Elleray Hall Social Club
Quiz
On most weeks we have two
quizzes on a Tuesday afternoon
Each quiz is twenty five
questions and the average score is about 16
Try these. The answers will
be posted with the next quiz in a week or two
QUIZ 1 FOR
24 NOVEMBER 2009
1.
Where in the body is the labyrinth?
2.
What is the common name for ascorbic acid?
3.
Complete this quotation from Voltaire:
‘If god did not exist…’.
4.
Americans call it a faucet. What
do the British call it?
5.
How are the first five books
of the Bible known collectively?
6.
Who designed the dome of St Peter’s,
Rome
?
7.
What is the unit of currency in
Poland
?
8.
Which two elements make up water?
9.
What colour is a
New York
taxi?
10.
Which two letters are worth 10 points in the board game Scrabble?
11.
Which useful household item is made from naphthalene?
12.
What is measured on the Beaufort scale?
13.
Which creatures live in a formicary?
14.
Which bandleader died in an air crash over the
English Channel
during World War II?
15.
What was writer Charles Dodgson’s pseudonym?
16.
If an American footballer talked about his ‘zippers’ what would he
mean?
17.
Where would you find the ‘ocean of storms’?
18.
What is the pirate’s flag with the skull and crossbones called?
19.
Where is the original Harris tweed spun and woven?
20.
What do climbers in
Scotland
call a peak higher than 3000 ft?
21.
Which bird is the international symbol of happiness?
22.
What is the centuries old art of clipping hedges into various ornamental
shapes traditionally called?
23.
Who was the 18th century scientist vicar of Teddington?
24.
What is the capital of
Kenya
?
25.
Name an acid in acid rain.
QUIZ 2 FOR 24 NOVEMBER 2009
1.
What is the other name for the Northern Lights?
2.
When you cross the international dateline from east to west do you gain
or lose a day?
3.
What are the grasslands of
North America
called?
4.
Which is the world’s largest ocean?
5.
What is the earth’s outer layer called?
6.
Why do farmers in parts of
China
keep ducks in their rice fields?
7.
Corals grow in warm, tropical waters.
What are corals made from?
8.
What is the longest river in
Asia
?
9.
What are the Chinook, the khamsin and the sirocco?
10.
Which limestone formations hang down from the ceilings of caves:
stalactites or stalagmites?
11.
What is a tsunami?
12.
The earth is surrounded by a blanket of air.
What is it called?
13.
Bamboo forests grow in the south-western mountains of
China
, but bamboo is not a tree. What is
it?
14.
Some beaches, for instance in
Tahiti
, are made from lava. What colour is
the sand?
15.
What instrument is used for measuring atmospheric pressure?
16.
What is the only ‘grass’ that can actually grow in water?
17.
How long does it take for the earth to revolve once on its axis?
18.
What are cone-bearing trees called?
19.
Half the entire desert area of the word is contained in just a single
desert. Name it.
20.
What famous dance of the 1920s shared its name with a city in the
southern
United States
?
21.
Who was the British Prime Minister when King Edward VIII abdicated?
22.
What was the other name for the men’s fashion of knickerbockers?
23.
The struggle for votes for women was finally successful in
Britain
in 1918. What was the voting age for women at the time?
24.
Who was Ginger Rogers’ famous dancing partner in musicals such as Top
Hat?
25.
What new fabric replaced rayon for stockings in 1930?
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