General Knowledge Quiz

1. Who was the last British tennis player to win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon?

Tim Henman

John Lloyd

Jeremy Bates

Fred Andy Perry Murray

2. Which Australian city is capital of the Northern Territory? 3. What was the artistic profession of Wilhelm Furtwängler who died in 1954?

Concert pianist

Conductor

Painter

Opera singer

4. What is the national currency of Nigeria? 5. What sort of creature is a rorqual? 6. Jessica Brown Findlay is among the cast of which new Sky 1 drama based on a 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley?

A The Doors of Perception

B Brave New World

C Point Counter Point

D The Island

Jessica Brown Findlay See Question 6.

7. Who wrote the opera Sir John In Love in 1929? 8. Which is the brightest of the planets? 10. What is the stretch of mainly hexagonal basalt columns on the north coast of Antrim called?

The Giant’s Chessboard

The Giant’s Stepping Stones

The Giant’s Stride

Giant’s Causeway

11. Which TV drama series was based on Mary Norton’s books about a miniature family? Gulliver’s Travels

The Borrowers

The Tale of Tom Thumb

The BFG

12. Which English poet is generally credited with the authorship of the poem known as Piers Plowman? William Wordsworth

William Shakespeare

William Tell

William Langland

13. In which European country did the carriage known as a landau originate?

A Austria

B Germany

C Switzerland

D Hungary

14. What is the westernmost point of the Spanish mainland literally ‘land’s end’? 15. What name is applied to the poets Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge?

The Romantics

The Lake Poets

The Pre-raphaelites

The War Poets