheffield F.C.
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Which of the following is NOT a recognized regional language of the UK ... ?
Option : Welsh
Option : Cornish
Option : Ulster Scots
Option : Celtic
Answer : Celtic
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Which actress is known as the First Lady of British Musical Theatre ... ?
Option : Sarah Brightman
Option : Susan Boyle
Option : Elaine Page
Option : Margaret Hughes
Answer : Elaine Page
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Whom of the following is NOT depicted as a waxwork figure in Madame Tussauds London Gallery ... ?
Option : Guy Fawkes
Option : Adolf Hitler
Option : Vlad the Impaler (Dracula)
Option : Jack the Ripper
Answer : Jack the Ripper

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Who Discovered Radio Waves?

2. Which 16th Century Scientist Proposed That The Earth Orbited The Sun?

3. Who Is Best Known For His Theory Of Black Holes?

4. What Does Hans Geigers Geiger Counter Measure?

5. Which Tracking Device Did Sir Robert Watson Watt Develop?

6. Which Virus Was Robert Gallo The First To Identify?

7. What Type Of Bomb Did Edward Teller Develop?

8. In Terms Of Nobel Prizes How Did Marie Curie Achieve Two Firsts?

9. Which Islands Inspired Charles Darwin To Write His Origin Of The Species?

10. Which German Born Rocket Engineer Helped Develop The Atomic Bomb In The Usa?

ANSWERS

1. Hertz

2. Copernicus

3. Steven Hawking

4. Radioactivity

5. Radar

6. Hiv

7. Hydrogen Bomb

8. First Woman, Ist Person To Receive Two Awards

9. Galapagos

10. Werner Von Braun

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What is the other name for the Northern Lights?

2. When you cross the Date Line from Westerly direction do you gain or lose day?

3. What are the Grassland of Northern America Called?

4. Which is the world?s largest Ocean?

5. What is the Earth?s Outer Layer called?

6. Corals grow in Warm Tropical Waters. What are corals made from?

7. The Earth is surrounded by a blanket of air. What is it called?

8. Bamboo Forests grown in the South Western Mountains of China, but Bamboo is not a Tree. What is it?

9. What is the only Grass that can actually grown in water?

10. How long does it take for the Earth to Revolve once on its Axis? 

ANSWERS

1. Aurora Borealis

2. Lose a Day

3. Prairie

4. Pacific

5. Crust

6. Skeletons of Tiny Creatures

7. The Atmosphere

8. A Type of Grass

9. Rice

10. 24 hours

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What is the other name for the Northern Lights?

2. When you cross the Date Line from Westerly direction do you gain or lose day?

3. What are the Grassland of Northern America Called?

4. Which is the world?s largest Ocean?

5. What is the Earth?s Outer Layer called?

6. Corals grow in Warm Tropical Waters. What are corals made from?

7. The Earth is surrounded by a blanket of air. What is it called?

8. Bamboo Forests grown in the South Western Mountains of China, but Bamboo is not a Tree. What is it?

9. What is the only Grass that can actually grown in water?

10. How long does it take for the Earth to Revolve once on its Axis? 

ANSWERS

1. Aurora Borealis

2. Lose a Day

3. Prairie

4. Pacific

5. Crust

6. Skeletons of Tiny Creatures

7. The Atmosphere

8. A Type of Grass

9. Rice

10. 24 hours

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What is the popular name for the flowering houseplant Impatiens Walleriana?

2. What would a gardener do with a dibber or dibble?

3. Charles Darwin described this carnivorous plant ? the most wonderful plant in the world?. What is the name of this plant?

