The Twitterhood Quiz
Questions

 
     
  For those who are unable to make it for the live quiz but would like to see how many of the questions they would have been able to answer within the 4 minutes given, the daily questions can be found on this page and will remain for 1 month. The answers can be found on another page but, all the answers so far will be visible so you may like to put off going there for the first time until you have caught up to the latest questions... You will find links to previous question pages at the end of the questions on this page.

 

Saturday 28th February 2009
   
Twitterhood Quiz Q1: In table tennis, what is the minimum number of points required for a win?
Twitterhood Quiz Q2: Who invented the ballpoint pen in 1938?
Twitterhood Quiz Q3: How many laps is the Indianapolis 500?
Twitterhood Quiz Q4: What is the term for the type of tree which sheds its leaves annually?
Twitterhood Quiz Q5: In which century were artists Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael born?
   
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Friday 27th February 2009
   
Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Who broadcast a televised image to an audience at the Royal Academy of Science in 1926?
Twitterhood Quiz Q2: What number does the Roman numeral C represent?
Twitterhood Quiz Q3: In which year was famous boxer Muhammad Ali born?
Twitterhood Quiz Q4: In which year was the bar code, widely used in retailing, patented?
Twitterhood Quiz Q5: What is the name given to very high-pitched sounds above 20,000 khz?
   
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Thursday 26th February 2009
   
Twitterhood Quiz Q1: What was John Napier's famous invention?
Twitterhood Quiz Q2: Who was the first person to look at space through a telescope?
Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Of which well-known mineral are pyrope and andradite varieties?
Twitterhood Quiz Q4: In which country is the Isle of Capri?
Twitterhood Quiz Q5: Which is the world's fastest moving land mammal?
   
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Wednesday 25th February 2009
   
Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Which precious metal is used in injections for arthritis?
Twitterhood Quiz Q2: Who was prime minister of Australia from 1949 to 1966?
Twitterhood Quiz Q3: What type of plant is a 'fescue'?
Twitterhood Quiz Q4: When was the microwave oven invented?
Twitterhood Quiz Q5: Name the process of separating mixtures of liquids through a semi-permeable membrane (?)
   
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Tuesday 24th February 2009
   
Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Who became the first president of the republic of Chile in 1817?
Twitterhood Quiz Q2: Phobos and Deimos are moons of which planet?
Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Who was the architect of London's famous St. Paul's Cathedral?
Twitterhood Quiz Q4: The symbol Ag is used to represent which chemical element?
Twitterhood Quiz Q5: Which brothers invented a cinematograph in 1894?
   
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Monday 23rd February 2009
   
Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Which planet has the shortest year?
Twitterhood Quiz Q2: In which year did the famous cricketer W.G. Grace die?
Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Are cirrus clouds made up of ice crystals, water droplets or water vapor?
Twitterhood Quiz Q4: What is the term for a negatively charged electrode?
Twitterhood Quiz Q5: Which vegetable did Mark Twain call "cabbage with a college education"?
   
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Sunday 22nd February 2009
   
Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Which large South African city was founded in 1886?
Twitterhood Quiz Q2: What is the main constituent of china clay?
Twitterhood Quiz Q3:  'Concha', 'helix' and 'tragus' are all parts of what?
Twitterhood Quiz Q4: What do edentulous mammals lack?
Twitterhood Quiz Q5: Which country did Japan invade in 1931?
   
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Saturday 21st February 2009
   
Twitterhood Quiz Q1: What does a mycologist study?
Twitterhood Quiz Q2: Who disappeared during a flight across the Pacific in 1937?
Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Which protein forms horn, nails and hair?
Twitterhood Quiz Q4: In which country did the Vasa dynasty rule, beginning in 1523?
Twitterhood Quiz Q5: If a chemical is 'anhydrous' what does it not contain?
   
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Friday 20th February 2009
   
Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Which American artist did not begin painting until she was 75 years old?
Twitterhood Quiz Q2: What is the name of the tiny cell fragments in the blood that help it to clot?
Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Which two gases are liquefied to make rocket fuel?
Twitterhood Quiz Q4: Which law states that voltage = current x resistance?
Twitterhood Quiz Q5: Who invented the first carpet sweeper in 1889?
   
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Thursday 19th February 2009
   
Twitterhood Quiz Q1: What blocks out the Sun's rays in a lunar eclipse?
Twitterhood Quiz Q2: Excluding wisdom teeth, how many teeth should an adult human have?
Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Who founded the Women's Franchise League in 1889?
Twitterhood Quiz Q4: What type of rock is Ayer's Rock in Australia made of?
Twitterhood Quiz Q5: What is panphobia a fear of?
   
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Wednesday 18th February 2009
   
Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Which famous author of fairy tales was born in 1805?
Twitterhood Quiz Q2: In which year did Joseph Stalin die?
Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Which ape has a name which means 'man of the forest'?
Twitterhood Quiz Q4: Au is the chemical symbol for which element?
Twitterhood Quiz Q5: How many players are on each side in a game of polo?
   
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Tuesday 17th February 2009
   
Twitterhood Quiz Q1: By what name is Robert Allen Zimmerman, born in 1941, better known?
Twitterhood Quiz Q2: What is the liquid part of blood called?
Twitterhood Quiz Q3: What kind of camel has two humps?
Twitterhood Quiz Q4: Where is the Sea of Tranquillity?
Twitterhood Quiz Q5: What are a mammal's 'vibrissae'?
   
