General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which section of the Mediterranean is bounded by the Italian mainland, Sicily and Greece?
A Ionian Sea
B Adriatic Sea
C Black Sea
D Aegean Sea
2. Which number Ivan was ‘the Terrible’?
A IV
BI
C II
D X
3. Which world leader died in 1953?
A Winston Churchill
B Franklin D. Roosevelt C Konrad Adenauer
D Josef Stalin
4. Which sailing ship was named after a witch in a Robert Burns poem?
A Mussy Shark
B Hecate Hark
C Morgan Le Fey
D Cutty Sark
5. Who was the arch rival of Dan Dare?
A Ming the Merciless
B Lex Luther
C Doomsday
D The Mekon
6. Which actor played Mark Darcy in the 2001 film adaptation of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary?
A Matthew Macfadyen
B Hugh Grant
C Colin Firth
D Aidan Turner
7. Who has received more Oscar nominations than any other actress?
A Katharine Hepburn
B Bette Davis
C Ellen Burstyn
D Meryl Streep
8. Which George Bernard Shaw play provided the basis of the 1964 film My Fair Lady?
A Major Barbara
B My Bonnie Lass
C My Fine Girl
D Pygmalion
9. With which art form is Jacob Epstein associated?
A Watercolour painting
B Oil painting
C Sculpture
D Action painting 10. Which indoor game originated in France as jeu de paume?
A Handball
B Basketball
C Real tennis
D Badminton
11. What nationality was composer Dvorak?
A Czech
B Hungarian
C Austrian
D German
12. Which zany British comedian starred as imaginary friend Drop Dead Fred in the 1991 comedy? A Rowan Atkinson
B Lee Evans
C Eddie Izzard
D Rik Mayall
13. Which environmentally friendly cartoon superhero avowed to ‘cut pollution down to zero’?
A Ozone Man
B Captain Planet
C Super Saver
D Captain Earth
14. Which vegetable is sometimes known as an eggplant?
A Aubergine
B Butternut Squash
C Marrow
D Tomato
15. Which British archaeologist assisted Lord Carnarvon in discovering the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922?
A Randolph Williams
B Charles Dexter
C Michael Fielding
D Howard Carter