Quiz Master: JB

1. What are the 1^st three words in the Book of Genesis?

2. In which year were the Olympics held in Atlanta?

3. Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?

4. In which year was the Scottish Parliament formally opened?

5. Who born in 1946 became the 42^nd President of the USA?

6. What were the names of the three ships taken by James Cook on his voyages of discovery?

7. What is the 2^nd planet from the Sun?

8. Which famous daughter of a lighthouse keeper saved the crew of the Forfarshare?

9. One teaspoon is equivalent to which metric measure?

10. In which year did the MCC vote to admit women members?

11. Chile lies on which ocean?

12. New Zealand lies on two islands. Name them.

13. Who won the first direct elections for Mayor of London?

14. Who wrote ‘Around the World in 80 Days’?

15. Which country lies due south of Florida?

16. What is a Motorman?

17. If something is Septennial, how long does it last for?

18. Detroit is in which US state?

19. Which Geographical area lies between the Pacific and Southern Seas?

20. What is the second Book of the Old Testament?

21. What does SNP stand for (in Politics)?

22. Which country lies between Algeria and Egypt?

23. What is the Job Title of someone employed to load and unload ships?

24. Who was the first US president to address the Russian Parliament?

25. As a prefix, what lies between Mega and Tera?

26. Which country is due North of Bulgaria?

27. What Islamic term translates into English as ‘Struggle to the utmost’?

28. At which temperature in degrees Fahrenheit does water boil?

29. Which country lies due west of Spain?

30. Tetanus is sometimes referred to as what?

31. What is the 1^st Book of Moses called?

32. A lodestone is a primitive form of what?

33. A loganberry is a cross between what?

34 Which Sea lies south of the Irish Sea?

35. What are Bill Clinton’s 1^st names in full?

36. The now extinct Mastadon resembled which modern day animal?

37. What was a Triceratops?

38. What is the American equivalent of a stevedore called?

39. What in today’s money is the equivalent of a crown?

40. What is 0 degrees Kelvin better known as?

41. What is 0 degrees Kelvin in degrees centigrade?

42. Attila was the King of which peoples?

43. Who founded the Boy Scouts?

45. What is a lair of an otter called?

46. What is the formula for converting degrees Fahrenheit to degrees centigrade?

47. What originally was Grog?

48. What would a guinea be worth in modern currency?

49. What is a Golden Share?

50. What is a Garibaldi?

51. How many square inches to a square foot?

52. What does WRAC stand for?

53. What is the American equivalent of a Post Code?

54. What colour in a rainbow lies between blue and violet?

55. How many dozen in a gross?

56. The Greek philosopher Aristotle was a student of whom?

57. Mohammed Ali changed his name from what?

58. In which year was the Potters Bar Rail Crash?

59. In which year did William Hague step down as leader of the Conservative Party?

60. What are the first three words of the 23^rd Psalm?