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Hard Quiz Questions I
- Which capital city translates aa 'Capital' in its native tongue?
- Which fictional detective appeared for the first time in the 1977 book, Quiet as a Nun?
- Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport is a national airport in which city?
- Meghan is the second name of the Duchess of Sussex - what is her actual first name?
- The Fall of Constantinople marked the end of which Empire?
- What is the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet?
- The đồng has been the currency of which country since 1978?
- Which artist painted Girl with a Pearl Earring?
- How many letter 'e' tiles are there in Scrabble?
- The Fitzwilliam Museum is an art and antiquities museum in which city?
- What was the name of the inn in Treasure Island?
- Which Hollywood actress, who died in 1990, was born Ruby Catherine Stevens?
- Which city is the largest French-speaking city in the world?
- Which Italian university, founded in 1088, is the oldest university in continuous operation in the world?
- Which city's underground, locally known as subte, is the oldest underground system in the Southern Hemisphere?
- Who stood down from their Henley constituency at the 2001 election to be succeeded by new Member of Parliament Boris Johnson?
- Who got married on November 21, 1990, in Bali, Indonesia, to discover years later that they were never officially married? (Two names needed)
- What's the name of the group of English writers in the early 20th century that included Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster as members?
- Which dynasty ruled Egypt from 305 to 30 BC and was the last dynasty of ancient Egypt?
- Which dance is also the often used collective known for a group of rattlesnakes?
- Who in 1966 wrote the song "This Is My Song", which became a Number One hit for Petula Clarke?
- The siege of Sidney Street in 1911 was a gunfight in the East End of London between a combined army and police force and two revolutionaries from which country?
Answers:
- Seoul (South Korea)
- Jemima Shore (in the books by Antonia Fraser)
- Little Rock
- Rachel
- Byzantine Empire
- Mu
- Vietnam
- Johannes Vermeer
- 12
- Cambridge
- Admiral Benbow
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Kinshasa
- Bologna University
- Buenos Aires
- Michael Heseltine
- Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall
- The Bloomsbury Group
- Ptolemaic dynasty
- Rhumba
- Charlie Chaplin
- Latvia
Quiz II
- Which actor's only Academy Award nomination was for a part that lasted less than six minutes in the film Network?
- Which well-known famous event happened just 77 days before the storming of the Bastille?
- Which country is the smallest country in mainland Africa?
- Which writer is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels?
- Can you name the highest mountain in Northern Ireland?
- What was Bing Crosby's real first name?
- If it is 10PM in Sydney, Australia, what time is it in Perth, Australia?
- Who is the tallest measured British monarch, whose skeleton measured six foot four and a half inches?
- "Incident at West Egg" was the working title of which book?
- Abraham Lincoln became county champion at the age of 21 in what?
- What symbol is technically called an octothorpe?
- Expanding bullets, designed to expand on impact, are also known as what bullets?
- Which country's team arrived 12 days late to the 1908 London Olympics because they were using the Julian and not the Gregorian calendar?
- Who starred opposite Jim Carrey in the 1994 comedy film Dumb and Dumber?
- Where was President Nixon when he declared: "I am not a crook!"?
- Which former Blue Peter presenter was Chief Scout of the United Kingdom before Bear Grylls appointment in 2009?
- Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain, sited southwest of which modern city?
- A. G. Carrick is one of Britians most succesful artists, what is his better known name?
- What name is given to a sentence that contains every letter in the alphabet?
- Which country has often been called the Switzerland of Central America?
Answers:
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- The Gambia
- Terry Pratchett
- Slieve Donard
- Harry
- 8PM
- Edward IV
- The Great Gatsby
- Wrestling
- Hashtag
- Dumdum bullets
- Russia
- Jeff Daniels
- Disney World, Orlando, Florida
- Peter Duncan
- St Albans
- Prince Charles
- Pangram
- Costa Rica
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