Kickstart your week with a mental workout courtesy of our Monday general knowledge quiz. This edition tests your recall on topics spanning film, geography, history, and language, offering a fun challenge for trivia enthusiasts across the UK.
A Mix of Modern Culture and Historical Facts
The quiz begins in the world of espionage, asking which actor portrayed the treacherous agent 006, Alec Trevelyan, in the 1995 James Bond film "Goldeneye". It then moves to geographical terminology, questioning the definition of an isocheim.
Branding, sports, and television history are also in the spotlight. Participants are asked to count the spots on the domino in the Domino's Pizza logo, recall with which team Lewis Hamilton secured his first F1 World Championship in 2008, and identify the quiz show reportedly favoured by the late Queen Elizabeth II.
From Rock Music to Latin Names
The questions delve into music history, paying tribute to brothers George and Malcolm Young, who passed away in 2017 and were pivotal figures in a legendary Australian rock band. In a shift to politics and classical language, the quiz asks about the Latin name chosen by Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg for his son, born in July 2017.
Linguistic challenges include defining a palindrome—a sequence that reads the same backwards—and the rarely used word "pulchritude," which means physical beauty. The round concludes with queries about the manufacturer of the iconic Nokia 3310 phone and the original name of the company now known as Nike.
Yesterday's Answers Revealed
For those curious about previous challenges, the answers for the quiz from January 18 are provided. They reveal that on Coronation Street, Stan Ogden died from gangrene, and that Pope John Paul II visited the UK on May 28, 1982.
Other notable answers include the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band appearing in The Magical Mystery Tour, the Dunkirk evacuation being Operation Dynamo, and the singular of confetti being confetto. The solutions also cover that mythomania is an obsession with lying, a goitre is a swelling of the thyroid gland, and nomophobia is the fear of being without a mobile phone.
The numerical answers state that 20 number sevens are needed to number houses 1 to 100, that Britain has roughly 2,219 miles of motorway, and that the number 11 in binary is 1011.
