Trivia Database_92 Flashcards
What is a group of this animal called: Jellyfish
Smack
How Many Times Did Nick Faldo Win The Masters Golf Tournament? Is It (3,5,7)
3 (1989, 90 , 96)
Nut - Neuth - Nuit alterative names Egyptian goddess of what
Sky
What country singer’s duets with loretta lynn ended when he died at age 59
Conway twitty
In which musical was the song “The Girl that I Marry”
Annie get your gun
The rivers Lahn and Mosel are tributaries of what river
The Rhine
A poster depicting Lord Kitchener pointing outwards stated what message
Your country needs you
Where was Harry Houdini born
Budapest Hungary
Although it doesnt sound like a dog, ____dust is ornamental wood chips often placed in flowerbeds
Bark
Which biologist has written the books The Selfish Gene and Climbing Mount Improbable
Richard dawkins
Who was Stan Laurels partner
Oliver Hardy
In Greek mythology, where did Perseus kill his grandfather?
Larrisan games
Which battle is sometimes called the Battle of Three Emperors
Austerlitz
The word rodent comes from the italian ‘rodere’, which means?
Gnaw
What is the Christian (Latin) name for the place which the Hebrews called Golgotha, (In Aramaic, ‘The Place of the Skulls)
Calvary
What name is given to music that constantly syncopates a straightforward tune
Ragtime
What does an ombrometer measure
Rainfall
On which badge are Minerva, Clipper ship, Grizzly bear, Eureka
California Highway Patrol - Chips
The Drum Break From Funky Drummer Is One Of The Most Used Samples Of All Time Who Recorded The Original Track
James Brown
Which Hollywood Actor Not Really Known For His Action Roles Baffled Movie Producers In 1987 When He Turned Down The Role In What Went On To Become The “Die Hard” Series Of Movies
Richard Gere
Which actress played The Sculptress on TV?
Pauline Quirke
What group’s biggest-ever hit was Be My Baby?
The Ronettes
Better known by her maiden name, who was the 1930s aviation pioneer Mrs. Mollison
Amy johnson
What first appeared beside the roads outside the houses of parliament in 1868
Traffic lights
In USA by law only 2 paid services limited to one sex - what
Sperm Doner Wet Nurse
Who was the star of the post appocolyptic sci-fi film A boy and his Dog?
Don Johnson
The toronto maple leafs used to be originally called what
The toronto arenas
Domenikos Theotocopoulos born Crete - died Spain - who
El Greco
What Is The Down Wind Sail On A Yacht Called
The Spinnaker
Who Recorded Ther Album “Diva”
Annie Lennox
What word comes from Arabic means reunion of broken parts
Algebra
Apart from Police, what other word is prominent on Welsh Policemen’s uniforms?
Heddlu (Welsh for Police)
In Beatrix Potter’s Tale of Tom Kitten, what was the name of his mother
Tabitha twitchett
Which was the first magazine to publish a hologram on its cover
National
What Was The Full Name Of The Artist Formely Known As Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson
In Greek mythology, which king made a statue of a woman which Aphrodite brought to life
Pygmalion
Portrait of a Man is the real title of which artistic work
The Laughing Cavalier Franz Halls
In 1945 Marines land on
Iwo jima
What sort of sexual practice is Lectamia
Caressing in bed no coitus
Apparition or double of living person
Doppelganger
What is the first ghost seen by Ebenezer Scrooge in ‘A Christmas Carol’’
His ex-partner Jacob Marley
What’s the world’s largest cat
Tiger
Rice what was lestat’s mother’s name
Gabrielle
What is the storage polymer of plants
Starch
Grammy Awards: What single by Tina Turner won the grammy in 1984
What’s love
Condition in a circuit in which the combined impedances of the capacity and induction to alternating currents cancel each other out or reinforce each other
Resonance
What does iron deficiency cause?
