Trivia Quiz

2. Which winter sports resort in the Austrian Tyrol, near Innsbruck, was the venue for the 1964 Winter Olympics?
a) Villach
b) Bolzano
c) Tirano
d) Igls

3. Which people are credited with the invention of the game of lacrosse?
a) Inuit
b) Boer
c) Afrikaaner
d) North American Indian

4. What is the Russian name for the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth League of the former Soviet Union?
a) Komsomol
b) Eduskunta
c) Camorra
d) Knesset

5. Which of the following writers was an Anglo-Saxon poet?
a) Homer
b) Ennius
c) Cynewulf
d) Cocteau

6. Which islands belonging to Ecuador inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution?
a) Lesser Antilles
b) South Sandwich Islands
c) The Galápagos Islands
d) The Azores

7. Who wrote the words `Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.`?
a) W S Gilbert
b) Edmund Spenser
c) Noël Coward
d) Lord Denning

8. Who wrote the words ``Beauty is truth, truth beauty,` - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.`?
a) John Keats
b) Samuel Johnson
c) William Wordsworth
d) Percy Bysshe Shelley

9. On the island of Luzon, which city is the capital of the Philippine Republic?
a) Quezon City
b) Manila
c) Mindanao
d) Kalimantan

11. What is the capital of Yugoslavia?
a) Belgrade
b) Novi Sad
c) Kragujevac
d) Nis

12. Who wrote the words `Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!`?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Walter Scott
c) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
d) Nathaniel Hawthorne

13. Which West Indies batsman played first class cricket for Somerset and Glamorgan, and captained the West Indies from 1986-91?
a) Brian Lara
b) Ian Botham
c) Viv Richards
d) Devon Malcolm

14. Which English actor shared the management of the Old Vic with Laurence Olivier from 1944 to 1950?
a) Simon Callow
b) Derek Jacobi
c) Peter Hall
d) Ralph Richardson

15. What kind of geographical feature is the Kara-Kum in Turkmenistan?
a) Desert
b) River valley
c) Forest
d) Mountain range

16. Who said `We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.`?
a) Evelyn Waugh
b) Virginia Woolf
c) George Bernard Shaw
d) A N Wilson

17. Whose false claims of a plot to kill Charles II led to many Catholics being executed in England between 1678 and 1680?
a) Wat Tyler
b) John Suckling
c) Edmund Burke
d) Titus Oates

19. Who said `The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.`?
a) William Ewart Gladstone
b) David Lloyd George
c) Calvin Coolidge
d) Benjamin Disraeli

20. What former port and oil-refining centre in Iran lies on the Shatt-al-Arab River and is linked by bridge to the island of Abadan?
a) Khorramshahr
b) Kirkuk
c) Abu Dhabi
d) Tabriz

21. Which English sprinter was the first athlete to hold the World, Olympic, European, and Commonwealth titles simultaneously?
a) John Regis
b) Carl Lewis
c) Colin Jackson
d) Linford Christie

22. Who wrote the words `Mad dogs and Englishmen Go out in the midday sun.`?
a) Noël Coward
b) Irving Berlin
c) Ivor Novello
d) Ira Gershwin

24. What name is given to the group of islands that includes Majorca and Ibiza?
a) Canary Islands
b) Balearic Islands
c) Peloponnese Islands
d) Cyclades Islands

25. Her novel Show Boat was adapted as a musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. What was her name?
a) Katherine Porter
b) Denise Levertov
c) Edna Ferber
d) Pearl Buck

26. In which European country is the region of Bohemia?
a) Croatia
b) Slovenia
c) Poland
d) Czech Republic

27. During which centuries did Elizabeth I reign in England?
a) 16th and 17th
b) 14th and 15th
c) 17th and 18th
d) 15th and 16th

28. Which beach in Normandy was used by Canadian troops during the D-Day landings, 6 June 1944, although it was technically in the centre of the British sector?
a) Douvres Beach
b) Arromanches Beach
c) Honfleur Beach
d) Juno Beach

29. What is the name for the sport of cross-country running and route-finding?
a) Potholing
b) Orienteering
c) Mountaineering
d) Caving

30. Which strait lies between Chile and the island of Tierra del Fuego?
a) Strait of Vasco da Gama
b) Chile Strait
c) Cape Strait
d) Strait of Magellan

31. Who wrote the words `Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once.`?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Thomas Babington Macaulay
c) Sir Walter Scott
d) Thomas Malory

32. Who said `But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?`?
a) Clare Boothe Luce
b) Marie Stopes
c) Christabel Pankhurst
d) Anita Loos

33. Gozo and Comino are small islands making up part of which island country?
a) Iceland
b) New Zealand
c) Barbados
d) Malta

35. What financial and industrial city in Illinois, USA, is on Lake Michigan?
a) Detroit
b) Syracuse
c) Chicago
d) Pittsburgh

38. What is the ancient name for the Greek island of Corfu?
a) Corcyra
b) Phoenicia
c) Minoa
d) Etrusca

39. Which American golfer is nicknamed `the Golden Bear`?
a) Nick Faldo
b) Jack Nicklaus
c) Greg Norman
d) Sandy Lyle

40. What is another name for the upper reaches of the River Zaïre in Africa, as it flows north through Zaire from near the Zambia border?
a) Zambezi
b) Kasai
c) Chari
d) Lualaba

42. Which type of brimless hat, sometimes with a central tassel, is said to have originated in a former capital of Morocco after which it is named?
a) Yashmak
b) Beret
c) Fez
d) Turban

44. Which small breed of dog is named after a city and state of Mexico?
a) Terrier
b) Schnauzer
c) Borzoi
d) Chihuahua