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The Times Quiz Book: 4000 challenging general knowledge questions


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      15 Which ThaiBev beer is named after the Thai for ‘elephant’?

      16 A food rich in vitamin C, what is muktuk?

      17 Which single-issue consumer group produces the monthly newspaper What’s Brewing?

      18 Which South African national dish is curried meat baked with an egg-topping?

      19 What is the single-largest day for food consumption in the USA?

      20 Which type of cured ham is pictured?

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      1 Reverend John Flynn founded which air ambulance service?

      2 The Brockman family featured in which BBC One sitcom?

      3 What type of delicacy are Isle of Man Queenies?

      4 The Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing is the world’s largest what?

      5 What invention was given the US Patent No. 174,465?

      6 What type of vehicle is the purpose-built TX4?

      7 So You Win Again (1977) was which group’s sole UK no 1?

      8 Peterman is slang for what type of specialist criminal?

      9 Which shrub is named after the first US Ambassador to Mexico?

      10 Which London venue is Europe’s largest multi-arts centre?

      11 Which actor suffered the first of many on-screen deaths, playing Ranuccio in the film Caravaggio?

      12 Which Paco Rabanne fragrance shares its name with a poem by William Ernest Henley?

      13 Which Victorian architect designed Westminster Cathedral in the Early Christian Byzantine style?

      14 Which podcast re-investigated the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee in Baltimore?

      15 What was the only British fighter aircraft in continuous production throughout World War Two?

      16 What is the Norfolk estate of the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley?

      17 In 1746, which painter married Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort?

      18 The Melbourne Ladies presented Ivo Bligh with which 11cm-high terracotta urn?

      19 Prince Albert II of Monaco competed at the Winter Olympics in which sport?

      20 Which machine is pictured?

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      1 First produced in 1981, what is Boeing’s largest single-aisle passenger aircraft?

      2 Which Australian city is named after the Governor of New South Wales (1821–25)?

      3 Which Roman god of love is the son of Venus and husband of Psyche?

      4 The Australian continent has how many time zones?

      5 The Hamilton-Norwood scale measures the progression of which male problem?

      6 What is the largest inhabited castle in the world?

      7 Raf Ravenscroft played the sax solo on which big 1978 hit?

      8 Bakery chain Greggs opened during the 1930s in which city?

      9 Louis Mountbatten opened which theme park on May 24, 1979?

      10 Wilson Carlile founded which religious organisation in 1882?

      11 Ernst Lindemann was killed in 1941 as the captain of which battleship?

      12 Now extinct, the huia was which country’s largest species of wattlebird?

      13 Robert Cornelius is credited with taking the first of which photos in 1839?

      14 The internet abbreviation TL; DR stands for what?

      15 Which Florentine museum houses Michelangelo’s sculptures Bacchus and Brutus?

      16 Aqua regia is a mixture of which two acids?

      17 Commonly found in American football players, which disease is known as CTE?

      18 The horse Quiz won which Classic race in 1801?

      19 Peter Oborne’s book Wounded Tiger is a history of cricket in which country?

      20 Name the pictured star of musical theatre –

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      1 Which symphony by Felix Mendelssohn celebrated the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession?

      2 Completed in 1962, Montezuma is which US composer’s only full-length opera?

      3 Sir Neville Marriner founded which chamber orchestra in 1958?

      4 Which German composer’s third symphony is known as the Rhenish?

      5 Who composed L’Amico Fritz (1891) and Guglielmo Ratcliff (1895)?

      6 Verdi and Rossini both wrote operas based on which Shakespeare tragedy?

      7 Which Welsh lyric mezzo-soprano made her album debut with Premiere (2004)?

      8 Which French composer wrote the rhapsodic piece Tzigane (1924)?