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 |