The Daily Record Weekend Quiz

10 general knowledge questions featured on Mastermind that test how smart you are

1. What flavour of ice cream was invented in 1929 when William Dreyer used his wife’s shears to cut up marshmallows and nuts, adding it to chocolate ice cream?

2. Which is the heaviest internal organ in the human body?

3. In which country is the Kruger national park located?

4. The Colorado beetle is a serious agricultural pest that feeds predominantly on the leaves of which food plant?

5. Which TV comedy series, first broadcast in 1984, was created by the caricaturists Peter Fluck and Roger Law?

6. Which German city’s Oktoberfest is usually held over a 16-day period that ends on the first Sunday in October?

7. Which American president remarried in 1915 while in office? His first wife had died the previous year.

8. A ‘codling’ is an elongated variety of which fruit?

9. ‘Toxopholy’ is an old term for the pursuit of which Olympic sport?

10. Which endangered British bird, that lives in reed beds, is known for the deep booming mating call of the male in spring?

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