General Knowledge Quiz
1 C; 2 D; 3 C; 4 B; 5 D; 6 A; 7 B; 8 C; 9 B; 10 B; 11 B; 12 A; 13 B; 14 C; 15 B.
1. What sort of creature is a grouse?
A A fish
B A rodent
C A bird
D An insect
2. Which fabric causes the lung disease byssinosis?
A Silk
B Nylon
C Leather
D Cotton
3. What were WS Gilbert’s forenames?
A Wallace Spencer
B Watt Shaw
C William Schwenk D William Samuel
4. Which bird has honey and rough-legged varieties?
A Pelican
B Buzzard
C Puffin
D Parrot
5. What does the heraldic term mullet denote?
A A halo
B A comet
C A moon
D A star
6. Which film featuring Zazie Beetz won the 2020 BAFTA Award for Casting?
A Joker
B Seberg
C Lucy in the Sky
D Nine Days
Zazie Beetz See Question 6.
7. Which famous Italian conductor first conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1937?
A Arturo Niccolo
B Arturo Toscanini
C Arturo Rinaldo
D Arturo Milo
8. Who played Steve McGarrett in the crime series Hawaii Five-O?
A James Phillips
B Constable Ford
C Jack Lord
D Richard Maycock
9. Which legless European lizard is also called the blindworm?
A Longworm
B Slowworm
C Slimyworm
D Fatworm
10. Whose ‘name was Tallulah’ In Alan Parker’s child-star gangster flick Bugsy Malone?
A Cybill Shepherd
B Jodie Foster
C Holly Hunter
D Sharon Stone
11. The Shekel is the national currency of which country?
A Syria
B Israel
C Hungary
D Argentina
12. Who was shot by Nathuran Godse on September 17th, 1948?
A Mahatma Gandhi
B Ali Khamenei
C Deng Xiaoping
D Umaru Dikko
13. Who wrote the novels Tess of the D’Urbervilles and The Return of the Native?
A D.H. Lawrence
B Thomas Hardy
C Laurie Lee
D Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
14. Who was deputy leader of the Labour Party from 1981 to 1983? A Tony Blair
B John Prescott
C Denis Healey
D Neil Kinnock
15. Which study of thinking knowledge and truth literally means “love of wisdom” in Greek? A Astronomy
B Philosophy
C Poetry
D Psychology