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Monday 16th February 2009
   
Twitterhood Quiz Q1: In which US state is Hollywood situated?
Twitterhood Quiz Q2: What is a 'sand tiger'?
Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Which US golfer was known as 'The Golden Bear'?
Twitterhood Quiz Q4: Who invented the spinning frame in 1768?
Twitterhood Quiz Q5: On which foodstuff does the enzyme amylase, found in the pancreas, specifically act?
   
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Sunday 15th February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: How many front toes does a parrot have?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: Pure carbon can exist in two forms. One is graphite. What is the other?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: What kind of travel was pioneered by the Montgolfier brothers?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: The sun is largely composed of which two gases?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: How many holes does a traditional ten-pin bowling ball have?

 

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Saturday 14th February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Where is bile stored in the human body?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: Who patented the electric light bulb in 1879?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: What is a coniscope used to measure?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: From which language do the words 'ski' and 'slalom' originate?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: Having a holiday in Valletta, in which country would you be?

 

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Friday 13th February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Which creature secretes the pigment sepia?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: Who was the inventor of dynamite?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Where in the body is the pineal gland?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: Which planet was discovered by William Herschel in 1781?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: What does the Russian word 'perestroika' mean?

 

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Thursday 12th February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: How many hours does it take Jupiter to rotate on it's axis: 9.9, 12.5 or 34.6?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: Which Spanish artist painted Guernica in 1937?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: What Latin name is given to the chief muscle of the hip, forming the curve of the buttocks?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: What is the name of the cataract of water on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: What was the name of the Indian warrior who defeated Custer at the Little Big Horn?

 

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Wednesday 11th February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: In which year did the Formula One World Championships begin?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: What metal is extracted from purified bauxite?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Who was Napoleon Bonaparte's first wife?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: Which insect transmits sleeping sickness to humans?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: In Greek mythology who was the youth renowned for his great beauty?

 

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Tuesday 10th February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: How many years after the Battle of Trafalgar did the Battle of Waterloo take place?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: How many balls are there in a game of snooker, including the cue ball?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Which landscape artist's works include 'The Cornfield and 'The Haywain'?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: In the binary system of notation, which number represents '8'?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: Which is the tallest breed of dog?

 

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Monday 9th February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: In which year did Fidel Castro come to power as prime minister in Cuba?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: If a substance has a pH of 3.5 is it acidic, alkaline or neutral?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Who successfully transmitted the first radio signal across the
Atlantic in 1901?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: Where are the Islets of Langerhans?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: From which language do the words 'bistro' and 'intelligentsia' originate?

 

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Sunday 8th February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: To which king of France was Marie Antoinette married?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: What disease can humans catch from parrots and pigeons?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: In what year were the Winter Olympics first held?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: Who invented the first camera to use film rather than plates?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: By what name is the root 'Zingiber officinale' better known?

 

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Saturday 7th February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Sergi Bubka is famous for competing in which sporting activity?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: How many beats per minute does the average healthy adult human heart produce?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Who was vice president to US president Gerald Ford?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: What are 'laver', 'carrageen' and 'dulse' types of?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: What do sufferers of prosopagnosia have difficulty remembering?

 

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Friday 6th February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Which famous military march was written by Major F.J. Ricketts?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: What is the largest poisonous snake in Africa?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: What is the Mercalli scale used to measure the intensity of?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: When was the first Rugby Union World Cup held?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: What is Wallace Carothers famous for?

 

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Thursday 5th February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Who was the second person to walk on the Moon?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: Which birds are capable of rotating their neck through 270 degrees?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Which Mongol emperor did Marco Polo serve for 17 years?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: What is petrology the study of?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: How many tarsal bones do we have in each foot?

 

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Wednesday 4th February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Who was the first monarch to be crowned in Westminster Abbey?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: In Roman mythology, who was the messenger of the gods?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: What does an ethologist study?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: Which American general was known as 'Old Blood and Guts'?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: What is the main chemical pollutant that causes acid rain?

 

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Tuesday 3rd February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Icterus is an alternative name for what?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: Who was the first English monarch to be addressed as 'Your Majesty'?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: What nationality was the mountaineer Edmund Hillary?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: What do edentulous mammals lack?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: From which language do the words 'robot' and 'pistol' originate?

 

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Monday 2nd February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Two types of mammal lay eggs. One is the echidna or spiny anteater, What is the other?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: Which Austrian Doctor founded psychoanalysis?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: In athletics, how many events are there in a heptathlon?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: Which acid occurs in ant bites and nettle stings?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: From which language does the word 'carafe' originate?

 

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Sunday 1st February 2009

Twitterhood Quiz Q1: Who sailed out of Boston in 1895 on the first solo round-the-world voyage?

Twitterhood Quiz Q2: Which is the largest planet?

Twitterhood Quiz Q3: Who was the 36th president of the United States of America?

Twitterhood Quiz Q4: Which are the only birds that moult their beaks?

Twitterhood Quiz Q5: From which language do the words 'cobalt', 'nickel' and 'quartz' originate?
 

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