Easy General Knowledge 39 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Brighton Rock

This British novelist wrote Brighton Rock in 1938. The 1947 movie version starred Sir Richard Attenborough as Pinkie Brown who with his gang ran a protection racket in Brighton. The movie was called 'Young Scarface'(1951) in America.

Answer: Chapter

Hell's Angels are members of a motorcycle gang which originated in San Bernardino, California in 1948. With their denim clothing and Nazi-style paraphernalia they were associated with lawless behaviour which was promoted through the media.

Answer: Being tickled by feathers

Aurophobia is the fear of gold. Iophobia is the fear of poison and agrizoophobia is the fear of wild animals.

Answer: Bisto

Bisto is a base for gravy that can be sold in powder form or granules. The meat juices in a roasting pan can be (B)rowned,
(S)easoned and (T)hickened in (O)ne using Bisto.

Answer: Victoria Falls

David Livingstone first saw the Victoria Falls in 1855 and sketched it in his notebook. The breathtaking Victoria Falls were named by a local tribe and called Mosi-oa-Turrya meaning 'the smoke that thunders' as its water disappears in a roaring white cloud.

Answer: Harold Lloyd Jenkins

Conway Twitty was an American male vocalist who was born in Friars Point, Mississippi in 1933 and was associated with country music. He had a British Number One hit single with 'Its Only Make Believe' in November 1958.

Answer: Frogs' legs

George Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) was born near Nice in France. He dreamt up the dish of Peach Melba for Australian singer, Dame Nellie Melba consisting of halved peaches, vanilla ice cream with a sauce made from fresh raspberries known as Melba sauce.

Answer: Woman

The lyrics for this song are by Frederick Loewe / Alan Jay Lerner
How to handle a woman
There's a way, said a wise old man.
(it ends with)
The way to handle a woman
Is to love her, simply love her
Merely love her, love her, love her.

Answer: Action Man

Frank Hornby (1863-1936) marketed Meccano from 1901, Hornby trains from 1920 and the famous collectable Dinky Toy model cars from the 1930s.

Answer: A cynic

This quotation comes from Lady Windermere's Fan (1892). Oscar Wilde was an Irish dramatist, poet and great wit. An example of his witticism is "True friends stab you in the front".

Answer: Nation

The sci-fi series of Dr Who first appeared on British television in 1963 on BBC1. Terry Nation also penned cult British sci-fi serial 'Blake's 7' BBC1 (1978-81) and 'The Survivors' BBC1 (1975-77).

Answer: Clown fish

The clown fish lives within the jellyfish's tentacles and is protected by a slimy mucus. The Portuguese Man of War jellyfish is so named because of its prominent bright blue gas bubble resembling a Portuguese conqueror's helmet. It is mainly located in the Mediterranean Sea and around Bermuda.

Its most feared enemy is the huge sunfish which unlike any other fish has an almost circular body and feeds on jellyfish, crustaceans and fish.

Answer: Repairs shoes

A yeoman is a farmer who owns his own land. A buyer of old horses or a person who makes harnesses is called a knacker. A dog catcher or a person who removes dogs that make a nuisance of themselves in church is called a knockknobbler. All these are old occupations and of course a souter is a shoemaker or one who repairs shoes. Cobblers I hear you say, but it's true.

Answer: Dwarf blue sheep

Dwarf blue sheep have become an endangered species and are among the world's rarest mammals. Their numbers have plummeted to approximately 200 due to overhunting and prior to this question, like myself, very few, if any, funtrivia players will have ever heard of them.

Answer: Namib desert

The desolated Skeleton Coast lies approximately 300 miles along Namibia's shoreline and is located between the Namib desert and the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The coastline is littered with broken ships which have endured fierce winds, currents and reefs which are all part of this dangerous region. Swiss pilot Carl Nauer crashed along its coastline in 1933 whilst flying from Cape Town to London.

A journalist allegedly suggested that his bones might be located on the Skeleton Coast some day, but although his body was never found, the name Skeleton Coast stuck.

Answer: Banana spider

This large brown spider is also called the giant crab spider. They don't make webs but run at great speed and use their mouthparts to capture their prey. Due to their ability to feed on cockroaches and other undesirable insects, they are highly valued in tropical countries.

Answer: Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

An extract of the poem reads "Kind hearts are more than coronets and simple faith than Norman blood".

Answer: Phobos and Deimos (Mars)

Mars is the Roman god of war and its two planets are called Phobos and Deimos meaning fear and panic respectively in Greek.

Answer: Table

A round table society is one where all the members are equal. Legendary King Arthur used a round table and a later version of it resides in Winchester, the county town of Hampshire, in England.

Answer: Alan Shepard

Astronaut Alan Shepard, who was the commander of Apollo 14, hit a golf ball on the moon using a Spalding 6 iron. It was estimated he hit it between 200-400 metres.

Answer: William Shakespeare

People tend to forget that William Shakespeare was both a dramatist and a poet. He wrote 154 sonnets which are highly rated works of English poetry.

Answer: Pilchards

This is a recipe from Cornwall in England where inedible fish heads were left in the pie to enable oils to lubricate the fish while the pie cooked for approximately one hour.

Answer: Naked human bodies

Various pigments of different human bodies create shades of browns, yellows, tans and pinks. He has produced his artwork using large groups of people on the floor of museums, Time Square and Brooklyn (New York) as well as the desert of Nevada and we are supposed to appreciate these images using the naked eye (no pun intended).

Answer: Denmark

In 1673 the Danes brought the first slaves to these islands in the Caribbean from Africa. In 1916 Denmark sold the Danish West Indies to USA for 25 million dollars. The Virgin Islands are named in honour of St Ursula who was allegedly martyred with 11,000 other virgins.

Answer: Italy

Table forks were said to have been used in the Middle East before 1000AD. The nobility of Italy were the first European country to use the table fork in the 11th century and by 1600 it was used in England. Hope you enjoyed the challenge and learnt something new.