Odds and Sods Quiz
A mix of many different types and difficulty of questions in this quiz.
QUESTIONS
1. What name from the Jungle Book is given to the leader of a cub-scout pack?
2. At the end of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, where is the restaurant where they all sit down to eat and is the title of the sequel?
3. The Corinth Canal separates mainland Greece from which region?
4. Croke Park is the GAA arena for which two national sports in Ireland? One point for BOTH sports
5. Starring Viggo Mortenson and Mahershala Ali, what Oscar winning film tells the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by the African-American pianist Don Shirley and his driver, Frank ‘Tony Lip’ Vallelong an Italian-American bouncer.
6. What name is given to the children’s optical toy which uses two angled mirrors in a cylinder to create changing symmetrical patterns which only the user can see?
7. Great to remember for Scrabble, what is the two letter name given to the life force vital for living entities and supposedly regulated by acupuncture in Chinese medicine, philosophy and culture?
8. Sergio Parisse is Italy’s most capped player in which sport?
9. A barrister’s wig is made primarily from the hair of which animal?
10. Founded in 1998, in which city are the headquarters of the European Central Bank?
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ANSWERS
1. What name from the Jungle Book is given to the leader of a cub-scout pack?
AKELA
2. At the end of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, where is the restaurant where they all sit down to eat and is the title of the sequel?
AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
3. The Corinth Canal separates mainland Greece from which region?
PELOPONNESE
4. Croke Park is the GAA arena for which two national sports in Ireland?
HURLING (Camogie for women) and GAELIC FOOTBALL
5. Starring Viggo Mortenson and Mahershala Ali, what Oscar winning film tells the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by the African-American pianist Don Shirley and his driver, Frank ‘Tony Lip’ Vallelong an Italian-American bouncer.
THE GREEN BOOK
6. What name is given to the children’s optical toy which uses two angled mirrors in a cylinder to create changing symmetrical patterns which only the user can see?
KALEIDOSCOPE
7. Great to remember for Scrabble, what is the two letter name given to the life force vital for living entities and supposedly regulated by acupuncture in Chinese medicine, philosophy and culture?
QI
8. Sergio Parisse is Italy’s most capped player in which sport?
RUGBY UNION
9. A barrister’s wig is made primarily from the hair of which animal?
HORSE
10. Founded in 1998, in which city are the headquarters of the European Central Bank?
FRANKFURT