General knowledge quiz

NATURAL HISTORY

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What is the largest living species of lizard?

Which insects of the order Ephemeroptera have an approximate adult life span of between only 30 minutes and 24 hours?

What is the third largest ocean on earth? What name is given to the two lobes on a whale’s tail fin?

Thousands of which type of bird fell from the skies over the town of Beebe in Arkansas on New Year’s Eve 2010? What kind of creature is a Moorish idol?

POT LUCK

What links the words FAIRISH, MASTERFUL and MOROSE?

The king in which suit of playing cards appears to be stabbing himself in the head with his own sword?

Mark Zuckerberg founded which lucrative social networking site in 2004? Candice Marie, Pauline Mole, Mrs Bennet and Pam Shipman are TV roles associated with which Liverpool-born character actress?

Per ardua ad astra is the Latin motto of which of Britain’s armed forces?

Jean Louise Finch is better known under which name in the novel

To Kill a Mockingbird?

FILM

Nicholas Hoult starred as which writer in a 2019 biopic?

Which recording artist performed the title song on the soundtrack of the Bond movie Die Another Day?

’And, oh, Auntie Em, there’s no place like home,’ is the closing line of which film musical of 1939?

Which actress was married to the American country singer Kenny Chesney for only four months in 2005?

Bela Lugosi, Gary Oldman and Christopher Lee are among the actors to have appeared on the big screen as which fictional character?

Which actor, Jennifer Jason Leigh’s father, was killed when a helicopter crashed during the making of

Twilight Zone: The Movie?

BRITAIN

Cross Fell is the highest peak in which range of UK hills?

Which royal title did Owain Glyndwr claim for himself when he rose up against the English in the early 1400s? Which gift is traditionally carried

(to ensure warmth) by a ’first foot’, the first visitor to enter a house at Hogmanay?

’Vote for insanity — you know it makes sense’ was an election slogan adopted by which British political party, founded in 1983?

How many grandchildren does the Queen have?

Which sportsperson turned TV personality has the nickname ’the Cat’?

TELEVISION

Fiz Stape and Chesney Brown are characters from which soap opera?

Neil Richardson’s ominous piece, Approaching Menace, is the theme tune for which challenging quiz show? LA Stories and Dark States were television documentary series by which presenter?

Which TV show includes dragons named Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion? The Brighton Belles was a short-lived British version of which far more successful US sitcom?

Who was the first presenter of

The Generation Game?

Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror