Quiz Set 9 -
Questions
Round 1: General Knowledge
1. Charlemagne: The Omens of Death is a
heavy metal album, the fourth and final by which esteemed British actor?
2. While in reality it was developed over
time by many scientists and mathematicians, Hero of Alexandria is often
credited with the invention of which measuring device?
3. The Southern Alps are a mountain range
located in which country?
4. Which actor won 3 swimming gold medals
at the 1924 Olympic Games, another 2 at the 1928 Games, then went on to play
Tarzan in a series of films in the 1930s and 40s?
5. Which sport is added to the swimming,
running and cycling of a triathlon to make it a quadrathlon?
6. Scott Lang is the real name of which
Marvel Comics superhero? He is played by Paul Rudd in the current Marvel
Cinematic Universe films.
7. Camulus was the god of war in the
mythology of which people?
8. What kind of insect is a velvet ant?
9. What is unique about the McDonalds
restaurant in Lindvallen, Sweden?
10. Which football club is ironically known
as “The Old Lady” of Turin?
Round 2: Arts &
Literature
1. Name any completed novel authored by
Charlotte Bronte, other than Jane Eyre?
2. In The Simpsons, Principal Skinner’s
prisoner number during the Vietnam War was 24601. Which famous literary
character is this a reference to?
3. What is the last book of the Old
Testament of the Bible?
4. Hasa Diga Eebowai, Turn It Off and Tomorrow
is a Latter Day are songs from which musical?
5. D-503, O-90 and I-330 are the main
characters in which 1921 novel, considered one of the grandfathers of the
dystopian genre?
6. Who is the most famous resident of the
fictional Island of Sodor, created for a series of books by Reverend W Awdry?
7. Which is the only Shakespeare play that
has the name of an animal in the title, as a distinct word?
8. Which notoriously violent artist
murdered a man named Ranuccio Tomassoni in 1606, in circumstances that have
never been fully explained?
9. Which playwright, a contemporary of
Shakespeare, is said to have been killed in a bar brawl in 1593?
10. The writings of the Bab and of Shoghi
Effendi are among the canonical writings of which faith, founded in what is now
Iran in 1844?
Round 3: Connections
1. Which fictional supervillain, created by
Sax Rohmer for a series of novels, later filmed, was an archetype of the “Yellow
Peril” metaphor?
2. “The Courtyard of the Old Residency in
Munich” is a painting that will never be shown to the public. Who was the
artist?
3. Which flippered marine mammal, common to
Arctic regions, has the scientific name odobenus
rosmarus?
4. Which writing implement originated with
the Roman stylus, but owes its modern existence to the discovery of a key
mineral in Cumbria in 1565?
5. Which actor starred as Dr Mark Sloan in
Diagnosis: Murder between 1993 and 2001?
6. Which American Civil War general and
Senator for Rhode Island became the first president of the National Rifle
Association in 1871?
7. Which experimental American musician
described the overall concept of his work as “Project/Object”, which involved
lyrics, characters and musical themes recurring throughout different projects?
8. Which Mexican Revolutionary general,
leader of the army known as “Division of the North” and styled “Centaur of the
North”, has become known as the Mexican Robin Hood?
9. Which surrealist painter’s works include
The Persistence of Memory and attempted a literary career with the novel Hidden
Faces?
10. Finally, what connects all of the above
answers?
