General Knowledge Quiz
1. Of which country is the Dáil Éireann the representative assembly?
A Republic of Ireland
B Wales
C Scotland
D England
2. Who designed the first British jet aircraft to fly?
A Sir Frank Windsor
B Sir Frank Wallace
C Sir Frank West
D Sir Frank Whittle
3. Which small nocturnal primate is also called a galago?
A Kangaroo
B Koala
C Lemur
D Bushbaby
4. Which US president was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth?
A John F Kennedy
B William McKinley
C Abraham Lincoln
D James Garfield
5. What is the female reproductive unit of a flowering plant called?
A Carpel
B Stem
C Petal
D Pollen
6. Jane Asher played Angel Samson in a Noughties revival of which TV soap opera?
A Grange Hill
B Eldorado
C Crossroads
D Acorn Antiques
Jane Asher See Question 6.
7. Which of the following terms best describes the element xenon?
A Alkali metal
B Noble gas
C Inert metal
D Lanthanide
8. What is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia?
A Vancouver
B Victoria
C Ottawa
D Montreal
9. Which English bishop and missionary wrote Naught for your Comfort about South African apartheid?
A Thomas Hardy
B James Hanson
C Trevor Huddleston
D George Hodgson 10. What nationality was detective writer Georges Simenon?
A Hungarian
B Austrian
C Belgian
D French
11. Which sugar occurs naturally in honey, fruits and vegetables?
A Lipose
B Sucrose
C Fructose
D Lactose
12. Which British general founded the Boy Scouts?
A Lord Michael-Rogers
B Lord Baden-Powell
C Lord Rydon-Dale
D Sir William Booth
13. Who wrote the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker?
A Puccini
B Dvorak
C Tchaikovsky
D Mozart
14. What was the pen name of the novelist Marie-Henri Beyle?
A Lumiere
B Stendhal
C Gaston
D Ionesco
15. Which rugby union player became the youngest-ever All Black when he made his debut against France in 1994 at the age of 19?
A Jonah Lomu
B Jamie Lomu
C Jason Lomu
D John Lomu