New Year Initials Quiz 1: multiple choice
4 of the 20 questions have four options to choose from; the others stay as normal questions, because no fair wrong answers could be found for them. Tap an option to see if you are right.
1. The name given to a dividing ridge between two river systems
Watershed
2. What name is given to the cartilage lying behind the tongue and in front of the entrance to the larynx?
Epiglottis
3. The name of the liner sunk by a German submarine on 7th May 1915
Lusitania
4. Name given to a feet-first toboggan?
Luge
5. A Shropshire town that was named after a famous engineer
Telford
6. Role played by Tina Turner in 1975 movie Tommy
Acid Queen
7. Chinese for "bump head" a gesture of servility
Kowtow
8. The river in which Hamburg stands
Elbe
9. The most highly populated city in Alaska
Anchorage
10. In which film does John Cleese play a headmaster called Mr Stimpson?
11. The capital city of Mongolia
Ulan Bator
12. What cakes are made from liquorice extract sugar, flour, glucose and water?
Pontefract cakes
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
Fronds
15. The Kookaburra is the largest member of which bird family?
16. What is the Japanese art of flower arranging called?
Ikebana
17. The country which has Windhoek as its capital
18. The name given to word blindness
Dyslexia
19. The name of the French town where the sitcom ‘Allo Allo’ was set
Nouvion
20. The name given to the branch of philosophy concerned with human values
Ethics
ANSWERS
1. Watershed
2. Epiglottis
3. Lusitania
4. Luge
5. Telford
6. Acid Queen
7. Kowtow
8. Elbe
9. Anchorage
10. B Clockwise
11. Ulan Bator
12. Pontefract cakes
13. C Omdurman
14. Fronds
15. C Kingfisher
16. Ikebana
17. B Namibia
18. Dyslexia
19. Nouvion
20. Ethics