General knowledge quiz

ART & LITERATURE

1 Which Irish novelist wrote Ulysses?

2 Which English novelist wrote Lucky Jim?

3 Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?

4 Which Irish dramatist wrote Waiting for Godot?

5 Claude Monet was a pioneer of which painting style?

6 Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats is based on a book by which poet?

GEOGRAPHY

7 Of which country is Alberta a province?

8 Which small sovereign state is located within southern France?

9 Of which country is Bucharest capital?

10 In which European city is the gondola a form of transport?

11 In which country is the Dordogne river?

12 What is the largest of the Balearic Islands?

NATURE

13 What sort of creature is a kite?

14 In which country are giant pandas found in the wild?

15 What sort of creature is a marmoset?

16 What sort of creature is a gudgeon?

17 Jackals are closely related to which domestic animals?

18 If a lion has a mane, is it male or female?

SPORT & LEISURE

Which former England cricket captain played for Somerset from 1973-1986?

How many players are there on each side in Australian Rules Football?

Which official body in the UK sets and maintains the standards for over 100 recognised breeds of dogs?

22 In fencing, what is the marked-out area on

which the competition is fought called?

23 First held in 1776, which is the oldest English

classic horse race?

24 Who was the men’s 100m gold medallist in the

1992 Barcelona Olympics? 19 20 21

POT LUCK

25 From which country is popular pub entertainment karaoke?

26 A madrigal is a secular form of what?

27 The American presidents Theodore and Franklin D shared which surname?

28 Which conservative politician wrote First Among Equals?

29 Laissez-faire is a theory from which academic discipline?

30 Which mythological winged horse sprang from the blood of Medusa?

Solutions at the end