Set #0

Question 1

What 1950-53 war has never formally concluded with no peace treaty?

Answer 1

Korean War

Question 2

I played goalie for the Montreal Canadiens between 1971 and 1979. During that time I won six Stanley Cups and was the goalie for Canada in the 1972 Summit Series. Who am I?

Answer 2

Ken Dryden

Question 3

Which Italian, famous for his work in radio transmission, received the Nobel prize for physics?

Answer 3

Guglielmo Marconi

Question 4

What is the name for a short story, usually about animals?

Answer 4

Fable

Question 5

Who was the first woman member of parliament in Canada?

Answer 5

Agnes Macphail

Question 6

On which island would we find Canada’s most northerly point?

Answer 6

Ellesmere island

Question 7

What body of water is located north of Venezuela and south of Cuba?

Answer 7

Caribbean Sea

Question 8

What class of poisonous compound was named for its discovery while producing the pigment Prussian blue?

Answer 8

Cyanide

Question 9

Which word is a synonym for ‘many’, or a Roman army consisting of 10 cohorts?

Answer 9

Legion

Question 10

What term refers to the number of waves a sound makes each second?

Answer 10

Frequency (of sound)

Question 11

What is the SI unit for frequency?

Answer 11

Hertz

Question 12

In 1521 Ferdinand Magellan was killed in a tribal skirmish on the island of Mactan, in which modern nation?

Answer 12

The Philippines

Question 13

The German-born Empress of Russia, 1762-1796, was known by what title?

Answer 13

Catherine the Great

Question 14

The first wife of King Henry the VIII of England, was Catherine of what Spanish territory?

Answer 14

(Catherine of) Aragon

Question 15

In 1974, what African republic was the first Portuguese colony to gain independence?

Answer 15

Guinea-Bissau

Question 16

The kidnapping, or perhaps elopement of which woman set off the event leading up to the ‘Illiad’?

Answer 16

Helen of Troy

Question 17

What is the name of the railway that runs between Moscow and Vladivostok?

Answer 17

Trans-Siberian railway

Question 18

Which abstract expressionist was famous for his drip paintings?

Answer 18

Jackson Pollock

Question 19

Which exponent of magic realism chronicled the lives of the Buendia family in One Hundred Years of Solitude?

Answer 19

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Question 20

Which author wrote about a title character who tilts at windmills he believes are giants and has a squire named Sancho Panza?

Answer 20

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Question 21

In the myth of Hades and Persephone, Persephone swallowed seven seeds of what fruit?

Answer 21

Pomegranate

Question 22

What is the largest and most populated island of the French Polynesian Islands?

Answer 22

Tahiti