Geography Trivia
The island of Rhodes belongs to which Mediterranean country?
A: Greece.
Which Mediterranean island's capital is Valletta?
A: Malta.
Eurotunnel links which two countries?
A: England and France.
La Scala is the world's most famous what?
A: Opera house.
Andorra is at the foot of which mountains?
A: Pyrenees.
Flemish is an official language of which kingdom?
A: Belgium.
Which Arctic country's Finnish name is Lapin Li?
A: Lapland.
Which country is known locally as Osterreich?
A: Austria
The Left Bank generally refers to the Left Bank of the Seine in which city?
A: Paris.
10. Which German city is known locally as Koln?
A: Cologne.
Which country was divided into East and West between the 1940s and 1990s?
A: Germany.
The Strait of Gibraltar connects the Atlantic Ocean with which Sea?
A: Mediterranean.
The airline Danair is based where?
A: Denmark.
Which mountainous European country is divided into cantons?
A: Switzerland.
Portugal lies east of which ocean?
A: Atlantic.
Which English location would the French call Douvres?
A: Dover.
In Greenland, a native of the country might be called Inuit or what?
A: Eskimo.
Which country is also called the Hellenic Republic?
A: Greece.
In Norway, a fjord is made up largely of what?
A: Water.
Majorca is part of which group of islands?
A: Balearics.
Tuscany is pat of which country?
A: Italy.
What is Europe's most mountainous country?
A: Switzerland.
The province of Calabria is at the southernmost tip of which county?
A: Italy.
What is the currency of Spain?
A: Peseta.
Mensa Quiz
- Abbesses
- Eight (each driver/truck can deliver 10 orders per hour.)
- Architecture. (Sarah only likes words in which the ch is pronounced as a k.)
- 30 (the number of the month plus the date)
- Ann, Anne, Eve, Stan, Bill, Fred, Ed
- 25 (2,000/2=1,000; 1,000/2=500; 500/10=50; 50/2=25)
- $100
- Study, dusty
- 1960
Opera Trivia
1. Who composed the opera Der Rosenkavalier?
c. Richard Strauss
2. Who composed the opera The Pearl Fishers?
c. Bizet
3. Who composed the opera The Barber of Seville?
a. Rossini
4. Who composed the opera Idomeneo?
b. Mozart
5. Who composed the opera Pagliacci?
d. Leoncavallo
6. Who composed the opera The Golden Cockerel?
d. Rimsky-Korsakov
7. Who composed the opera The Tales of Hoffman?
a. Offenbach
8. Who composed the opera The Love for Three Oranges?
d. Prokofiev
9. Who composed the opera Nixon in China?
c. John Adams
10. Who composed the opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle?
a. Bartók
Movie Quotes
"Thus the Third Age of Middle-Earth began......History became Legend....Legend became Myth;.....And some Things that should not have been Forgotten......were lost....."
Book Title:Lord of the Rings – Prologue
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Character: Galaldriel
"Cowards die may times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come."
Title: Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare
Character: Hamlet
“Never say goodbye
because goodbye means going away
and going away means forgetting “
Book Title: “Peter Pan”
Author: J. M. Barrie
Character: Peter Pan
Movie Quotes
“No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.” –
Movie Title: Gone With the Wind
Character: Rhett Butler
Actor: Clark Gable
“So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day.” –
Movie Title: The Notebook
Character: Noah Calhoun
Actor: Ryan Gosling
“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion... love actually is all around.”-
Movie title: Love Actually
Character: The Prime Minister
Actor: Hugh Grant
Silver Tongue Literary Quotes
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
Title: ,Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Spoken by: Mr. Darcy
"One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun ne'er saw her match since first the world begun." –
Title: Romeo & Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare,
Spoken by: Romeo
Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you. I'd been broken beyond repair." –
Title: New Moon (Book II in the Twilight Saga)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Spoken by: Bella
Crossword - Best Picture
Visual Puzzle
Answer: C & E
Sudoku
Rebus Puzzles
1 - Hijacking
2 - Travel Overseas
3 - Skate on thin ice
4 - Credibility gap
Visual Puzzles
Using eight eights and addition only, can
you make 1000?
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000
