General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which group released the album Fresco in 1997?
A Sleeper
B Elastica
C M People
D Skunk Anansie
2. In which country is the port of Haifa situated?
A Iran
B Israel
C Iraq
D Sri Lanka
3. Which French writer published the collection of fairy tales Contes de ma mère l’oye; better known as Mother Goose?
A Ionesco
B Albert Camus
C Pierre Cardin
D Charles Perrault
4. Which island of Japan is the largest in area?
A Hokkaido
B Shikoku
C Kyushu
D Honshu
5. What is androphobia? A Fear of heights
B Fear of beetles
C Fear of dogs
D Fear of men
6. Liam Gallagher recently topped the UK charts with his latest album – what is it called?
A Go On You Can Do It
B C’mon You Know
C Seriously, Get Over It
D Get Away With You
7. Which American songwriter and composer wrote Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris and Porgy and Bess?
A George Gershwin
B Scott Joplin
C Leonard Bernstein
D Stephen Sondheim
8. Which mountains form a border between France and Spain?
A Alps
B Carpathians
C Cairngorms
D Pyrenees 9. In which popular US sport do the Green Bay Packers play?
A Baseball
B Ice hockey C American football D Basketball
10. What sort of creature is a wentletrap?
A A mollusc
B A fish
C A monkey
D An arachnid
11. Who starred on TV as Edna, the Inebriate Woman?
A Patricia Hayes
B Sarah Hayes
C Rachel Hayes
D Lucia Hayes
12. What in nature is a brotulid? A A horse
B A flower
C A feline
D A fish
13. Who was the first female MP to sit in the House of Commons? A Nancy Shelley
B Nancy Pankhurst
C Nancy Frost
D Nancy Astor
14. Which poet wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese?
A Sylvia Plath
B Emily Dickinson
C Elizabeth Jennings D Elizabeth Barrett Browning
15. Which film starring Richard Dreyfuss marked the feature debut of Liv Tyler?
A Silent Fall
B Close Encounters of the Third Kind
C The Goodbye Girl
D Quiz Show