Sunday, February 10, 2013

General Knowledge Trivia Questions - Set 1

 Quizzing can find areas that need more study and uncover knowledge gaps.
 

Twenty General Knowledge Questions

With Answers

 
  1.  Which bird would you associate with the Collingwood Football Club?


  2. Who won Australia's first ever Winter Olympics Gold medal?


  3. In what year did Cold Chisel split up?


  4. What is the only type of bird that can fly backwards?


  5. Which Australian city hosted the 2001 Goodwill Games?


  6. Where was William Shakespeare born?


  7. Who said, "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline"?


  8. What is the highest point in the Northern Territory?


  9. Which New Zealand batsman faced the famous underarm ball from Trevor Chappell?


  10. How many wickets did Dennis Lillee take during his test career?


  11. Which rapper starred in the movie 8 Mile?


  12. Which film was the first to gross one Billion dollars?


  13. Who's biography is titled 'Neither shaken nor stirred'?


  14. What is the largest island in the Caribbean?


  15. Which letter lies directly to the left of N on a standard keyboard?


  16. What was Donald Bradman's Test average for Australia?


  17. What is the former name of Silverchair?


  18. What is Australia's second oldest capital city?


  19. In which two years did Greg Norman win the British Golf Open?


  20. Who won the first Sheffield Shield ?





    Hummingbird
    Hummingbirds are the smallest mature birds, measuring 7.5–13 cm (3–5 in) in length.

    The smallest is the 5 cm (2.0 in) bee hummingbird, which weighs less than 2.0 g (0.07 oz), and the largest is the 23 cm (9 in) giant hummingbird, weighing 18–24 grams (0.63–0.85 oz).

    Noted for long beaks, hummingbirds are specialized for feeding on flower nectar, but all species also consume small insects.

    They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings, which flap at high frequencies audible to other birds and humans.

    They hover at rapid wing-flapping rates, which vary from around 12 beats per second in the largest species to 80 per second in small hummingbirds.