General knowledge quiz

HISTORY

1 Of which country was Charles Haughey prime

minister?

2 Which admiral was knighted by Elizabeth on

board the Golden Hind in 1581?

3 Who became the first Roman Catholic

president of the USA in 1961?

4 Which mountaineer and explorer, along with Tenzing Norgay, was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest?

5 In 1949, which Communist statesman proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China?

6 Which colour of rose represented the House

of Lancaster in the Wars of the Roses?

FILM & MUSIC

7 Which US actor starred in The Sting and The Color of Money?

8 With which sort of films was Busby Berkeley usually associated?

9 Which French entertainer starred in the films Gigi and Love in the Afternoon?

10 What nationality was composer Béla Bartok 11 Which actress starred in Sophie’s Choice and Out of Africa?

12 With which sort of music is Dame Nellie Melba associated?

SCIENCE

13 How is the tympanic membrane common

known?

14 What is the name for the middle value of

of numbers arranged in order of magnitu 15 In a human being, which two respiratory organs are situated within the ribcage on either side of the heart?

16 Which strong transition metal is represen

by the symbol Ti?

17 The Great Red Spot can be seen in the

atmosphere of which planet?

18 Which German-born physicist extended h theory of relativity to the general case in and received the 1921 Nobel Prize for Phy

WORDS

19 Which term meaning ‘lightning war’ was u to describe military tactics used by Germ in World War II?

20 By what name is an elk known in North

America?

21 Which five-line form of comic verse was popularised by Edward Lear in the 19th century?

22 What was the Roman name for London? 23 What name is given to any memorial to th dead that does not contain a body, of wh there is a famous example in Whitehall? 24 What name is given to an official count of population that takes place every ten yea the UK?

UK

25 Which Oxfordshire mansion was a gift fro Queen Anne to the Duke of Marlborough the birthplace of Winston Churchill?

26 Which island off the coast of Wales is call

Ynys Môn in Welsh?

27 What was the maiden name of the mothe

Queen Elizabeth II?

28 For which party was Robert Maxwell an M

from 1964-70?

29 The Court of Tynwald is the Parliament o

which dependency of the British crown? 30 Which Warwickshire market town was the

birthplace of William Shakespeare?