Wikiquiz: General Knowledge Quiz #3

1. Which U.S. state is known as The Lone Star State?

ANSWER: Texas

2. Which 1979 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola is loosely based on Heart of Darkness (though it takes place in Vietnam rather than Africa)?

ANSWER: Apocalypse Now

3. In which broad architectural style, which evolved from Romanesque, is the Cologne Cathedral built?

ANSWER: Gothic

4. Which type of Spanish soup, commonly served cold, traditionally consists of olive oil blended with vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers?

ANSWER: Gazpacho

5. Which planned city is the national capital of Australia?

ANSWER: Canberra

6. On which AMC show did Jon Hamm portray advertising representative Don Draper?
ANSWER: Mad Men

7. In the Rwandan genocide, the Hutu ethnic group slaughtered which ethnic minority?

ANSWER: Tutsi

8. Muhammad Ali and Michael J. Fox are among the famous people diagnosed with which neurodegenerative disease, which causes tremors and difficulty of movement?

ANSWER: Parkinson’s Disease

9. Antonio Guterres, Ban Ki-moon, and Kofi Annan are the three most recent people to hold which post?

ANSWER: Secretary General of the United Nations

10. Which team is the current champions for the 2020-21 season of the English Premier League? Please be specific.
ANSWER: Manchester City

11. Calls and puts are the two primary forms of which financial instrument, a contract which gives the holder the right to buy or sell an underlying asset at a given price?
ANSWER: Option

12. The Kalevala is considered the national epic of which country?
ANSWER: Finland

13. Which star of Friends later starred in the series Episodes and Man with a Plan?
ANSWER: Matt LeBlanc

14. In which conflict (431-404 BC) did two leagues, led by Athens and Sparta, go to war?

ANSWER: Peloponnesian War

15. Portugal has two autonomous regions. One is the Azores; what is the other?
ANSWER: Madeira

16. Which popular children’s toy was invented by John Lloyd Wright, son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright?

ANSWER: Lincoln Logs

17. Which flower, whose named comes from the Greek for “sun” and “to turn,” lends its name to a shade of purple?

ANSWER: Heliotrope

18. “Therefore I Am” and “My Future” are 2021 singles from which album, the sophomore effort of Billie Eilish?

ANSWER: Happier Than Ever

19. In which play does the King of Navarre and his three friends swear off contact with women for a period of three years?

ANSWER: Love’s Labour’s Lost

20. The Komodo dragon is a member of which group of large lizards in the family Varanidae? Please provide either the Genus name or the common name.

ANSWER: Monitor lizards (the Genus is Varanus)

21. Currently, the fourth most popular Instagram post of all time contains photo of which pop star at her May 2021 wedding to Dalton Gomez?

ANSWER: Ariana Grande

22. Founded in 1983, what is the UK’s largest motorcycle manufacturer?

ANSWER: Triumph

23. The U.S.A. famously failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, thanks to a loss to which island nation?
ANSWER: Trinidad and Tobago

24. Although commonly incorrectly presumed to stand for “video,” the “V” in “DVD” actually stands for what?
ANSWER: Versatile 

[Note: Apparently, I did not do enough research on this question, as the "V" actually can stand for video- though I *believe* versatile may be more common. I think the question as it is written certainly should prompt an answer of versatile, it is not well written. My bad on that one. ]

25. Which Nobel-winning U.S. economist and New York Times columnist wrote the 2020 book Arguing with Zombies?

ANSWER: Paulu Krugman

26. Which band won a 2020 lawsuit, finding that one of their signature songs did not infringe on the 1968 song “Taurus” by the psychedelic rock band Spirit?

ANSWER: Led Zeppelin

27. Hailee Steinfeld plays which American poet in an Apple TV series which began in 2019?
ANSWER: Emily Dickinson

28. Which brand of mints, which come in distinctive rectangular tins, advertises itself as “The Original Celebrated Curiously Strong Mints?”

ANSWER: Altoids

29. Which capital city of French Guiana lends its name to a kind of pepper?
ANSWER: Cayenne

30. Which quarterback for the Alabama Crimson Tide won the 2021 Heisman Trophy?

ANSWER: Bryce Young

31. American technology firm iRobot is likely best known for two products: the Braava (an automatic floor mopper), and which autonomous vacuum cleaner?
ANSWER: Roomba

32. Which novelist is best known for her series of novels featuring the detective Adam Dalgliesh?
ANSWER: P.D. James

33. Which maximalist Italian fashion designer has, since 2015, served as the creative director of Gucci?

ANSWER: Alessandro Michele

34. What is the name for the most common romanization system for Mandarin Chinese?

ANSWER: Pinyin

35. Which memoir by Eldridge Cleaver was composed during his time in Folsom State Prison?
ANSWER: Soul on Ice

36. The Best in Show winner of the 2021 Westminster Kennel Club show was Wasabi, a dog of which Asian-originating toy breed?
ANSWER: Pekingese

37. Which English aristocrat (1812-1895) is today best remembered as the first publisher of the modern version of The Mabinogion?

ANSWER: Lady Charlotte Guest

38. Known as “The Iron Lady of the Caribbean,” Eugenia Charles served as Prime Minister of which country from 1980 to 1995?

ANSWER: Dominica

39. In which sitcom (1976-1979) did Fred Berry play Freddy “Rerun” Stubbs?
ANSWER: What’s Happening!!

40. In 1960, which Japanese Socialist advocate was murdered with a sword on live TV?
ANSWER: Inejiro Asanuma

41. In heraldry, what is the five-letter term for a roll of fabric laid atop the helmet, and under the crest?

ANSWER: Torse

42. What is the two word term for the gelatinous substance within an umbilical cord which acts as a mucous connective tissue?

ANSWER: Wharton’s jelly

43. Which Scottish electronic music producer (and progenitor of the hyper pop style) released the album “Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides” in 2018?
ANSWER: Sophie

44. Which state of Malaysia, located on the south of the Malay Peninsula, shares a maritime border with Singapore?
ANSWER: Johor

45. In which play by Albert Camus is a man murdered by his own mother and sister while staying at their boarding house?
ANSWER: The Misunderstanding

46. Recently departed designer Virgil Abloh remembered both for his work with Louis Vuitton, as well as which Milan-based fashion label, which he founded in 2012?
ANSWER: Off-White

47. Which Martian land rover, which successfully landed in May 2021, is named for a figure in Chinese folklore sometimes considered a god of fire?

ANSWER: Zhurong

48. Which sculptor, associated with the Harlem Renaissance, constructed the work Lift Every Voice and Sing, which resembles a large harp?

ANSWER: Augusta Savage

49. What title is shared by an Academy Award-winning song from the 1959 musical A Hole in the Head and a single from the album The Division Bell by Pink Floyd?
ANSWER: High Hopes

50. Dubbed the “Lion of Lechistan,” which King of Poland defeated the Ottomans at the 1683 Battle of Vienna?
ANSWER: John III Sobieski