Quiz #32/2025

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1. Greg LeMond was a champion in which sport?
2. Where is the Thar Desert?
3. What series of toys, aimed at little girls, was released by Hasbro in 1983?
4. The pause that refreshes was a slogan for which soft drink?

5. What are traditionally hung up on Christmas night for Santa Claus to fill with presents?
6. What was the first Disney full-length film that used computer-generated animation?
7. What is a male turkey called?
8. What 1942-43 battle over the namesake Soviet city on the Volga River is considered the turning point of World War ll?
9. Which south American nation are the Galapagos Islands a province of?
10. In cricket how many runs are scored if the ball is hit over the boundary without bouncing?
11. A magnetron is used in which common household appliance?
12. In 1994, the “National Sports of Canada Act” declared which two sports as the national sports of Canada?
13. Which English explorer commanded the ships “Discovery” and “Terra Nova” to explore the Antarctic?
14. What bridge, between Millers Point and Milsons Point, opened on 19 March 1932?
15. Golfer Vijay Singh, who was number one in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005, was born where?
16. How many teats does a cow normally have?
17. Which volcano’s eruption was recorded by Pliny the Younger?
18. In a sport originating in Finland that takes place annually each July a man must carry what through a 253 metre obstacle course?
19. Which British king was the focus of the movie The King’s Speech?
20. What nation invaded Kuwait in 1990?

Bonus question: What is the minimum legal age a person can get married without parental permission in the US state of Nebraska? Answer in Quiz 33.

Answers: 1.Cycling 2.In India and Pakistan 3.My Little Pony 4.Coca-Cola 5.Stockings 6.Toy Story 7.Gobbler 8.Battle of Stalingrad 9.Ecuador 10.Six runs 11.Microwave oven 12.Ice hockey (winter) and lacrosse (summer) 13.Robert Falcon Scott 14.Sydney Harbour Bridge 15.Fiji 16.Four 17.Vesuvius 18.His wife 19.King George VI 20.Iraq.
Bonus question answer (from Quiz 31): The actress who was the voice of Miss Bianca in the 1977 Disney film ‘The Rescuers’ was Eva Gabor.

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