General knowledge quiz

POT LUCK

1 The Iron Age hill fort of Maiden Castle

is in which English county?

2 On 7 December 1787, which American

state became the first to join the Union? 3 What links the Emperor, the Chariot,

the Tower and the Hanged Man?

4 Which English cricketer took all ten wickets in a single innings against Australia in 1956?

5 What was the name of the third son

of Adam and Eve?

6 Which bird was chosen as the military

emblem of imperial Rome?

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

7 ’The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex’ is the opening sentence of which Jane Austen novel?

8 Theodore Decker is the central character of which 2013 novel, which was adapted into a 2019 film?

9 Porterhouse Blue and its sequel Grantchester Grind are among the comic novels of which British writer?

10 Montmorency is the name of a dog that cruises the Thames in which novel by Jerome K Jerome?

11 In a poem by Longfellow, which

’mighty man’ stands ’under a spreading chestnut tree’?

12 Which author penned the novel

A Monster Calls?

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

13 What is the name of the railway bridge between Dundee and Fife, completed in 1887?

14 Sn is the chemical symbol for which

metallic element?

15 What is measured using a

sphygmomanometer?

16 Dilute acetic acid slowly fermented from ethanol and used in the kitchen is more commonly known by which name? 17 The modern version of which everyday object was invented by

William Addis, supposedly during a period of imprisonment around 1780? 18 Argentite is a major ore of which metal?

GEOGRAPHY

19 Hibernia became the

Roman name for which island?

20 Karachi is a former capital of which country?

21 Ibiza, Majorca and Minorca

belong to which island group?

22 Which river is said to separate

Kentish men from the men of Kent?

23 Which city of Louisiana is

sometimes known as the Big Easy?

24 Which Mediterranean island is politically

divided by its so-called Green Line?

FOOD AND DRINK

25 Slivovitz is an East European

brandy flavoured with which fruit?

26 In Japanese cuisine, what is a mooli? 27 Higher in pectin than sweeter varieties, which bitter orange is traditionally used to make marmalade? 28 Which cut of salt cured pork

do the Italians call ’pancetta’?

29 Which fish is most often smoked

and sold as a kipper?

30 Which British writer coined the phrase ’Life’s too short to stuff a mushroom’ in her 1975 book Superwoman?

Solutions in Monday’s Irish Mirror