General knowledge quiz

HISTORY

1 Which Roman general and statesman abandoned his wife Octavia to live with Cleopatra in Egypt?

2 What was the name of the Great Charter was sealed at Runnymede by King John o England in 1215?

3 Which general was president of France fr

1959 to 1969?

4 Which Belgian village was the site of a fam battle on 18 June 1815 which ended the Napoleonic Wars?

5 How was the Strategic Defence Initiative announced by Ronald Reagan in 1983 popularly known?

6 Which presumed assassin of John F. Kenn

was killed by Jack Ruby?

FILM & MUSIC

7 Which US actor starred in Twelve Angry M and On Golden Pond?

8 Which British composer of German desce wrote On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spr 9 Which producer and director made the 19 silent film King of Kings?

10 Who directed Close Encounters of the Th Kind?

11 Which singer/songwriter released The Tim They Are a-Changin’ in 1964?

12 La Marseillaise is the national anthem of which country?

SCIENCE

13 Which bodily organs are supplied with blo

by the renal artery?

14 Which alloy (of lead and tin or copper and zinc) is melted to form a joint between ot metals?

15 What does the letter E represent in Einste

equation E = mc2?

16 The deficiency of which vitamin can caus

rickets?

17 Which Greek letter denotes the ratio of th

circumference of a circle to its diameter? 18 Which technical term describes the stiffe of a body after death caused by chemica changes in the muscles?

WORDS

19 What name for a traitor is derived from a Norwegian army officer who collaborated the Nazis?

What name is given to an auction in whic the auctioneer gradually reduces the bidd price?

21 Which economic indicator is represented

the abbreviation RPI?

22 Which character seen in horror films is al

known as a lycanthrope?

23 What name is given to the point in the sk directly above an observer?

What does CB stand for in CB radio? 20

24

UK

25 On which river does the city of Glouceste

stand?

26 Which Labour prime minister was defeate by Margaret Thatcher in the 1979 genera election?

27 Of which English county is Shrewsbury th

administrative centre?

28 Which defensive earthwork along the We border is named after a former King of Mercia?

29 In which Scottish town was the Royal and

Ancient Golf Club founded in 1754?

30 Which British political group became the

Conservative Party under Robert Peel?

Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror