General knowledge quiz

ART & LITERATURE

1 Which US poet was married to Ted Hughes?

2 Who wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?

3 In which futuristic novel did George Orwell

introduce the concept of Big Brother?

4 Which English writer’s work includes

Of Human Bondage and The Moon and Sixpence?

5 Who wrote The Lion, the Witch and the

Wardrobe?

6 Margaret Hookham was the real name of which English ballet dancer who formed a partnership with Rudolf Nureyev?

GEOGRAPHY

7 In which ocean is Mauritius?

8 Which mountain system runs from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea?

9 What is the time difference between London and Paris?

10 Which Scottish island group includes Mull and St Kilda?

11 What are the two official languages of Canada?

12 Which continent surrounds the South Pole?

NATURE

13 Morello is a variety of which fruit?

14 What sort of creature is an ibis?

15 The only apes native to Europe can be found in which British colony?

16 What sort of creature is a John Dory?

17 What sort of creature is a mallard?

18 What sort of organism is fly agaric?

SPORT & LEISURE

19 Who was the elder brother, Bobby or Jack

Charlton?

20 Which English classic horse race was named

after the 12th Earl of Derby’s stately home?

21 Who was the first British footballer to be

knighted in 1965?

22 Where was the first modern Olympic Games

held in 1896?

23 Who was the British 800m gold medallist at

the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow?

24 Who was the Wimbledon men’s singles

champion of 1988 and 1990?

POT LUCK

25 Which act of Parliament binds government employees to secrecy?

26 What gender would a patriarch be?

27 Which American political figure works in the Oval Office?

28 What type of object does a dust jacket protect?

29 In which country did Buddhism originate?

30 What must someone be a member of to join a closed shop?

Solutions at the end