General knowledge quiz

2024-03-30 -

HISTORY

1 Which American ship was discovered drifting mysteriously abandoned yet fully provisioned in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872?

2 For what did the initials RMS of RMS Titanic stand?

3 Which Anglo-Saxon king is said to have commanded the tide not to come in, to demonstrate the limits to a monarch’s power?

4 In which decade was Britain’s first motorway opened?

5 What, in the Second World War, was a doodlebug?

6 For what prehistoric art forms are Lascaux and Chauvet in France and Altamira in Spain famous?

7 Madonna’s song Into the Groove was recorded for which 1985 film?

8 Born in 1952, Stewart Copeland is best known for playing which type of musical instrument?

9 Released in 1970, My Sweet Lord was a hit single for which singer?

10 Who played Jerry Travers in the 1935 American screwball musical comedy Top Hat?

11 What type of creature is Memphis in the 2006 computer-animated film Happy Feet?

12 Which famous structure appears on a beach at the end of the 1968 film Planet of the Apes?

13 In which country, in 1879, was the physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein born?

14 What is the symbol for the chemical element neon?

15 What type of animal is an Alaskan malamute?

16 How many known natural satellites does the planet Mercury have?

17 In anatomy, what is the innominate bone in humans also known as?

18 Relating to animals, what does the word fossorial mean?

19 At which English football ground is the large two-tiered stand, the Holte End?

20 In athletics, how many hurdles are there in the 110m hurdles for men?

21 Long leg and square leg are terms used in which sport?

22 What nationality is World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen?

23 In which country did the gambling game fantan originate?

24 In which game do Europe and the USA compete for the Mosconi Cup?

25 In which country in south east Asia is the popular resort town of Siem Reap?

26 Which city is the capital of the German state of Saxony?

27 What is Uluru, or Ayers Rock, made of?

28 In which country is the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, the burial place of the apostle St James?

29 Which is the largest of the Channel Islands?

30 The landlocked grand duchy of Luxembourg is bordered by Belgium, France and which other country?

Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror