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 Samson,
in Samson Agonistes by John Milton
3. Which prize is awarded
annually for the greatest contribution to art in (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) 10. Who led the first circumnavigation of the globe? (Ferdinand) Magellan |
History
11. What cost $7.2 million in 1868?
12. Where did a little boy fall down in 1945?
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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
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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
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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 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? |
1 July 2001