Print PDF version of this Round General Knowledge 2017

 

What was significant about Hattie McDaniel's performance as "Mammy" in Gone with the Wind?
She was the first African American to win an Academy Award

 

Dawn Frazer was an olympic freestyle swimmer from which country?
Australia

 

What record does the Boeing Everett Factory hold as of 2016?
Worlds largest building as measured by volume

 

How many children did Queen Victoria have?
Nine

 

The Bechuanaland Protectorate in southern africa became what on the 30 September 1966?
The Republic of Botswana

 

Brimstone is an old common name for what?
Sulphur

 

What was built as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair?
Eiffel Tower

 

The USA bought what are now known as the United States Virgin Islands for $25 million from which european country?
Denmark

 

In Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, what sort of work did Ali Baba do?
A woodcutter

 

Which country in 1966, launched the first space probe to orbit the moon?
Soviet Union