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General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which Italian navigator under the patronage of the Spanish monarchy made several voyages to the Americas?
A Sir Walter Raleigh
B James Cook
C Christopher Columbus
D Marco Polo 2. In which country is the city of Rawalpindi?
A India
B Sri Lanka
C Pakistan
D Bangladesh 3. Into how many constellations is the sky divided?
A 12
B 62
C 37
D 88 4. Who won the 1997 Booker Prize for the novel The God of Small Things?
A Margaret Atwood
B Salman Rushdie
C Tim Lott
D Arundhati Roy 5. How many legs does a tick have?
A 12
B6
C8
D4 6. Which Netflix comedydrama stars Asa Butterfield as a teenager in high school and Gillian Anderson as his mother?
A Sex Education
B Arrested Development
C Stranger Things
D School of Rock 7. Which French statesman and diplomat represented France at the Congress of Vienna in 1815?
A Talleyrand
B Clemenceau
C Napoleon
D De Gaulle 8. Which great British novelist formed a relationship with a young actress called Ellen
Ternan?
A William Thackeray
B Anthony Trollope
C Charles Kingsley
D Charles Dickens 9. Who played crime writer Maddy
Magellan, Jonathan Creek’s sidekick in the BBC One series?
A Caroline Quentin
B Pauline Quirke
C Dawn French
D Jennifer Saunders 10. Which astrological phenomena are found in millions in the Oort cloud beyond Pluto?
A Stars
B Meteors
C Comets
D Asteroids 11. In which US state is Palm Springs?
A Florida
B California
C North Carolina
D Oregon 12. Which female R & B band released an album entitled EV3 in 1997?
A TLC
B En Vogue
C Destiny’s Child
D All Saints 13. In which state is Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in what is now the USA?
A North Carolina
B Virginia
C Florida
D Georgia 14. Who wrote the 1997 Number One song Perfect Day?
A David Bowie
B Freddie Mercury
C Louis Armstrong
D Lou Reed 15. Which 1990 film starring Kevin Bacon saw natives of a small American town defending themselves against strange underground creatures?
A Rumours
B Tremors
C Murmurs
D Schemers