4. The love apple is the original name for what?

5. The Death Cap is the most poisonous variety of what?

6. What is the name given to the female reproductive organ of a flower?

7. A Kumquat is a small Japanese variety of what sort of fruit?

8. Why is reindeer Moss so called?

9. Harry Wheatcroft was a renowned breeder of what?

10. What is the name of the 3 leafed clover associated with St Patrick?s day?

11. Which part of a tree can be used to make cork?

12. What is the largest and tallest tree in the world?

13. What general term is given to those trees whose leaves fall in autumn (fall)?

14. Which tissue beneath the bark of trees forms wood?

15. Where in the flowering plant does the male gamete form?

16. Which cereal must be grown in water?

17. Which grain is used to make semolina?

18. Which part of a flower becomes the fruit?

19. Which part of a flowering plant is often used to make oil?

20. What is the name given to the technique of clipping trees and hedges into ornamental shapes?

21. What is another name for the Rowan Tree?

22. What flower is named after the Botanist Dr Leonard Fuchs?

23. What do Yew; Laburnum Seeds & Mistletoe berries have in common?

24. What is the popular name for the Antirrhinum?

25. What is the sacred flower of the Buddhist religion?

26. Which plant takes it's name from the Italian phrase for Beautiful women?

27. Trees that shed their leaves every year are called what?

28. Which liquid does a flower, to attract insects, produce?

29. How can you tell the age of a tree?

ANSWERS 

1. Busy Lizzie

2. Transplant seedlings and small plants

3. Venus Flytrap

4. Tomato

5. Mushroom

6. Pistil

7. Orange

8. Staple winter food for Reindeer?s

9. Roses

10. Shamrock

11. Bark

12. California Redwood

13. Deciduous

14. Xylem

15. In the pollen grain

16. Rice

17. Wheat

18. Ovary

19. Seed

20. Topiary

21. Mountain Ash

22. Fuchsia

23. They are poisonous

24. Snapdragon

25 Lotus

26. Belladonna

27. Perennial (deciduous)

28. Nectar

29. Number of rings

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Biology - what is the1 Tympanum better known as?

2. How many chambers are there in the Human Heart?

3. If two people are osculating, what are they doing?

4. If you are Masticating, what are you doing?

5. In Encephalitis, what part of the body is enlarged?

6. In the Human Body, where is the Uvula?

7. What does a Bicephalous person have?

8. What appear when the Sun activates your Melanocytes?

9. What are the four main Blood Groups?

10. What are the front cutting teeth called?

11. What is the most common non-contagious disease?

12. What are you if you are Hirsute?

13. Where in the body is Insulin produced?

14. What can't you stop moving if you have Athetosis?

15. What is the correct term for the Kneecap?

16. What are the two types of Blood Corpuscles in Humans?

17. What sense is most closely linked to memory?

18. What bodily function can reach over 200 mph?

19. What is removed in a Splenectomy?

20. What 4 taste can a human detect?

21. What does a polyorchid man have at least 3 of?

22. Where is the human skin the thickest?

23. What part of the body does lacrimal fluid lubricate? 

24. Which finger's nail grows the quickest?

25. Which sex is twice as likely to catch Leprosy?

26. What part of the human body is most commonly bitten by insects?

27. What part of the body is affected by Cholecystitis?

28. What is it impossible to keep open when sneezing?

29. What is the hardest bone in the Human Body?

30. What is the outermost layer of skin called?

31. Which gland in the body is responsible for regulating metabolism and growth?

32. In the human body, how is the soft substance called "myeloid" tissue better known?

ANSWERS

1. Ear Drum

2. Four

3. Kissing

4. Chewing

5. Brain

6. Mouth or Throat

7. Two Brains

8. Freckles

9. A, B, AB and O

10. Incisors

11. Tooth Decay

12. Hairy

13. The Pancreas

14. Fingers and Toes

15. Patella

16. Red and White

17. Smell

18. Sneezing

19. Spleen

20. Sweet, Sour, Salt, Bitter

21. Testicles

22. The Back

23. The Eyes

24. Middle finger

25. The male

26. The foot

27. Gall Bladder

28. Eyes

29. Jaw Bone

30. Epidermis

31. The thyroid gland

32. Bone marrow

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What is the name of an apparatus for representing the positions, motions, and phases of the planets, satellites, etc. in the solar system?

