Wednesday, August 6, 2014

General Knowledge Questions and Answers 19

1 In which card game, played with a deck of 32 cards,
are the jacks known as bowers?
2 Who wrote Waiting for Godot?
3 The Wrigley Building is located in which US city?
4 What nationality was the 14th/15th century astronomer
Tycho Brahe?
5 What was first seriously advocated by a British
builder, William Willett, in his 1907 pamphlet Waste of
Daylight?
6 By the end of which period in Earth’s history had most
dinosaurs become extinct?
7 Calypso, cattleya and pogonia are types of which
flower?
8 Who played Flint in a series of spy films?
9 Who performed the first surgery in England under
antiseptic conditions?
10 Which part in the Munsters TV series was played by
old-time film actress Yvonne de Carlo?
10
Quiz 7
ANSWERS:
1 California, 2 Peter Wright, 3 Francois Mitterand, 4 Battle of Britain, 5 An ice
pick, 6 Bird, 7 Harvest moon, 8 A tidal wave, 9 Kelly, 10 Saltire.

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