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Tuesday 9 June 2015

IAS Quiz Series 9



1                     Hypermetropic people are what               Long Sighted
2                     Which leader lives in the Potola                Dalai Lama
3                     What wood was the cross supposed to be made of              Mistletoe
4                     Joseph Levitch became famous as who Jerry Lewis
5                     If you planted a bandarilla what are you doing    Bullfighting
6                     What was the first Pink Floyd album       Piper at the gates of dawn
7                     in which city was the first public opera house opened          Venice
8                     In what Elvis film did he play a double role           Kissing Cousins
9                     The Aphrodite of Melos has a more famous name - what  Venus de Milo
10                 Which country invented the concentration camp Britain - Boer war
11                 John Huston scored a hit with his first film  -  what?            Maltese falcon
12                 Stan laurel, Mickey Rooney, Lana Turner what in common              8  marriages
13                 What real person has been played most often in films Napoleon Bonaparte
14                 Scotopic people can do what    See in the dark
15                 What is the most critical thing keeping bananas fresh transport        Temperature not
below 13 C 55F
16                 What is the name of the Paris stock exchange      Bourse
17                 Whose music featured in The Clockwork Orange Beethoven
18                 What was the Troggs most famous hit    Wild Thing
19                 In Japan what colour car is reserved for the royal family only          Maroon
20                 What city has Kogoshima as its airport   Tokyo
21                 What was gangsters George Nelsons nickname     Baby Face
22                 Whose first wife was actress Jayne Wyman           Ronald Regan
23                 In MASH what is Radars favourite drink               Grape Knee High
24                 What do you give on the third wedding anniversary            Leather
25                 What is a baby whale called      Calf
26                 In which film did the Rolls Royce have the number plate AU1         Goldfinger
27                 Vladamere Ashkenazy plays what musical instrument       Piano
28                 With which organ does a snake hear       Tongue
29                 On what is the Mona Lisa painted           Wood
30                 What is the second most common international crime        Art theft
31                 Count de Grisly was the first to perform what trick in 1799                Saw woman in half
32                 Who wrote Les Miserable           Victor Hugo
33                 Which bird turns it head upside down to eat          Flamingo
34                 The colossus of Rhodes was a statue of who         Apollo
35                 Who rode a horse called Bucephalus Alexander the Great
36                 To which London club did Mycroft Holmes belong             Diogones
37                 What did William Addis invent in prison                 Toothbrush
38                 What is the only duty of police Gracthenvissers in Amsterdam         Motorists in canals 39        Kleenex tissues were originally intended as what in 1915         WW1 Gas mask
filters
40                 Who invented popcorn               American Indians
41                 What is the colour of mourning in Turkey              Violet
42                 For what is spirits of salt another name   Hydrochloric acid
43                 Which game is played on an oval with 18 player per team Australian football
44                 In the Winnie the Pooh stories what is Kanga’s baby called               Roo
45                 Which actor is common to Magnificent 7 and Dirty Dozen                Charles Bronson
46                 Who saved Andromeda from the sea monster      Perseus
47                 What flower is the symbol of secrecy      Rose
48                 What  item were originally called Hanways           Umbrellas
49                 What is Brussels best known statue The Mannequin Pis
50                 in which language does God Jul mean happy Xmas            Swedish




Which flying pioneer was nicknamed the lone eagle
Charles Lindbergh

Horse statue - mounted man - on two legs  - how man die
Killed in Battle

Which American state produces the most potatoes
Idaho
54
Who wrote Dr Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
55
Who is Charlie Browns favourite baseball player (fictional)
Joe Shlabotnik
56
Emerald is the birth stone for which month
May
57
Whose yacht was called Honey Fitz
John Fitzgerald
Kennedy
58
What is the white trail behind a jet plane made from
Ice Crystals
59
What Italian habit did Thomas Coyrat introduce to England 1608
Eating with forks
60
Purl Plain Fisherman's Cable types of what
Knitting stitches
61
Why was Mary Mallen locked up from 1915 to 1938
Typhoid Mary
62
If you were doing vaccimulgence what doing
Milking a cow
63
For what purpose was the chow chow dog originally bred
As food  or Chow
64
What kind of fruit is a kumquat
Small Orange
65
Who was the Greek goddess of love
Aphrodite
66
What first appeared in New York World 21st December 1913
Crossword
67
Which group of animals are called a cete
Badgers
68
Which herb did the Romans eat top prevent drunkenness
Parsley
69
What is the original literal meaning of the word bride
To cook (ancient tutonic)
70
Who ran the first marathon
Phidipedes
71
What is the only creature that can turn its stomach inside out
Starfish
72
What is Milan's opera house called
La Scala
73
What is the oldest most widely used drug on earth
Alcohol
74
What type of animal is a Samoyed
Dog
75
In which country did draughts (checkers) originate
Egypt
76
Shane Fenton became famous as who
Alvin Stardust
77
What is the worlds most popular green vegetable
Lettuce
78
What does a racoon do before eating its food
Washes it in water
79
What other name is used for the snow leopard
Ounce
80
Which drink did Bach enjoy so much he wrote a cantata for it
Coffee
81
Who invented the first safety razor in 1895
King Camp Gillette
82
What nationality is Thor Heyerdahl
Norwegian
83
What 3 ingredients make a sidecar cocktail
Brandy Cointreau Lemon juice
84
A spunder or drift is the name for a group of what animals
Swine
85
What is Erse
Irish Gaelic language
86
On oometer measures what
Birds Eggs
87
What did table tennis balls used to be made from
Cork
88
If you had variola what disease have you got
Smallpox
89
Which playing card is called the Curse of Scotland
Nine of Diamonds
90
Which painter did Hans van Meegeren most fake
Vermeer
91
Which country had the first women MPs 19 in 1907
Finland
92
In 1969 what category was added to the Nobel prizes
Economics
93
In which city was Bob Hope born
London (Eltham)
94
In the human body where is your occiput
Back of head
95
Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner
Francis Scott-key
96
Which food did Victorians deride as little bags of mystery
Sausages
97
Which actor was dubbed the muscles from Brussels
Jean Claude Van Dam
98
Which film star was the first to appear on a postage stamp
Grace Kelly
99
What would you expect to find in a binnacle
Ships compass
100
Which Hollywood star has made the cover of Life most times
Elizabeth Taylor (11)


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