General knowledge quiz

2024-02-10 -

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1 The Entente Cordiale of 1904 was an agreement between which two countries

2 By which name, meaning “Great Soul”, w the Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi known?

3 Which Italian dictator formed an alliance Hitler in 1936?

4 In which century did the Great Plague of London take place?

5 According to legend, which wife of Leofri Earl of Mercia rode naked through the m place of Coventry as a protest?

6 Of which North African country was Hass king from 1961-99?

7 Which Mozart opera features the charact Papageno, the birdcatcher, and the Quee the Night?

8 From which film does the Jack Nicholson

“Here’s Johnny!” come?

9 Which singer-songwriter has released sin called The Celts, Book of Days and Orinoc Flow (Sail Away)?

10 Which West End musical features charact called Jean Valjean, Cosette and Fantine?

11 What shape are the pavement plaques of Angeles’s Hollywood Walk of Fame?

12 Which of the Beatles wrote “Octopus’s Garden”?

13 Alopecia is a condition that results in the of what?

14 What is the name of the chemical proces which plants convert sunlight into food?

15 The magic lantern was an early form of w item of photographic equipment?

16 Lyme disease is spread by which parasiti creature?

17 In astronomy, what are the Perseids and Geminids?

18 What type of creature is the coelacanth, presumed extinct for millions of years un specimen was found alive in 1938?

19 With which sport is Chicago’s Wrigley Fie associated?

20 Which football team was named after a temporary glass structure built to house 1851 Great Exhibition?

21 Keirin and Omnium are races from which Olympic sport?

22 What name is given to someone employe carry golf clubs?

23 The cheapest properties on a Monopoly board, Old Kent Road and Whitechapel R are what colour?

24 Where were the first Winter Olympics he 1924?

25 The Gobi desert is in the rain shadow of w mountain range that blocks the rain clou from reaching it?

26 Which Scandinavian country’s only land border is shared with Germany?

27 Zanzibar is part of which African country

28 The Malagasy Republic is an old name fo which island nation?

29 Speleology is the study of what type of geological feature?

30 A large statue of which figure with its arm outstretched overlooks the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?

Solutions in Monday’s Irish Mirror