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Questions
- J. Edgar Hoover served as the first director of which American intelligence and security service?
- Which landmark in Rome is also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre?
- What kind of spoon are aristocrats said to be born with?
- "Four legs good, two legs bad" is a phrase, which occurs in Chapter III of which George Orwell novel?
- What is the nut of the oak tree?
- What shape is the cross-section of an Allen Key?
- Which city in the U.S.A. was the first to use the wheel clamp to force the payment of outstanding parking tickets?
- On a standard computer keyboard, which letter is on the extreme left of the top rows of keys?
- Which John Constable painting was originally titled 'Landscape: Noon'?
- The budgerigar, commonly nicknamed the budgie, is found in the wild throughout the drier parts of which country?
- Can you name the one-eyed giants that first appeared in the mythology of ancient Greece?
- Which magnitude scale, developed in 1935, is a scale of numbers used to tell the power of earthquakes?
- Which word can mean the width of a ship or a piece of gymnastics apparatus?
- Which English king was executed in 1649?
- Which country is also called Persia?
- A Scottish breed of pony is named after which islands?
- Which scientist invented dynamite?
- Which radio play caused public panic in 1938 when the audience believed it was a real Martian invasion?
- What do males have one X and one Y of, and females two X's?
- Which mountain in South Dakota has a massive sculpture of four American presidents carved into it?
- What is the name of the mythical winged horse of Greek legend?
- If 'A' is alpha, and 'Z' is zulu, what is 'V'?
- What is London's famous wax museum commonly known as?
- Which type of crop is destroyed by the Colorado beetle?
- The shoguns were the military dictators of which country?
Answers:
- FBI (The Federal Bureau of Investigation)
- Colosseum
- Silver spoon
- Animal Farm
- Acorn
- Hexagonal
- Denver (the wheel clamp is also known as the Denver Boot)
- Q
- The Hay Wain
- Australia
- Cyclops
- Richter scale
- Beam
- Charles I
- Iran
- Shetland Islands
- Alfred Nobel
- The War of the Worlds
- Chromosomes
- Mount Rushmore
- Pegasus
- Victor
- Madame Tussauds
- Potato
- Japan