Answers to HSL’s Weekly Quiz- 1st November 2021
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- What is the closest star to Earth?
The Sun
- What is the study of bells called?
Campanology
- In which year did Jimmy Carter become President of the United States?
1977
- What bay does the Ganges River flow into?
The Bay of Bengal
- On the human body, where is skin the thinnest?
Eyelids
- Who is the current Prime Minister of Spain?
Pedro Sánchez
- What is the name of the largest glacier in the world?
Lambert-Fisher Glacier, Antarctica
- What type of animal is the Japanese monster, Megalon?
Beetle
- What part of the body does a Rhinologist specialise in?
The nose
- Kalium is the Latin name for which element?
Potassium
- What film won the 1944 Oscar for Best Picture?
Casablanca
- What is a shark’s skeleton made of?
Cartilage
- Which 1919 treaty ended the war between Germany and the Allied Powers in World War I?
Treaty of Versailles
- Which film director did Madonna marry in 2000?
Guy Ritchie
- What year was the luxury brand, Tiffany & Co., founded?
1837
- Anubis, the God of Death, had the head of a what?
Jackal
- Of the four suits in a deck of cards, which suit is the highest ranking in a game of bridge?
Spades
- What is the largest country in Africa in terms of land size?
Algeria
- Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ famously described which area in England?
Yorkshire moorlands
- Which U.S. state’s highest mountain is Mt. Elbert?
Colorado
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