General Knowledge Quiz No. 91

[Carl]

• 1. What four countries formed the Quadruple Alliance in 1718, against Spain ?

• 2. In which country did playing cards originate ?

• 3. Whose ghost is said to haunt the White House ?

• 4. Ginger ale and the pneumatic tyre were both invented in which city ?

• 5. Who was the first actress to appear on a postage stamp ?

• 6. What is the name of the 90s song which includes the line 'I swear I left her by the river' and who had a hit with it ?

• 7. In what year were the world's first test tube twins born ?

• 8. What is the more common name for anthropophagy ?

• 9. In what year did Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister ?

• 10. In what year did Hungarian Professor Rubik invent his famous cube ?

• 11. The 2002 film 'Death Watch' was centred around which war ?

• 12. What is a Flemish giant ?

• 13. What is the more common name for the condition of 'otalgia' ?

• 14. The Victoria Falls waterfall lies on the boundary of which two African countries ?

• 15. Which author made a surprise appearance during a U2 concert at Wembley in 1993 ?

Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

[elcarretero]

2 China
12 A rabbit

[LucindaC]

3 lincoln
9 1972 ?

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. What four countries formed the Quadruple Alliance in 1718, against Spain ? Britain, France, Austria and Holland

• 2. In which country did playing cards originate ? China

• 3. Whose ghost is said to haunt the White House ? Abraham Lincolns

• 4. Ginger ale and the pneumatic tyre were both invented in which city ? Belfast

• 5. Who was the first actress to appear on a postage stamp ? Grace Kelly

• 6. What is the name of the 90s song which includes the line 'I swear I left her by the river' and who had a hit with it ? 'Hazard' by Richard Marx

• 7. In what year were the world's first test tube twins born ? 1981

• 8. What is the more common name for anthropophagy ? Cannibalism

• 9. In what year did Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister ? 1979

• 10. In what year did Hungarian Professor Rubik invent his famous cube ? 1975

• 11. The 2002 film 'Death Watch' was centred around which war ? World War I

• 12. What is a Flemish giant ? A rabbit

• 13. What is the more common name for the condition of 'otalgia' ? Earache

• 14. The Victoria Falls waterfall lies on the boundary of which two African countries ? Zimbabwe and Zambia

• 15. Which author made a surprise appearance during a U2 concert at Wembley in 1993 ? Salman Rushdie