General knowledge quiz

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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Retinol is another name for which compound, essential for growth and for vision in dim light?

Which Italian scientist shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun in 1909 for his contribution to the development of wireless telegraphy? Which 1764 invention was devised to increase productivity in the textile industry?

What nationality was Johannes Gutenberg, who is largely hailed as the creator of the printing press?

Diamond and graphite are both crystalline forms of which chemical element?

What — on account of its similar gravity, mass and size — is known as Earth’s sister planet?

POT LUCK

Where, according to the rhyme, might you see ’a fine lady upon a white horse’? Gamboge is a tree resin that yields a dye of which colour?

Who did Lady Caroline Lamb refer to as ’mad, bad, and dangerous to know’? Barbara Millicent Rogers is the full name of a popular what?

Dauphin was the title conferred upon the eldest son and heir of the reigning monarch of which country? The headquarters of which marine charity, established in 1824, are located in Poole, Dorset?

BRITAIN

From which Devon city did the Pilgrim Fathers set sail to the New World in 1620? In which county is ZSL Whipsnade Zoo? At which event, in 1913, did the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison die after being hit by King George V’s horse? Girton and Peterhouse are colleges belonging to which prestigious university? Residents of Manchester are commonly referred to as what?

British writer J K Rowling hails from which town?

LITERATURE

What did Robert Burns refer to as a

’wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie’? Which Belgian-born author created

Jules Maigret?

Which Johanna Spyri heroine befriended an Alpine goatherd named Peter?

Look Back in Hunger: The Autobiography is the full title of the memoirs by which British comic?

The name George Bradshaw has, since 1839, been closely associated with which type of publication?

The writers Arnold Bennett and

Somerset Maugham shared which speech condition?