General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which planet features the Great Red Spot?
A Mars
B Jupiter
C Saturn
D Uranus
2. Which British rock band released an album entitled OK Computer in 1997?
A Travis
B Radiohead
C Blur
D Oasis
3. In which city is the Uffizi art gallery?
A Venice
B Rome
C Florence
D Bologna
4. Which golfer was nicknamed the “Golden Bear”?
A Sandy Lyle
B Tiger Woods
C Jack Nicklaus
D Colin Montgomerie
5. Which actress was a New York husband’s Seven Year Itch?
A Elizabeth Taylor
B Sophia Loren
C Mary Pickford
D Marilyn Monroe
6. Which 2017 US drama on BBC Four starred Jessica Biel as Cora, a young mother who killed a man but cannot recall why?
A The Kindling
B The Sinner
C The Stranger
D The Killer
7. By what name is the Greek hero Odysseus also known?
A Perseus
B Theseus
C Ulysses
D Orpheus
8. In which country was Adolf Hitler born?
A Germany
B Austria
C France
D Russia
9. Which career did Keats abandon for poetry?
A Law
B Military
C The Church
D Medicine
10. What is the national currency of Guyana?
A Pound
B Peseta
C Dollar
D Peso 11. What make of car was transformed into a time machine by Doc Brown in the 1985 film Back to the Future?
A Ferrari
B Porsche
C BMW
D DeLorean
12. What name is given to the growing of plants in a liquid nutrient instead of soil?
A Hydroponics
B Monoculture
C Hydrostatic
D Mineralogy
13. Who wrote the 1988 psychological novel Cat’s Eye? A Virginia Andrews
B Margaret Atwood
C Joanna Trollope
D Jilly Cooper
14. Who starred as scientist Dr Lawrence Angelo in the 1992 scifi film The Lawnmower Man?
A Ian McKellen
B Pierce Brosnan
C Timothy Hutton
D Tim Robbins
15. Which BBC comedy, now in its second series, stars comedian Diane Morgan as a single mum named Liz?
A Mothers
B Mothering
C Motherland
D Motherhood