General Knowledge Quiz
A mix of questions at a HARD difficulty level.
QUESTIONS
1. What is the alternative name given to the Higgs boson or Higgs particle which is being researched by CERN?
2. On which part of a duck, goose and swan would you find a nail?
3. Who was in charge of the USSR during the Great Purge AKA the Great Terror (in Russian, Yezhovshchina) between 1936 and 1938?
4. The Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna and Kavery (Cauvery), Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers flow into which bay?
5. What is the equivalent of the Red Cross in Muslim countries?
6. Spell the word: Remanisence, Reminissense, Remeniscence or Reminiscence?
7. The Ballon d’Or award recognise the world’s best what?
8. If a contract has an unpredicted outcome leading to the prevention of fulfilling an agreement, what French term is used in legality to describe this action?
9. What is the name of the author who wrote, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’, ‘The Boys From Brazil’, ‘The Stepford Wives’ and ‘A Kiss Before Dying’?
10. Belstaff is a range of waterproof clothing first produced in 1924 for what past-time?
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ANSWERS
1. What is the alternative name given to the Higgs boson or Higgs particle which is being researched by CERN?
GOD PARTICLE (It’s called this as it is said this is what caused the ‘Big Bang’)
2. On which part of a duck, goose and swan would you find a nail?
BEAK/BILL (It’s the hard process at the tip of the bill or beak)
3. Who was in charge of the USSR during the Great Purge AKA the Great Terror (in Russian, Yezhovshchina) between 1936 and 1938?
JOSEPH STALIN
4. The Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna and Kavery (Cauvery), Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers flow into which bay?
BAY OF BENGAL
5. What is the equivalent of the Red Cross in Muslim countries?
RED CRESCENT
6. Spell the word: Remanisence, Reminissense, Remeniscence or Reminiscence?
REMINISCENCE
7. The Ballon d’Or award recognise the world’s best what?
FOOTBALLER/SOCCER PLAYER
8. If a contract has an unpredicted outcome leading to the prevention of fulfilling an agreement, what French term is used in legality to describe this action?
FORCE MAJEURE
9. What is the name of the author who wrote, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’, ‘The Boys From Brazil’, ‘The Stepford Wives’ and ‘A Kiss Before Dying’?
IRA LEVIN
10. Belstaff is a range of waterproof clothing first produced in 1924 for what past-time?
MOTORCYCLING