Mastermind Club
Quiz 2025
General Knowledge
Set by Mel Kinsey
Answers
1/ The fictional desert planet of Arrakis is found in what literary series?
Dune
2/ A creature that is a “Xylophage”, mainly eats what?
Wood
3/Who is often referred to as the “Father of Geometry”?
Euclid (of Alexandria)
4/In 2013, Jean-Claude Juncker was succeeded by Xavier Bettel as Prime Minister of which European country?
Luxembourg
5/What does the Spanish word ‘matador’ literally mean?
Killer
6/Which is the only EU country where Cyrillic script is habitually used?
Bulgaria
7/What part of a Roman’s soldiers’ equipment was the Pilum?
Spear / Javelin
8/What two countries share land borders with Bangladesh?
India and Myanmar/Burma
9/The title Duke or Duchess of Brabant is given to the heir to the throne of what European country?
Belgium
10/Born in Pennsylvania in 1979, by what name is singer, songwriter and musician Alecia Beth Moore better known?
Pink
11/ What follows Hydrogen and Helium in the periodic table?
Lithium
12/Which American city is home to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame?
Cleveland, Ohio
13/Who was President of France between June 1969 and April 1974?
Georges Pompidou
14/What was the name of Benito Mussolini’s mistress who was shot with him in 1945?
Claretta Petucci
15/One of the reasons Steve Jobs chose to name his company Apple was so that it would appear in the phone book before the company he had previously worked for which also started with an ‘A’. What was that company?
Atari
16/From what country does the fried rice dish Nasi Goreng originate?
Indonesia (literally meaning “fried rice” in Indonesian)
17/Opened in July 2017, the Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge is the longest hanging pedestrian bridge in the world. In what country is it located
Switzerland
18/Lucia Sciarra, Madeleine Swann, Severine, Strawberry Fields and Vesper Lynd are all recent characters in which movie franchise?
James Bond (they are the Bond girls from the Daniel Craig films)
19/Edo is an historical name for which national capital city?
Tokyo
20/In fireworks, what metallic element is most used to produce a yellow flame?
Sodium
21/Sri Dalada Maligawa or the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic which houses the only surviving relic of Buddha is located in the city of Kandy in which Asian country?
Sri Lanka
22/The first act of Othello is set in Venice. Where is the rest of the play set?
Cyprus
23/Who Am I: I was born in Wyoming in 1912 and became a famous abstract expressionist painter before being killed in a car crash in 1956.
Jackson Pollock
24/In 1991, which country became the first to declare itself independent from the former state of Yugoslavia?
Slovenia
25/What word describes any quadrilateral whose four sides all have the same length?
Rhombus