Recent questions tagged general-knowledge

Description : Which Hollywood star has made the cover of Life most times?

Last Answer : Elizabeth Taylor (11)

Description : What would you expect to find in a binnacle?

Last Answer : Ships compass

Description : Which film star was the first to appear on a postage stamp?

Last Answer : Grace Kelly

Description : Which actor was dubbed the muscles from Brussels?

Last Answer : Jean Claude Van Dam

Description : Which food did Victorians deride as little bags of mystery?

Last Answer : Sausages

Description : Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?

Last Answer : Francis Scott-key

Description : In the human body where is your occiput?

Last Answer : Back of head

Description : In which city was Bob Hope born?

Last Answer : London (Eltham)

Description : In 1969 what category was added to the Nobel prizes?

Last Answer : Economics 10

Description : Which country had the first women MPs 19 in 1907?

Last Answer : Finland

Description : Which painter did Hans van Meegeren most fake?

Last Answer : Vermeer

Description : Which playing card is called the Curse of Scotland?

Last Answer : Nine of Diamonds

Description : If you had variola what disease have you got?

Last Answer : Smallpox

Description : What did table tennis balls used to be made from?

Last Answer : Cork

Description : On oometer measures what?

Last Answer : Birds Eggs

Description : What is Erse?

Last Answer : Irish Gaelic language

Description : A spunder or drift is the name for a group of what animals?

Last Answer : Swine

Description : What 3 ingredients make a sidecar cocktail?

Last Answer : Brandy Cointreau Lemon juice

Description : What nationality is Thor Heyerdahl?

Last Answer : Norwegian

Description : Who invented the first safety razor in 1895?

Last Answer : King Camp Gillette

Description : Which drink did Bach enjoy so much he wrote a cantata for it?

Last Answer : Coffee

Description : What other name is used for the snow leopard?

Last Answer : Ounce

Description : What does a racoon do before eating its food?

Last Answer : Washes it in water

Description : What is the worlds most popular green vegetable?

Last Answer : Lettuce

Description : Shane Fenton became famous as who?

Last Answer : Alvin Stardust

Description : In which country did draughts (checkers) originate?

Last Answer : Egypt

Description : What type of animal is a Samoyed?

Last Answer : Dog

Description : What is the oldest most widely used drug on earth?

Last Answer : Alcohol

Description : What is Milan's opera house called?

Last Answer : La Scala

Description : What is the only creature that can turn its stomach inside out?

Last Answer : Starfish

Description : Who ran the first marathon?

Last Answer : Phidipedes

Description : What is the original literal meaning of the word bride?

Last Answer : To cook (ancient tutonic)

Description : Which herb did the Romans eat top prevent drunkenness?

Last Answer : Parsley

Description : Which group of animals are called a cete?

Last Answer : Badgers

Description : What first appeared in New York World 21st December 1913?

Last Answer : Crossword

Description : Who was the Greek goddess of love?

Last Answer : Aphrodite

Description : What kind of fruit is a kumquat?

Last Answer : Small Orange

Description : For what purpose was the chow chow dog originally bred?

Last Answer : As food or Chow

Description : If you were doing vaccimulgence what doing?

Last Answer : Milking a cow

Description : Why was Mary Mallen locked up from 1915 to 1938?

Last Answer : Typhoid Mary

Description : Purl Plain Fisherman's Cable types of what?

Last Answer : Knitting stitches

Description : What Italian habit did Thomas Coyrat introduce to England 1608?

Last Answer : Eating with forks

Description : What is the white trail behind a jet plane made from?

Last Answer : Ice Crystals

Description : Whose yacht was called Honey Fitz?

Last Answer : John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Description : Emerald is the birth stone for which month?

Last Answer : May

Description : Who is Charlie Browns favourite baseball player (fictional)?

Last Answer : Joe Shlabotnik

Description : Who wrote Dr Zhivago?

Last Answer : Boris Pasternak

Description : Which American state produces the most potatoes?

Last Answer : Idaho

Description : Horse statue - mounted man - on two legs - how man die?

Last Answer : Killed in Battle

Description : Which flying pioneer was nicknamed the lone eagle?

Last Answer : Charles Lindbergh