How many balls are on the table at the start of a game of pool? Sixteen.
What is the national airline of Russia, code name SU? Aeroflot.
What would be kept in a quiver?Arrows.
What is the modern name of the rocky fortress which the Moors named Gabel-al-Tarik
(the Rock of Tarik)? Gibraltar.
Who was the last Bristish king to appear in battle? George II.
San Juan is the capital of which island in the West Indies? Puerto Rico.
Which profession gets its name from the Latin word for lead? Plumbing.
What is the highest mountain in the Alps? Mont Blanc. • Of which Caribbean country is Port-au-Prince the capital? Haiti.
What is the first book of the New Testament? The Gospel according to Saint Matthew.
―Haiti had a police force called the Tonton Macoutes.
Who was the first British sovereign to make regular use of Buckingham Palace when in residence in London? Queen Victoria.
Of where is Sofia the capital? Bulgaria.
What is meant by the musical term andante? At a moderate tempo.
Which team has a soccer team called Ajax? Amsterdam.
Which Dutch explorer discovered New Zealand? Abel Tasman.
Viti Levu is the largest island of which country?Fiji.
Which country fought on both sides during World War II? Italy.
In the game of chess, which piece is called springer in Germany? Knight.
What is the meaning of the Russian word ‘mir’? Peace.
What is the longest river in France? Loire
What nationality was the explorer Ferdinand Magellan? Portuguese.
Which Italian city is called Firenze in Italian? Florence.
What is Autralia’s largest city? Sydney.
Which term meaning ‘lightning war’ was used to describe military tactics used by Germany in World War II? Blitzkrieg.
Where is the deepest ocean and how deep? Pacific Ocean, largest and deepest of the world’s four oceans, covering more than a third of the earth’s surface and containing more than half of its free water. Apart from the marginal seas along its irregular western rim, it has an area of 166 million sq km (64 million sq mi), substantially larger than the entire land surface of the globe.
What is a tornado? Tornado, violently rotating column of air extending from within a thundercloud (see Cloud) down to ground level. The strongest tornadoes may sweep houses from their foundations, destroy brick buildings, toss cars and school buses through the air, and even lift railroad cars from their tracks.
Where are the World‘s Rains Forests? In South America, a vast, forested area of the Amazon River basin in Brazil and neighboring countries is by far the largest rain forest in the world. It encompasses more than 3.5 million sq km (about 1.4 million sq mi) about half of the total global rain forests cover.
What is SCHIZOPHRENIA? Schizophrenia, severe mental illness characterized by a variety of symptoms, including loss of contact with reality, bizarre behavior, disorganized thinking and speech, decreased emotional expressiveness, and social withdrawal.
What is bloodless revolution? Called also the Glorius Revolution in England, it marked the end of the despotic rule of the Stuarts and gave way to parliamentary rule there in 1688.
Which language is written from top to bottom and from left to right? Japanese.
What is drindle? A kind of dress.
What is a concordance? An index of words or topics in a book.
What is the significance of the Corsica Island in history? Birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Blockade: Blockade, naval operation conducted by a country at war, with the object of closing to foreign commerce the vital ports of an enemy country and thereby aiding in the military defeat of that country by denying it access to supplies and communications from without.
Bourgeoisie: The term was first applied to those inhabitants of medieval towns in France who occupied a position somewhere between the peasants and the landowning nobility; soon it was extended to the middle class of other nations.
Buffer state: Small State between two larger ones, regarded as reducing friction.
Détente: Détente, policy toward a rival nation or bloc of nations characterized by increased diplomatic, commercial, and cultural contact and a desire to reduce tensions, as through negotiations or talks. 5. Gentelman‘s agreement: Agreement binding in honour but not enforceable.
Fillbustering: Filibuster, in legislative procedure, term denoting the means employed by members of a legislative assembly to delay or prevent action on a measure to which they are opposed. Such means may include the introduction of dilatory motions, intentional absence from the assembly in order to prevent the existence of a quorum, or the presentation of abnormally long, often meaningless speeches.
Deflation: Deflation involves a sustained decline in the aggregate level of prices, such as occurred during the Great Depression of the 1930s; it is usually associated with a prolonged erosion of economic activity and high unemployment. Widespread price declines have become rare, however, and inflation is now the dominant variable affecting public and private economic planning.
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