Good Sunday morning all! Have you recovered from yesterday's trivia yet? I hope so as we have another twenty general knowledge questions for you again today! Here they are:
1. What name is given to the process by which a caterpillar changes into a butterfly?
2. Which restaurant chain was the first to use online ordering in 1994?
3. What is the name of the purely ornamental ball or knob found at the top of a flagpole?
4. What is the largest of the Canary Islands?
5. Which British author created the character Horatio Hornblower?
6. What is the name of the traditional Scottish dish made principally from oats, offal and suet?
7. Which woman became the first female Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom?
8. What is the capital of Estonia?
9. What is the name of the fleshy red growth hanging beneath a turkey’s beak?
10. What is the name of the traditional wooden Russian dolls that fit one inside another?
11. Which writer created the fictional detective Inspector Morse?
12. Which Italian city is traditionally regarded as the birthplace of pizza?
13. What was the name of the first woman to appear on a British banknote other than the monarch?
14. Which singer's real middle name is Pirate?
15. Which member of The Beatles narrated the first two series of the children's television programme Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends?
16. Which animal has unusual cube shaped waste droppings?
17. Which breakfast food gets its name from the German word meaning “stirrup”?
18. What is the name of the cardboard sleeve placed around a hot takeaway coffee cup?
19. Which common garden flower takes its name from the Latin for “little sword,” referring to the shape of its leaves?
20. What traditional wedding anniversary is celebrated after 20 years of marriage?
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Answers:
1. Metamorphosis
2. Pizza Hut
3. Finial
4. Tenerife
5. C.S. Forester
6. Haggis
7. Carol Ann Duffy
8. Tallinn
9. Wattle
10. Matryoshka Dolls
11. Colin Dexter
12. Naples
13. Florence Nightingale
14. Billie Ellish
15. Ringo Starr
16. Wombat
17. Bagel
18. Zarf
19. Gladiolas
20. China
Any better today? About the same or did you have the best day yet? Tell me all about it in the comments and don't forget, you can always leave me questions too! I will return tomorrow morning with more cards to share. All for now. Sue x
8 comments:
Morning Sue, I am amazed at the variety of questions you find, I was'nt so good today only 5. Take care all Kitty.
Hi Sue
10 today. I didn’t realise there was a dedicated name for a coffee cup sleeve.
B xx
Only 7 for me today.
A few for you, Sue.
1. What is the space between your eyebrows called?
2. Who invented the modern, curved ironing board?
3.Who was the youngest US president?
4. What is Rh-null?
5. The Clifton Suspension Bridge spans which river?
Good morning Sue and all Wilsonettes, I wasn't able to comment for the past couple of days, my MAC was playing a wobbly. Still love these trivia questions, only got 4 correct today but it is not about how many it is about what I have learnt.
Stay safe, healthy and happy, hugs, June Smith xxx,
Hi Liz, 1. Glabella 2. don't know 3. Teddy Roosevelt was youngest to take office after the assassination of McKinley, but JFK was the youngest actually elected to office. 4. Golden Blood (only a handful of people have it making it the rarest blood in the world. 5. As I recall, it is the Avon river. Thanks for the trivia! It was great! Sue x
Managed 9 today - found these a bit harder - but then again it just depends what you know 🤔🤣. Will have some trivia for you next week hopefully…
I thought these were quite hard today and I only got 5 x
يقدم هذا المقال طرحًا منظمًا ومفيدًا ويعكس فهمًا واضحًا لاحتياجات المستخدمين وجودة التنفيذ ويبرز دور ولاد البلد خدمة المنزل في توفير تجربة موثوقة وعملية تستحق المتابعة والتقدير.
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