General Knowledge Trivia Quiz

Answer: Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn is one of the greatest actresses of our time - a four-time Oscar winning Hollywood legend, who has come to be regarded as an American icon.

Answer: Rolling Stones

An otherwise ordinary day in 1960, a teenaged Mick Jagger made his way through a railway station in Dartford, England, with a few blues albums tucked under his arm. It's impossible to say what was going through his head that day but his timing was perfect.

He walked at just the right pace, took just the right turns, made just the right decisions, and ran right into an old childhood acquaintance, Keith Richards, with whom he would quickly rekindle a friendship. A short four years later, the two stood at the center of the most controversial and some would say greatest rock-and-roll band in the world, the Rolling Stones.

Answer: 366

1976 was a leap year and contained 366 days.

Answer: Logan

Kluane National Park, designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site, is home to Canada's tallest mountain, Mt. Logan (19,520 ft.).

Answer: Cud chewer

A ruminant is an animal that digests its food many times.They are often referred to as a 'Cud chewer'. This food is usually tough plant material like grasses. Ruminants include cows, sheep, antelopes, and camels.

Answer: Dionysius

Dionysius Exiguus, a monk from Russia who died about 544, was asked by Pope John I to set out the dates for Easter from the years 527 to 626. It seems that the Pope was keen to produce some order in the celebration of Easter. Dionysius decided to begin with what he considered to be the year of Jesus' birth.

He chose the year in which Rome had been founded and determined, from the evidence known to him, that Jesus had been born 753 years later.

Answer: David Letterman

Besides Johnny Carson, who hosted 'The Tonight Show' for 30 years, no other television personality comes near David Letterman's impressive run on late night network television. Since his late night debut on February 1, 1982, David has consistently been praised for his inventive and innovative contributions to comedy. Recently, TV Guide chose him as one of the '50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time,' one of the most influential television legends in the history of the medium.

Answer: Cocaine Users

Aschenbrandt's study was published in a German medical journal. The report was read by a young Viennese neurologist, Sigmund Freud. Freud was to play a significant role in the development of the Western cocaine-industry. 'I take very small doses of it regularly and against depression and against indigestion, and with the most brilliant success', he observed. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859, educated at Stonyhurst and Edinburgh and was trained as a doctor.

After a medical practice at Southsea between 1882 and 1890 in which he was only moderately successful, he took to writing.

His later life was dominated by his interest in spiritualism (he wrote a book on the history of the subject in 1926) and his doomed personal quest to convince others of its value.

He had more success writing outside fiction, for instance the pamphlet 'The War in South Africa' and other books with public issues as their heart. Interestingly, Holmes never once said 'Elementary, my dear Watson'.

Answer: Hg

Name: Mercury Symbol: Hg Atomic Number: 80

Answer: Reason To Be

Raison d'Etre - a French phrase meaning the reason for a thing's existence. The raison d'etre of the American civil rights movement was to secure equal rights for black {people;} the raison d'etre of the U.S. military is to defend the nation.

Answer: father

Patricide is the act of killing one's own father.

Answer: Casablanca

The origins of Casablanca trace to the medieval town of Anfa (Anfa is now the name of one of the suburbs of the city). Casablanca means in spanish 'white house', so in Morocco, the city is called Dar Beida with the same meaning.

Answer: descent

A descent of woodpeckers.

Answer: Hungary

Bela Lugosi was born in Lugos, in the southwest portion of what was then the Kingdom of Hungary.

Answer: Sir Galahad

Galahad is the son of Lancelot and Elaine of Corbenic. Galahad was conceived when Elaine tricked Lancelot into thinking he was meeting and sleeping with Guinevere. Galahad is best known as the knight who achieves the quest for the Holy Grail. As the chosen knight he is allowed to sit in the Siege Perilous, the seat at the Round Table that is reserved for the Grail Knight.

The first appearance of Galahad in medieval romance is in the thirteenth-century Vulgate Cycle. His coming is predicted in the first romance in the cycle, the Estoire del saint Graal, where he is said to be the ninth in the line of Nascien, who was baptized by Josephus, son of Joseph of Arimathea, and who was one of those who is said to have brought Christianity to Britain. Galahad remains the pre-eminent Grail Knight in Malory's Morte d'Arthur and in Tennyson's Idylls of the King.

A shorter poem by Tennyson, 'Sir Galahad,' presented the popular image of the perfect knight whose 'strength was as the strength of ten' because his 'heart is pure.' The popular painting 'Sir Galahad'(1862) by George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) also presents Galahad as an idealized figure.