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Question |
Answer |
1 |
The first radio commercial spot aired in 1922. What was the company and what was it selling? |
Queensboro Corp., real estate |
2 |
Where are the National Public Broadcasting Archives located? |
College Park, MD, USA |
3 |
Who was Israel's first elected president? |
Chaim Weizmann |
4 |
How many bones make up the human skeleton? |
206 |
5 |
Sculptor Donato de Bardi detto Donatello's "Abramo e Isacco" was carved in what year? |
1421 |
6 |
What city does the Liffey River flow through? |
Dublin |
7 |
Where is the painting Pierrot known as Gilles? Who is the artist? |
Louvre, Jean-Antoine Watteau |
8 |
In what scene of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" do we hear "All the world's a stage..."? |
Act 2, Scene 7 |
9 |
What is the name of the pope who was in office from 1447-1455? |
Nicholas V |
10 |
What characters speak together in Scene 1, Act 1 of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" |
Camillo and Archimadeus |
11 |
When was the Treaty of Sevres signed? |
1920 |
12 |
Where is the original mauscript of St Jerome's commentary on Isaiah to be found? |
Bodleian Library, Oxford |
13 |
In what year was the first printing press set up in the New World? In which city? |
1539, Mexico City |
14 |
In what year was the English colony of Jamestown founded? |
1607 |
15 |
What are the first three words in the Latin version of Virgil's Aeneid? |
Arma virumque cano |
16 |
How many chromosome pairs does a normal human possess? |
23 |
17 |
What is the name of Isabella Rossellini's twin sister? |
Ingrid |
18 |
In Greek mythology, who was the ruler of the Titans? |
Cronus |
19 |
Where was Shaquille O'Neal born? |
Newark, NJ, USA |
20 |
In what year and by whom were 33 1/3 rpm records introduced? |
1927, Maxfield, Bell Laboratories |
21 |
When did French people settle in Canadian maritime areas and what are they known as today? |
18th century, Acadians |
22 |
In what country is Hagia Sophia located? |
Turkey |
23 |
Where was the country of Pomerania located? |
Baltic seacoast of NE Germany |
24 |
What is the main event organized by the Sherpa Friendship Association and what does it celebrate? |
Sherpa Lo Sar, new moon of 1st lunar month in Tibetan calendar |
25 |
In ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics which sysmbol was used for the letter M? |
an owl |
26 |
Where was the republic of Tuva and when did it lose its independence? |
southern Siberia, 1944 |
27 |
What is the world's population? |
5'862'139'336 (18.8.97) (www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw) |
28 |
Who was the House of Windsor's first monarch? |
George V |
29 |
What is the capital of Senegal? |
Dakar |
30 |
What is Kwanzaa and who instituted it? |
African American holiday, Dr. Maulena Karenga |
31 |
In what year did Mexico win its independence from Spain? |
1821 |
32 |
Which Chinese astrological sign represented emperors? |
dragon |
33 |
In what city in New Jersey, USA was the first dinosaur skeleton discovered? |
Haddonfield |
34 |
Of what nationality was the founder of the Sierra Club? |
Scottish |
35 |
Where can the crown given by Napoleon I to Empress Marie Louise be seen? |
Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History |
36 |
What object was given to Marie Antoinette by Louis XVI and may be seen at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History? |
diamond earrings |
37 |
To whom is Herman Melville's Billy Bud dedicated? |
Jack Chase |
38 |
Who is Lisa Halaby? |
Queen Noor of Jordan |
39 |
What recent US president is a descendant of King Edward I of England? |
George Bush |
40 |
In auto racing, the yellow flag with the red stripe means? |
oil on the track |
41 |
What well-known actor was a descendant of King Charles II of England? |
Sir Laurence Olivier |
42 |
What country was ruled by the Alaungpaya Dynasty? |
Burma |
43 |
In what year was T.S. Eliot born? |
1888 |
44 |
Who is the pretender to the Bulgarian throne? |
King Simeon II |
45 |
In what year was the first Fabergé Easter egg made for a Russian czar? |
1884 |
46 |
Where is the oldest US zoo? |
Philadelphia, PA |
47 |
What is the color of erbium oxide and what is it used for? |
pink, coloring of glass and porcelain |
48 |
How many guest rooms are in the world's largest hotel (Thailand's Ambassador City Jountien)? |
5200 |
49 |
What is the amount of gold contained in sea water? |
0.1 to 2 mg/ton |
50 |
In what war did Florence Nightengale serve as the first female nurse? |
Crimean War |
51 |
The term Lutetia refers to what modern city? |
Paris |
52 |
In what year was Vanadium discovered for the first time? When was it rediscovered? |
1801, 1830 |
53 |
What is the conversion from 1 British Gill to 1 Litre? |
0.1420656 |
54 |
What is the conversion from 1 hogshead to 1 teaspoon? |
64512 |
55 |
In what year did Torricelli invent the barometer? |
1643 |
56 |
In what country is the Museo a cielo Abierto located? |
Chile |
57 |
What is the permittivity constant of free space? |
8.8542x10-12, C2/Nm2 |
58 |
What is Clyde Tombaugh famous for? |
discovery of planet Pluto |
59 |
In what year did Sandro Botticelli paint "Allegory of Fortune" |
1470 |
60 |
On what day was the planet Neptune discovered and by whom? |
Sept. 23, 1846, Johann Gottfried Galle |
61 |
How far in Km is the moon Mimas from the planet which it orbits? |
185.52 km (Saturn) |
62 |
How many total solar eclipses are predicted between 1998 and 2006? |
7 |
63 |
What was Harry Houdini's birth name? |
Ehrich Weiss |
64 |
From which areas of the globe was the total solar eclipse of March 9, 1997 visible? |
Mongolia, Siberia, Arctic Ocean |
65 |
How many sons did Genghis Khan have with his first wife? What was her name? |
4, Borte |
66 |
What is the phone number of the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, DC? |
(202) 234-3770 |
67 |
In what year was the Mercator Map developed? |
1569 |
68 |
How many islands are in the Kiributi Group? |
16 |
69 |
What is the suface area of Europe in square miles? |
3.8 million |
70 |
How much bigger in % is Africa than the former USSR? |
30% |
71 |
Where is Niue? |
Pacific Ocean between Figi and Cook Islands |
72 |
What was the exact time (central European time) of the official German surrender in WWII? |
2301 hours, May 8 |
73 |
Where is Amdo? |
Western China (Tibet) |
74 |
What are Aynu and Uyghur? |
languages/cultures |
75 |
What language is spoken by over 95% of the population of Seychelles? |
Seselwa |
76 |
What was the first Swiss rail link and when was it pur into service? |
Zurich-Baden, 1847 |
77 |
In what country is Spode porcelain made? |
China |
78 |
When did work on the Gotthard railway tunnel begin and how long did it take to complete? |
1872, 10 years |
79 |
Where and when was the first electric tram put into service in Switzerland? |
Vevey-Territet, 1888 |
80 |
In what year did the Porsche 911 make its debut in Frankfurt? |
1963 |
81 |
What was the main topic of the NZZ Folio dated March 2, 1992? |
Karrieren |
82 |
Which orchestral work by Respighi is scheduled to be performed in Lausanne on May 28, 1998? |
Fountains of Rome |
83 |
In what year was the Grande Salle of the Grand Théâtre in Geneva destroyed? What was the cause? When was it reopened? |
1951, fire, 1962 |
84 |
Who teaches Latin in the Theology Faculty of the University of Zurich? |
Heidrun Rubischung |
85 |
Where does the Palio Festival take place? |
Siena, Italy |
86 |
What is the name of a lawyer in Munsingen who speaks Finnish? |
Riitta Diener-Alho |
87 |
How many articles in the Swiss Constitution concern the Federal Tribunal? |
9 |
88 |
What is the latitude and longitude of the Kennedy space center? |
28°36' N, 80°, 36' W |
89 |
What is the % of water in dried meat from Graubunden? |
49% |
90 |
On what two dates in history did the Saint-Pierre cathedral in Geneva burn? |
April 1, 1175 and April 21, 1430 |
91 |
What is the number of hotels in Leukerbad? |
22 |
92 |
In which musical key is Beethoven's 6th symphony? |
F major |
93 |
How many mm of rain fell in 1995 in Zurich, Lugano and Sion? |
1323, 1412, 757 |
94 |
In 1995, what was the population density (hab. per square km) of CH, USA, UK? |
171, 28, 241 |
95 |
How tall is Mount Denali in feet? |
20,300 |
96 |
In what year was the first Davis Cup held? |
1900 |
97 |
How many medal-winning events took place at the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta? |
17 |
98 |
In how many places can you bungee jump in Switzerland and where are they? |
3, Interlaken, Centovalli, Aigle |
99 |
When was St. Augustine founded? |
1565 |
100 |
What is the gestation period for the manatee? |
13 months |
101 |
What is the name of the largest asteriod? |
Ceres |