General knowledge quiz

HISTORY

1 What was the Luftwaffe?

2 Which tax replaced the Community Charg 1993?

3 In which year did humankind first walk on Moon?

4 Which prehistoric period preceded the Iro Age?

5 The London embassy of which country w damaged by a car bomb in 1994?

6 To which former British colony were conv transported until 1867?

FILM & MUSIC

7 Who co-starred with Debra Winger in An Officer and a Gentleman?

8 Which Pretty Woman star also played a spirited member of the Steel Magnolias in 1989 film?

9 Who played Arthur in the 1981 film of the same name?

10 How many notes are in an octave?

11 Who played the renegade submarine commander in The Hunt for Red October

12 Who played Carrie in the 1976 suspense f

SCIENCE

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14 Of which electrical device is the dry cell a type?

15 What is the collective name for the Sun a the bodies in its gravitational field?

16 For which element is Ag the symbol? 17 What is the opposite of longitude?

18 Which medical device is implanted to reg the heartbeat? 19 Which instrument indicates the rate at w a car moves?

20 For which government department is MO abbreviation?

21 For which expression is COD an abbreviat

22 What does an early bird catch according the proverb?

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UK

Which imperial unit is equivalent to 0.453592 kg?

WORDS

What is the American term for an underground railway?

What is the daily record of events on boa ship called? 25 On which island are the famous TT motor races held?

26 What is the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer?

27 Which port lies between the Tamar and P estuaries?

28 Which ballet company was known as the Sadler’s Wells Ballet until 1956?

29 Westray and Hoy are part of which Scotti island group?

30 Which river flows east through Newcastle Gateshead and Jarrow to the North Sea?

Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror