Читать книгу The Times Quiz Book: 4000 challenging general knowledge questions - Olav Bjortomt - Страница 70
Оглавление1 Whose first true Pop Art painting featured Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse fishing?
2 A certified pilot and nurse, Ellen Church was also the world’s first what?
3 Who rode horses named Intendant, Le Vizir, Tauris and the white mare Désirée?
4 Built by Domenico Montagnana in 1733, “Petunia” is played by which Chinese cellist?
5 In March 2012, Leanne Wood was elected which party’s first female leader?
6 Which art is demonstrated by the diagrams of the Yoshizawa-Randlett system?
7 Read using smartphones, what does the QR in QR Code stand for?
8 Which ligament of the knee is the MCL?
9 The mayor of Munich opens which fair with the cry “O’zapft is!” (‘It is tapped’)?
10 Lugnaquilla is the highest peak of which Irish mountain range?
11 In Roman mythology, Tarpeia betrayed Rome to which tribe?
12 The Aral Sea disaster was caused by Soviet efforts to produce which crop?
13 Named after the Greek for ‘unstable’, what is the rarest natural element in the world?
14 The Younger Memnon is a colossal granite head in the British Museum depicting which pharaoh?
15 Which Dominican dictator (1891–1961) is the subject of Rita Dove’s poem Parsley?
16 According to the RSPB, what is the commonest and most widespread UK bird of prey?
17 Which sport was described by the poet Walt Whitman as “America’s game”?
18 Charlene, Princess of Monaco, was an Olympic swimmer for which country?
19 Which Swedish side is the only Nordic football club to have reached a European Cup final?
20 The pictured Donatello sculpture depicts which New Testament character?
