Random Trivia Quiz No. 184

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  • 1. Keflavik International Airport is in which country ?
  • 2. A dibber (or dibble) is used in what: gardening; bingo; brain surgery; or boating ?
  • 3. Which politician, buried in Westminster Abbey in 1833, campaigned for more than 50 years against British slavery ?
  • 4. Japanese Haiku poetry is generally said to contain how many lines and how many syllables when presented in English ?
  • 5. Cambridge Late Pine, Redgauntlet and Elsanta are varieties of what fruit ?
  • 6. What word, meaning 'crown' in Latin, refers to a visible electrical discharge and a planetary halo ?
  • 7. Before 'Poppy Appeal' what words appeared on the central black buttons of poppies sold in Poppy Appeal in the UK every year ?
  • 8. What title was shared by three different songs which achieved UK or US number one positions within a few months of each other during 1984-85 ?
  • 9. Who first published and popularised the stories Snow White, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood ?
  • 10. What creature is a pismire ?
  • 11. What does ex-UK Prime Minister David Cameron's wife Samantha have tattooed on her ankle: the Conservative Party tree emblem; a Union Jack; a skull and cross-bones; or a dolphin ?
  • 12. What is the square root of two-hundred and eighty-nine ?
  • 13. Yukon and Nunavut are Federal Territories of which country ?
  • 14. What is the traditional name for a spot on a domino ?
  • 15. What word for a wild or half-tamed horse derives from the Spanish word for rough wood and specifically a knot in wood ?

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2 Gardening
3 William Wilberforce
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7. Haig fund
9. Ladybird?
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5 Strawberry
12 Seventeen
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10 Ant
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11. Dolphin
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13 Canada
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1 Iceland
15 Bronco
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ANSWERS
  • 1. Keflavik International Airport is in which country ? Iceland
  • 2. A dibber (or dibble) is used in what: gardening; bingo; brain surgery; or boating ? Gardening
  • 3. Which politician, buried in Westminster Abbey in 1833, campaigned for more than 50 years against British slavery ? William Wilberforce
  • 4. Japanese Haiku poetry is generally said to contain how many lines and how many syllables when presented in English ? Three lines and seventeen syllables
  • 5. Cambridge Late Pine, Redgauntlet and Elsanta are varieties of what fruit ? Strawberry
  • 6. What word, meaning 'crown' in Latin, refers to a visible electrical discharge and a planetary halo ? Corona
  • 7. Before 'Poppy Appeal' what words appeared on the central black buttons of poppies sold in Poppy Appeal in the UK every year ? Haig Fund
  • 8. What title was shared by three different songs which achieved UK or US number one positions within a few months of each other during 1984-85 ? The Power of Love
  • 9. Who first published and popularised the stories Snow White, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood ? The Brothers Grimm
  • 10. What creature is a pismire ? Ant
  • 11. What does ex-UK Prime Minister David Cameron's wife Samantha have tattooed on her ankle: the Conservative Party tree emblem; a Union Jack; a skull and cross-bones; or a dolphin ? A dolphin
  • 12. What is the square root of two-hundred and eighty-nine ? 17
  • 13. Yukon and Nunavut are Federal Territories of which country ? Canada
  • 14. What is the traditional name for a spot on a domino ? Pip
  • 15. What word for a wild or half-tamed horse derives from the Spanish word for rough wood and specifically a knot in wood ? Bronco

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