Easy General Knowledge 36 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Gastropod

These are molluscs which have a flattened muscular foot and a head bearing stalked eyes. The class includes snails, slugs, whelks and limpets.

Answer: Medusa

This stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish is when it is umbrella-shaped with its mouth hanging down below. Its tentacles are used in both defence and in capturing prey. This is now the adult stage of a jellyfish when it can reproduce sexually.

Answer: Doris Day and Marlon Brando

Alec Baldwin and Eddie Murphy were also born on 3rd April, but Alec in 1958 and Eddie in 1961 (three years apart).

Answer: Monkhouse

Other co-stars included William Hartnell (the first Dr Who) and Shirley Eaton who was covered in gold in the Bond movie 'Goldfinger'.

Answer: Wolf

His other popular works include the ballets 'Romeo and Juliet' (1935) and 'Cinderella' (1944).

Answer: Amber

ch(AMBER). Amber is a medium to dark brownish-yellow colour located on a traffic light and used as a warning between red and green.

Answer: Fiji

The land mass is volcanic in origin. The four main islands of significant size are Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Kadavu and Taveuni. Indonesia comprises of 17,000 islands and the Bahamas is an archipelago of 700 islands.

Answer: Thelwell

In 1953 he sent a drawing to Punch magazine after watching ponies being ridden by two young sisters. There was such a massive response that Thelwell kept drawing them. Best remembered for his plump ponies, he died at the age of 80 years old in his sleep while suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Answer: Aluminium

A thin layer of aluminium coats the discs after they are moulded and information is read from this mirrored aluminium surface. (The word is spelt 'aluminum' in North America).

Answer: Cinderella

Cinderella lived at Hardup Hall with her father. When Cinderella's mother died, her father, Baron Hardup, remarried and his new wife had two daughters of her own. Cinderella's wicked stepmother nagged the Baron into an early grave. Cinderella's once rich clothes became ragged and covered in soot from the kitchen fireplace by which she had to sleep.

Answer: Christmas Day

He invaded England and killed King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in October 1066. He rewarded his followers by grants of land and ordered the famous survey known as the Domesday Book in 1086.

Answer: Playfair

William Playfair (1759-1823) was a draughtsman.

Answer: Teflon

Teflon was discovered by Dr Roy Plunkett of American company Du Pont in 1938. Teflon is unaffected by corrosion, heat, acids or solvents. Its properties were utilized fully in 1954 when Frenchman Marc Gregoire thought of using it as a non-stick surface for frying pans.

Answer: 27

Until 1912, no official pattern existed for the arrangement of the stars.

Answer: Europe

Peter Jonas (John) Weissmuller was born on 2nd June 1904 in Freidorf which is now a suburb of the Romanian city of Timisoara. In 1904 this Banat region was then part of Hungary.

Answer: Joker

This is a (1987) war movie about young Marines struggling to survive in Vietnam and was directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Answer: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Valentine and Proteus are the two gentlemen of Verona in this play. Launce is the clowning serving-man of Proteus who is famous for his soliloquies (the act of speaking alone or to oneself) to his dog, 'Crab'.

Answer: IKEA

Ingvar Kamprad was born in Sweden in 1926. The acronym 'IKEA' make up the initials of his name plus those of Elmtaryd, the family farm where he was born.

Answer: 17

Ravi Shankar is associated with this multi-stringed musical instrument and uses a plectrum called a mizrab to pluck the strings. Musician Norah Jones is his famous daughter.

Answer: Kickapoo

The kakapo is a ground-living, nocturnal New Zealand parrot. The Kickapoo strongly resented European culture and their religion. The Kickapoo were successful warriors serving as mercenaries for the French, Spanish, British and Mexicans. When they were not raiding they lived in permanent villages rearing corn, beans and squash as well as hunting buffalo.

Their name means 'he who moves about' although today the majority have settled in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.

Answer: Sir Richard Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton disguised himself to travel to Medina and Mecca in Saudi Arabia and was one of the first Europeans to visit those cities. He was associated with the translation of 'A Thousand and One Nights' better known as the Arabian Nights (1885-1888).

Answer: The Omen

Harvey Stephens was five when he played Satan's son, Damien. Having played the Antichrist he has suffered every joke there is about 666, the mark of the beast. His car repair and restaurant bills seem to add up to £666 and at school other kids use to ruffle his hair to look for the digits on his scalp.

He says that people never forget his infamous role and Elizabeth Hurley calling her son Damien doesn't help to erase his character part from their memories.

Answer: John Hurt

'The Elephant Man' (1980) was the story of John Merrick, a hideously deformed man, set in the Victorian Age. The movie was directed by David Lynch and filmed in black and white.

Answer: Edward Teach

Edward Teach was also known as Blackbeard. Dead Man's Chest is part of the British Virgin Islands and is an island 250 yards square with high cliffs, no water and no landing place. Having given each a cutlass and a bottle of rum, he hoped they would kill each other. He returned to the island, 30 days later to witness that 15 mutineers had survived.

Answer: Struck by an automobile

She died at the age of 49 years old when struck by an automobile while crossing the road with her husband to see a movie. The taxi driver had 23 previous convictions and had got drunk whilst off duty before fatally ploughing into her. Hope you enjoyed the challenge.