2. Which of the planets in the solar system has the hottest surface temperature?

3. What classification is the Sun as a star?

4. How many planets have rings of ice and dust around them?

5. Which Italian was the first to discover the physical details about the individual bodies of the Solar System, including craters on the moon and sunspots?

6. Which planet has moons named after Shakespearean characters?

7. What are the only two planets in the solar system which do not have moons?

8. To within ten, how many known moons are there revolving the other planets?

9. Pluto and which two other celestial bodies have now been classified as dwarf planets within our solar system?

10. Who wrote the science fiction novel Podkayne of Mars, about a teenager?s trip around the solar system?

ANSWERS

1. An orrery (named after Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery (1676?1731), for whom it was first made)

2. Venus ? due to greenhouse gases

3. Yellow dwarf star (G2[V]) ? ?V? = main sequence

4. 4 ? Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus (the 4 gas giants)

5. Galileo Galilei

6. Uranus

7. Mercury and Venus

8. 166

9. Ceres and Eris (Eris is larger than Pluto)

10. Robert A Heinlein

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What Polish astronomer demonstrated in 1512 that the sun is the centre of the solar system?

2. What mountain range is the natural habitat of the llama?

3. What is the boiling point of water on the centigrade scale?

4. What sign is the Water carrier the zodiacal symbol for?

5. What craft did John Young and Bob Crippen take into orbit?

6. What is a rhinoceros horn made of?

7. What number is represented in Morse code by five dots?

8. How often are brain cells replaced?

9. What is the only clockwise rotating planet?

10. What drug can be found in tonic water?

11. Who in 1961 made the first space flight?

12. What unit of measurement equals 0.3937 of an inch?

13. What is the more usual name for Roentgen Rays?

14. What kind of fruit is a sturmer pippin?

15. How often does Haley?s comet appear?

16. Where in the body are the trapezius muscles?

17. Which gas is often called laughing gas?

18. Which major planets mean distance from the sun is 67 million miles?

19. How many people have walked on the moon?(9, 12, 15, 23)

20. Which is the nearest planet to the sun in our solar system? 

ANSWERS

1. Nicholas Copernicus

2. The Andes

3. 100 degrees

4. Aquarius

5. The Space Shuttle Colombia

6. hair

7. 5

8. Never

9. Venus

10. Quinine

11. Yuri Gagarin

12. A centimetre

13. X Rays

14. An apple

15. 76 years

16. Neck or shoulders

17. Nitrous Oxide

18. Venus

19. 12

20.  Mercury

[THE FUGITIVE]

1.   What is the scapula?

2.   What is the scientific name for the kneecap?

3.   Which part of the brain regulates physiological stability in the body?

4.   Which is the most acidic part of the digestive system?

5.   What is protected by the cranium?

6.   What tube connects the Kidney to the Bladder?

7.   Where in the human body do you find the Alveoli?

8.   A bone is joined to a muscle by what structure?

9.   Where are the red blood cells made?

10.   What is the correct name for a red blood cell? 

ANSWERS

1. Shoulder Blade

2. Patella

3. Hypothalamus

4. Stomach

5. Brain

6. Ureter

7. Lung

8. Tendon

9. Bone Marrow

10. Erythrocyte

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What is the gestation period of an elephant?

2. What did Samuel Morse invent?

3. Who invented the thermometer?

4. Who invented the lightening conductor & bifocal glasses?

5. Who took the first step on the moon?

6. What busy animals live in apiaries?

7. On a fish, what can be anal, pectoral or pelvic?

8. Approxoimate pi as a fraction

9. What is the common name for ascorbic acid?

10. What do vertebrates have that invertebrates do not? 

11. ?Love Apple? is an old name for which fruit?

