Transport

1. Which important part of a vehicle was invented in 1845 and reinvented in 1888?
2. What was the name of the submarine that made the first under – the ice crossing of the North Pole?
3. Who were the brothers who made the first balloon to carry a man aloft?
4. What is the name of the rail link between Moscow and Vladivostok, on the Pacific coast?
5. What did Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz do in 1885?
6. Which canal was begun by Emperor Nero in AD 67 and finished by 1893?

General

1. In medicine, a rhinologist is concerned with which part of the human body?
2. Which famous statue was discovered by a peasant on the Greek island of Melos in 1820?
3. A megapode is what type of creature?
4. What does a pluviometre measure?
5. What is the third event in a men's decathlon?
6. In the International Morse Code which letter of the alphabet is represented by one dash?
7. Which two colours make up the national flag of Austria?
8. Aulophobia is the irrational fear of which musical instrument?
9. Who was the first British monarch to voluntarily abdicate?
10. In which country was the 2006 FIFA World Cup held?

[Answers]

Transport:

1. The pneumatic tyre (invented by Robert William Thomson in 1845, which was forgotten and reinvented by John Boyd Dunlop in 1888.

2. USS Nautilus
3. Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier
4. The Trans-Siberian Railway
5. They built the first petrol-driven motor cars.
6. The Corinth Canal in Greece.

General:

1. The nose
2. The Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Melos)
3. Bird
4. Rainfall
5. Shot put
6.The letter T
7. Red and white
8. Flute
9. Edward VIII
10. Germany