General Awareness – Miscellaneous
1-What takes place in Happy Valley Hong Kong ?- Horse racing
2- Imperial Airways in 1925 was the first to do what ?- Show an in flight movie
3- Which country grows the most sugar ?- Brazil
4- Who would use a technique called pleaching ?- Gardener twine branches to hedge
5- Glycyrrhiza Glabra is better known as what ?- Liquorice
6- Chernoble is in which Russian province ?- Ukraine
7-Where did the philosopher Plato teach ?- Academia
8-Heinrich the lion founded what city ? – Munich
9- J H Robertson invented what ?- Automatic Gearbox
10-Garlic and Chives belong to which plant family Lilly
11- There are two general types of skiing Alpine and what ?- Nordic
12- Adolf Dasler created which company ?- Adidas
13-In what city is the Uffizi art gallery ?- Florence
14- Orient Express restarted in 1982 going from London to where ?- Venice
15-In what country was the espresso machine invented in 1822 ?- France
16-After English what’s the most widely used language on the net ?- German
17- Two thirds of the worlds geysers are found where ?- Yellowstone Park
18-Where were the worlds first paved streets ?- Rome 170 bc
19-Venus is the only planet that does what ?- Rotates Clockwise
20-What is Europe’s largest port ?- Rotterdam
21- Craven Walker invented what 60s fashionable icon ?- Lava lamp
22-Marie Tussaud was born in what country ?- Switzerland
23-5 African Mediterranean countries share what language ? Arabic
24-Wool sorters disease is actually what ?- Anthrax
25-In 1939 which countries invaded Poland ?- Germany – Russia
26-Martina Hinges represents what country at tennis ?- Switzerland
27- In food labelling what does GM mean ?- Genetically Modified
28-Horses are Equine from the Greek Equus what’s it mean ?- Quickness
29-Parathesia is a medical condition with what common term ?- Pins and Needles
30- What would you be watching if you saw a round or waggledance ?- Honey Bees
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