Trivia Database_107 Flashcards
The world’s largest department store is a feature of which world city?
Seoul
The secret police of which country were known as the ‘Ton Ton Macoute’
Haiti
Which Band Were Dropped By Their Label EMI In 1978 On Grounds Of Unacceptable Behavior
The Sex Pistols
Blue Note Records Began In A) 1938 - B) 1949 - C) 1958
A = 1938
This chocolaty cereal features Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble
Cocoa pebbles
Who led the U N forces in the gulf war
General colin powell
What is Barbi’s full name
Barbara Millicent Roberts
In Beast Wars what is the name of the Maximal Ship?
The Axalon
What Is The Commonest Metal On Earth
Aluminium
TV series: ‘American ______’?
Bandstand
Highest amount a Beatles-related item sold for at auction
$2.3 million (in 1985, for John’s 1965 psychedelic Rolls-Royce)
Which of these is NOT a computer: MANIAC, SILLIAC, BRAINIAC,ILLIAC, JOHNNIAC
BRAINIAC
In Switzerland it is illegal to do what in an apartment after 10pm
Flush Toilet
What kind of car does Nick Nolte’s character in 48 hours?
A sky blue Cadillac convertible
A salt enema was given to children to rid them of ______
Threadworm
Which house did Winston Churchill live in from 1922 to his death
Chartwell
Which female vocalist had a top ten hit in 1988 with “Je ne sais pourquoi”
Kylie minogue
The average what is designed to last for 180 wearings
Bra
A computer small and light enough to be held in one hand
Palmtop
Who was the Lady of the Lamp
Florence nightingale
Acrophobia is a fear of ___________.
Heights
What sea creature resembles a knight in chess
Seahorse
What cocktail is made of rum and lemon
Daiquiri
Ford Prefect came from a star in which constellation
Orion (Betelgeuse)
In WWW terms what does i.e. mean on a domain name
Ireland
What was the first name of the baby girl who fell down the well?
Jessica
What is the basic unit of currency for Liechtenstein ?
Franc
In 1959 Who Established A Communist Government In Cuba
Fidel Castro
Short, simple, descriptive poem idealizing country life
Idyll
Which temperature scale begins at minus 273.15 degrees Celsius
Kelvin absolute thermodynamic
Which Duo’s Fan Club Is Known As The Sons Of The Desert ?
Laurel & Hardy
Seoul is the capital of which country
South korea
Tip Throat Vamp Collar Shank are parts of what object
Woman’s Shoe
Numerophobia is the fear of
Numbers
The star Spica is in which constellation
Virgo
What is the most popular dogs name in the US
Max
What term is given to the cooling method applied to Metals in order to relieve strains which have occured during heat treatment??
Annealing
What is the acronym for an image produced by aligning molecular crystals
Lcd
Charles Adrian Wettach became famous as what clown
Grock
In Greek mythology, who is the mother of the muses
Mnemosyne
Which port is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria
Genoa
What’s the fourth book of the new testament
John
To Which Family Does The Kookaburra Belong?
Kingfisher
On the dessert menu what is the name given to a mixture of Fresh or dried fruit in syrup?
Comp?te
Who Drove The Car “The Compact Pussycat”
Penelope Pitstop
What part of the body does a neuro-surgeon specialise in
Nervous system
Woodbury soap was the first to show what in its advertisements
Full length nude woman 1936
The Tehran hostages were released in 1980 after how many days of captivity
Four hundred and forty four
Whats the worlds longest snake
Python
Dimaggio what band did james brown tour and record with in the 1950’s
Famous flames
Who Had A Hit In The 90’s With “Boom Boom Boom”
Outhere Brothers
If a bird nidifies what has it just done
Built a nest
In what film did alec guinness play eight parts
Kind hearts and coronets
What’s the world’s largest fresh-water island
Manitoulin
On the 3rd January 1959 which state became America’s 49th
Alaska
Which is the most eaten fruit in the world?
Banana
What was the name of Nero’s murdered mother
Agrippina
______________, in Russia, is the largest city north of the Arctic Circle.
Murmansk
What kind of shoe is nailed above the door for good luck
Horseshoe
Who was Ringo’s first wife?
Maureen Cox
Britain what’s the adhesion of molecules to the surfaces of solids called
Adsorption
Which British City Was Known As “Luguvallum” To The Romans
Carlisle
Chinese bean sprouts are usually the sprouts of which bean
Mung bean
“faux pas” means ___________.
Mistake
What is the fear of sleep known as
Somniphobia
What can you buy in a bar that Japanese farmers massage into their cows to make the meat tender
Gin
Name the ranger who was always after Yogi Bear.
Rick
Do trees grow more quickly or slowly at night
More slowly
What is the atomic mass of bromine
79.9
Lutraphobia is the fear of
Otters
How did Marc Quinquadron die while setting a new world record
Food Poisoning ate 7 snails 3 min
What is the flower that stands for: am i forgotten?
Holly
Which band member was Boy George allegedly seeing in Culture Club during the eighties? (Just name the instrument he plays)
The Drummer
Which word refers to all the animal life of a specific place or time
Fauna
Cat stevens ‘want’s to try to love again but ______’
The first cut is the
Whose ghost appears at the dinner table in ‘Macbeth’?
Banquo’s
What does a sacerdotal person study for
The priesthood
The word “cumulus” refers to a type of ___________.
Cloud
What country formed the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar?
