The big general knowledge quiz

1 What type of ship is a dreadnought?

2 How many members does the US Supreme Court have?

3 What is the British theatrical equivalent of American vaudeville?

4 From which country was Heidi in the children’s novel?

5 What is the second highest mountain in the world?

6 What is the common name for the femur? 7 The Mojave Desert lies mainly in the southeast of which American state?

8 From which animal does the cooking fat lard come?

9 Which chemical element with the symbol I is used in an antiseptic solution for cleaning wounds?

10 What type of creature is an Australian kookaburra?

11 What was the former name of Ho Chi Minh City? 12 What was built on the River Kwai in the famous David Lean film?

13 What is the minimum age of an octogenarian?

14 What does an invertebrate not have?

15 Who starred as Kojak (above) in the 1970s?

16 What is someone equally expert

with each hand called?

17 Which motorway connects London and South Wales?

18 Which Dickens character met trouble when asking for more gruel?

19 With which punk rock group was Sid Vicious primarily associated?

20 Which branch of the Scouts takes children between the ages of eight and ten-and-a-half ?