Mastermind Club
Quiz 2026-4
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
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
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?
The 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?
Guinness
17/The WW2 Yalta conference in 1945 between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin took place in a resort on which body of water?
The 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
20/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
25/ For what did Sara Jane Moore make world headlines on the 22nd September 1975?
Attempted assassination of U.S. President Gerald Ford