Anaemia
What Was U2’s Very First UK No.1
Desire
If Brazil had won the 1998 tournament, how many times would they have won the soccer World Cup?
Five
Who Painted The Blue Boy
Gainsborough
Gjetost is the national cheese of what country
Norway
“George O Dowd, Roy Hay, Mikey Craig, Jon Moss” Were All Members Of Which 80’s Band
Culture Club
What was The Beatles’ biggest hit single?
Hey Jude
Who said ‘Everything must either be or not be, whether in the present or in the future’ ?
Aristotle
On which continent are the Iguaca waterfalls
South america
Who Commanded The Confederate Armies During The American Civil War?
General Robert E.Lee
Who Said Go West In 1993
The Pet Shop Boys
What is the literal Greek translation of Sarcophagus
Flesh Eater
24-karat gold has to have a small amount of _____ in it to keep it from being too soft
Copper
The Slave of Duty’, is the alternate title for which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta
Pirates of penzance
What is a group of this animal called: Heron
Hedge
Which is the Earth’s fifth largest continent
Antarctica
Formal or informal agreement among business firms designed to reduce or suppress competition in a particular market.
Cartel
Which two male fish give birth
Sea horse and pipe fish
Which Group Had A Hit LP With “Babylon By Bus”
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Collective nouns - A Husk of what
Jackrabbits
Whose headstone reads ‘she did it the hard way’
Bette davis
Name Santa Clauses (St Nicholas) French brother
Bells Nichols
Game show: which of the 60 minutes men hosted several game shows in the early part of his career
Mike wallace
Who invented the exploding shell?
Henry Shrapnel
Who recorded “king of the road” in 1965
Roger miller
What is the top speed in mph that cheetahs have been clocked at
71
Who was the American President from 1869 to 1877
Ulysses s grant
If you drive on a parkway, you park on a _______
Drive
What is the capital of Norway ?
Oslo
Workshop for casting metal
Foundry
In Wyoming it is illegal to wear what in a theatre
A Hat if others can’t see over it
U.S. capitals Alaska
Juneau
Someone who is androphobic has a fear of what?
Men
What country is nearest to the North Pole
Greenland
Who Had A Hit In 1988 With “Don’t Go”
Hot House Flowers
What was Christopher Deans job before Ice Skating
Policeman
Which Sidney Pollack film won the Oscar for best film in 1985
Out of africa
Which English writer was named after a Staffordshire lake
Rudyard kipling
Xanthic, Fallow and Aureate shades of which colour
Yellow
Which river did George Washington cross on Christmas night in 1776 in the American Revolutionary War?
Delaware
Which is the most famous engine to run on the Merioneth line
Thomas the tank
Name the highest mountain in Africa.
Mt. Kilimanjaro
How many planets are there in our solar system?
Nine
Ralph Wonderone became better known under what name
Minnesota Fats
Musophobia is a fear of what
Mice
The molten material from a volcano is ________
Lava
The bering strait lies between alaska and ______
Russia
Name the remake of a 1960’s film with the aid of the following actors. The first actor was in the 60’s original, the second actor played the same role in the remake James Mason and Jeremy Irons
Lolita
The first modern Olympiad was held where
Athens
What Was The 9th Century Tax Levied To Fight The Vikings?
Dane Geld
Who had top ten hits in the 1980s with Run to the Hills, Can I Play With Madness and The Evil That Men Do
Iron maiden
What game has only 7 possible opening moves
Draughts - Checkers
What is the capital of Mongolia ?
Ulaanbaatar
Name The Year John Lennon Was Shot, Crying By Don Mclean Was Released & So Was The Movie Blues Bros
1980
In which country did the word ‘biscuit’ originate?
France
What Is The Largest Carnivore Native To The UK?
