Welcome to our Easy Quiz

Easy Quiz I

1. What was the first name of the Spanish artist Dali?
2. Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in which European mountain range?
3. How many days are there in February in a leap year?
4. Which mode of transport has parts called an envelope, burner and basket?





5. If something is done in a clandestine way, how is it done?
6. Give the four initials of the organisation responsible for maintaining a database of drivers in Great Britain?
7. In the Second World War what was the German equivalent of the RAF?
8. Which dance move, in which the dancer moves backwards, was made popular by Michael Jackson?
9. Which large animal's name comes from the ancient Greek words for "river horse"?
10. What's the name of the historical embroidered long cloth which depicts events leading up to the Battle of Hastings?
11. What colour is the circle on the Japanese flag?
12. If a letter of the alphabet is not a vowel, what must it be instead?
13. What was originally considered to be the ninth planet from the Sun but after 1992 had its status as a large planet changed?
14. How many teeth does an adult have?
15. Which 13th-century Scottish warrior was played by Mel Gibson in the film Braveheart?
16. Not including jokers, how many cards are there in a complete pack of playing cards?
17. Which sport is played on a lawn and involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops?
18. By which three letter abbreviation do we better know the name given to the genetic instructions of all known living organisms?
19. Name the only American president to resign from office?
20. Which gas is balloon gas, which is used to fill party balloons that float in the air?

Answers:

1. Salvador
2. The Alps
3. 29
4. A hot air balloon
5. Secretively
6. DVLA
7. Luftwaffe
8. Moonwalk
9. Hippopotamus
10. Bayeux Tapestry
11. Red
12. A consonant
13. Pluto
14. 32
15. William Wallace
16. 52
17. Croquet
18. DNA
19. President Nixon
20. Helium

Easy Trivia II

1. What type of trees do dates grow on?
2. The country of Lesotho is completely surrounded by which other country?






3. In the nursery rhyme, whose wife "could eat no lean"?
4. By land area, which is the largest state in the USA?
5. Acording to an old proverb, what "gathers no moss"?
6. Which type of cycle has only one wheel?
7. The nickname Geordie is often given to a person from which large city?
8. What is the name of the rubber disc hit in a ice hockey match?
9. Which sea separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain?
10. Which queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe famously led an uprising against the occupying Romans?
11. What was the name of the large balloons anchored to the ground by cables in London during the Second World War?
12. Bill Gates was the principal founder of which computer company?
13. How many sides does a decagon have?
14. The first expedition to reach the South Pole was led by which Norwegian explorer?
15. If your hobby is philately, what do you collect?
16. Adolf Hitler was born in which country?
17. Hollywood is a suburb of which American city?
18. Hematology is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of what?
19. What type of animal are you 'sick as', if you are heart-broken or very disappointed?
20. What do Americans call Autumn?

Answers:

1. Palm trees
2. South Africa
3. Jack Sprat's
4. Alaska
5. A rolling stone
6. A unicycle
7. Newcastle (a Geordie is a person from the Tyneside area, which includes Newcastle)
8. A puck
9. Irish Sea
10. Boudica
11. Barrage balloons (which served as an obstacle to low-flying enemy aircraft)
12. Microsoft
13. 10






14. Roald Amundsen
15. Stamps
16. Austria
17. Los Angeles
18. Blood
19. Parrot (as in sick as a parrot)
20. The fall