General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which Russian goldsmith was famous for his jewelled Easter eggs which were given by the tsars to the tsarinas?
A Maurice Lecroix B Peter Carl Faberge C Christian Dior D Jean Cartier
2. Which controversial policy of the European Union is abbreviated to CAP?
A Common Agricultural Policy B Common Armament Policy C Creative Arts Programme D Cultural Alignment Policy
3. Which English poet wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese? A Percy Bysshe Shelley
B Lord Tennyson
C Lord Byron
D Elizabeth Barrett Browning
4. Who was the faithful wife of Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey? A Pandora B Miranda C Helena D Penelope 5. Which author wrote The Trial and The Castle?
A Edgar Alan Poe
B Richard Adams
C Jon Grisham
D Franz Kafka 6. Which TV sketch comedy ran from 1969 to 1974 and featured comedians including Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam?
A Not the Nine O’clock News B Monty Python’s Flying Circus C The Goodies
D Rutland Weekend Television 7. What was the name for a Roman marketplace that was the civic centre of a town? A Piazza B Forum C Ampitheatre D Colosseum 8. What is the name of the alphabet used for writing modern Slavic languages such as Russian? A Russo alphabet B Slavian alphabet C Cyrillic alphabet D Eastern alphabet 9. Which purple-black halogen is represented by the symbol I?
A Indium B Iodine C Iridium D Iron
10. Who Which wrote cousin the and music son-in-law and lyrics of Mohammed for the film was The the Sound fourth of Music? caliph of Islam?
A Rodgers Ali and Hammerstein Lionel Bart B Shanawaz
C Richard and Robert Sherman C Tariq D Leonard Bernstein D Patel
11. In which country is the city of Wagga Wagga? A Columbia B Australia C Sri Lanka D India 12. What name is given to the art of decorating cloth with a needle and thread of which the Bayeux Tapestry is an example? A Embroidery B Patching C Sewing D Knitting 13. Who was the second president of the US?
A Thomas Jefferson
B John Adams
C George Washington
D James Monroe
A Peter O’toole B Anthony Quinn C Spencer Tracy D Laurence Olivier
14. Who starred in the title role in the 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia?
15. Which one of the teenage mutant ninja turtles wore an orange head scarf and was ‘a party dude’?
A Michelangelo B Raphael C Leonardo D Donatello