WMVC THURSDAY QUIZ Round 1
FIRST ROUND – GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
What geothermal Icelandic site has the same name as a 1980 movie?
Xanadu
The Shining
Heaven’s Gate
The Blue Lagoon
Which European country technically shares a border with Brazil, because one of its “overseas departments” does?
Germany
Belgium
France
Great Britain
In printing, it’s the colour black. In chemistry, it’s potassium. In baseball, it’s a strikeout. Which letter is it?
K
R
T
X
What Indian mausoleum was called a “teardrop… on the cheek of time” by Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Rabindranath Tagore?
Tomb of Cyrus
The Taj Mahal
Tomb of Jahangir
Humayun’s Tomb
In 2017, the site Bachtrack.com determined the 10 most performed ballets in the world. What composer gave us three of them, including the first?
Léo Delibes
Sergei Prokofiev
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer
Which is the most filmed character of all time
James Bond
Basil Fawlty
Ebenezer Scrooge
Sherlock Holmes
So far, which has been the only FIFA World Cup host not to make it out of the group stage?
Sweden
Mexico
United States
South Africa
Who allegedly wrote the song “Golden Years” for Elvis Presley but ended up recording it himself?
Elton John
Van Morrison
David Bowie
Marvin Gaye
Queen Mary Tudor of England is better known to history by what name?
Crazy Mary
Screaming Mary
Bloody Mary
Crying Mary
Russia is the world’s largest country (by area), and its largest city (by population) is its capital. What’s the next largest country for which this is the case?
Canada
China
Brazil
Argentina
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