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The Times Quiz Book: 4000 challenging general knowledge questions


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      1 D’Anjou, Williams, Bosc and Concorde are varieties of which fruit?

      2 Lager Sylt was a Nazi concentration camp on which Channel island?

      3 From 1516 to 1519, which artist lived in the Château de Cloux, now Clos Lucé?

      4 Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz married which prince in 1978?

      5 Which cathedral has the longest nave in England?

      6 Which Italian composed the 1892 opera La Wally?

      7 What is the smallest bone in the human body?

      8 What is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust?

      9 Seen on Top Gear being driven inside BBC Television Centre by Jeremy Clarkson, which Peel model is the smallest production car ever?

      10 Starring Tom Cruise, which 2014 film is based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s novel All You Need is Kill?

      11 Thousands of which birds come together in a spectacle known as a ‘murmuration’?

      12 Flight Lieutenant Herbert Carmichael Irwin was captain of which airship when it crashed?

      13 Werner Co. is the world’s leading manufacturer and distributor of which equipment?

      14 Which French landscape architect (1613–1700) created the gardens at the Palace of Versailles?

      15 Topping lists of the world’s most violent cities, San Pedro Sula is in which country?

      16 Founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, which website calls itself “the front page of the internet”?

      17 Which Swiss company has kept time at the Olympics since 1932?

      18 Often taken to cricket matches in Australia, what is an Esky?

      19 Which Jersey-born golfer won a record six Open Championships and was played by Stephen Dillane in the 2005 film The Greatest Game Ever Played?

      20 Name the Canadian dish in the picture –

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      1 Adopted in 1876, which pattern of lines marks the limit to which a ship may be loaded?

      2 Which French aviator was the first person to cross the Mediterranean Sea by air?

      3 Which type of sailing vessel derives its name from the Tamil for ‘tied-wood’?

      4 The Dutch company Batavus manufactures which items?

      5 The Bucentaur was the highly decorated galley of which city’s doges?

      6 Which Scottish engineer (1757–1834) designed the Caledonian Canal?

      7 Margaret Rule led the project that raised which Tudor warship in 1982?

      8 The 1941 sinking of the SS Politician inspired which Compton Mackenzie novel?

      9 Which British motorcycle company launched its original Thunderbird in 1949?

      10 Which 1965 book set out Ralph Nader’s views on defective car design?

      11 The largest in the Southern Hemisphere, TAM Airlines is based in which country?

      12 The Soviet Mil V-12 is the largest example of which craft to have been built?

      13 Which Irish-born explorer led his first Antarctic expedition on the ship Nimrod?

      14 Founded in 1909, what was the first British aircraft manufacturing company?

      15 Which Italian carmaker’s logo features a serpent eating a man?

      16 Which Moroccan city is served by Ibn Battouta Airport?

      17 The airline Conviasa is the flag carrier of which South American country?

      18 Which Asian automaker produces the cee’d compact car?

      19 Which Ontario canal becomes the world’s largest naturally frozen skating rink in winter?

      20 Name the luxury SUV in the picture –

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      1 Which Japanese corporation is the world’s largest maker of musical instruments?

      2 Launched in 2013, Azzam is the world’s largest what?

      3 Located in Canterbury, what is England’s oldest working parish church?

      4 Which landlocked Italian region does not border a foreign country?

      5 Which conductor set up the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Edward Said?

      6 Sarnath in India is the deer park where which man first taught the Dharma?

      7 Which Irish travel author wrote Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle (1965)?

      8 The Scottish physician Neil Arnott invented a form of which bed in the 1800s?

      9 Which aromatic resin is tapped from trees of the genus Boswellia?

      10 Nathan Fillion played which titular mystery novelist, with the first name Richard, in a US TV drama?

      11 The Galleria Sabauda is an art collection in which Italian city?

      12 The Ten Commandments feature in Exodus and which other Old Testament book?

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