Trivia Database_67 Flashcards
Who was the first footballer to be knighted in this country?
Sir Stanley Matthews
Where were numerous French nuclear tests conducted?
Muraroa Atoll
In the famous song my true love sent me nine what
Drummers drumming
What Is The Capital Of The Philippines?
Manila
Who was the first american to win the Formula 1 championship?
Phil Hill
Who is the Patron Saint of Accountants
Saint Matthew
Who wrote The Ipcress File
Len deighton
Who is the roman goddess of childbirth
Carmenta
Who Had A Really Good Saturday Night In 1994
Whigfield
What is the more popular narne of the plants belonging to the genus galanthus
Snowdrop
When Did Pop Innovators Kraftwerk Drive Autobahn To No 11 (1973, 1975, 1977, 1979)
1975
A can of orange crush appears on every episode what TV series
ER
She was a reletive of Sir Philip Sydney and the Countess of Pembroke, authored the famous sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus?
Lady Mary Wroth
Which car won the 1953 italian grand prix
Maserati
What soviet republic was devastated by an earthquake in 1988
Armenia
What organisation recently banned in Russia as paramilitary
Salvation Army
On MTV’s Blame Game what is the name of the Judge?
Judge Reed
Aegis belonged to Zeus what was Aegis
A Shield
Who replaced moses as the prophet of the israelites
Joshua
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his civil rights leadership.
Martin luther king jr
Ornament of ribs, bars, etc. in panels or screens, as in the upper part of a Gothic window.
Tracery
Cattle branding in the United States did not originate in the West. It began in __________ in the mid_19th century, when farmers were required by law to mark all their pigs.
Connecticut
What crime did Sid Vicious commit in 1978
Murder
In what series of books did The Empress of Blandings appear
Jeeves and Wooster a pig
Composer George Gershwin died in1937 at the age of 38. How did he die?
Brain Tumour
Acute, infectious, contagious disease of the respiratory tract, especially the trachea
Influenza
What falls out with phalacrosis
Hair
Smith most common USA name what’s second
Johnson
What Beatles song won a Grammy as the Best Song of 1966?
Michelle
Followers of which religion use prayer wheels
Buddhism
What were the names of Amanda’s boys on Scarecrow and Mrs. King?
Phillip and Jamie
Louis Pasteur developed a vaccine for what
Rabies
ABC Is One Of The National Newspapers In Which City?
Madrid
In India what is a khidmutgar
A Waiter
What is the fear of relatives known as
Syngenesophobia
Which country makes the most films per year
India
What does the name Barbara mean - from Greek
Strange or Foreign
What was the former German name of the Czech town of Ceske Budejovice
Budweis
What common British river name come from Celtic for river
Avon
What American city is known as Little Havana
Miami
Animal or plant without the normal pigmentation of its species
Albino
What American city was called New Amsterdam in the early 17th century?
New York
Who created ‘Horton’ the elephant?
Dr. Seuss
Which US state was known as “The mother of Presidents”
Virginia 4 out of 1st 5
What Did Dick Whittington Achieve That Jeffrey Archer Didn’t
Lord Mayor Of London
What book starts with the words - Call me Ishmael
Moby Dick
What colour lenses are required to view a 3-d film
Red and green
What is the largest country in Africa, by area
Sudan
Black, cementlike material varying in consistency at room temperature from solid to semisolid
Asphalt
What was the name of the high school in the movie Grease
Rydell
What Italian building material translates as baked earth
Terracotta
Who occupies taiwan
Nationalist chinese
Now That Weve Found Love Was A Hit For Which Jamaican Group
Third World
Which re-released Queen anthem topped the Christmas charts in 1991
Bohemian Rhapsody
What 1970 movie hit was banned on military bases
MASH
Cleveland four u.s presidents have served entire terms without having a ______
Vice
What is an organism called that lives on or in a host animal?
Parasite
What Space Rocket Was Destroyed During Ground Tests At Cape Canaveral In 1967
Apollo 1
Which gas forms bubbles in the bloodstream when a diver gets the bends
Nitrogen
Who first conceived the idea of a Christmas tree
Prince Albert
In Football Who Was Liverpool’s Captain When They Won The European Cup Final In 1977?
Emlyn Hughes
What does 4wd on a car indicate
Four wheel drive
What is the flower that stands for: always lovely
Indian double pink
International Airline Registrations SX is what country
Greece
What is a group of this animal called: Bird
Flock flight congregation volery
Which city is a ‘player with railroads, and the nation’s freight handler’?
Chicago
Who Released The 70’s Album Entitled Layla & other assorted love songs
Derek and the Dominos
Of what is pedology the study
Soil
Who did Michael Jackson Marry In 1994
Lisa Marie Presley
In Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks what magic words used
Bibbity Bobbity Boo
Name the only actress with 4 Best Drama Actress awards
Tyne Daly
Whose capture by the russians brings the bulging warrior back to rambo iii
Colonel trautman’s col trautman’s
What are Blur Crow, Brimstone, Owl and Ringlet types of
Butterflies
Who is credited with inventing the transistor
Dr william shockley
What Is Another Name For The Large Intestines
The Colon
What’s spain’s biggest source of income
Tourism
Eight thousand in the middle ages, where did people believe the seat of intelligence was
Heart
Collective nouns - A Descent of what creatures
Woodpeckers
In New Zealand what is morepork
A Bird - call sounds like morepork
In the bible who slew a quarter of the worlds population
Cain killing Abel
On which River does the City of New York stand
The Hudson
What kind of pendulum twists instead of swings
Torsional
Which animal secretes the pigment sepia
Cuttlefish
What us state includes the telephone area code 615
Tennessee
Which British band was led by Tim Booth?
