General Knowledge Quiz No. 178

[Carl]

• 1. What is the birth stone for November ?

• 2. Who wrote the opera Madama Butterfly ?

• 3. Which town is the administrative centre of Shetland ?

• 4. In the TV comedy Dad's Army what is Captain Mainwaring's first name ?

• 5. Pershore, Victoria and Washington are types of which fruit ?

• 6. What did Tim Berners Lee invent ?

• 7. Which US city hosted the 1985 Live Aid concert ?

• 8. What is the fatty substance found naturally on sheep's wool called ?

• 9. Mal de Mer is the French term for which ailment ?

• 10. Who played the original Daisy Duke in TV's Dukes Of Hazard ?

• 11. What is the second largest island in the world ?

• 12. What type of animal is a Saki ?

• 13. What are parentheses otherwise known as ?

• 14. What type of animal is a caribou ?

• 15. Who wrote the novel Gulliver's Travels ?

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

[elcarretero]

5 Plum
8 Lanolin

[stowie39]

2. Puccini
9. Sea sickness

[elcarretero]

13 Brackets

[gail]

6. World wide web
14. Reindeer

[elcarretero]

15 Jonathan Swift

[LucindaC]

12 Monkey

[elcarretero]

3 Lerwick

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. What is the birth stone for November ? Topaz

• 2. Who wrote the opera Madama Butterfly ? Puccini

• 3. Which town is the administrative centre of Shetland ? Lerwick

• 4. In the TV comedy Dad's Army what is Captain Mainwaring's first name ? George

• 5. Pershore, Victoria and Washington are types of which fruit ? Plum

• 6. What did Tim Berners Lee invent ? The internet

• 7. Which US city hosted the 1985 Live Aid concert ? Philadelphia

• 8. What is the fatty substance found naturally on sheep's wool called ? Lanolin

• 9. Mal de Mer is the French term for which ailment ? Sea sickness

• 10. Who played the original Daisy Duke in TV's Dukes Of Hazard ? Catherine Bach

• 11. What is the second largest island in the world ? New Guinea

• 12. What type of animal is a Saki ? Monkey

• 13. What are parentheses otherwise known as ? Brackets

• 14. What type of animal is a caribou ? Reindeer

• 15. Who wrote the novel Gulliver's Travels ? Jonathan Swift