Requiem and Tour de France

Question 1

Which flower is traditionally worn in Britain to mark Remembrance Day?

Accepted Answer

Poppy

Answer

Daisy

Answer

Rose

Answer

Lily

Question 2

In which Austrian city was the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?

Accepted Answer

Salzburg

Answer

Vienna

Answer

Innsbruck

Answer

Graz

Question 3

Which jersey colour identifies the overall leader of the Giro d’Italia?

Accepted Answer

Pink

Answer

Green

Answer

Red

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Blue

Question 4

Which ancient general crossed the Alps with war elephants in 218 BCE?

Accepted Answer

Hannibal

Answer

Alexander the Great

Answer

Pyrrhus

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Scipio Africanus

Question 5

Which composer wrote the opera Aida, first performed in Cairo in 1871?

Accepted Answer

Giuseppe Verdi

Answer

Gioachino Rossini

Answer

Georges Bizet

Answer

Giacomo Puccini

Question 6

Which scientist demonstrated electromagnetic induction in 1831, paving the way for electrical generators?

Accepted Answer

Michael Faraday

Answer

James Clerk Maxwell

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André-Marie Ampère

Answer

Alessandro Volta

Question 7

Who wrote the poem “Do not go gentle into that good night”?

Accepted Answer

Dylan Thomas

Answer

W. H. Auden

Answer

Seamus Heaney

Answer

Philip Larkin

Question 8

Which suffragist said bicycling had “done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world”?

Accepted Answer

Susan B. Anthony

Answer

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer

Millicent Fawcett

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Emmeline Pankhurst

Question 9

Which organ produces most of the hormone erythropoietin in healthy adults?

Accepted Answer

Kidney

Answer

Pancreas

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Liver

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Spleen

Question 10

Which British band released the hit single “Bicycle Race” in 1978?

Accepted Answer

Queen

Answer

10cc

Answer

Supertramp

Answer

Electric Light Orchestra