Trivia Quiz

1. What transport route runs from Lashio in Burma to Kunming, China?
a) Kunming Road
b) Burma Road
c) China Road
d) Lashio Road

2. Who was burned at the stake in Rouen in 1431 and created a saint in 1920?
a) Joan of Arc
b) Bernadette
c) Cecilia
d) Catherine

3. Who said `All changed, changed utterly A terrible beauty is born.`?
a) Dylan Thomas
b) Gerard Manley Hopkins
c) William Wordsworth
d) W B Yeats

4. Which people, thought to be of Iberian origin, spread out over Europe from the 3rd millennium BC?
a) Beaker people
b) Bretons
c) Jutes
d) Angles

5. At 1,343 m/4,406 ft, which mountain in the Grampian Range is the highest mountain in the British Isles?
a) Snowdon
b) Cairngorm
c) Mont Blanc
d) Ben Nevis

6. Which mountain in the Alps, on the Swiss-Italian border, is called le Cervin in French and il Cervino in Italian?
a) The Eiger
b) The Matterhorn
c) Fuji
d) K2

7. What is the maximum diameter of a hockey stick, in inches?
a) 2 inches
b) 2.5 inches
c) 1.5 inches
d) 3 inches

8. Which airport is named after a former mayor of New York?
a) John Foster Dulles
b) Kennedy
c) La Guardia
d) Duluth

9. What is the name of the Indo-European language of ancient Italy?
a) Latin
b) Roman
c) Italian
d) Italic

10. What is the abbreviation for Cambridgeshire, the English county?
a) Cmbs
b) Cams
c) Cam
d) Cambs

11. Which war started with the capture of Fort Sumter and ended with the surrender at Appomattox courthouse?
a) Anglo-American War
b) American Civil War
c) War of Jenkins' Ear
d) American Revolution

13. What peninsula on the Chinese coast forms part of the British crown colony of Hong Kong?
a) Kowloon
b) Guangdong
c) Qinghai
d) Zhejiang

14. What range of hills divides the Lothian and Borders regions, Scotland, and runs from Gala Water to St Abb's Head?
a) Pennines
b) Cheviot Hills
c) Cairngorms
d) Lammermuir Hills

16. In 1992, the city of Barcelona hosted which spectacular international event?
a) The Olympic Games
b) The Earth Summit
c) Super Bowl
d) The Rugby World Cup

18. Addis Ababa is the capital of which North African country?
a) Ethiopia
b) Zambia
c) Tanzania
d) Somalia

19. Which of the world's capital cities stands on the River Tigris?
a) Kabul
b) Baghdad
c) New Delhi
d) Kathmandu

20. Who said `Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.`?
a) Samuel Johnson
b) Jonathan Swift
c) William Shakespeare
d) Francis Bacon

21. What is the capital of Antigua and Barbuda?
a) Codrington
b) Bridgetown
c) Havana
d) St John's

22. Which usually red, dry table wine produced in the Tuscany region of Italy is named after a range of Italian mountains?
a) Chianti
b) Tokay
c) Claret
d) Calvados

23. The Gobi Desert is a vast dry tract of land stretching over which countries?
a) Russia/China
b) Iran/Iraq
c) Mongolia/Chinese Mongolia
d) Pakistan/Afghanistan

24. What was the name of the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth to the New World in 1620?
a) Britannia
b) Golden Hind
c) Cutty Sark
d) Mayflower

25. Who said `The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.`?
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Nelson Mandela
c) Abraham Lincoln
d) William Wilberforce

27. The world's fastest ball game is the game of pelota. Played with a wickerwork basket, which country does it originate from?
a) France
b) Norway
c) Kenya
d) Spain

28. Who said `What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.`?
a) Gerard Manley Hopkins
b) William Wordsworth
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Ted Hughes

29. Who said `There is a homely old adage which runs: `Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.``?
a) David Lloyd George
b) Laurens van der Post
c) Dwight D Eisenhower
d) Theodore Roosevelt

30. With which sport do you associate the names Edmund Hillary, Sherpa Tensing, Chris Bonnington, Dougal Haston, and Alison Hargreaves?
a) Hill walking
b) Mountaineering
c) Fell running
d) Skiing

31. What is the general term for all the troops from Australia and New Zealand who served in World War I, particularly those who fought at Gallipoli?
a) Maquis
b) Special Force
c) ANZAC
d) Republican Guards

32. What is the name of the hill of volcanic origin in Edinburgh, Scotland, height 251 m/823ft?
a) Idris' Seat
b) John's Seat
c) Arthur's Seat
d) Alfred's Seat

33. In which JM Barrie story do Wendy, John and Michael Darling fly to Never Never Land?
a) Peter Pan
b) Coral Island
c) Black Beauty
d) The Borrowers

34. What southern Indian language is the official language of the state of Kerala?
a) Oriya
b) Gujarati
c) Sindhi
d) Malayalam

35. Which movement was developed from 1930 for the union of Cyprus with Greece?
a) Grivas
b) Makarios
c) Enosis
d) Democratic Front

37. The world's highest lake lies on the border between Peru and Bolivia at an altitude of over 12,000 feet. What is its name?
a) Lake Paradiso
b) Lake Bolivia
c) Lake Titicaca
d) Lake Altitudo

38. Who said `God can stand being told by Professor Ayer and Marghanita Laski that He doesn't exist.`?
a) C S Lewis
b) J B Priestley
c) Cardinal Basil Hume
d) Lord Soper

39. Who said `Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.`?
a) Princess Margaret
b) P G Wodehouse
c) Max Beerbohm
d) James Thurber

40. Which river with a vast delta to the South China Sea rises as the Za Qu in Tibet?
a) Indus
b) Chang Jiang
c) Zangpo
d) Mekong

41. Which German city was the birthplace of Charlemagne, who founded its cathedral?
a) Aachen
b) Dresden
c) Hanover
d) Cologne

42. Which road with a length of 2,450 km/1,522 mi, built originally by the US military in 1942, connects Fairbanks in Alaska with Dawson Creek in British Colombia?
a) Pan American Highway
b) Route 66
c) 42nd Street
d) Alaska Highway

43. Which seaport of northern Yemen, near the mouth of the Red Sea, was once famed for its coffee exports?
a) Haql
b) Mokha
c) Suez
d) Umm Laji

44. What ancient area of the Iberian peninsula was roughly equivalent to Portugal?
a) Lotharingia
b) Laurasia
c) Livonia
d) Lusitania

45. Which Asian country has a name meaning `Land of the free`?
a) Thailand
b) Cambodia
c) Myanmar
d) Bangladesh