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General Knowledge Quiz
1. In which English county is the market town of St Austell?
A Devon
B Dorset
C Cornwall
D West Sussex
2. Cybill Shepherd made her big-screen debut in which highlyacclaimed drama directed by Peter Bogdanovich?
A Taxi Driver
B At Long Last Love
C The Last Picture Show
D Alice
3. Which British motorcyclist won nine world championships in the 1960s?
A Joey Dunlop
B Mike Hailwood
C Barry Sheene
D Carl Fogarty
4. What name is given to the style of architecture, furniture making and decorative art prevalent in England from 1714 to 1830?
A Georgian
B Baroque
C Jacobean
D Gothic
5. What sort of creature is a wisent?
A A weasel
B A water bird
C A bison
D A lizard
6. Diplopia is the technical name for which medical disorder?
A Shortsightedness
B Double vision
C Longsightedness
D Colour blindness
7. From which continent does the vicuna come?
A South America
B Asia
C Europe
D Africa
8. Where in the body can the cochlea be found?
A The back
B The nose
C The ear
D The heart
9. With which American orchestra was Eugene Ormandy chiefly associated?
A New York Orchestra
B Seattle Orchestra
C Chicago Orchestra
D Philadelphia Orchestra
10. What is the Légion é trangère?
A The French foreign legion
B The Stranger’s Legion
C The Legion of Soldiers
D The Strange Legion
11. Of which coniferous tree are there Scots and bristlecone varieties?
A Spruce
B Redwood
C Oak
D Pine
12. Which US president pursued a programme of social reform called the Fair Deal?
A Dwight D. Eisenhower
B Harry S. Truman
C Herbert Hoover
D Franklin D. Roosevelt
13. Which 2018 Netflix series follows two strangers, played by Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, brought together by a mysterious pharmaceutical trial?
A Maniac
B Lunatic
C Madman
D Addict
14. After which war was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
A The Second World War
B The Crimean War
C The Gulf War
D The First World War
15. Which new ITV comedy-drama stars Dawn French as the titular historian and gossip, who shares rather too much about her friends’ lives on a local radio show?
A The Trouble with Maggie Cole
B Mrs. Fletcher
C Marcella
D I Hate Suzie