Trivia Quiz

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1. Who said `Some chicken! Some neck!`?
a) Winston Churchill
b) Mr Bean
c) Bernard Matthews
d) George Burns

2. Which English county was the stamping ground of the legendary Robin Hood?
a) Nottinghamshire
b) Wiltshire
c) Buckinghamshire
d) Northamptonshire

3. What resort in northern France lies at the mouth of the River Canche and was fashionable in the 1920s-30s?
a) St Tropez
b) Le Touquet
c) Biarritz
d) St Malo

4. What is the capital of the Congo?
a) Manila
b) Loubomo
c) Pointe-Noire
d) Brazzaville

5. Which city is the judicial capital of South Africa?
a) Bloemfontein
b) Cape Town
c) Johannesburg
d) Pretoria

6. What is the capital of Syria, a city said to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world?
a) Damascus
b) Delhi
c) Tehran
d) Kabul

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

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

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

10. What is Benbecula in the UK?
a) An Irish river
b) A Scottish Island
c) An English lake
d) A Welsh mountain

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

12. What is the capital of Thailand?
a) Hat Yai
b) Khon Kaen
c) Bangkok
d) Chiangmai

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

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

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

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

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

18. What is the capital of Sudan?
a) Khartoum
b) Port Sudan
c) Omdurman
d) Wadi Medani

19. 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 Titicaca
c) Lake Bolivia
d) Lake Altitudo

20. 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 xxxx

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

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

23. What is Pakistan's capital city?
a) Mecca
b) Islamabad
c) Aden
d) Karachi

24. In which country is the Aswan Dam, built to avoid seasonal flooding by keeping the waters of the River Nile constant?
a) Russia
b) China
c) India
d) Egypt

25. What is the capital of the Mediterranean island of Sardinia?
a) Cagliari
b) Valetta
c) Ajaccio
d) Palma

26. Which island on the Bay of Naples is famous for its Blue Grotto?
a) Lipari
b) Capri
c) Stromboli
d) Sicily

27. What is the county town of county Antrim?
a) Antrim
b) Enniskillen
c) Belfast
d) Armagh

28. Which Italian city is overlooked by Mount Vesuvius with the ruins of Pompeii at its foot?
a) Naples
b) Florence
c) Palermo
d) Turin

29. Which city on the River Tagus is the capital of Portugal?
a) Seville
b) Oporto
c) Algarve
d) Lisbon

30. Which of the following is a peak in the Himalayan Karakoram Mountains of Kashmir?
a) Mount Elbert
b) Nanga Parbat
c) Kaikoura
d) Granite Peak

31. Which west-country county is famous for its Cheddar cheese and its cider?
a) Somerset
b) Devon
c) Gloucester
d) Dorset

32. In which Italian city could you have originally heard a barcarole being sung?
a) Milan
b) Rome
c) Venice
d) Naples

33. What is the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina?
a) Tuzla
b) Banja Luka
c) Sarajevo
d) Mostar

34. What is the major Semitic language of the Hamito-Semitic family of western Asia and North Africa?
a) Arabic
b) Basque
c) Aryan
d) Tamil

35. What is the capital of the Bahamas?
a) Alice Town
b) Freeport
c) Spanish Wells
d) Nassau

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

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

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

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

40. What is the capital of Haiti?
a) Gona�ves
b) Port-au-Prince
c) Cap-Ha�tien
d) Les Cayes

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