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Christmas Quizzes

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

Christmas Quiz Questions1. The name given to a dividing ridge between two river systems

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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