Trivia Database_108 Flashcards
Which of Shakespeare’s plays is set in the Forest of Arden
As you like it
Name the author of ‘the pumphouse gang’
Tom wolfe
Mizaru Mikazaru and Mazaru are better known as who
Three Monkeys
What U.S. spacecraft landed on the planet mars in 1976
Viking 2
What fast-food chain was named for brothers Forrest and LeRoy Raffel in 1964
Arby’s
It is the region where most of electrons are apt to be found
Orbital
Which group sang the Song “The Call”?
Backstreet Boys
Which country was the proposed target in the German ‘Operation Tannenbaum’ in World War II?
Switzerland
In Tampa Bay Florida its illegal who who/what to leave ships
Rats
Who painted the picture Mr. and Mrs. Andrews circa 1750
Gainsborough
Which country had the guns of Naverone installed
Turkey
The Canadian province of ____ ______ leads the world in exporting lobster, wild blueberries, & christmas trees
Nova scotia
Which Roman Emperor Followed Claudius?
Nero
The Bovespa is the stock exchange in which country
Brazil
The Colours of the All England Lawn Tennis Club are green and what else
Purple
What is Radar from MASH home town
Ottumwa - Iowa
Corzetti is what shaped pasta
Coin shaped
What European language is unrelated to any other language
Basque
Which Painter Reputedly Cut Of His Own Ear
Vincent Van Goch
What common phrase originated when ‘bedsprings’ were ropes woven through wooden bed frames and needed to be kept from sagging by using a key to stretch them
Sleep tight
This order of insects contains the most species
Beetles
What is the main ingredient of the Indian dish dahl
Lentils
In ancient China people committed suicide by eating what
Salt One lb will kill you
What Was The Main Competitor To VHS Video
Betamax
In The UK Which Artist Became The First Act To Go To Number One On Download Sales Alone?
Gnarls Barkley’s - Crazy
Savage garden took 13 nominations and 10 wins at which awards
Aria awards
Name the North African spicy dish of steamed semolina served with meat stew
Cous cous
Ordinary seaman Able Seaman what comes next
Leading Seaman
What are terra cotta objects baked from
Clay
Mark mcguire tied and went on to beat whose record of 61 home runs in one major league season
Roger maris
What links Fantasy Devils Coral and Christmas
Islands
This was the largest real estate deal in U.S. history.
Louisiana purchase
What TV program first used the word hell
Star Trek lets get the hell outa here
Who painted The Haywain
John Constable
What Links Boney M In 1976 And David Grey In 2000?
Babylon
What is classified on the Fujita scale
Tornados 1 to 5
Kale is a variety of which winter vegetable?
Cabbage
In Greek Mythology, what was the food of the Gods?
Ambrosia
How many legs do crabs, lobsters & shrimp each have
Ten
What Film Was Advertised With The Slogan “Don’t Give Away The Ending It’s The Only One We Have”
Psycho
What is ‘tilapia’ a type of
Fish
Who was Hercules’ stepmother?
Hera
What song did Lennon and McCartney give to the Rolling Stones in 1963?
I Wanna Be Your Man
What were China 14 Raduga 14 Himwari 3
Orbiting satellites
Where were Cornflakes invented?
Battle Creek Sanitarium
In New Jersey what is it illegal for a man to do fishing season
Knit
Where in the body would you find the Bowman’s capsule
Kidney
The Computer Language ADA Was Named After The Daughter Of Which Famous Poet
Lord Byron
Who Was Britains Golden Girl In 2004 Winning Both The 800 & 1500 Metres
Kelly Holmes
Large brown seed with edible white lining enclosing milky juice
Coconut
Name either of the two giant stars in the constellation of Orion
Rigel betelgeuse
Jimmy Carter was the first US president to have done what
Born in a Hospital
In Coronation Street, what was the name of Ken Barlow’s first wife, played by Anne Reid
Valerie
Paris is the administrative centre of which French region
Ile de france
In California it is illegal to eat what while bathing
Oranges
What game or sport is Bobby Fischer identified with?
Chess
Who started life as Dippy Dawg
Goofy
In 1979, who recorded “London Calling”
Clash
What Is An Exoskeleton?
An Insects External Skeleton
Who wrote ‘little lamb, who made thee’?
William Blake
Which Heavweight Boxer Is Known As The Real Deal
Evander HolyField
“Don’t worry, unless they’re strange, your kids will eat them!”
Life
Which Game Makes Use Of Hoops
Croquet
Who is Dick Tracey’s girlfriend
Tess Trueheart
Which book first featured the character Felix Leiter
Casino royale
Whose headstone reads ‘at rest, an american soldier and defender of the constitution’
Jefferson davis
How many beams of light are used to record a holograph
Two
What was the capital of Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
What kind of poisoning is known as plumbism?
Lead poisoning
What are bright regions of the sun’s photosphere
Facula
Who Released The Top Selling Album “The Good Will Out”
Embrace
What is a “ruderal”
Weed
Who killed Laura Palmer on Twin Peaks?
Her father,Leland Palmer.
Fill in the blank: chang and eng were the most famous
Siamese twins
What rock group recorded “smokin’” and “more than a feeling”
Boston
What was Michelangelo’s first name?
Michelangelo!!
