Mastermind Club
Quiz 2023
Number 4
General Knowledge
Set by Mel Kinsey
Answers
1/ Composer/pianist James P.Johnson originated the rhythm to which dance named after a harbor city in South Carolina? The dance achieved its peak in popularity in the mid 1920s.
Charleston
2/ Between 1987 and 1999 which German female tennis player won 22 Grand Slam singles titles?
Steffi Graf
3/ Which two-word phrase was coined by the sociologist Thorstein Veblen to describe the acquisition of luxury goods to publicly display economic power?
Conspicous Consumption
4/ Which Roman poet of the first century BCE, famous for both beautiful love lyrics and obscene lampoons, addressed many of his poems to a woman called Lesbia?
Catullus
5/ “Six o’clock already, I was just in the middle of a dream, I was kissin’ Valentino, By a crystal blue Italian stream” are the opening lyrics to which major 1980s song?
Manic Monday
6/ In the forearm, what is the companion bone of the radius, also known as the elbow bone?
The Ulna
7/ In which religion are the natural spirits known as kami worshipped as deities?
Shintoism
8/ Which African country was known as Bechuanaland prior to independence?
Botswana
9/ Which chemical element is added to rubber during the process of vulcanisation?
Sulphur
10/ “Professor Ratigan” was a villain in which 1986 Disney film?
The Great Mouse Detective
11/ If you sailed due west from San Francisco which country would you reach first?
Japan
12/ What name is given to a pore, found in the epidermis of plants that is used to control gas exchange?
Stoma
13/ Which author of the novels Elmer Gantry and Babbitt was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Sinclair Lewis
14/ Who was the US Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter who resigned in 1980 in protest of the secret mission to rescue American hostages in Iran?
Cyrus Vance
15/ Only two South American countries do not share a border with Brazil. Name them
Chile & Equador
16/ In which 1989 film does Robin Williams star as English teacher John Keating? The film is set in 1959 at an elite Vermont prep school.
Dead Poets Society
17/ Which US state capital has a Spanish name that translates into English as ‘holy faith’?
Santa Fe
18/ Which American actor, writer and comedian is the creator of the much acclaimed TV series “Family Guy” that has aired on TV since 1999?
Seth MacFarlane
19/Which 2016 multiplayer first person shooter video game by Blizzard is set sixty years into the future of a fictionalized Earth, thirty years after the resolution of what is known as the “Omnic Crisis”?
Overwatch
20/ Which German physicist gives his name to the Uncertainty Principle that states it is impossible, in quantum mechanics, to simultaneously measure both energy and time accurately?
Werner Heisenberg
21/ Which 158-year-old US investment bank that went bankrupt in 2008, playing a large part in sparking the global financial crisis of the late 2000s?
Lehman Brothers
22/ Who painted the famous work depicting the last moments of Greek philosopher Socrates as he prepared to drink a cup of deadly hemlock?
Jacques-Louis David
23/ Considered one of the first grand operas, “Robert le Diable” was an 1831 opera by which German composer?
Giacomo Meyerbeer
24/ Roman poet, active in the late first and early second centuries CE, is best known for his series of 16 poems known as The Satires?
Juvenal
25/ After the reign name of the emperor during whose rule it occurred, what name is given to the revolution in 1868 that ended the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan?
Meiji Restoration