Mastermind Club
Quiz 2025-2
General Knowledge
Set by Mel Kinsey
Answers
1/ Which Caribbean Island´s capital is served by Jose Marti airport?
Cuba
2/ Who plays the lead role in Danny Boyle´s film ´Steve Jobs, about the Apple founder?
Michael Fassbender
3/ The first car licence plates were issues in 1893, in which country?
France
4/ Only 55 kilometres apart (along the banks of the Danube) what two European capital cities are closest together excluding microstates?
Vienna and Bratislava (Austria and Slovakia)
5/ Which dance did the pop group Kaoma introduce to the music charts in 1989?
The Lambada
6/ The Fédération Internationale d’Escrime (FIE) is the international governing body of what sport?
Fencing
7/ Whose 1984 novel ´Neuromancer´, was one of the first cyberpunk novels?
William Gibson
8/ Rob Halford is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for which heavy metal band?
Judas Priest
9/What name is given to the highest vertebra of the backbone?
Atlas
10/Which 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner sent his wife to Oslo to accept the prize because he feared he would not be readmitted to his homeland?
Lech Walesa
11/Which is the only baseball team outside the U.S. to have ever won the World Series
Toronto Blue Jays (1992 & 1993)
12/ Which US President was the first to be born a citizen of the United States?
Martin Van Buren
13/Still published today, what famous book is credited to Hindu philosopher Vatsyayana Mallanaga from the 2nd century AD?
Kama Sutra
14/Formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1985, which group took their name from a cramped apartment they shared?
Crowded House
15/Which religious figure had a horse named Kanthaka?
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
16/Which brewer announced in 2015 that its products were to become vegan-friendly by no longer using fish products in its brewing process?
Guiness
17/The WW2 Yalta conference in 1945 between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin took place in a resort on which body of water?
Black Sea
18/In The Hitchhiker´s Guide to the Galaxy, what is the name of the computer that takes 7½ million years to return “42” as the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?
Deep Thought
19/Basutoland changed its name in 1966 to what current name?
Lesotho
Which country shares its shortest land border with North Korea at just 18km?
Russia
21/ Who is the only actor that has two Academy Award nominations for playing the same character, 39 years apart.
Sylvester Stallone
22/What was the first host nation at a FIFA World Cup that failed to get through the first round?
South Africa in 2010
23/From 1995, Monica Seles represented the USA in tennis, but in what modern-day country was she born?
Serbia (Novi Sad, then Yugoslavia)
24/After London, which central European capital city was the second in the world to have an underground railway in 1896 Budapest
Budapest
25/For what did Sara Jane Moore make world headlines on the 22nd September 1975?
Attempted assassination of U.S. President Gerald Ford