Trivia Quiz Answers

 

Thank you for your entries.  The winner, with 44 points, was Mike Smith.  Here is the virtual trophy:

 

 

 

Mike smith

 

 

Runners up were Mick and Pat.  The answers were:

 

 

The Arts

 

1.  Who looked back in anger in 1956?

(John) Osborne, author of the play Look Back in Anger [one point for Jimmy Porter, the play’s leading character]

 

2.  Who was ‘eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves’?

Samson, in Samson Agonistes by John Milton

 

3.  Which prize is awarded annually for the greatest contribution to art in Great Britain?

(The) Turner Prize

 

4.  Whose ring starts with gold and ends in twilight?

(Richard) Wagner – his Ring cycle begins with Das Rheingold and ends with Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)

 

Science and Technology

 

5.  What is the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust?

Aluminium     

 

6.  Which computer company is known as ‘Big Blue’?

IBM

 

 

7.  Which mathematician invented the first system of logarithms?

(John) Napier

 

8.  Who, in the 50s, invented a revolutionary new engine, first used in a production car in the 60s?

(Felix) Wankel

Geography

 

9.  Which famous iron structure is 300m high?

(The) Eiffel Tower

 

10.  Who led the first circumnavigation of the globe?

(Ferdinand) Magellan

 

 

 

History

 

11.  What cost $7.2 million in 1868?

Alaska

 

12.  Where did a little boy fall down in 1945?

Hiroshima (‘Little Boy’ was name given to the atomic bomb dropped there – ‘Fat Man’ was dropped on Nagasaki)

 

 

13.  What name is given to the two wars between Britain and China in the 19th Century?

(The) Opium Wars

 

Religion

 

14.  Who founded an orderly society in 1534?

(St) Ignatius (of Loyola), who founded the Society of Jesus

 

 

 

 

15.  What is the shortest book of the Old Testament?

Obadiah

 

Sport

 

16.  Who was just four short of averaging 100?

(Don) Bradman, Australian cricketer, who required just four runs in his last match to bring his average in Test matches to 100, but was bowled out for a duck

 

17.  In what sport could you find a goal-line, a crease and a face-off?

Ice Hockey    

Words and Languages

 

18.  What is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet?

Epsilon

 

 

19.  What French phrase describes a policy of non-intervention?

Laissez-faire  

 

 

 

 

 

20.  What name could describe a match or the devil?

Lucifer

 

 

 

21.  What kind of puzzle uses pictures or symbols to stand for the words of the solution?

Rebus

Miscellaneous

 

22.  Who took a small step in 1969?

(Neil) Armstrong on stepping on to the moon

 

23.  What acronym describes the largest stock exchange in the United States, though it has no premises of its own?

NASDAQ - National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation, which conducts all business by telephone or Internet

 

24.  Whose refusal to salute a hat is said to have led to the birth of a nation?

(William) Tell – his action eventually led to his killing the Austrian governor and the rise of the Swiss nation

 

25.  The initial letters of the other 24 answers (ignoring any articles, honorifics or first names) can be arranged to make a well-known question.  What is it?

Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

 

 

 

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1 July 2001