General Knowledge Quiz No. 171

[Carl]

• 1. What does a phyllophobe fear ?

• 2. Reynard is a nickname for which animal ?

• 3. In which country was tennis player John McEnroe born ?

• 4. What spirit is used to make a daquari ?

• 5. What is an Aldis Lamp used for ?

• 6. What country has the international car registration letters TR ?

• 7. Which vitamin, considered by some experts to be a hormone, is activated in the human body by Sunshine ?

• 8. Apart from London which three other cities in Britain have an underground railway system ?

• 9. The Queensberry Rules are standard rules of which sport ?

• 10. In heraldry what colour is sable ?

• 11. What type of fruit is a canteloupe ?

• 12. Who played the Riddler in the 1995 film Batman Forever ?

• 13. What is the fifth sign of the Zodiac ?

• 14. What is the name of a word which reads the same backwards as forwards ?

• 15. What does an ocularist make ?

Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

[elcarretero]

2 Fox
4 Rum

[gail]

7. Vitamin D
11. Melon

[LucindaC]

3 Germany
12 Jim Carey

[elcarretero]

9 Boxing

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. What does a phyllophobe fear ? Leaves

• 2. Reynard is a nickname for which animal ? Fox

• 3. In which country was tennis player John McEnroe born ? Germany

• 4. What spirit is used to make a daquari ? Rum

• 5. What is an Aldis Lamp used for ? Morse code

• 6. What country has the international car registration letters TR ? Turkey

• 7. Which vitamin, considered by some experts to be a hormone, is activated in the human body by Sunshine ? Vitamin D

• 8. Apart from London which three other cities in Britain have an underground railway system ? Glasgow, Liverpool and Newcastle

• 9. The Queensberry Rules are standard rules of which sport ? Boxing

• 10. In heraldry what colour is sable ? Black

• 11. What type of fruit is a canteloupe ? Melon

• 12. Who played the Riddler in the 1995 film Batman Forever ? Jim Carrey

• 13. What is the fifth sign of the Zodiac ? Leo

• 14. What is the name of a word which reads the same backwards as forwards ? Palindrome

• 15. What does an ocularist make ? Artificial eyes