Trivia Quiz

2. What is the name of the US amphibious truck of World War II?
a) MLRS
b) MICV
c) DUKW
d) Landing craft

3. Who was the American swimmer who won seven gold medals in the 1972 Olympics, all in world record times?
a) Mark Spitz
b) Johnny Weissmuller
c) Matt Biondi
d) Ron Bynum

4. Nicholas Breakspear was the only British pope and was in office from 1154-59. Which papal name did he use?
a) Gregory
b) Paul
c) Alexander
d) Adrian

5. What is the unmarried name of English novelist Dinah Craik?
a) Mulock
b) Lymer
c) Stevens
d) Nolan

6. What is the title of Hugh Foot, the British Labour politician?
a) Baron Cameron
b) Baron Caradon
c) Lord Cyprus
d) Lord Foot

9. Who said `There's a dance in the old dame yet toujours gai toujours gai.`?
a) Don Marquis
b) Edith Sitwell
c) Ezra Pound
d) Wendy Cope

10. Which Central American revolt was led by the socialist Sandinistas against the US-supported right-wing dictatorship established by Anastasio Somoza?
a) Colombian Revolution
b) Nicaraguan Revolution
c) Mexican Revolution
d) Cuban Revolution

11. Which strait lies between Greenland and Baffin Island?
a) Wilson Strait
b) Bering Strait
c) Davis Strait
d) Cook Strait

12. Which district in the Balkans is bounded north and west by the Danube and east by the Black Sea?
a) Kurdistan
b) Anatolia
c) Crimea
d) Dobruja

13. How many lines make up a humorous verse called a limerick?
a) 5
b) 3
c) 4
d) 6

14. In which country are the only active volcanoes in continental Europe - Etna, Stromboli and Vesuvius?
a) Spain
b) Italy
c) Greece
d) Russia

15. What is the name of the group of 1,196 islands in the northern Indian Ocean, none bigger than 13 sq km/5 sq mi?
a) St Vincent and the Grenadines
b) Seychelles
c) Maldives
d) Solomon Islands

16. In Arizona, the Colorado River has flowed for thousands of years to form a valley more than one mile deep. What is it called?
a) Yosemite
b) Royal Gorge
c) Canyonland
d) Grand Canyon

17. What was the code of gallantry and honour that medieval knights were pledged to observe?
a) Chivalry
b) Code of Christian crusade
c) Courtly love
d) Code of the Round Table

18. The channel between Australia and Tasmania was named after a British explorer. Who was he?
a) James Cook
b) George Bass
c) Mungo Park
d) Walter Raleigh

19. Which English athlete was the first person to run a mile in under four minutes?
a) Said Aouita
b) Linford Christie
c) Roger Bannister
d) Sebastian Coe

20. Which is the longest river in Spain?
a) Tagus
b) Douro
c) Guadiana
d) Ebro

21. Which sea would you cross on a flight from Stockholm to Riga?
a) Baltic Sea
b) North Sea
c) Yellow Sea
d) Black Sea

22. Which province of Spain's empire in the New World was established 1536?
a) New Granada
b) New Spain
c) New Barcelona
d) New Madrid

23. Which large Asian country, with over one billion population, has mutual borders with 15 countries including Russia, India, Pakistan and Mongolia?
a) Nepal
b) Vietnam
c) China
d) Afghanistan

24. Which former French territory became the Republic of Djibouti 1977?
a) French Guiana
b) French Polynesia
c) Gambia
d) The Afars and the Issas

26. Which Asian country is sometimes referred to as the `Roof of the World`?
a) Tibet
b) India
c) Afghanistan
d) Nepal

27. Which Central American country's capital is Tegucigalpa?
a) Mexico
b) Belize
c) Guatemala
d) Honduras

28. In World War II, what was the name of the Allied campaign Nov 1943-April 1944 to recover the most northerly of the Solomon Islands from the Japanese?
a) Battle of Bladensburg
b) Battle of Beda Fomm
c) Battle of Beda Fomm
d) Battle of Bougainville

29. Which of the world's lakes contains the most freshwater?
a) Lake Victoria
b) Lake Baikal
c) Lake Superior
d) Caspian Sea

30. What is the capital of Djibouti?
a) Obock
b) Djibouti
c) Dikhil
d) Tadjoura

31. Which of the six wives of Henry VIII was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I?
a) Jane Seymour
b) Catherine Howard
c) Anne Boleyn
d) Catherine Parr

32. From 1577-80, Francis Drake made the second circumnavigation of the world in which ship?
a) The Cutty Sark
b) The Titanic
c) The Golden Hind
d) The Mayflower

33. From which country did Eritrea achieve independence in 1993?
a) Egypt
b) Sudan
c) Somalia
d) Ethiopia

35. What is the name of the small Libyan town on the southern coast of the Gulf of Sidra, South of Benghazi?
a) El Agheila
b) Tripoli
c) Darnah
d) Tubruq

36. Which famous fictional character was created by the US writer Mark Twain?
a) Moby Dick
b) Huckleberry Finn
c) Peter Pan
d) Pollyanna

37. What name was given to the letter from the British foreign secretary to Lord Rothschild which led to the foundation of Israel?
a) Israel Declaration
b) Declaration of Independence
c) Balfour Declaration
d) Palestinian Mandate

38. What is the name for a member of an indigenous American people of the Caribbean and northeastern Amazon Basin?
a) Inca
b) Aztec
c) Cherokee
d) Arawak

39. Which Indian river flows 560 km/350 mi from Chota Nagpur plateau in Bihar, through Bihar and the West Bengal states to join the Hooghly River 40 km/25 mi Southwest of Calcutta?
a) Damodar
b) Ganges
c) Gogra
d) Chambal

40. What is the capital of Kuwait?
a) Jahra
b) Kuwait
c) Ahmadi
d) Fahaheel

41. What is the capital of the Marshall Islands?
a) Nouakchott
b) Ebeye
c) Dalap-Uliga-Darrit
d) Port Louis

42. Where was Napoleon I exiled after his defeat at Waterloo?
a) Elba
b) Siberia
c) Corsica
d) St Helena

43. What was the surname of Charles, the dog expert, who organised the first of his annual dog shows in London in 1886?
a) Cruft
b) Oliver
c) Brown
d) Scott

44. On which country's national flag is there an image of a cedar tree?
a) Lebanon
b) Syria
c) Israel
d) Iraq

45. Friesland is an area of the Netherlands. In very cold winters they hold the Elftstedentocht, a race by canal through 11 towns - what do they use to race with?
a) Horse-drawn sleighs
b) Horses
c) Skis
d) Ice skates

46. What is the name for the narrow strait between the two islands of Bali and Java, Indonesia?
a) Philippine Trench
b) Sulu Sea
c) Java Sea
d) Bali Strait