General Knowledge Quiz
1. What were Sir Winston Churchill’s middle names?
A Percy Horace B Leonard Spencer C Richard Stanley D Lionel Harold
2. On which Italian island is the volcano Mount Etna?
A Crete B Sicily C Corsica D Sardinia
3. Which engineer built the Suez canal?
A Giacomo de Festino B Giuseppe de Milano C Bruno de Ricardi D Ferdinand de Lesseps
4. Which creatures are also called hogs or swine?
A Pigs B Wildebeest C Cows D Deer
5. In which two months of the year are the “dog days”?
A July and August B September and May C April and June D December and January
6. What is the title of a 2019 Netflix series narrated by Sir David Attenborough?
A Our Space B My Land C Our Planet D Your Earth
7. In which country is the city of Kosice?
A Slovakia B Iraq C Turkey D Iran
8. What is the atomic number of carbon?
A 6 B 2 C 45 D 22
9. What is fly agaric?
A A fly
B A mushroom C A seaweed D A gooseberry
10. What sort of creature is a kelpie?
A An English river fish
B An Atlantic seabird
C An African monkey
D An Australian sheepdog 11. Who appeared on the fivepound note this century, having successfully campaigned for prison reform in the 1880s?
A Elizabeth Bennet B Elizabeth Fry C Elizabeth Gaskell D Elizabeth Herbert
12. What did Hippolyte MegeMouries invent in 1869?
A Margarine B Flushing toilet C Penicillin D Cement
13. In the 1970s both Roxy Music and The Crusaders had top ten hits with different songs with the same name – what was it?
A West Life B Night Life C Love Life D Street Life
14. Which conflict lasted from 1853-56?
A The Napoleonic War B The Great War
C The Crimean War D The Seven Years’ War
15. Who completes the presenting line-up on BBC Two’s Top Gear alongside Freddie Flintoff and Chris Harris?
A Colin Murray
B Gino D’Acampo C Patrick Kielty D Paddy McGuinness