12. In the world of metals, what does the abbreviation EPNS stand for?

13. Spider, hermit, and masked are all varieties of which creature?

14. From what raw material is aluminium obtained?

15. What food flavouring is obtained from the crocus plant?

16. Which acid is also known as Aqua Fortis?

17. Which mathematical term means ?without end or limits??

18. What animal is known to Australians as the ?jumbuck??

19. What nationality was Galileo?

20. If you were a hippologist, what animals would be your speciality?

ANSWERS

1. 22 months

2. Morse code

3. Galileo

4. Benjamin Franklin

5. Neil Armstrong

6. Honey bees

7. Fins

8. 22/7

9. Vitamin C

10. A spine

11. Tomato

12. Electro-Plated Nickel Silver

13. Crabs

14. Bauxite

15. Saffron

16. Nitric Acid

17. Infinity

18. The Sheep

19. Italian

20. Horses

[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]

1.   Where did Edwin Drake drill the first production oil well in 1819?

2.   What valuable resource was discovered in South Africa?s Orange Free State in 1867?

3.   Who was known as the father of the factory system because of his invention of a spinning machine?

4.   What did Jethro Tull invent in the early 1700?s making better harvesting possible?

5.   The world?s first Iron bridge was erected in which English county in 1779?

6.   What name was given to the factory hands whose objective was to destroy the new factory machinery?

7.   Who patented the first successful revolver in 1835?

8.   Which poet wrote of the ?Dark Satanic Mills? of the industrial revolution?

9.   The Suez canal was opened in 1869, which seas did it link?

10.   Who was the world?s first oil Billionaire? 

ANSWERS

1. Titusville, Pennsylvania

2. Diamonds

3. Richard Arkwright

4. Seed Drill

5. Shropshire

6. Luddites

7. Samuel Colt

8. William Blake

9. Red Sea and Mediterranean

10. John D Rockerfeller

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What is the popular name for the flowering houseplant Impatiens Walleriana?

2. What would a gardener do with a dibber or dibble?

3. Charles Darwin described this carnivorous plant ? the most wonderful plant in the world?. What is the name of this plant?

4. The love apple is the original name for what?

5. The Death Cap is the most poisonous variety of what?

6. What is the name given to the female reproductive organ of a flower?

7. A Kumquat is a small Japanese variety of what sort of fruit?

8. Why is reindeer Moss so called?

9. Harry Wheatcroft was a renowned breeder of what?

10. What is the name of the 3 leafed clover associated with St Patrick?s day?

11. Which part of a tree can be used to make cork?

12. What is the largest and tallest tree in the world?

13. What general term is given to those trees whose leaves fall in autumn (fall)?

14. Which tissue beneath the bark of trees forms wood?

15. Where in the flowering plant does the male gamete form?

16. Which cereal must be grown in water?

17. Which grain is used to make semolina?

18. Which part of a flower becomes the fruit?

19. Which part of a flowering plant is often used to make oil?

20. What is the name given to the technique of clipping trees and hedges into ornamental shapes?

21. What is another name for the Rowan Tree?

22. What flower is named after the Botanist Dr Leonard Fuchs?

23. What do Yew; Laburnum Seeds & Mistletoe berries have in common?

24. What is the popular name for the Antirrhinum?

25. What is the sacred flower of the Buddhist religion?

26. Which plant takes it's name from the Italian phrase for Beautiful women?

27. Trees that shed their leaves every year are called what?

28. Which liquid does a flower, to attract insects, produce?

29. How can you tell the age of a tree?

ANSWERS 

1. Busy Lizzie

2. Transplant seedlings and small plants

3. Venus Flytrap

4. Tomato

5. Mushroom

6. Pistil

7. Orange

8. Staple winter food for Reindeer?s

9. Roses

10. Shamrock

11. Bark

12. California Redwood

13. Deciduous

14. Xylem

15. In the pollen grain

16. Rice

17. Wheat

18. Ovary

19. Seed

20. Topiary

21. Mountain Ash

22. Fuchsia

23. They are poisonous

24. Snapdragon

25 Lotus

26. Belladonna

27. Perennial (deciduous)

28. Nectar

29. Number of rings