Читать книгу The Times Quiz Book: 4000 challenging general knowledge questions - Olav Bjortomt - Страница 43
Оглавление1 Dipsomania refers to an uncontrollable craving for what?
2 The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is in which US city?
3 The Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house is in which Spanish city?
4 Larry David plays Larry David in which HBO comedy?
5 Meaning ‘instruction’, what is the Hebrew term for the Pentateuch?
6 Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1929 novel The Maracot Deep centres on which legend?
7 Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) was the first modern what?
8 Martin Luther was declared an outlaw at which 1521 ‘Diet’?
9 The Fourcault Process manufactures what inorganic material?
10 The 1939 film Ninotchka carried which famous two-word tagline?
11 Who was shot by Boston Corbett on April 26, 1865?
12 Which poem by Rainer Maria Rilke concludes: “You must change your life”?
13 Which dark nebula in Orion is also known as Barnard 33 or B33?
14 Which flap at the base of the tongue keeps food from going into the windpipe?
15 Traditionally made of silver, a bombilla is used as both a straw and a sieve when drinking which infusion?
16 Captain Louis Nolan was the first man killed in which 1854 action?
17 Possibly Cuba’s most popular living author, which writer created the Havana cop Mario Conde?
18 Which chess-playing IBM computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997?
19 Which race is held on the first Sunday of March between the village of Sälen and town of Mora?
20 Name the pictured English motorcycle racer –
