General Knowledge 2

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Who is Garfield’s owner?

[John Arbuckle]

2. What vitamin do Bananas contain in high qunatities?

[Potassium]

3. How many leaves on a Shamrock?

[3]

4. What is the famous body of work that followed the research of a scientist on

the Galapagos Islands?

[ Charles Darwin’s The origin of the Species]

5. Correctly spell Uzbekistan?

[UZBEKISTAN]

6. According to Maori legend, which mountain is Taranaki’s brother?

[Ruapehu]

7. What is Roget’s word book known as?

[Thesaurus]

8. How many times has Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France?

[6]

9. What German physicist invented the Alcohol thermometer and the Mercury

thermometer?

[Fahrenheit]

10. Name the two space shuttles that never made it back to earth?

[Challenger and Columbia]

Geography 2

ROUND 2: GEOGRAPHY

1) What is the largest island off the coast of the North Island of New Zealand (not the South

Island)? [Great Barrier Island]

2) What country does the Gulf of Carpentaria take a big bite out of?

[Australia]

3) Through which Ocean does the international dateline pass?

[Pacific]

4) Tasmania was previously known by what name?

[Van Deimens Land]

5) What fraction of the earths dry land is Africa?

a) 1/8

b) 1/5

c) 1/3

[b) 1/5]

6) TRUE/FALSE? Able Tasman discovered the South Island of NZ first?

[TRUE]

7) What three colours make up the Cuban national flag?

[Red (accept Crimson) white and blue]

8) What is the state capital of Ohio?

Cleveland

b)Columbus

c)Springfield

[B) Columbus]

9) What is the former name of the democratic republic of Congo

[Zaire]

10)What is the Capital of North Korea?

[Pyongyang]

Human Body 1

ROUND 6: DOCTORS AND NURSES

1. Which cells in the eye allow us to see colours: rods or cones?

[Cones]

2. Are amino acids the building blocks of proteins or vitamins?

[Proteins]

3. What is the traditional Chinese medical technique in which metal needles

are inserted into the skin?

[Acupuncture]

4. In medical terms, what do the letters HRT stand for?

[Hormone Replacement Therapy]

5. In mammals, what attaches muscles to bones?

[Tendons]

6. What name is given to the study and treatment of cancer?

[Oncology]

7. Yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes are symptoms of what? Clue:

begins with J???

[Jaundice]

8. Which part of the body does the disease Trachoma affect?

[Eyes]

9. What is the name given to the human tailbone?

[Coccyx]

10. How many teeth should an adult human have?

[32]

Fashion 1

. FASHION

1. What year did fragrance Chanel No.5 debut?

a) 1923 b)1941 c) 1959

[a) 1923]

2. What clothing manufacturer makes the Wallabies uniforms?

[Canterbury]

3.In what decade was the first artificial fibre – rayon- invented?

[1910]

4. What city in New Zealand are these fashion labels from: Nom D, Nicholas

Blanchet, and Dot Com?

[Dunedin]

5.With what type of clothing do you associate Andrea Biani?

[Shoes]

6.What does FCUK stand for?

[French Connection United Kingdom]

7. Who designed a dress held together by safety pins and worn by Elizabeth

Hurley in 1994?

[Versace]

8. Which of the following actors/models have NOT had a modeling contract

with Calvin Klein?

a) Marky Mark b) Brook Shields c) Cindy Crawford

[c) Cindy Crawford]

9. What does DKNY stand for?

[Donna Karan New York]

10. Jandals were named after the inventor famously combined which two

words?

[Japan/Japanese and Sandals]

Geography 1

GEOGRAPHY

1. In which south American country would you find the famous “Angel

Falls”?

[Venezuela]

2. What kind of plantations are found on the Blue Mountains of Jamaica?

[Coffee]

3. In Which Country is Nova Scotia?

[Canada]

4. In which Ocean would you find the Mauritius Islands?

[Indian]

5. In which country would you find “Cape Horn”?

[Chile]

6. Argentina was a colony of which country until it became independent in

1816?

[Argentina]

7. Kansas City is in two state in America. Kansas is one, the other

Beginning with the letter M, is what?

[Missouri]

8. With which country would you associate the former communist leader

Nicolae Ceaucescu (CHOW-CHES-CUE)?

[Romania]

9. In Denmark, is the head of state a Monarch, a president or a prime

minister?

[Monarch]

10. Which is further north? Onetangi, Devenport or Te Atatu North?

[Onetangi]

General Knowledge 1

ROUND 2: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. What is the literal meaning of the cinematic term “Film Noir”

[Black Film]

2. In Shakepeare’s play, who does Othello jealously kill when he sees Cassio

in possession of her handkerchief?

[Desdemona]

3. What character does David Hyde-Pierce famously portray in TV’s Frasier?

[Niles Crane]

4. Deciduous trees grow what in spring?

[Leaves]

5. Is a barnacle considered a Mollusc or a Crustacean?

[Crustacean]

6. What is the name of the Ring Announcer who uses the catch

phrase “Ladies & Gentlemen, Lets get ready to Rumble”?

[Michael

Buffer]

7. Name of the artist and the name of the song from this Lyric “Shot through

the heart and you’re to blame”?

[Bon Jovi, You give love a bad name]

8. Who was the last team other than Manchester United on Arsenal to win

the English Premier League?

a. Blackburn

b. Leeds

c. Oldham

[a.Blackburn, 1995]

9. What is the name given to a building containing a cycle-racing track?

[Velodrome]

10. What was the nationality of the revolutionary Che Guevara?

[Argentinian]