FMNH QUIZ 1 ANSWERS ANSWER GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1 In 2013, Belgium issued stamps with which flavour Chocolate glue?
2 In which sport would you perform Randolphs and Trampolining Rudolphs?
3 For what is the UK tourist attraction Wookey Hole Caves famous?
4 Which fictional detective has museums devoted to him Sherlock in the Swiss towns of Lucens and Meiringen? Holmes
5 Which term is used for manufacturing or business Cottage carried out in people’s homes? Industry
6 In Norse mythology, what is the name of the rainbow Bifrost bridge connecting the gods’ world Asgard with man’s world Midgard?
7 The Duke of Edinburgh was born a prince of both Denmark Greece and which other country?
8 As what is hydrated magnesium sulphate better known? Epsom Salts
9 Which US space shuttle was the first to gain orbit in Columbia space? (1981)
10 In which country did the fandango originate? Spain
LIVING WORLD ANSWER
1 What sort of creature is a fluke? Worm
2 What name is given to an organism that is both male Hermaphrodite and female?
3 What is a puffball? Fungus
4 How many pairs of ribs does a human have? 12
5 A pilchard is a member of which fish family? Herring
6 As what is a male honey bee known? Drone
7 What name is given to a body on which a parasite Host feeds?
8 What is the olfactory sense? Smell
9 What is the smallest living unit called? Cell
10 What do polled cattle not have? Horns
ISLE OF MAN ANSWER
1 In 1079 King Godred Crovan defeated the Manx army Sky at where?
2 According to ‘The Gazetteer of the Isle of Man’, the Black Stream name Douglas is derived from the Manx Gaelic (M.G – Doo meaning what? Glass)
3 HMS Urley is now known as what? Ronaldsway Airport
4 Which monastic order occupied Rushen Abbey for Cistercian most of its history?
5 In which Manx museum will you find the cases of the Manx Aviation first two shells fired by the British Army in World War and Military II, a replica Victoria Cross, a Prisoner of War camp Museum radio, and a Spitfire engine?
6 The original Noble’s Hospital, which closed in 1912, is Manx now what? Museum
7 What is the main ingredient of ManX spirit? Whisky
8 Which peculiarly Manx award was instituted in 2007 Tynwald and has been awarded to Norman Sayle, Nadene Honour Crowther, Hector Duff and Bill Dale amongst others?
9 The Governments of the Channel Islands, the Isle of Issue Bank Man, and Gibraltar all do something which UK Notes Governments don’t, but the banks of the UK countries do. What is it?
10 Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe and William The Plays of Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby and Lord of Mann, are all William alleged to have written what? Shakespeare
IT ISN’T WHAT IT SEEMS ANSWER
1 The lead in pencils is actually what? Graphite
2 In Northern England, Wales and the English Midlands, A faggot what is a savoury duck?
3 Your funnybone is actually what? Your Ulnar Nerve
4 A shooting star is really what? A Meteor
5 Catgut is usually made from what? Sheep Intestine
6 Panama hats come from where? Ecuador
7 The Black Box or flight recorder on an aircraft is what Orange colour?
8 Magnetic Hill in Arbory isn’t really magnetic. What is An Optical it? Illusion
9 A cor anglais or English Horn is not English or a horn. A French Alto What is it? Oboe
10 A sweetbread is not a bread. What is it? Calves or Lambs Pancreas
TREASURES ANSWER
1 Which site in Egypt is the location of the tomb of Valley of the Tutankhamen? Kings
2 In AD70, what famous, almost mythical treasure did The Ark of the the Romans loot from the temple in Jerusalem? Covenant
3 What was the unusual treasure on board the SS Whisky Politician which sank off the island of Eriskay, West of Scotland in 1941?
4 The film The Monuments Men is about the search for Art Looted by what? the Nazis
5 In 2017 the painting ‘Salvator Mundi’ or Saviour of the Leonardo da World was sold by Christies in New York for a world Vinci record price of just over US$450M. Painted in around 1500 it is one of only about 20 surviving works believed to be by this artist. Who is the artist?
6 The largest cut diamond in the world is The Star of The Sceptre Africa. In which of the Crown Jewels is it mounted – the Imperial Crown, the Sceptre or the Orb?
7 Stephen Fry, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, David Jason National and Michael Aspel have all been described as this, but Treasures Julie Walters refuses to be described as this. What is it?
8 Very ordinary looking bits of very thin wood found at Letters the Roman site of Vindolanda, they shed a unique light on ordinary Romano-British life along Hadrian’s Wall. What are they?
9 Discovered on a Scottish island in 1831, one of them Isle of Lewis was subsequently lost but then found in a drawer in a Chessmen house in Edinburgh and sold in 2019 for £735,000. What is it?
10 Which national treasure of the USA was designed by Statue of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and erected in 1886? Liberty
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ‘L’ ANSWER
1 Which glands of the body produce white blood cells? Lymph
2 What name is given to a Tibetan Buddhist monk? Lama
3 Which musical instrument shares its name with an Lyre Australian bird?
4 What is the name of the fluid secreted by a rubber tree? Latex
5 What name is given to the text of an opera? Libretto
6 Humbert Humbert is the lead character in which Lolita Vladimir Nabokov novel?
7 In ancient Rome, ten cohorts made up one what? Legion
8 Through which city does the river Aire flow? Leeds
9 What was Casanova’s occupation at the time of his Librarian death?
10 What name is given to collectors of butterflies and Lepidopterists moths?