James
What is the first name of the French painter Matisse
Henri
Who dubbed Australia ‘the lucky country’?
Donald Horne
Which Brand Had To Make An Apology When They Unveiled Their Logo As It Looked Very Similar To The Arabic Symbol For Allah?
Nike
What sport has four different color codes for the balls, ranging from yellow for hot conditions to blue for cold
Squash
Whats the highest mountain in the Alps
Mont blanc
In Texas its illegal to swear in front of what
A Corpse
The wwii air attack on the Ploesti oil field in Romania was known as
Operation soapsuds
Bengal Dimension 6 Falcon 3 possible names what was chosen
Nike - but others were considered options
Which country controlled Angola prior to its independence
Portugal
Fill in the blank: when in ____ do as the Romans do
Rome
Who played “Robin” to Val Kilmer’s “Batman”?
Christopher O’Donnell
Ganesha is the hindu god of ______
Good fortune
U.S. captials Arizona
Phoenix
Traditionally what type of meat is used to make a mousakka?
Lamb
What does a notaphile collect
Bank notes
Where will you find the greater & lesser trochanters
The femur femur
Lentigines is the medical term for what
Freckles
An octopus has how many hearts
Three
During what was alcohol was made illegal
Prohibition
What Chinese zodiac sign is this year?
Snake
Which vegetable is also a flower
Broccoli
Which piece of sports equipment is a Louisville slugger?
A Baseball Bat
What number is at 6 oclock on a dartboard
Three
Hydrogen Hydroxide is more commonly known as what
Water
Who directed the film M
A s h robert altman
In which film were the entire cast nominated for oscars
Who’s afraid of
Who wrote ‘A Brief History of Time’?
Stephen Hawking
What flowers name derives from the Greek word for testicle
Orchid
What mammal has hair - on the soles of its feet
Polar Bear
Who founded Methodism in 1738
John Wesley
Cockroaches will eat anything except what
Cucumbers
Which Singer Fronted Bronski Beat And The Communards
Jimmy Sommerville
Kinetophobia is the fear of
Movement motion
What killed half the US soldiers in WW1
1918 Flu Epidemic
Dead sponges can resist bacterial decay for more than five years when submerged in __________
Fresh water
Who played the respectable hooker in “From here to Eternity”
Donna Reed
Which 2 steves were record breaking middle distance runners in the 70’s 80’s
Steve Cram & Steve Ovett
In which country was Adolf Hitler born
Austria
Tom sawyer was the first novel written on a ______
Typewriter
What causes baker’s itch
Yeast
Moussaka” is a traditional dish from which country
Greece
In international car registrations, which country has the letters RA
Argentina
How Does A Giraffe Clean Its Ears?
With Its Tongue
Bear, Bird, Goat, Eagle, Swan and Rabbit what links in Ireland
All Islands
What continent is sierre leone in
Africa
What is the criminal number of jean valjean in ‘les miserables’
24601
Who devised the idea of a flat rate postal charge
Charles Babbage
What are 35% of people using personal ads for dating
Married
What crime causes the second most number arrests in USA
Drink Driving
What Disorder Results In Compulsive Eating And Induced Vomiting
Bulimia
What is vodka made from
Grain or potatoes
1949 Popular Mechanics said that future ones less 1.5 tons?
Computers
What animal has no natural predators
Tiger
__________, an essential ingredient of many expensive cosmetics, is, in its native form, a foul_smelling, waxy, tarlike substance extracted from the fleece of sheep.
Lanolin
Where did georgo and laszlo biro invented the ball point pen
Hungary
Name The Tibetan Mountain Retreat Featured In (The Lost Horizon)
Shangri-La
Who was the British Prime Minister at the outbreak of the Second World War?
Neville Chamberlain
On Which Label Did Elvis Launch His Career
Sun
Queequeg, Daggoo, Tashteego had what job on the Peaquod
Harpooners
With Which Spice Girl Did Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliot Sing On “I Want You Back”
Mel B / Scary Spice
Name the chauffeur of the car in which the Princess of Wales died
Henri paul
What is the capital of Ghana?
Accra
How did Pope Hadrian IV die
Choked on a fly
Tequila is made from an extract of which species of cactus?
Agave
Ouagadougou is the capital of ______?
Burkina Faso
The study of plants is ______.
Botany
What is the name of the princess in Sleeping Beauty
Aurora
In ‘star trek’, who was the captain of the ‘enterprise c’
Rachel garret
In Greek mythology, who did diemos personify
Dread
What did sheryl crow do before she became a singer
Teach
Ancient Egyptians shaved their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of what
Their cats
What does ‘dvd’ mean
Digital video disc
Which two colours appear on the Bangladesh flag
Green & red
When It Comes To Food & Drink What Does The Scorville Scale Measure?
The Hotness Of Chillies
What is the study of bumps on the head called
Phrenology
