General knowledge quiz

ART & LITERATURE

1 Who wrote The Eagle Has Landed?

2 Who wrote A Room With a View?

3 Which novelist wrote the 1994 Booker Prizewinning How Late It Was, How Late?

4 Who wrote Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy?

5 Which Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations?

6 Big Ears is the friend of which Enid Blyton title character?

GEOGRAPHY

7 The Adriatic is an arm of which sea?

8 In which American state is Detroit?

9 In which continent is the Orinoco river?

10 Which is the largest Mediterranean island?

11 Which country is also known as Nippon?

12 Zeebrugge, scene of the 1987 ferry disaster, is in which country?

NATURE

13 The name of which creature can be preceded

by killer or blue?

14 What type of creature is a bulbul?

15 By what name is the aurora borealis

commonly known?

16 Which insect can jump 130 times its own

height?

17 Which house plant, popular at Christmas time, has largish green leaves topped by a crown of mainly red leaves?

18 What do Australians call their native wild dog?

SPORT & LEISURE

19 In 1986 Greg LeMond became the first rider from which country to win the Tour de France?

20 Which Argentinian player was banned from playing during the 1994 World Cup for doping?

21 Which British athlete broke the world

decathlon record four times?

22 For which country did Kenny Dalglish play

football?

23 Which sport begins with a face-off?

24 What is a draughts piece which can move in

any direction called?

POT LUCK

25 The Inquisition was the tribunal of which Church?

26 Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck were creations of whose animation studio?

27 Bobbin and needlepoint are types of which material?

28 In which spherical object can fortune-tellers supposedly see the future?

29 In the nursery rhyme, who met a pieman going to the fair?

30 Which dog is famous for finding lost travellers in the Alps?

Solutions at the end