General Knowledge Quiz
1. What was Wagner’s last opera?
A The Ring of the Nibelungs
B The Flying Dutchman
C Parsifal
D Die Meistersinger
2. Of which country is Prague the capital?
A Hungary
B Austria
C Poland
D The Czech Republic
3. In which year did Canada adopt a maple leaf emblem for its flag?
A 1945
B 1985
C 1925
D 1965
4. What was the sequel to Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland called?
A Return to Wonderland
B More Wonderment
C Through the Looking Glass
D Alice’s Big Adventure
5. Which Scottish inventor developed the first commercially practical pneumatic tyres?
A Sir Henry Bessemer
B Sir Henry Cambell Bannerman
C John Loudon Macadam
D John Boyd Dunlop
6. Which TV sitcom of the 1980s starred James Bolam as relegated television executive Nesbitt Gunn?
A New Tricks
B Room at the Bottom
C The TV Lark
D Executive Stress
7. Which satanic name comes from the Hebrew for ‘Lord of the Flies’?
A Lucifer
B Satan
C Beelzebub
D Diablo
8. What relation of Queen Victoria was Belgium’s Leopold I?
A Father
B Cousin
C Uncle
D Nephew
9. Who wrote the operetta The Merry Widow?
A Gustav Mahler
B Franz Lehar
C Sir Hubert Parry
D Nigel Osborne
10. In which year was the Mary Celeste found unmanned near the Azores?
A 1792
B 1822
C 1912
D 1872
11. Which actor wrote Snakes and Ladders in 1978?
A Richard Burton
B Dirk Bogarde
C Kirk Douglas
D Henry Fonda
12. What nationality was the painter Raoul Dufy?
A German
B Dutch
C American
D French
13. Which French composer wrote the Symphonie fantastique?
A Michelle Berlioz
B Frank Berlioz
C Boris Berlioz
D Hector Berlioz
14. Which English king met Francis I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold?
A Henry V
B George II
C Charles I
D Henry VIII
15. In which country was thriller writer Ngaio Marsh born?
A New Zealand
B Australia
C Canada
D USA