General knowledge quiz

ART & LITERATURE

1 Which Scottish author wrote The Wind in the

Willows?

2 Which West End play has had an unparalleled

long run since its opening in 1952?

3 Who painted the Last Supper in a church in

Milan?

4 Whose compositions are the D’Oyly Carte

Opera Company mainly concerned with?

5 How was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better

known?

6 Which American author wrote Carrie and The

Shining?

GEOGRAPHY

7 In which American state would you find Oahu?

8 For which group of states does the abbreviation UAE stand?

9 Kigali is the capital of which African country?

10 In which country is Cadiz?

11 What is the collective name for Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario?

12 What was Ho Chi Minh City called before the Vietnam War?

NATURE

13 What sort of creature is a trumpeter?

14 Cos is a variety of which plant?

15 What sort of animal is a flying fox?

16 What is an ocelot?

17 What is a rabbit’s underground burrow called?

18 What is a mastiff?

SPORT & LEISURE

19 Which former Wimbledon men’s doubles winner died of carbon monoxide poisoning in 1994, aged 40?

20 Who won boxing super heavyweight gold for

Canada at the 1988 Olympics?

21 In which country was the jockey Willie Carson

born?

22 With which physical discipline would you

associate high bar and rings?

23 The name of which sport can be preceded by

lawn or real?

24 In which sport are touchdowns scored?

POT LUCK

25 What is a bunch of herbs tied together and used to flavour soups called?

26 By what acronym is the US space agency known?

27 What colour flag is the symbol of surrender?

28 What was Batman’s youthful sidekick called?

29 Gros point and petit point are types of stitches used in what?

30 Baroque, Bauhaus and Gothic are all styles of what?

Solutions at the end