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The Times Quiz Book: 4000 challenging general knowledge questions


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      1 Which two countries’ security forces perform the daily Wagah border ceremony?

      2 In 1993, who divorced Allegra Mostyn-Owen and married Marina Wheeler?

      3 In which Franz Lehar operetta is Danilo obsessed with the Paris restaurant Maxim’s?

      4 Who finished his Parma Cathedral dome fresco, the Assumption of the Virgin, in 1530?

      5 Which song by Julia Ward Howe begins: “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord”?

      6 Which US financial journalist wrote the 2014 non-fiction book Flash Boys?

      7 Which term describes the prominent parts of a catfish that resemble a cat’s whiskers?

      8 Salvatore Quasimodo wrote a poem describing which place “far from the Vistula” as “that pit of ashes”?

      9 In Mexican cuisine, what is a chipotle?

      10 In 2012, I.M. Pei’s Green Building was transformed by MIT students into a playable form of which video game?

      11 Which venue has hosted more annual Royal Variety Performances than any other theatre?

      12 In which country was the Pentecostal megachurch Hillsong founded in 1983?

      13 Named after an Indonesian island, what is the smallest living subspecies of tiger?

      14 Who is the drummer in Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem?

      15 Which animal hospital is based at Haddenham, Buckinghamshire?

      16 Which high school student used the aliases Calvin Klein, Darth Vader and Clint Eastwood?

      17 The simplest alkane, which greenhouse gas has the formula CH4?

      18 Which Soviet athlete won the 5,000m and 10,000m at the 1956 Olympics?

      19 Which racetrack was nicknamed “The Green Hell” by Jackie Stewart?

      20 Where is the pictured casino?

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      1 The elite army, the Sardaukar, features in which sci-fi universe?

      2 One of the major Modernists, which Austrian novelist wrote The Sleepwalkers: a Trilogy (1931–32) and The Death of Virgil (1945)?

      3 Which poem begins: “If I should die, think only this of me”?

      4 Which Philip Larkin poem ends: “What will survive of us is love”?

      5 Which Zambian-born author’s debut novel was When The Lion Feeds (1964)?

      6 Which journalist wrote The English Constitution in 1867?

      7 Shark is Will Self ’s 2014 sequel to which Booker-shortlisted novel?

      8 Which Dutch-born novelist wrote Under the Skin and The Crimson Petal and the White?

      9 Published in 1928, what was A.A. Milne’s second book of Winnie-the-Pooh stories?

      10 Which author reimagined the Napoleonic Wars with dragons in her series Temeraire?

      11 Which Canadian author wrote the 2014 sci-fi novel Station Eleven?

      12 Which 1896 work includes To an Athlete Dying Young, Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now and When I was One-and-Twenty?

      13 Which 1987 novel is about the writer Paul Sheldon and his crazed fan Annie Wilkes?

      14 The Nome King is a major villain in which series of books?

      15 Who is the British author of a series of five novels about Patrick Melrose that began with Never Mind and concluded with At Last?

      16 The Killings at Badger’s Drift (1987) was the first mystery novel in which series?

      17 Which Vietnam vet and Oxford graduate published the memoir This Boy’s Life in 1989?

      18 Grantchester Grind is a sequel to which 1974 novel by Tom Sharpe?

      19 Alexandre Dumas, père, wrote: “The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of…” what?

      20 Which London-born novelist is pictured?

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      1 The Swedish chemist Georg Brandt discovered which metal as a dark blue pigment in copper ore?

      2 Which marsupial is the only known animal that produces cube-shaped droppings?

      3 The Jewish Cemetery is a seminal work by which Mennonite Dutch landscape painter (c.1628–82)?

      4 Which fungus was called “the diamond of the kitchen” by Brillat-Savarin?

      5 Which princess “nearly married” the future Canadian prime minister John Turner?

      6 In which city, the second largest in the Arab world, was OPEC founded in 1960?

      7 Walter Potter became known for his eccentric Victorian collection of what?

      8 Which planet is named after the Roman god of agriculture?

      9 Which US guitarist sued Coldplay over similarities between Viva La Vida and his song If I Could Fly?

      10 Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America, is in which valley?

      11 The Qurikancha or Inti Wasi (‘sun house’) was the most important temple of which empire?

      12 Bathsheba Everdene is the heroine of which novel by Thomas Hardy?

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