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Multiple Choice - General Knowledge 1

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1. What is Quetzalcoatlus?
The largest creature ever to fly, this flying reptile had a wingspan of 15 m (50 feet)
A Mexican Pyramid
A volcano in the Andes
A Chameleon found in Venezuela
An extinct flying Reptile
2. The Capital City of Equatorial Guinea is?
Gaborone is Botswana / Bangui is CAR / Bamako is Mali
Bamako
Bangui
Gaborone
Malabo
3. What is the average flow of the Amazon River per second?
This amounts to over 6 Million Olympic Swimming Pools per Day!
175,000 cubic metres per second
5,000 cubic metres per second
20,000 cubic metres per second
80,000 cubic metres per second
4. What is Halloumi?
Cheese derived from a mixture of Sheep's / Goat's and sometimes Cow's milk:
An outer garment worn by the Taureg tribesmen of North Africa
A Desert on the Yemen - Saudi Arabian border
A decorated Turkish Knife
A Cheese originating in Cyprus
5. Which author wrote the Pirate story 'Treasure Island'?
Stevenson also wrote: Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Bram Stoker
Robert Louis Stevenson
6. Which great Musical Composer was a Pallbearer at Beethoven's funeral 1827?
Schubert was in awe of Beethoven and wanted desperately to meet him, though he never did.
Bruckner
Brahms
Chopin
Schubert
7. Which Element makes up about 65% of the human bodies weight?
Six elements account for 97 percent of your body's mass: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus.
Oxygen
Calcium
Carbon
Hydrogen
8. For what is Sir George Cayley famous (born 1773, Yorkshire, d. 1854) ?
Proposed the airplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control culminating in the first manned glider flight on record.
City Architecture
Steam Locomotive Engineering
Polare Exploration
Aviation Engineering and Navigation
9. In Greek Mythology, Who killed Achilles?
Paris killed Achilles with an arrow to the vulnerable heel of Achilles.
Paris
Hector
Zeus
Hercules
10. What Aircraft made the first Commercial Jet Flight on May 2nd 1952 ?
British Overseas Airways Corporation launched commercial air travel by jet, sending 36 passengers from London to Johannesburg on the de Havilland Comet,
Sud Aviation Caravelle (France)
Tupolev Tu-104 (USSR)
Boeing 707 (USA)
De havilland Comet. (UK)
11. Which of these Capital Cities is farthest North?
Tripoli 32.9N / Jerusalem 31.78N / Kuwait City 29.37N / Delhi 28.6N
Delhi
Jerusalem
Kuwait City
Tripoli
12. Which of these locations is the 'Odd Man Out'?
The Arg serves as the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, the others are famous Prisons:
The Kabul Arg
Robben Island
Chateau D'If
Alcatraz
13. What well known mammal is 'Meles meles' the scientific name?
Meles is Latin for Badger - burrowing mammals that create a network of underground tunnels known as a sett:
European Badger
Red Deer
Skunk
Hedgehog
14. The heaviest bone in the human skeleton is?
The femur, or thigh bone, is the longest, heaviest, and strongest bone in the entire human body.
Scapular
Radius
Sternum
Femur
15. Kingston is the capital city of which Country?
Kingston pop. of 670,000 out of Jamaicas pop. of 2.89 million
Belize
Jamaica
Guyana
Cuba
16. (Monte Rosa) Dufourspitze 4,634 m (15,203 Ft) is the Highest Mountain Peak in which European Country:?
Located a few miles east of the Matterhorn and rising just over 150 m / 500 feet higher.
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Ukraine
17. Approximately how long does it take Light to travel from Earth to Mars?
Light travels at 186,282 miles per second (299,792 km per second). Mars is 33.9 million miles (54.6 million kilometers).distant from Earth:
3 minutes 5 seconds
43 minutes
7 seconds
1 hour 14 seconds
18. In what year was the building of Notre Dame Cathedral completed?
Started in 1163 during the reign of King Louis VII and was completed in 1345.
1163
1345
1530
1241
19. Which composer wrote the well know work 'Bolero'?
French composer Maurice Ravel was very influenced by his mother's Spanish heritage and love of Spanish folk song.
Maurice Ravel
Hector Berlioz
Frederic Chopin
Claude Debussy
20. If you travel due North from Muscat, Oman, which Country do you reach first?
Crossing the Gulf of Oman at the mouth of the Persian Gulf you arrive at Iran:
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Bahrain
Iraq
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