IAS Quiz Series 3

IAS Quiz Series 3

1	Who wrote the Opera Madam Butterfly	Puccini
2	What links - Goa - Kerula - Assam - Bihar	India
3	Eric Arthur Blaire was the real name of which author	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	What 1991 film won best film, actor, actress, director Oscars	Silence of the Lambs
15	What was the capital of Ethiopia	Addis Ababa
16	Aescapalious emblem staff snake Greek Roman god of what	Medicine
17	Giacomo Agostini - 122 Grand Prix 15 world titles what sport	Motorcycle Racing
18	What is the largest state in the USA	Alaska
19	Led Deighton trilogy Game Set Match What 3 Capitals	Berlin MexicoLondon
20	Alan Stuart Konigsberg famous as who	Woody Allen
21	Which human rights organisation founded 1961 got Nobel 1977	Amnesty International
22	Whose autobiography was The long walk to Freedom	Nelson Mandela
23	What was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter	Tutankamen tomb
24	Clyde Tonbaugh discovered what planet in 1930	Pluto
25	Who won the women's heptathlon at Seoul in 1988	Jackie Joyner-Kersey
26	Who wrote Northanger Abbey	Jayne Austin
27	Who ran through the streets naked crying Eureka	Archimedes
28	Who composed the Brandeberg concertos full names	Johan Sebastian Bach
29	Who won the World Series in 1987	Minnesota twins
30	What is the correct term of address to the Pope	Your Holiness
31	In which city was Alexander Graham Bell born in 1847	Edinburgh
32	Who composed the ballets Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker	Tchaikovsky
33	AG Bell opened school in Boston in 1872 for Teachers of what	The Deaf
34	Benjamin Kubelsky 1894 fame as what comedian	Jack Benny
35	In the Old Testament what book comes between Obadiah - Micah	Jonah
36	Robin Williams dressed in drag for which 1993 film	Mrs Doubtfire
37	Which chess piece could be a member of the church	Bishop
38	Which German word means lightning war used in WW2	Blitzkrieg
39	Broccoli belongs to what family of plants	Cabbage
40	Who designed the first Iron ship the Great Britain in 1845	I. Kingdom Brunel
41	Whose boat Bluebird was recently raised from Coniston water	Donald Campbell
42	in 1951 which (of two) car companies introduced power steering	Buick - Chrysler
43	Who wrote Catch 22 (both names)	Joseph Heller
44	Which country set up the world’s first chemistry lab in 1650	Netherlands
45	What links the names Botvinik, Tal, Karpov, Fischer	Chess World Champs
46	What is the national flower of Japan	Chrysanthemum
47	Bombardier Billy Wells was seen on many Rank films - why	Hit Gong
48	Where in France do claret wines come from	Bordeaux
49	What did mathematician John Napier invent in 1614	Logarithms
50	What was the world’s first high level programming language 1957	IBM FORTRAN