January 17, 2012 | QM print friendly version 1 Which writer invented the fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin? Edgar Allan Poe 2 What is the name of the short-sleeved midriff-baring bodice worn under a sari? Choli 3 What is the name of Earl’s band in the US tv series ‘My Name Is Earl’? Van Hickey 4 Which actress married Prince Ranier III of Monaco in 1956? Grace Kelly 5 What is the emblem of Canada? Maple Leaf 6 Which historical figure called the English ‘A nation of shopkeepers’? Napoleon I 7 Which professional golfer is known as ‘The Big Easy’? Ernie Els 8 What does a copoclephillist collect? Key rings 9 Which poet wrote ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’? William Butler Yeats 10 In which two US states does Monument Valley lie? Arizona and Utah 11 Which is the largest planet in our solar system? Jupiter 12 What type of creature is a nilgai? Antelope 13 Who directed the 2002 film ‘Minority Report’, which is set primarily in the year 2054? Steven Spielberg 14 In September 2006 the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was overthrown in which Asian country? Thailand 15 What is the first bird mentioned in the Bible? Raven 16 Lake Tuz is in which European country? Turkey 17 The Corbillon Cup is played for by women in which sport? Table tennis 18 In the UK, ‘The Trial of the …’what’, is the procedure for ensuring that newly minted coins conform to required standards? Pyx 19 Peladophobia is the morbid fear of what in people? Baldness/bald people 20 English monarch King John, who died in 1216, was the youngest son of which king? Henry II 21 John Patrick ‘Jack’ Ryan is a fictional character who appears in many novels by which author? Tom Clancy 22 Who wrote the opera ‘The Barber of Seville’? Gioachino Rossini 23 Which late actress played Elsie Tanner in the UK tv soap ‘Coronation Street’? Patricia Phoenix 24 Digambara and Svetambara are the two major sects in which religion? Jainism 25 Illusionist Ehrich Weiss was better known by what name? Harry Houdini 26 In which country was the ancient city of Ecbatana? Iran 27 What type of creature is a crappie? Fish 28 What was the name of the British submarine which collided with a Swedish oil tanker in the Thames estuary in 1950, killing over 60 people? HMS Truculent 29 Columbus Day is celebrated in Chile during which month of the year? October 30 What is the name of the headquarters of the US Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia? The Pentagon