Tanzania
What is a ‘kartoffel’ in germany
Potato
What is the flower that stands for: assignation
Pimpernel
__________ have scent glands between their hind toes. The glands help them leave scent trails for the herd. Researchers say the odor smells cheesy.
Reindeer
What do you kiss to be endowed with great powers of persuasion
Blarney stone
Rich crescent shaped roll
Croissant
What is it that turns blue litmus paper red
Acid
In photography what does S.L.R stand for?
Single Lens Reflex
In Computing Quite Simply What Does The Abbreviation USB Stand for
Universal Serial Bus
What is the capital of Lithuania ?
Vilnius
Vodka, orange juice and Galliano make up which type of cocktail
Harvey Wallbanger
Can you give me the two former names of the modern Turkish capital of Istanbul?
Constantinople, Byzantium
The Windhover Is The Country Name For Which Bird?
Kestrel
A 42_foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of __________ in it.
Oil
Who wrote Finnegan’s Wake in 1939
James joyce
Who wrote mirc
Khaled mardam-bey
What is the Greek word for Egyptian
Coptic
Which Has A Black Bill The Crow Or The Rook
Crew
What color is the 1-up mushroom in Super Mario Bros.?
Green
What do English speakers call the region that the Spanish know as ‘el Pais Vasco’
The basque country
This Indian group ruled in early Peru.
Inca
Hemp plant part of which can be used as a narcotic
Cannabis
Phalacrophobia is the fear of
Becoming bald
The most shoplifted book in the world is ________
The bible
Who Was The First Black Footballer To Captain England
Paul Ince
In 1977 Manhattan Tranfer Had A Uk Hit With The Song “Chanson D’Amour” But What Does It Mean When Translated Into English
Love Song Or The Song Of Love
Gazpacho is a type of what?
Soup
What was the name of the show that featured Larry Appleton and his zany foreign cousin?
Perfect Strangers
Who wrote the thriller “The Eagle has Landed”
Jack higgins
What is the 13.5 ton chime on london’s tower clock
Big ben
What, during World War Two, was the German or Nazi equivalent to the Japanese Kempei Tai
Gestapo
What chemical symbol is used for the element actinium
Ac
What Frenchman was the king of chefs and chef of Kings
August Escoffier
Who rode a horse called Magnolia
George Washington
Which Famous Book Contains The Line ‘In A Hole In The Ground There Lived A’
The Hobbit
Yellow translucent fossil resin
Amber
Italians often eat a whole what to cover garlicky breath
Coffee Bean
What is a sorbet?
A Water Ice
Which Dickens novel is considered an autobiography
David Copperfield
Secret Identities: Jonn Jonzz
Martian manhunter
In ancient Japan public contests were held to find what
Best Farter loud and long
Plant what city did general sherman burn in 1864
Atlanta
Indianapolis is the capital of ______
Indiana
Who is the biggest landowner in New York city
Catholic Church
French cup of coffee flavored with apple brandy
Cafe calvados
John Lennon was shot outside of what New York building
The dakota
Hercules performed twelve labours what was number seven
Capture of the Cretan Bull
Signal or time after which people must remain indoors
Curfew
In which country was paper money first used?
China
What First Did American “Gertrude Ederle’s” Achieve In 1926
1st Woman To Swim Channel
Where is gorky park
Moscow
Picture representing word or syllable
Heiroglyph
In 1972 which flash new motor was advertised with the slogan, `The car you always promised yourself’?
Ford Capri
What Beatles album spent the longest time atop the charts, at 15 weeks?
Sgt. pepper’s lonely hearts club band
Who Used The Pseudonym Lieutenant Lush For Early Stage Appearances As A Member Of Bow Wow Wow
Boy George
What is the second largest of the United States?
Texas
What word for taking tissue for microscopic examination was coined by French dermatologists in 1879
Biopsy a biopsy
Brother Benedict translated name of what port and food product
Fray Bentos
An addition to a will is called a
Codicil
Bon Jovi and Ritchie Sambora both list this band as their influence?
The Beatles
The Aztecs reckoned it was the food of the gods what was
Chocolate
Anti tank rocket launcher
Bazooka
According to Hindu myth, what river once flowed through heaven
The ganges ganges
This award is the mystery writers equivalent of an Oscar
Edgar
The Shadows first record went straight to no 1 - what was it
Apache
If you had a Brassica Rapa what vegetable would you have
Turnip
What connects composers such as Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert with the city of Vienna?
They All Died There
The gigantic Badshashi mosque is in which city in Pakistan
Lahore
What is a ‘/’
Virgule or solidus
In which continent would you find the yangtze river
Asia
Which is the second largest of the Japanese islands
Hokkaido
Which country (capital Kiev) lies just south of Belarus
Ukraine
What instrument do doctors usually have around their necks
Stethoscope
Which country consumes the most wine per capita 16.7 gal per
Luxemburg
What two natural resources are used to make steel
Coal & limestone limestone & coal
What is the capital of Eritrea
Asmara
This is the only animal that can’t jump.
Elephant
The Germans call them Stumphhose - what are they
Tights
Which player was thrown out of Wimbledon in 1995 after he belted a ball in anger and it hit a Ball Girl?
Tim Henman
Caractacus Potts drove what car
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
What Do We Call A 3D Picture Created By Lasers
Hologram
1B.In the Roman Catholic church, what is a devotion of prayers or services on nine consecutive days called
A novena
