General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which drink is named after the German for ‘to store’?
A Hock
B Lager
C Beer
D Pilsner
2. Which market town in Suffolk is often referred to as the headquarters of British horse racing?
A Epsom
B Ascot
C Aintree
D Newmarket
3. Which British adventure novelist wrote King Solomon’s Mines and She?
A Robert Eagle Watt
B Robert Louis Stevenson
C Jules Verne
D Sir H Rider Haggard
4. What sort of creature is an orfe?
A An insect
B A bird
C A fish
D A reptile
5. Who wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey?
A Charlotte Bronte
B Emily Bronte
C Jane Austen
D Anne Bronte
6. Which 2018 Netflix series follows two strangers, played by Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, brought together by a mysterious pharmaceutical trial?
A Maniac
B The Alienist
C Life Sentence
D Mindhunter
7. Which French Post-Impressionist painted The Card Players?
A Degas
B Monet
C Renoir
D Cézanne
8. Which Colombian footballer was murdered after scoring an own goal against the USA in the 1994 World Cup?
A Pedro Escobar
B Andres Escobar
C Jesus Escobar
D Raul Escobar
9. What is the national currency of El Salvador?
A Peso
B Schilling
C Franc
D US dollar
10. What part of the body is affected by lumbago?
A The back
B The throat
C The eyes
D The legs
11. Who had a top twenty hit single in 1979 with Is She Really Going Out With Him?
A Joe Jackson
B Shirley Bassey
C Diana Ross
D Janet Jackson
12. To which country did Alexander Graham Bell emigrate in 1870?
A USA
B Canada
C Australia
D New Zealand
13. By how many does the prefix giga- multiply a number?
A One thousand
B One thousand million
C One million
D 20 thousand million
14. Who played Adam in TV’s Butterflies?
A Colin Firth
B Nicholas Lyndhurst
C David Jason
D Geoffrey Palmer
15. Which Irish novelist and poet wrote Ulysses and Finnegans Wake?
A Seamus Heaney
B James Joyce
C George Bernard Shaw
D Shaun Hughes