Mastermind Club
Quiz 2024- 1
General Knowledge
Set by Mel Kinsey
Taken in part from 5 Club Quiz Archive
Answers
1/ Delacroix’s historical painting and Ivan Aivazovsky’s marine painting appear in which art period, characterized by a picturesque and melancholic atmosphere and an emphasis on the irrational?
Romanticism
2/ The main theme of which 1966 film was composed in part to resemble the howling of a coyote? This melody is also used as the leitmotif of the three main characters, with differences in the way it is performed.”
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
3/ Chronologically located between the First and the Fourth Republic, the Vargas era, part of which is the Estado Novo, is a dictatorship period in the history of which South American country?
Brazil
4/Used in the making of jewellery, an alloy of 90% gold and 10% manganese, nickel or palladium is known as what kind of gold?
White gold
5/What name is more often used for the animal genus Eunectes, which is translated from Greek as a good swimmer? These are large South American snakes from the boa family that have also gained fame in pop culture works
Anaconda
6/Which painter is thought to have suffered from borderline personality disorder? In the space of just a few days, he portrayed his friend and probable lover, the violinist Eva Mudocci, both as “a woman as seen by a man in love!”and as a “bloodthirsty, cannibalistic Salome.
Edvard Munch
7/Probably best known for its vacuum cleaners, which Swedish company is one of the world’s leading home appliance manufacturers? AEG, Frigidaire and Zanussi are just some of its subsidiaries.
Electrolux
8/ Which tarot card of the Major Arcana symbolizes the beginning and the end of a person’s life path, and is the only one that has two numbers: 0 and 22?
Fool
9/ One of the most isolated and the only one to suffer air raids in WWII, which Australian city is also called “the Australian Gateway to Asia” bcause of its geographical location?”
Darwin
10/Which demonstration, referred to by a 3-word term, led to the appointment of Mussolini as Prime Minister of Italy in 1922?
March on Rome
11/ Which Roman military leader of great virtue did Boris Johnson like himself to in his resignation speech of 2022?
Cincinatus
12/ Max Born won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his “”fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function””. Born’s daughter Irene emigrated to Australia in 1954, when her own young daughter was only 5. Who was that daughter? She became so famous she was offered a state funeral by the Australian government.
Olivia Newton-John
13/After their success together with The Beach, Danny Boyle joined forces with Alex Garland again in 2007 for which science fiction psychological drama? This movie, starring Cillian Murphy, takes place in the year 2057, with the story following a group of astronauts on a dangerous mission.
“Sunshine”
14/ What 1936 movie is notable for being the last time that Charlie Chaplin portrayed the Tramp character and for being the first time Chaplin’s voice is heard on film? This movie, which co-starred Chaplin’s then wife Paulette Goddard, is a commentary on the desperate employment and financial conditions many people faced during the Great Depression.
“Modern Times”
15/ Randa Haines may well have been annoyed when which 1986 romantic drama was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting actress and best screenplay, but she was not nominated at all for Best Director? This movie saw the Best Actress gong going to the youngest winner of that trophy to date – and she was also the first deaf winner.”
“Children of a Lesser God”
16/In Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King came up against a brutal and violent police chief. As a white supremacist, this man enforced legal racial segregation and denied civil rights to black citizens, especially during 1963’s Birmingham campaign, led by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Who was he?”
“Bull” Conner
17/Former James Bond Star George Lazenby was married to which Tennis player between 2002 and 2011? This American woman and regular doubles partner Martina Navratilova are the only women’s doubles pair to have completed the Grand Slam in a calendar year, winning ll four major titles in 1984.”
Pam Shriver
18/”The Titanic was the first ship to include what sort of sporting area? This sport was extremely fashionable amongst bright young things at the time, and the Titanic had a professional on hand to play and coach.
Squash Court
19/One of Brian De Palma’s biggest commercial successes was undoubtedly “”The Untouchables”” (1987). Which Italian was nominated but did not win the Oscar for the best original score on that movie? He would win that prize right at the end of his career for The Hateful Eight.”
Ennio Morricone
20/Which South Korean automaker, who specialises in SUVs and Pick Up trucks, currently has models including the Torres and the Tivoli? This company’s current logo is a stylized image of two wings, forming an open ring, symbolizing the dragon? “,
Ssangyong
21/ A Hungarian parliament was meeting in the city of Pressburg when news reached them of the 1848 French revolution. How is the city of Pressburg known today? This is the only capital city in the world which borders two sovereign states
Bratislava
22/ Which peak is the highest in Canada and the second-highest in North America? Named after the founder of the Geological Survey of Canada, it is considered to have the largest base circumference of any non-volcanic mountain on Earth”
Mt. Logan
23/The national flag of which country features a black trident head, with the lower part severed to indicate the break of this republic’s status as a colony of the United Kingdom in 1966? While its two ultramarine stripes represent the sea and the sky, the gold stripe represents its sand and beaches.
Barbados
24/Which 1983 novel starts with a cat named Church dying, and then being resurrected in a place that is misspelt by the children of the town?
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
25/ ts name meaning “”black sand””, what is the name of the desert which forms roughly 70% of the area of Turkmenistan?”,
Karakum