General knowledge quiz

2022-06-04 -

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1 In which country was there a campaign to promote economic and industrial growth called the Great Leap Forward?

2 Which three countries constituted the Axis Powers which opposed the Allied Powers in World War II?

3 Which 16th-century English writer was married to Anne Hathaway?

4 Which former currency unit of Italy was equal to 100 centesimi?

5 Which country’s revolution was precipitated by the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789?

6 Which order of friars was founded in 1209 by St Francis of Assisi?

7 With which instrument was jazz musician Miles Davis primarily associated?

8 Which slapstick policemen featured in several silent films produced by Mack Sennett?

9 Which star of the film East of Eden became a cult hero following his death in a car crash in 1955?

10 Which Russian composer wrote the ballet Swan Lake?

11 What nationality was the composer Claude Debussy?

12 How was silent film comedian Joseph Francis Keaton better known?

13 By which process do plants produce carbohydrates from carbon dioxide?

14 What was the first active communications satellite?

15 What was the surname of the British admiral who devised a scale of wind speed in the early 19th century?

16 What sort of heavenly body did Edmond Halley identify in 1705, predicting its reappearance in 1758?

17 How many millimetres are there in a kilometre?

18 What type of images have to be interpreted in a Rorschach test?

19 What is the 24th letter of the Latin alphabet?

20 What name for a place of wild disorder and confusion is derived from the hospital of St Mary of Bethlehem?

21 Which branch of mathematics takes its name from the Greek for ‘earth measurement’?

22 What is the French equivalent of ‘Miss’, referring to an unmarried female?

23 What does a somnambulist do?

24 What name is given to the property traditionally given by a bride’s family to her husband?

25 What is Scotland’s third largest city by population?

26 High Willhays is the highest point of which upland region of England?

27 In which London church is Poets’ Corner?

28 Who did Charles Kennedy succeed as leader of the Liberal Democrats?

29 In which London square is Nelson’s Column?

30 Which British field marshal was the first president of the British Legion?

Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror