New Year Initials Quiz 1
- 39 questions
- about 50 minutes to run
- published 3 Dec 2009
- updated
The following quiz round was very kindly submitted by Ted Smith from the UK. Many, many thanks Ted, another great quiz round.
Take the first letter of each answer to spell a lyric from a well known song sang at New Year

2. What name is given to the cartilage lying behind the tongue and in front of the entrance to the larynx?
3. The name of the liner sunk by a German submarine on 7th May 1915
4. Name given to a feet-first toboggan?
5. A Shropshire town that was named after a famous engineer
6. Role played by Tina Turner in 1975 movie Tommy
7. Chinese for "bump head" a gesture of servility
8. The river in which Hamburg stands
9. The most highly populated city in Alaska
10. In which film does John Cleese play a headmaster called Mr Stimpson?
11. The capital city of Mongolia
12. What cakes are made from liquorice extract sugar, flour, glucose and water?
13. In which battle of 1898 did British and Egyptian troops led by Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen?
14. The name given to the leaves of ferns
15. The Kookaburra is the largest member of which bird family?
16. What is the Japanese art of flower arranging called?
17. The country which has Windhoek as its capital
18. The name given to word blindness
19. The name of the French town where the sitcom ‘Allo Allo’ was set
20. The name given to the branch of philosophy concerned with human values
21. In the Bible, who was the first King of Israel?
ANSWERS
1. Watershed
2. Epiglottis
3. Lusitania
4. Luge
5. Telford
6. Acid Queen
7. Kowtow
8. Elbe
9. Anchorage
10. Clockwise
11. Ulan Bator
12. Pontefract cakes
13. Omdurman
14. Fronds
15. Kingfisher
16. Ikebana
17. Namibia
18. Dyslexia
19. Nouvion
20. Ethics
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