General knowledge quiz

ART & LITERATURE

1 Who wrote War and Peace?

2 Which Shakespeare comedy features Puck and Oberon?

3 Which hero of the African rainforest was created by US writer Edgar Rice Burroughs?

4 Who created the characters Peter Rabbit and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle?

5 Who created the comic strip Peanuts?

6 Who created the characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple?

GEOGRAPHY

7 Of which country is Tehran capital? 8 In which Canadian province is Montreal?

9 La Manche is the French name for which stretch of water?

10 The island Stromboli belongs to which country?

11 Of which country is Canberra capital? 12 Which country is the smallest in the world?

NATURE

13 What sort of creature is a sandpiper? 14 What sort of creature is a ling? 15 Which insects transmit malaria? 16 How is the echidna otherwise known? 17 What sort of creature is a cicada? 18 What is a sequoia?

SPORT & LEISURE

19

For which country was Rodney Marsh wicketkeeper?

20 In which type of race do runners pass a baton to each other?

21

Which football club are nicknamed the Magpies?

22 In which sport was the Anglo-Welsh Cup contested?

23 In which sport is a person towed behind a speedboat?

24 8-ball and straight are forms of which game?

POT LUCK

25 Jerusalem is a type of which vegetable?

26 Mesmerism was a term for which therapeutic process?

27 In the New Testament, who aided the injured traveller who had been robbed?

28 Which one-wheeled vehicle is driven by pedals?

29 Which legal title is given to the wife of a knight?

30 Which dangerous game of chance involves a revolver loaded with only one cartridge? Solutions at the end