The Badger
“There But For Fortune” Was A 60’s Classic For Which Female Soloist
Joan Baez
What Was The First Nationally Distributed Beer In The USA
Budweiser
In Macbeth what witch speaks first
The first witch
Which Steam Locomotive Won The Prize For Providing The First Regular Passenger Service
The Rocket
Who discovered X-rays?
Wilhelm Roentgen
“Albuquerque” International Airport Is In Which US State
New Mexico
What would you expect to see at Santa Pod
Drag Racing
What forms when a diamond is cut with a laser
Graphite dust
Whose business was ran from 2222 South Wabash
Al Capone
What is the flower that stands for: deceitful chams
Thorn-apple
What is the largest country in Central America?
Nicaragua
Life what major does david bowie’s “space oddity” refer to
Major tom
When did the Fuller Brush Company begin using catalogs
1986
The name Malissa means what
Bee
Shakespeare character says “Blow winds and crack your cheeks”
King Lear
Where is terre haute
Indiana
On what is an ‘octothorpe’ found
Telephone
Which band had members Robert palmer, Andy and John Taylor, and Tony Thompson?
The Power Station
ET drank which brand of beer
Coors
What is the Capital of: Moldova
Chisinau
St Stevens Tower is usually misnamed what
Big Ben
What is another name for consumption?
Tuberculosis
Who is famously buried in the churchyard at Bamburgh, Northumberland
Grace darling
When I Was Lying There In The VA Hospital With A Big Hole Blown Through The Middle Of My Life Are The Opening Lines To Which Movie
Avatar
What Olympic event’s winner is considered to be the “world’s greatest athlete”
The decathlon’s the decathlons decathlon’s decathlons decathlon
What Was The Former Name Of The Sellafield Nuclear Power Plant?
Windscale
The Character Jack Skellington Appears In Which 1993 Tim Burton Film?
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Kellogg’s Corn Flakes were invented to do what
Reduce Masturbation
In 1898 , the Bayer company began marketing what they claimed was a non addictive opiate what was it
Heroin
Which magazine is most often stolen from US libraries
Sports Illustrated
What Is The Earliest Known Cereal To Be Cultivated
Barley
For women, what is the least favourite part of the male body
Feet
Mentor of Titan had two children in the Marvel comics, Thanos and ____
Ero
Who said, ‘Whenever meditating over a disease, I never think of finding a remedy for it, but instead a means of preventing it
Louis pasteur
What is unusual about the crab eating seal
It don’t eat crabs
On what island is Pearl Harbour
Oahu
Chekhov Quotations: “Doctors can bury their mistakes, Architects can only advise their clients to plant vines.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
U.S. President, Chester Alan ________.
Arthur
In Which Asian Country Is Divorce Illegal ?
The Phillipines
Which German spirit is flavoured with caraway seeds and distilled from potatoes?
Schnapps
Which Australian duo took 13 nominations and 10 wins at the ARIA awards?
Savage Garden
In Tejo a S American game players throw stones at buried what
Gunpowder - try to explode it
Who was the last living person on a US postal stamp
Nobody it’s illegal
A Huge Hit For Whitney Houston, Who Wrote The Song “I Will Always Love You”
Dolly Parton
Who might make use of a maulstick?
Artist
If wine is made from grapes what is Tequila made from
Cactus
Who was the first man to return to space
Virgil grissom
Why was Clark Kent rejected military service during WW2
Failed eye test
Temperature at which a liquid congeals into the solid state at a given pressure
Freezing point
Who wrote the novel “Brighton Rock”
Graham greene
What island group is named after a type of crocodile
Cayman
What was the first nation to resign from the united nations
Indonesia
Who shot lee harvey oswald
Jack ruby
Who invented punched cards used in early computing 1880s
Herman Hollerith
What was banned in Indonesia for stimulating passion
Hula Hoops
In a nine-ball pool set what colour is the number 2 ball?
Blue
Who was married to Leofric Earl of Mercia in the 11th century
Lady godiva
Who is Anne Mae Bullock better known as?
Tina Turner
