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Random Trivia Quiz No. 188
Posted: 04 Apr 2024 21:02
by Carl
- 1. Bibliomania is the compulsive collecting or hoarding of what ?
- 2. What is the technical term for the hollow at the back of the knee, sometimes called the knee pit ?
- 3. Name the ex-Green Party leader and its first UK parliamentary MP, who won the Brighton Pavilion seat in UK's May 2010 general election ?
- 4. In 1834 who invented raised point writing using a six dot system enabling the blind to read ?
- 5. The archaeological site of the ancient city of Troy is in which country ?
- 6. A navarin casserole is cooked using which type of meat ?
- 7. Whose state funeral was on 15 December 1840, nineteen years after his death and burial in an unmarked grave ?
- 8. In Japan the word Mikado originally referred to what: the Emperor; a theatre; an early form of electoral proportional representation; or sushi rice ?
- 9. What country's name derives from an Iroquois word for village ?
- 10. What is a car marque, a software company and the national flower of Egypt ?
- 11. Which Shakespeare character is known as The Moor of Venice ?
- 12. What is the previous and common alternative name of the Indian city Mumbai ?
- 13. Which city, home to Coca-Cola HQ, hosted the 1996 Summer Olympic games ?
- 14. Loosely translated, Aleph Beth Gimel Daleth are the first four letters of what alphabet: Inuit; Hebrew; Portuguese; or Tellytubby ?
- 15. In a right-angled triangle whose shortest sides are eight and six metres how long is the other side ?
Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.
Re: Random Trivia Quiz No. 188
Posted: 04 Apr 2024 22:35
by stowie39
13. Atlanta
15. 10 metres
Re: Random Trivia Quiz No. 188
Posted: 04 Apr 2024 22:42
by elcarretero
1 Books
4 Louis Braille
Re: Random Trivia Quiz No. 188
Posted: 05 Apr 2024 08:33
by stowie39
10. Lotus
11. Othello
Re: Random Trivia Quiz No. 188
Posted: 05 Apr 2024 08:49
by gail
6. Lamb
8. Emperor
Re: Random Trivia Quiz No. 188
Posted: 05 Apr 2024 08:53
by elcarretero
5 Turkey
9 Canada
Re: Random Trivia Quiz No. 188
Posted: 06 Apr 2024 09:49
by gail
3. Caroline Lucas
12. Bombay
Re: Random Trivia Quiz No. 188
Posted: 06 Apr 2024 13:55
by elcarretero
14 Hebrew
Re: Random Trivia Quiz No. 188
Posted: 11 Apr 2024 21:01
by Carl
ANSWERS
- 1. Bibliomania is the compulsive collecting or hoarding of what ? Books
- 2. What is the technical term for the hollow at the back of the knee, sometimes called the knee pit ? Popliteal fossa
- 3. Name the ex-Green Party leader and its first UK parliamentary MP, who won the Brighton Pavilion seat in UK's May 2010 general election ? Caroline Lucas
- 4. In 1834 who invented raised point writing using a six dot system enabling the blind to read ? Louis Braille
- 5. The archaeological site of the ancient city of Troy is in which country ? Turkey
- 6. A navarin casserole is cooked using which type of meat ? Lamb
- 7. Whose state funeral was on 15 December 1840, nineteen years after his death and burial in an unmarked grave ? Napoleon Bonaparte
- 8. In Japan the word Mikado originally referred to what: the Emperor; a theatre; an early form of electoral proportional representation; or sushi rice ? The Emperor
- 9. What country's name derives from an Iroquois word for village ? Canada
- 10. What is a car marque, a software company and the national flower of Egypt ? Lotus
- 11. Which Shakespeare character is known as The Moor of Venice ? Othello
- 12. What is the previous and common alternative name of the Indian city Mumbai ? Bombay
- 13. Which city, home to Coca-Cola HQ, hosted the 1996 Summer Olympic games ? Atlanta
- 14. Loosely translated, Aleph Beth Gimel Daleth are the first four letters of what alphabet: Inuit; Hebrew; Portuguese; or Tellytubby ? Hebrew
- 15. In a right-angled triangle whose shortest sides are eight and six metres how long is the other side ? 10 metres