Sterlet is the rarest most expensive what
Caviar - tiny eggs
What was the first sport to be filmed
Boxing by Thomas Edison 1894
Which Camera Was Invented By Edwin Land
The Polaroid Camera
What Is The Best Selling Album Of All Time In The UK
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band- The Beatles
Helen Mitchell became famous as what soprano
Nellie Melba
From Which Country Does The Poinsettia Plant Originate
Mexico
The internal diameter of a gun, diameter of a bullet
Calibre
Name the evil slave owner and villain in Harriet Becher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”.
Simon legree
2.7182 is the approximation for which variable used in logarithms?
E
Raspberry, dewberry and blackberry are all members of what family
Rose
What is the worlds oldest desert - country named after it
Namib
The Wadomo tribe in Zimbabwe have what physical oddity
Two toes each foot
What does a myologist study
Muscles
Geococcyx Californicus is what (cartoon) animal
Road Runner
In computing what was the first ironbed
A Scanner
Hadephobia is a fear of ______
Hell
What Were The Tree Like Creatures In The Lord Of The Rings Called
The Ents
Name the only two mammals with hymens
Humans and horses
Manu National Park Peru has 1300 different species of what
Butterfly
What is the capital of Comoros
Moroni
One person in Texas is killed annually doing what
Painting road lines
Which is the only English word to both begin and end with the letters U-N-D
Underground
Which educational establishment in Utah is known as B.Y.U.
Brigham young university
Powdered red pepper
Cayenne
Suzanne Hoffs Was The Lead Singer Of Which Very Successful Band
The Bangles
Who wrote the book Coma
Robin Cook
Suriphobia is the fear of
Mice
What did Pope John XX1 use as effective eyewash
Babies Urine
What Is A Male Witch Known As
Warlock
Which Baseball Team Won A Record 37 World Series In The 20th Century
New York Yankees
Whose girl friend was Virginia Hill
Bugsy siegel
Which country has the longest coastline
Canada
Name the cowardly member of Dick Dastardly’s squadron
Zilly
Who wrote the thriller The Name of the Rose
Umberto eco
In which of Aristophanes plays do the women refuse sex
Lysistrata
Bam Yat and Holon are in which country
Israel
Who has daughters named Jade, Elizabeth, Scarlett and Georgia
Mick jagger
Did you know that if ________________ had not been shot, & not convicted for killing JFK, he would have been convicted for killing Officer Tippet
Lee harvey oswald
What is dick turpin’s horse’s name
Black bess
What year did Emily Pankhurst chain herself to 10 Downing Street
1907
He visited australia and new zealand, then surveyed the pacific coast of north america.
Vancouver
Which Town Is Situated Close To The Geographic Centre Of Australia
Alice Springs
How many Astronaughs crewed the Gemini series of Spacecraft?
Two
What type of sweet did Mars and Murrie develop in 1941?
M & Ms
A heavenly body moving under the attraction of the Sun and consisting of a nucleus and a tail is a(n) _____.
Comet
What planet did the Thundercats live on?
Third Earth.
Of what was Charlie Chaplain’s cane made
Bamboo
Robert Langford Modini became more famous as who
Robert Stack
Which Song Was A Hit For Both Tom Jones And Prince?
Kiss
Hybrid offspring of the jackass (male ass) and the mare, much used and valued in many parts of the world as a beast of burden.
Mule
In which sport are terms “spare” and “gutter” used?
Tenpin bowling
The SF award the Hugo is named after Hugo who?
Gernsbeck
Illusion of hearing or seeing something not actually present
Hallucination
David John Moore Cornwell became famous as who
John Le Carre
What drug is obtained from the dried bark of an evergreen tree native to south america
Quinine
Where were George Mallory & Andrew irvine heading when they were last seen alive
Summit of everest
Where is the Isle of Pelicans
Alcatraz
In Greek mythology, who solved the riddle of the sphinx
Oedipus
In Missouri a man must have a permit to do what
Shave
Which actor plays the part of Dr. Frasier Crane in the Channel 4 series “Frasier”’
Kelsey grammer
Khartoum’ Is The Capital City Of Which African Country
Sudan
In ‘A Christmas Carol’’, what is Tiny Tim’s surname
Cratchett
Who sang for ‘Bad company’ and ‘Free’, then went out on his own?
Paul Rodgers
Who was the first unseeded player to win Wimbeldon?
Boris Becker
The Roman festival of Hilaria is equal to what modern day
April Fools Day
The birthplace of Napoleon, also the capital of Corsica, is?
Ajaccio
Football - the Philadelphia ______
Eagles
“Who Is The First Ghost To Appear To Scrooge In ““A Christmas Carol””?”
Marley’s Ghost
Who wrote the play “ What the Butler saw “
Joe Orton
What food is the leading source of salmonella poisoning
Chicken
Where did the famous witch trials of New England take place
Salem
Where would you find a nave, apse, atrium and narthex?
Basilica
What plant is snuff made from
Tobacco
In Greek mythology who were the guardian spirits of the sea
Neriads
A ___ can not move it’s jaw side to side
Cat
In baseball, how far do you have to run if you hit a home run
Three hundred
What Is The Third Most Popular Soft Drink In The UK
Lucozade
Who Was Just A Step From Heaven In 1994
Eternal
What is a ‘funambulist’?
A tightrope walker
What actor mouthed the line “Whatch you talkin’ ‘bout Willis?”
Gary Coleman
Whose was the first voice to appear on the British TV station Channel 4?
Paul Coia
Which nationality calls Munich the ‘Monaco of Bavaria’?
Italians
Which 16th century Italian wrote The Prince
Machiavelli
What’s the highest mountain in the 48 contiguous U.S. states?
Whitney
