General knowledge quiz

2024-04-06 -

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1 What was the name of the Roman Emperors personal bodyguards?

2 Which landmark was built in India in the 17th century by the Mughal emperor Shah Jehan in memory of his wife Mumtaz?

3 What name was given to hiding places for priests built into Catholic houses during the reign of Elizabeth I?

4 For what were quern-stones used in the Neolithic Age?

5 Which Buckinghamshire estate, code named Station X, housed the World War II Government Code and Cypher School?

6 Who was the mother of both Richard I and King John?

7 Which group had a hit single in the mid-Sixties with the song Help Me, Rhonda?

8 Which actress plays the title character in the 1987 US romcom film Roxanne?

9 Who plays botanist Mark Watney in the 2015 science fiction action film The Martian?

10 Which British singer had a UK hit in 1973 with the song Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting?

11 Which was the only film directed by Alfred Hitchcock to win a Best Picture Oscar?

12 Ashley Roberts is best known for being a member of which pop girl group?

13 In plants, what colour is the pigment chlorophyll?

14 What type of creature is a bummalo?

15 A tetrapod is a vertebrate with how many limbs?

16 What colour is the explosive liquid nitroglycerine?

17 What is the first name of the astronomer after whom the Hubble Space Telescope is named?

18 What name is given to the science of soil management and crop rotation?

19 What shape of pitch is a game of Australian rules football played on?

20 Which sport has produced the most winners of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award?

21 In football, which English team is nicknamed The Baggies?

22 What nationality was Ben Hogan, the win of nine golf majors?

23 In what year did the Open Era of tennis begin?

24 Which Spanish city hosted the Summer Olympics in 1992?

25 Syriza is a political party in which European country?

26 On which continent is the landlocked country of Burundi?

27 What is the capital of Greenland? 28 What is the longest river in North America?

29 With a population of almost 200,000, the city of Yonkers is situated in which American state?

30 In which region of France is the port of Le Havre?

Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror