Quiz Questions Answers Part 3

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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

  • 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
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