General knowledge quiz

HISTORY

1 Who was the last Democratic US president of the 20th century?

2 Genghis Khan was the founder and first leader of which empire?

3 In which month in 1939 did Britain declare war on Germany?

4 Which Roman emperor was also known as Octavius?

5 Which king founded Eton College in 1440?

6 Which battle was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745?

FILM & MUSIC

7 Which British singer had a hit single in 1980 with the song Fashion?

8 With which musical instrument in Yo-Yo Ma associated?

9 Who played the role of Captain Benjamin L Willard in the 1979 war film Apocalypse Now?

10 Released in 2003, Call Off the Search was the debut studio album by which singersongwriter?

11 Mike Peters is best known as the frontman of which Welsh band?

12 What is the name of character played by Jason Statham in the Transporter series of films?

SCIENCE & NATURE

13 Which British mammal makes a shallow lair called a form?

14 Fireworks made with copper compounds produce what colour when let off?

15 Where in the human body is the ulna bone?

16 The internal angles of a quadrilateral add up to how many degrees?

17 Which great ape of the genus Pongo has a name which means ‘person of the forest’?

18 Natural gas and marsh gas consist chiefly of which type of gas?

SPORT & LEISURE

19 Which sport has been played under the names

of whiff-whaff and gossima?

20 Gold medal-winner Geraint Thomas represented Britain in which sport at the Olympics?

21 The nickname of which national football side

translates as ‘The Little Canaries’?

22 What title did powerlifter Magnús Ver

Magnússon hold in 1991, 1994, 1995 and 1996?

23 Winter sport speed riding is a combination of

paragliding and which other sport?

24 The “Galveston Giant” was the nickname of which US boxer, the first black Heavyweight Champion of the World?

GEOGRAPHY

25 Happy Valley is a residential area of which

Asian city?

26 Bogotá, Sucre and La Paz are major cities

found in which mountain range?

27 In which European country is the world’s most

northerly university?

28 Which famous landmark can be found next to

the cathedral in Italy’s Piazza dei Miracoli?

29 Which major river is the longest in Pakistan?

30 Australia is divided into how many states?