SANDBACH U3A GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ MAY 2024
| 1.What Is the name of the music entrepreneur who discovered & managed The Beatles? | BRIAN EPSTEIN |
| 2. Muscat is the Capital City of which sultanate on the Arabian Sea? | OMAN |
| 3. What name is given to crayons made of ground pigment used for drawing & colouring? | PASTELS |
| 4. Which comic strip character was created by Mary Tourtel in 1920, & lives with his friends in the village of Nutwood? | RUPERT BEAR |
| 5. What is the name of the chief port of Nigeria which is also the most populous city in that country? | LAGOS |
| 6. What name is given to the study of birds? | ORNITHOLOGY |
| 7. Which US Soul Singers biggest UK hit was ‘(Sitting on) The Dock of the Bay’? | OTIS REDDING |
| 8. In the human body what name is given to the inflammation of the membrane lining of the nasal cavities? | SINUSITIS |
| 9. What name is given to the joining of two ropes by intertwining the strands? | SPLICING |
| 10. What is the name of a style of Country Music that originated in the US State of Kentucky? | BLUE GRASS |
| 11. What is the surname of the children’s character ‘Postman Pat’? | CLIFTON |
| 12 What was the name of the B29 Bomber used by the US to drop an atom bomb on Hiroshima in 1945? | ENOLA GAY |
| 13. Which Scottish Heroine smuggled Bonnie Prince Charlie, in a small boat, to the Isle of Skye? | FLORA MACDONALD |
| 14. What was the name of the companion & faithful squire of Don Quixote in the novel by Cervantes? | SANCHO PANZA |
| 15. Which two letters in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet are represented by ballroom dances? | FOXTROT & TANGO |
| 16. Which Author created the character ‘Bridget Jones’? | HELEN FIELDING |
| 17. Westminster Abbey, Notre Dame Cathedral & Cologne Cathedral are all built in which architectural style? | GOTHIC |
| 18. Which English singer was born Terence Edward Parsons in 1930 & was known as ‘The Man with the Golden Voice’? | MATT MONRO |
| 19. Sungold, Moneymaker & Piccolo are all varieties of which salad ingredient? | TOMATOES |
| 20. What is the name of the fictional superhero created in 1962, whose real name is Peter Parker? | SPIDERMAN |