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Trivial Pursuit Questions No. 4

Posted: 27 Jan 2022 21:07
by Carl
  • 1. Which British actress won the Hampstead and Highgate seat for Labour in the 1992 General election ?
  • 2. The most fundamental unit of human society is ?
  • 3. Who wrote "The Castle of Otranto", the Gothic novel ?
  • 4. Who were Sumerians ?
  • 5. The two theories of a great scientist revolutionized astronomy in the modem times. What are these theories ?
  • 6. Name the speculator in a stock exchange who tries to increase the price of securities is called what ?
  • 7. A special type of file written in HTML is called ?
  • 8. In series resonant circuits, above the resonant frequency the inductive reactance is large. What is the capacitive reactance ?
  • 9. Disc signals are used for what ?
  • 10. What is the term used for stone and gravel, coarse sand, fine sand, silt and clay ?
  • 11. Who said, "Music is the pleasure of the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting" ?
  • 12. Who invented the first ecofriendly note book computer ?
  • 13. What is meant by traffic ?

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

Re: Trivial Pursuit Questions No. 4

Posted: 28 Jan 2022 06:51
by stowie39
1. Glenda Jackson

Re: Trivial Pursuit Questions No. 4

Posted: 29 Jan 2022 09:54
by LucindaC
2 family ?

Re: Trivial Pursuit Questions No. 4

Posted: 03 Feb 2022 21:04
by Carl
ANSWERS
  • 1. Which British actress won the Hampstead and Highgate seat for Labour in the 1992 General election ? Glenda Jackson
  • 2. The most fundamental unit of human society is ? Family
  • 3. Who wrote "The Castle of Otranto", the Gothic novel ? Ann Radcliffe
  • 4. Who were Sumerians ? A set of people from Central Asia
  • 5. The two theories of a great scientist revolutionized astronomy in the modem times. What are these theories ? General theory of Relativity and special theory of Relativity of Albert Einstein
  • 6. Name the speculator in a stock exchange who tries to increase the price of securities is called what ? Bull speculators
  • 7. A special type of file written in HTML is called ? Web page
  • 8. In series resonant circuits, above the resonant frequency the inductive reactance is large. What is the capacitive reactance ? Low
  • 9. Disc signals are used for what ? Shunting operations
  • 10. What is the term used for stone and gravel, coarse sand, fine sand, silt and clay ? Particle in soil
  • 11. Who said, "Music is the pleasure of the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting" ? Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • 12. Who invented the first ecofriendly note book computer ? Fujitsu
  • 13. What is meant by traffic ? Transportation of goods by road, rail, air etc. and coming and going of persons