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Trivia Quiz #5
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1. Which famous building was burnt by British troops in 1812?THE WHITE HOUSE

2.  What is potamphobia?FEAR OF RIVERS

3.  What is the world's most common surname?CHANG

4.  Who claimed to have got his powers from the planet "Hoova"?URI GELLER

5.  Which painting by Edvard Munch was stolen from a Norwegian art gallery,
 and recovered again in 1994?
THE SCREAM

6.  What is the shortest of the human digits?THE LITTLE TOE

7.  If you flew due east from New York City, which would be the first country you would reach?PORTUGAL

8.  What is the origin of the name of the New York Area known as Soho?SOUTH OF HOUSTON (STREET)

9.  Which half length oil painting of the wife of Florentine businessman
Francesco del Giocondo  now hangs in the Louvre?
THE MONA LISA

10.  What is Anablepophobia?FEAR OF LOOKING UP AT HIGH PLACES

11.  Which pop star died three days before Groucho Marx?ELVIS PRESLEY

12.  Who wrote the lines "A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns"?MARIO PUZO (THE GODFATHER)

13.  Which pop star's real surname is Panayiotou?GEORGE MICHAEL

14.  By what name was John Clayton better known?TARZAN

15.  Which famous actor anonymously entered in his own look alike contest in Monaco, and came third?CHARLIE CHAPLIN

16.  Which singer was imprisoned for transporting a minor across
state lines for immoral purposes in 1962?
CHUCK BERRY

17.  Name either of the two largest Battleships of World War II?THE MUSASHI OR THE YAMATO

18.  Revealed in October 1995, which sport is "accidently"
 receiving funding from the European Community's farming subsidies?
BULLFIGHTING

19.  In March 1992, just prior to the South African referendum, what songs were banned
from State radio?
SONGS CONTAINING THE WORD NO!

20.  In which country was the Battle of Waterloo?BELGIUM