Quiz 40 Flashcards
Which type of cloth is named after a west-central German state with its capital at Wiesbaden?
Hessian
The actor Maurice Gosfield, who played Doberman in Sgt Bilko or The Phil Silvers Show as it was properly known, also featured in a cartoon series of a similar style, in which he provided the voice for a character called Benny the Ball. What was the name of that show?
Top Cat
What was the name of the German spiked helmet worn especially before and during the earlier part of the First World War?
Pickelhaube
What is the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet?
Tau/Taw
In the human body, what section of the small intestine lies between the duodenum and the ileum?
Jejunum
Which state of India, literally meaning Northern State, has the city of Lucknow as its capital?
Uttar Pradesh
What is the name of the island that seperates the two largest waterfalls at Niagara?
Goat Island
Which number is referred to by Australian cricketers as a Dorothy?
Six
In 1885, nine-year-old Joseph Meister became the first person ever to be treated by a vaccine, administered by Louis Pasteur. Against what illness was he vaccinated?
Rabies
The trilogy of books comprising Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz is named collectively after which African capital city?
Cairo
Martha Borthwick Chaney was murdered in 1914, along with six others, at Taliesin - the Wisconsin home she had shared with her lover, an American architect. Who was he?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chipolopolo, ot the Copper Bullets, is the nickname of which African country’s national football team?
Zambia
What term for a specious line of reasoning in which contradictory arguments lead to the same conclusion, often unpleasant, comes from the tax collection policies of the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed by Henry VII in the latter years of the 15th century?
Morton’s Fork
After nitrogen and oxygen, which noble gas is the most abundant element in the Earth’s atmosphere, constituting almost one percent of the total?
Argon
Haiti occupies the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Which nation occupies the eastern portion?
Domenican Republic
What would you do with a Munsell Tree?
Describe/classify colours