World GK-2

World GK-2

1.Which is the world’s largest dry desert?
Answer: Sahara.

2. Which Christian festival is celebrated on 6 January?

Answer: Epiphany.

3. To which king is the Book of Proverbs in the Old Testament traditionally ascribed?

Answer: Solomon.

4. Which sign of the zodiac governs the period from 23 July to 22 August?

Answer: Leo.

5. A luge is a type of what?

Answer: Racing toboggan.

6. Which four-times World Superbike Champion announced his retirement in 2000?

Answer: Carl Fogarty.

7. What name is given to the dried excrement of fisheating birds, used as a fertilizer?

Answer: Guano.

8. During which war was the 1970 film Darling Lili set?

Answer: World War I

9. What is the colour of the ball worth one point in the game of snooker?

Answer: Red.

10. What is the derived SI unit of electrical capacitance?

Answer: Farad.

11. What does the legal term ‘caveat emptor’ mean?

Answer: Let the buyer beware.

12. Who does Jim Carrey play in the 1994 film The Mask?

Answer: Stanley Ipkiss.

13.Which British Formula 1 racing driver survived a Learjet crash in May 2000?

Answer: David Coulthard.

14. Which city hosted the 1980 Olympic Games?

Answer: Moscow.

15. Which female singer had a hit single with the song What a Girl Wants?

Answer: Christina.

16. Which continent has the larger land mass: Antarctica or South America?

Answer: South America.

17. Of what is malocology the scientific study?

Answer: Molluscs.

18. What is the more common name for the medical condition nyctalopia?

Answer: Night blindness.

19. Which US Civil War general led his famous march to the sea?

Answer: Sherman.

20. At which US nuclear plant did a nuclear accident occur in 1979?

Answer: Three Mile Island.

21. How was the second emperor of Rome, Claudius Nero Caesar, better known?

Answer: Tiberius.

22. The statue Christ of the Andes stands on the border between Argentina and which other country?

Answer: Chile.

23. Of which country is Sofia the capital?

Answer: Bulgaria.

24. What is meant by the musical term ‘andante’?

Answer: At a moderate tempo.

25. Which saint’s day falls on 17 March?

Answer: Patrick.