General knowledge quiz

BRITAIN

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The Farne Islands, an archipelago home to sea birds and grey seals, lies off the coast of which English county? In which foreign country was

British author George Orwell born?

How many times has England hosted the FIFA World Cup?

Which table top game, whose name derives from the Latin for a hobby falcon, was devised by Peter Adolph in Kent in 1946? What is the highest mountain in the UK? The River Dee runs through which large body of water in Wales, also known as

Llyn Tegid?

POT LUCK

Which unit of length is a measure equal to ten cables?

In a standard pack of playing cards, the king of which suit is shown without a moustache? Who is the only President of the US to have served more than two terms in that office? What do the following words have in common: millionaire, kayak, education, combative and tapestry?

According to Genesis, on which day of the Creation did God make the sun, moon and stars?

In which century did Britain legally become a single unified time zone with all parts of the country adopting GMT?

LITERATURE

Elizabeth Medora was rumoured to be the daughter of Augusta Leigh and which 19th-century poet who was also Augusta’s half-brother?

Gridlock, Popcorn and Dead Famous are novels authored by which British comedian? What was the name of William Wordsworth’s Grasmere home, which he lived in between 1799 and 1808?

What was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, born in Missouri in 1835?

Filmed in 1963, This Sporting Life, based on a David Storey novel of the same name, tells the story of a professional player of which sport?

Which Booker Prize-winning novelist appeared as Dr Masani in the

2007 Helen Hunt film Then She Found Me?

MUSIC

The xylophone belongs to which section of the orchestra?

Which opera by Benjamin Britten is based on a novella by Herman Melville? In the Beatles’ song, a blackbird is singing in the dead of what?

Written by Oscar Asche and with music by Frederic Norton, which hit 1916 musical is based on Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves? What circumstance links the 1992 song Achy Breaky Heart and April 2009’s hit The Climb?

What is the name of the musical film where John Travolta plays the role of Edna Turnblad?

FOOD AND DRINK

Which famous TV cook and restaurant critic was born Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey?

Love apple is an old name for which fruit? Farfalle is an Italian pasta taking which distinctive shape?

’Watch out, watch out — there’s a

Humphrey about!’ was a 1970s advertising slogan used to promote which product? Judge Jules, the British dance music DJ, is the nephew of which celebrity chef? Which Scottish dialect word describes the turnip or swede accompaniment to haggis on Burns Night?

Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror