General knowledge quiz

POT LUCK

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What do waxing gibbous and waning gibbous refer to? ‘We’ve been together now for forty years / An’ it don’t seem a day too much’ is lyric from which 1892 music hall song? In which children’s novel would the reader encounter Miss Honey and Miss Trunchbull? Which British musician, who has three albums named after mathematical symbols, released No 6 Collaborations Project in 2019? In which year was a Succession to the Crown Act passed, enabling a monarch’s male or female oldest offspring equal inheritance rights to the throne? In the classic version of the board game Trivial Pursuit, what colour are the questions in the geography category?

FOOD AND DRINK

What variety of food is bucatini? Which European country does Rioja wine come from? Which celebrity chef opened the Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, Berkshire in 1995? Pecorino is an Italian cheese made from the milk of which animals? What’s the nationality of the irascible, bushy-browed chef who featured irregularly in Jim Henson’s The Muppet Show? The juice of which fruit is mixed with tequila and grenadine to make a tequila sunrise cocktail?

LANGUAGE

Dari and Pashto are the official languages of which Asian country? The name of which national capital city is used as part of the Nato phonetic alphabet? ‘Apeller un chat un chat’ is the French equivalent of which English idiom? What is the name for a sentence incorporating all the letters of the alphabet? In Cockney rhyming slang, what’s ‘a two and eight’? The letter M in Morse code is signalled by two dashes; which vowel is signalled by two dots?

USA

The name of which great American highway was rededicated in 1952 in honour of the humorist Will Rogers? Geographically, what is the largest US state? Jerome David are the forenames of which cult American novelist? Which Hollywood theatre has become the permanent home of the annual Oscars ceremony? The names of which four American states begin with word ‘new’? What sort of building is depicted on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States?

TELEVISION

Which sitcom returned to TV in 2017 with three new child characters named Charlie, Benji and Molly? Used as the title song for the British crime drama series Luther, Paradise Circus is a collaboration by the UK garage producer Burial and which Bristol-based trip-hop group? Which ten-year-old actor appeared on TV as David Copperfield in 1999? What is Jenny Ryan’s nickname on The Chase? Which role was shared by the young Olsen twins in the family drama Full House? Moldavia was a fictional European monarchy ruled by Prince Michael and his father in which US soap opera?

Solutions in Monday’s Daily Record