General Knowledge 15

Question 1

Sport in which Henry VIII was seriously injured

Answer 1

Jousting

Question 2

Calendar used in Europe between 45 BC–1582 AD

Answer 2

Julian Calendar

Question 3

Famous German military decoration

Answer 3

Iron Cross

Question 4

Inventor of the printing press

Answer 4

Johannes Gutenberg

Question 5

The largest naval battle of WWI, it happened off the coast of Denmark

Answer 5

Battle of Jutland

Question 6

Polish pope elected in 1978

Answer 6

John Paul II

Question 7

U.S. Civil War battle in Pennsylvania

Answer 7

Gettysburg

Question 8

U.S. President who was assassinated

Answer 8

James Garfield

Question 9

Stone used to make the burial suits of Chinese emperors

Answer 9

Jade

Question 10

Style of architecture exemplified by Notre-Dame de Paris

Answer 10

Gothic

Question 11

Elite unit of 10,000 Persian soldiers

Answer 11

Immortals

Question 12

Argentinian Marxist who wore a beret with a star on it

Answer 12

Che Guevara

Question 13

Calendar that started in 1582 and is named for a Pope

Answer 13

Gregorian Calendar

Question 14

Author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence

Answer 14

Thomas Jefferson

Question 15

Turkish peninsula where ANZAC troops suffered massive casualties in WWI

Answer 15

Gallipoli

Question 16

The first man in space

Answer 16

Yuri Gagarin

Question 17

Country once called the Dutch East Indies

Answer 17

Indonesia

Question 18

Notable technology pioneer who died of pancreatic cancer in 2011

Answer 18

Steve Jobs

Question 19

Term for a Nepalese fighter in the British army

Answer 19

Gurkha

Question 20

Arab word for uprising. Palestine has had two.

Answer 20

Intifada

Question 21

King who commissioned a Bible in 1604

Answer 21

King James I

Question 22

Catholic institution used to prosecute heretics

Answer 22

Inquisition

Question 23

Religion founded in 622 AD

Answer 23

Islam

Question 24

Epic poem attributed to Homer

Answer 24

The Iliad

Question 25

Spanish title for a prince

Answer 25

Infante

Question 26

Style of music which originated in New Orleans around 1900

Answer 26

Jazz

Question 27

1949 agreement on the rules of war

Answer 27

Geneva Convention

Question 28

Confederation of six northeast Native American tribes

Answer 28

Iroquois

Question 29

The secret police of Nazi Germany

Answer 29

Gestapo

Question 30

'Revolution' that started in Britain circa 1760

Answer 30

Industrial Revolution

Question 31

Country first settled in 874 AD

Answer 31

Iceland

Question 32

Russian Tsar whose reign saw the conquest of Siberia

Answer 32

Ivan the Terrible

Question 33

Roman client state led by King Herod

Answer 33

Judea

Question 34

Italian astronomer who improved the telescope

Answer 34

Galileo Galilei

Question 35

Notable Nazi propagandist

Answer 35

Joseph Goebbels

Question 36

Her marriage to Ferdinand united Spain

Answer 36

Isabella

Question 37

Byzantine emperor who reconquered Italy

Answer 37

Justinian

Question 38

Area of Cuba leased to the U.S. in 1903

Answer 38

Guantánamo Bay

Question 39

Name used by 13 'guiltless' Popes

Answer 39

Innocent

Question 40

Julius Caesar's first name

Answer 40

Gaius

Question 41

Last name of two different U.S. Presidents, both of whose predecessors were assassinated

Answer 41

Johnson

Question 42

Name for the Soviet prison camp system

Answer 42

Gulag

Question 43

Elite soldiers who guarded the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Answer 43

Janissaries

Question 44

Civilization that built Machu Picchu

Answer 44

Incas

Question 45

City conquered by Crusaders in 1099

Answer 45

Jerusalem

Question 46

Region conquered by Julius Caesar

Answer 46

Gaul

Question 47

Enemies of the Ghibellines

Answer 47

Guelphs ## Footnote The Guelphs and Ghibellines were factions supporting the pope (Guelphs) and the Holy Roman emperor (Ghibellines) in the Italian city-states of Central and Northern Italy during the Middle Ages. During the 12th and 13th centuries, rivalry between these two parties dominated political life across Italy.

Question 48

City on the island of Java formerly known as Batavia

Answer 48

Jakarta

Question 49

Modern-day name of Constantinople

Answer 49

Istanbul