Quiz No.8 – 7.6.2013 Mixed Bag 40 – Easy to Medium Difficulty 1. What is the capital of Turkey? 2. What is the highest mountain in Wales? 3. What type of gift is traditionally given to someone on their 30th wedding anniversary? 4. What American city is nicknamed City of Angels? 5. Which central American country was formerly known as British Honduras? 6. Which straits link the Atlantic Ocean with the Mediterranean Sea? 7. Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic are types of what? 8. A car with a sticker featuring the initials SK is from which country? 9. Frances Gumm was the real name of which actress and singer? 10. Which sea is classed as the largest lake in the world? 11. The lev is the currency of which European country? 12. Somebody born on St. Patrick’s Day would have what star sign? 13. Juan Peron was the president of which South American country? 14. Which fortified wine was originally only made in Jerez and San Lucar in Spain? 15. Which path stretches from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders? 16. Sauerkraut is made by pickling what type of vegetable? 17. Ashton Gate is the home of which football club? 18. The Appenines are a mountain range in which country? 19. In Texas Hold’em Poker which is the best of the following three hands? a) trips, b) a flush or c) a straight 20. What is the longest river in the world? a) Amazon, b) Nile or c) Yellow 21. Port of Spain is the capital of which Caribbean country? 22. Oxygen has which atomic number? 23. Which pair of aviators were the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean? 24. Mr Lockwood and Nelly Dean are the narrators in which classic novel? 25. The US state of Virginia was named after which English monarch? 26. What does a deltiologist collect? 27. What is the only muscle in the human body that is attached at only one end? 28. What is the name of the bone that extends from the shoulder to the elbow? 29. What is the only American state that is one syllable long? 30. What does a founder traditionally make? 31. What is the only London Underground station that doesn’t contain any of the letters from the word badger? 32. The Sandwich Islands was the former name of which island group? 33. What is the only letter of the alphabet that has three syllables? 34. Frank Sinatra and George Clooney both played which fictional movie conman? 35. What is the only continent that doesn’t have a desert? 36. The Caretaker, The Homecoming and The Birthday Party were written by which Nobel prize winner? 37. Which folk rock band share a name with an 18th century agriculturalist? 38. In which city would you find the opera house La Scala? 39. What is the rapid transit system in Chicago called? a) L, b) M or c) N 40. Mary Anderson invented which car component?
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