General Knowledge
Which word describes a bombproof shelter and a sand hazard on a golf course?
A bunker
Whose tomb lies under Paris's Arc de Triomphe?
a) France's unknown soldier
b) Marie Antoinette
c) Napoleon
d) Marie Curie
a) France's unknown soldier
Which is the World's largest country without permanent rivers?
a) Borneo
b) Saudi Arabia
c) Kazakhstan
d) Greenland
b) Saudi Arabia
Which word means the flat side of a gem?
a) Aspect
b) Carat
c) Facet
d) Slice
c) Facet
In which 1970 film were the tragic young lovers named Oliver and Jenny?
"Love Story"
'Pete's Submarines' was the original name of WHICH franchise?
a) Donut King
b) McDonalds
c) Hungry Jacks
d) Subway
d) Subway
Change the last letter of WHICH word to make: 'remedy'?
a) Chew
b) Curb
c) Club
d) Cosy
b) Curb
What was the first name of playwright Eugene O'Neill's daughter who married Charlie Chaplin?
a) Ida
b) Erma
c) Enya
d) Oona
d) Oona
In which sea is the Isle of Man?
Irish Sea
Who of the following does NOT belong in the ranks of eminent scientists?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Marie Curie
c) Marcel Proust
d) Albert Einstein
c) Marcel Proust
A portrait that comically exaggerates one's features is called a WHAT?
A caricature
What is another name for iceberg lettuce?
Crisphead
Which word describes salt-replacing sports drinks?
a) Isotonic
b) Teutonic
c) Laconic
d) Sardinic
a) Isotonic
What year did Saddam Hussein invade Kuwait, triggering the First Gulf War?
1990
Which sea yields 90 percent of the world's caviar?
a) Red
b) Caspian
c) Black
d) South China
Caspian
Which tough-guy actor served a two month prison sentence in 1949 for use of marijuana?
Robert Mitchum
Which year was dubbed the Summer of Love?
a) 1914
b) 1962
c) 2000
d) 1967
d) 1967
From which country does the dish 'enchilada' originate?
a) Korea
b) Argentina
c) New Zealand
d) Mexico
d) Mexico
What is the name for a person who speaks several languages?
Polyglot
What did Alfred the Great supposedly burn?
Cakes
Which biscuit are you supposed to first twist, then lick and dunk in milk?
Who was the first Emperor of Rome?
Augustus
The Japanese delicacy of fugu, poisonous if not prepared correctly, is made from WHAT?
a) Rhino horn
b) Shitaki mushrooms
c) Puffer fish
d) Shark
c) Puffer fish
Who was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England?
a) George VI
b) Edward VII
c) William the Conqueror
d) Harold
d) Harold