General Knowledge Quiz No. 193

[Carl]

• 1. What was the name of Ernest Shackleton's ship which became stuck in Antarctic ice in 1915 ?

• 2. What type of creature is an amberjack ?

• 3. Quinsy is an inflammation of which part of the body ?

• 4. What is the capital of Croatia ?

• 5. Carambola is another name for which fruit ?

• 6. What scientist and inventor was responsible for the Decibel unit of measurement ?

• 7. Which city is known as Auld Reekie and also Athens of the North ?

• 8. Maris Piper is a variety of which vegetable ?

• 9. An epithalamium is a song or poem celebrating what ?

• 10. Which is the lightest element ?

• 11. Dame Peggy Ashcroft won an Oscar for her role in which 1984 film ?

• 12. What does UNESCO stand for ?

• 13. What Latin phrase means operational method, or the way a job is done ?

• 14. In the human body which gland secretes the hormone insulin ?

• 15. In which European town is the Menin Gate Memorial to missing British and Commonwealth soldiers ?

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

[stowie39]

8. Potato

[elcarretero]

7 Edinburgh
10 Hydrogen

[gail]

3. Throat
14. Pancreas

[elcarretero]

15 Ypres

[LucindaC]

4 Zagreb

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. What was the name of Ernest Shackleton's ship which became stuck in Antarctic ice in 1915 ? HMS Endurance

• 2. What type of creature is an amberjack ? Fish

• 3. Quinsy is an inflammation of which part of the body ? The throat

• 4. What is the capital of Croatia ? Zagreb

• 5. Carambola is another name for which fruit ? Star fruit

• 6. What scientist and inventor was responsible for the Decibel unit of measurement ? Alexander Graham Bell

• 7. Which city is known as Auld Reekie and also Athens of the North ? Edinburgh

• 8. Maris Piper is a variety of which vegetable ? Potato

• 9. An epithalamium is a song or poem celebrating what ? Marriage

• 10. Which is the lightest element ? Hydrogen

• 11. Dame Peggy Ashcroft won an Oscar for her role in which 1984 film ? A Passage to India

• 12. What does UNESCO stand for ? United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization

• 13. What Latin phrase means operational method, or the way a job is done ? Modus Operandi

• 14. In the human body which gland secretes the hormone insulin ? Pancreas

• 15. In which European town is the Menin Gate Memorial to missing British and Commonwealth soldiers ? Ypres