IAS Quiz Series 9

1                     Hypermetropic people are what               Long Sighted

2                     Which leader lives in the Potola                Dalai Lama

3                     What wood was the cross supposed to be made of              Mistletoe

4                     Joseph Levitch became famous as who Jerry Lewis

5                     If you planted a bandarilla what are you doing    Bullfighting

6                     What was the first Pink Floyd album       Piper at the gates of dawn

7                     in which city was the first public opera house opened          Venice

8                     In what Elvis film did he play a double role           Kissing Cousins

9                     The Aphrodite of Melos has a more famous name - what  Venus de Milo

10                 Which country invented the concentration camp Britain - Boer war

11                 John Huston scored a hit with his first film  -  what?            Maltese falcon

12                 Stan laurel, Mickey Rooney, Lana Turner what in common              8  marriages

13                 What real person has been played most often in films Napoleon Bonaparte

14                 Scotopic people can do what    See in the dark

15                 What is the most critical thing keeping bananas fresh transport        Temperature not

below 13 C 55F

16                 What is the name of the Paris stock exchange      Bourse

17                 Whose music featured in The Clockwork Orange Beethoven

18                 What was the Troggs most famous hit    Wild Thing

19                 In Japan what colour car is reserved for the royal family only          Maroon

20                 What city has Kogoshima as its airport   Tokyo

21                 What was gangsters George Nelsons nickname     Baby Face

22                 Whose first wife was actress Jayne Wyman           Ronald Regan

23                 In MASH what is Radars favourite drink               Grape Knee High

24                 What do you give on the third wedding anniversary            Leather

25                 What is a baby whale called      Calf

26                 In which film did the Rolls Royce have the number plate AU1         Goldfinger

27                 Vladamere Ashkenazy plays what musical instrument       Piano

28                 With which organ does a snake hear       Tongue

29                 On what is the Mona Lisa painted           Wood

30                 What is the second most common international crime        Art theft

31                 Count de Grisly was the first to perform what trick in 1799                Saw woman in half

32                 Who wrote Les Miserable           Victor Hugo

33                 Which bird turns it head upside down to eat          Flamingo

34                 The colossus of Rhodes was a statue of who         Apollo

35                 Who rode a horse called Bucephalus Alexander the Great

36                 To which London club did Mycroft Holmes belong             Diogones

37                 What did William Addis invent in prison                 Toothbrush

38                 What is the only duty of police Gracthenvissers in Amsterdam         Motorists in canals 39        Kleenex tissues were originally intended as what in 1915         WW1 Gas mask

filters

40                 Who invented popcorn               American Indians

41                 What is the colour of mourning in Turkey              Violet

42                 For what is spirits of salt another name   Hydrochloric acid

43                 Which game is played on an oval with 18 player per team Australian football

44                 In the Winnie the Pooh stories what is Kanga’s baby called               Roo

45                 Which actor is common to Magnificent 7 and Dirty Dozen                Charles Bronson

46                 Who saved Andromeda from the sea monster      Perseus

47                 What flower is the symbol of secrecy      Rose

48                 What  item were originally called Hanways           Umbrellas

49                 What is Brussels best known statue The Mannequin Pis

50                 in which language does God Jul mean happy Xmas            Swedish

	Which flying pioneer was nicknamed the lone eagle	Charles Lindbergh
	Horse statue - mounted man - on two legs  - how man die	Killed in Battle
	Which American state produces the most potatoes	Idaho
54	Who wrote Dr Zhivago	Boris Pasternak
55	Who is Charlie Browns favourite baseball player (fictional)	Joe Shlabotnik
56	Emerald is the birth stone for which month	May
57	Whose yacht was called Honey Fitz	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
58	What is the white trail behind a jet plane made from	Ice Crystals
59	What Italian habit did Thomas Coyrat introduce to England 1608	Eating with forks
60	Purl Plain Fisherman's Cable types of what	Knitting stitches
61	Why was Mary Mallen locked up from 1915 to 1938	Typhoid Mary
62	If you were doing vaccimulgence what doing	Milking a cow
63	For what purpose was the chow chow dog originally bred	As food  or Chow
64	What kind of fruit is a kumquat	Small Orange
65	Who was the Greek goddess of love	Aphrodite
66	What first appeared in New York World 21st December 1913	Crossword
67	Which group of animals are called a cete	Badgers
68	Which herb did the Romans eat top prevent drunkenness	Parsley
69	What is the original literal meaning of the word bride	To cook (ancient tutonic)
70	Who ran the first marathon	Phidipedes
71	What is the only creature that can turn its stomach inside out	Starfish
72	What is Milan's opera house called	La Scala
73	What is the oldest most widely used drug on earth	Alcohol
74	What type of animal is a Samoyed	Dog
75	In which country did draughts (checkers) originate	Egypt
76	Shane Fenton became famous as who	Alvin Stardust
77	What is the worlds most popular green vegetable	Lettuce
78	What does a racoon do before eating its food	Washes it in water
79	What other name is used for the snow leopard	Ounce
80	Which drink did Bach enjoy so much he wrote a cantata for it	Coffee
81	Who invented the first safety razor in 1895	King Camp Gillette
82	What nationality is Thor Heyerdahl	Norwegian
83	What 3 ingredients make a sidecar cocktail	Brandy Cointreau Lemon juice
84	A spunder or drift is the name for a group of what animals	Swine
85	What is Erse	Irish Gaelic language
86	On oometer measures what	Birds Eggs
87	What did table tennis balls used to be made from	Cork
88	If you had variola what disease have you got	Smallpox
89	Which playing card is called the Curse of Scotland	Nine of Diamonds
90	Which painter did Hans van Meegeren most fake	Vermeer
91	Which country had the first women MPs 19 in 1907	Finland
92	In 1969 what category was added to the Nobel prizes	Economics
93	In which city was Bob Hope born	London (Eltham)
94	In the human body where is your occiput	Back of head
95	Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner	Francis Scott-key
96	Which food did Victorians deride as little bags of mystery	Sausages
97	Which actor was dubbed the muscles from Brussels	Jean Claude Van Dam
98	Which film star was the first to appear on a postage stamp	Grace Kelly
99	What would you expect to find in a binnacle	Ships compass
100	Which Hollywood star has made the cover of Life most times	Elizabeth Taylor (11)