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General Knowledge Quiz 413 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where did Malcolm Campbell set a land speed record of 245.7 m.p.h. in 1931?
2. Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey are the only surviving members of which pop group who had its first hit record in England in 1965?
3. Which city has "areas" called Burdiehouse, Clermiston, Corstorphine, Dumbiedykes, The Grange, Haymarket, Hermiston, Holyrood, Inverleith, Jock's Lodge, Leith, Meadowbank, Murrayfield, Oxgangs, Pilrig, Portobello, Riccarton, Shandon and Tynecastle?
4. Who was the first person to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize?
5. Which of these is a type of seaweed?
6. Who co-founded the Scottish comedy and folk-pop duo The Humblebums?
7. What creature is a "red snapper" ?
8. Which British comic strip character who appeared from September 1954 as a feature in "Tiger" magazine, had his own weekly comic from September 1976, which ran for 853 issues until March 1993?
9. Which of these members of Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1912 sacrificed himself in an attempt to ensure that there to be sufficient provisions for the rest of the team?
10. The Venus Rosewater Dish is awarded to winners in which tennis event?
11. Which team won the Hockey World Cup the most times in the first 30 years of competition, which has been held every 2 to 3 years since 1971?
12. What bird has iridescent blue-green or green coloured plumage, where the train feathers have a series of eyes that are best seen when the tail is fanned?
13. What art or science does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation, Sherlock Holmes, practise?
14. Which international organisation evolved from Camp Shriver in Maryland, USA, in 1968?
15. Who made the longest Oscar acceptance speech, at five minutes and 30 seconds, when collecting her Oscar for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as Mrs. Miniver?
16. What was the first product advertised on British TV?
17. Who wrote the plays "Uncle Vanya" and "The Cherry Orchard" ?
18. What name has been given to a style of British dance music developing in the mid 2000s and heavily influenced by soulful house, Afrobeat, soca, tribal house and broken beat?
19. The word "wed" derives from words meaning what?
20. For his contribution to the development of what area of transport is US inventor and engineer Robert Fulton known?
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