General Knowledge Quiz
1. Who won the Cricket World Cup in 1996?
A Pakistan
B Sri Lanka
C Australia
D India 2. Which conductor established the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1946?
A Samuel Mecon
B Daniel King
C Thomas Beecham
D Randall Thomas 3. Which song gave Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers a number one hit in 1956?
A Puppy Love
B Blue Moon
C Kissing at the Drive-in D Why Do Fools Fall In Love 4. Of which country is Harare the capital?
A Kenya
B Zimbabwe
C Ethiopia
D South Africa 5. What is a pixel?
A A computer sprite
B A line on a computer
C A circle on a computer
D A single dot on a computer 6. Mork & Mindy starred which popular film actor and comedian? A John Candy
B Mel Brooks
C Robin Williams
D Billy Crystal 7. Which Berkshire village is associated with the Royal Military Academy?
A Sandhurst
B Dunstable
C Guildford
D Basildon 8. Which TV drama, about three mums whose perfect lives unravel, stars Meryl Streep as Mary Louise Wright, in its second season?
A Large as Life
B Big Little Lies
C Little Lives
D Huge Heavy Lies 9. Who starred as Mrs Boswell in Bread?
A Jean Boswell
B Jean Boht
C Jean Booth
D Jean Black 10. What is the second busiest airport in France?
A Marseilles
B Orly
C Nantes
D Nice 11. Which French author wrote the volume of poetry Les Fleurs du Mal?
A Yves Navarre
B Albert Camus
C Eugene Ionesco
D Charles Baudelaire 12. Richard Attenborough starred in which 1948 adaptation of a Graham Greene novel?
A The Third Man
B The Quiet American
C Private’s Progress
D Brighton Rock 13. In which craft did Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space?
A Volga II
B Karnov IV
C Kirov III
D Vostok I 14. What imperial unit of power is equal to 550 foot-pounds per second?
A Watt
B Volt
C Horsepower
D Newton 15. Siblings Charlie and Daisy May Cooper recently returned for a third and final series of which BBC mockumentary series?
A This Country
B Detectorists
C Life on the Road
D People Just Do Nothing