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Impossible Quizzes and Answers

Impossible Quiz Questions I

1. What are Fra Mauro, Taurus-Littrow, and Descartes?
2. 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' is a 1941 song - in which American state is Chattanooga?





3. Robert Curthose died a prisoner in Cardiff Castle in his early eighties - who was his father?
4. Who directed the films Carrie, Scarface, and Mission: Impossible?
5. Which product was invented as a result of an accidental in the late 19th Century by German scientist, Justus Liebig?
6. What is the most recognised work of English architect Sir Horace Jones?
7. 'The Impossible Dream' is a popular song from which 1965 Broadway musical?
8. Who split up with her boyfriend in 2004 after 43 years together but announced on her Facebook page on Valentine's Day, 2011, that she was back with her boyfriend again?
9. Who collaborated with his daughter Lucy in 2007 to write the children's book George's Secret Key to the Universe?
10. Michelle Bachelet Jeria was the first female president of which country in 2006?
11. In which battle did Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson lose his right arm?
12. Which international daily newspaper was founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley?
13. What is headquartered at Number 12 Grimmauld Place, Islington, in the Harry Potter books and films?
14. What was the real first name of playwright Tennessee Williams?
15. Which crystalline form of aluminium oxide is a nine on Mohs scale of hardness?
16. The EC Dollar is the currency of Grenada and several other countries, what does EC stand for?
17. Which posts were held by Francis Graham-Smith in the eighties and then Arnold Wolfendale in the early nineties?
18. Mr. Blythe III was born in Hope in 1946, how is he better known?
19. Historically, how was Edward of Woodstock the first Duke of Cornwall better known?
20. What today would you most associate chief architect Hiram Abiff with?

Answers:

1. Landing sites of Apollo missions to the moon
2. Tennessee
3. William the Conqueror (William I)
4. Brian De Palma
5. Marmite
6. Tower Bridge
7. Man of La Mancha
8. Barbie
9. Stephen Hawking
10. Chile
11. Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
12. Financial Times
13. The Order of the Phoenix
14. Thomas
15. Corundum
16. Eastern Caribbean
17. Astronomer Royal
18. Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, in Hope, Arkansas)
19. The Black Prince
20. Freemasonry

Impossible Quiz Questions II

1. Name the second-largest city in Denmark?
2. In classical history, what number is indicated by the word 'myriad'?
3. Keraunophobia is the fear of what?
4. The ship, the Hougoumont, made a famous voyage in 1867; what was its main cargo and which country was its destination?
5. Which book was adapted to a Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall 1944 film with the story's setting changed from Key West to Martinique?
6. Which two words can mean a boss or other senior person, is a song by Nirvana, and an annual festival held in the town of Caerphilly, Wales?
7. Effie Gray was married to artist John Everett Millais, but which Victorian art critic did she leave after six years of marriage?
8. Which TV sitcom was adapted for television by Eric Chappell from his 1971 stage play The Banana Box?
9. Who was lead singer of the band Eighth Wonder from 1983 to 1989?
10. He wears a calculator watch and his girlfriend is Irma Gobb, who is he?
11. Hirta, whose sea cliffs are the highest in the United Kingdom, is the largest island in which island group on the western edge of Scotland?
12. Another Place is a piece of modern sculpture consisting of 100 cast iron figures facing towards the sea at Crosby Beach near Liverpool; the figures are modelled on whose naked body?
13. What is calcium oxide more commonly known as?
14. Calamine lotion contains a carbonate of which element?
15. Zephyrus was the ancient Greek god of which wind?

Answers:

1. Aarhus
2. Ten thousand
3. Thunder and lightening
4. Convicts and Australia (the last convict ship to transport convicts to Australia in a journey of 89 days)
5. To Have and Have Not (by Ernest Hemingway)
6. Big Cheese (the festival is called The Big Cheese)
7. John Ruskin
8. Rising Damp
9. Patsy Kensit
10. Mr. Bean
11. St. Kilda
12. Sir Antony Gormley (the artist's own body)
13. Quicklime
14. Zinc
15. West wind