General Knowledge Standard 1

Question 1

Which well-known pair live at 6 west Wallaby St, Wigan

Answer 1

Wallace and Gromit

Question 2

What is the sinister common name of Amanita phalloides, the most poisonous of British mushrooms, accounting for at least 90% of fungus related fatalities

Answer 2

Death Cap

Question 3

Lowenbrau, Hofbrauhous, Augustinerbrau, Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr and Spaten are the “Bix Six” breweries in which city?

Answer 3

Munich

Question 4

Which is England’s largest landlocked county?

Answer 4

Shropshire

Question 5

What one word links an arch-enemy of Bugs Bunny and a California National Park that receives over 3 million visitors a year?

Answer 5

Yosemite

Question 6

How many Apollo missions landed men on the moon?

Answer 6

6

Question 7

In arithmetic, what is the value of 4!?

Answer 7

24

Question 8

In Japan, who controls the so-called Nine Finger Economy

Answer 8

Yakuza

Question 9

Who was Henry VIII’s wife at the the time of his death?

Answer 9

Katherine Parr

Question 10

Noted for his large-scale nude shoots, who fears for the future of his art because of the withdrawal of the high-speed 800 ASA films which enabled him to work at sunrise before cities got crowded?

Answer 10

Spencer Tunick

Question 11

Where on you body would you wear a fascinator?

Answer 11

Head

Question 12

Which Indian lost his world chess title to Magus Carlsen in November 2013

Answer 12

Vaswanathan Amand

Question 13

In which country will the 2018 Winter Olympics be held?

Answer 13

China

Question 14

In a food context, according to Shirley Conran, ‘Life’s too short to stuff a …’ what?

Answer 14

Mushroom

Question 15

Which Dan Brown novel of 2013 shares its name with the first part of Dante Alighieri’s 14th Century epic poem Divine Comedy

Answer 15

Inferno