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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?