General Knowledge 19

1. Where on the human body is the skin the thinnest?

EYELIDS

2. What type of fuel does a jet engine run on?

PARAFFIN/KEROSENE

3. Which is the world’s tallest grass?

BAMBOO

4. Globe and Jerusalem are varieties of which vegetable?

ARTICHOKE

5. What is the name of the branch of physics that deals with sound?

ACOUSTICS

6. By what nickname was the WW11 bomber the B17 better known?

THE FLYING FORTRESS

7. Please give a year in the reign of Elizabeth 1?

1558-1603

8. What name connects a rose, a vegetable and a hazard to shipping?

ICEBERG

9. What word can be, a measurement on a ship, a support or a type of smile?

BEAM

10. What do the initials I. O. U. stand for?

I OWE UNTO