General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which Italian navigator under the patronage of the Spanish monarchy discovered America? A Sir Walter Raleigh
B James Cook
C Christopher Columbus
D Marco Polo 2. In which country is the city of Rawalpindi?
A India
B Sri Lanka
C Pakistan
D Bangladesh 3. Which great British novelist formed a relationship with a young actress called Ellen Ternan?
A William Thackeray
B Anthony Trollope
C Charles Kingsley
D Charles Dickens 4. Who won the 1997 Booker Prize for the novel The God of Small Things?
A Margaret Atwood
B Salman Rushdie
C Tim Lott
D Arundhati Roy
5. How many legs does a tick have?
6. Fenella Woolgar joined the cast of BBC drama Call the Midwife in series 8. What is her character’s name?
A Sister Julienne
B Sister Hilda
C Nurse Phyllis Crane
D Nurse Trixie Franklin 7. Which French statesman and diplomat represented France at the Congress of Vienna in 1815? A Talleyrand
B Clemenceau
C Napoleon
D De Gaulle
8. Who wrote the 1997 Number One song A Perfect Day?
A David Bowie B Freddie Mercury C Louis Armstrong D Lou Reed
9. Which astrological phenomena are found in millions in the Oort
cloud beyond Pluto?
A Stars B Meteors C Comets D Asteroids 10. Who played crime writer Madelaine Magellan; Jonathan Creek’s sidekick in the BBC 1 crime mystery series?
A Caroline Quentin
B Pauline Quirke
C Dawn French
D Jennifer Saunders 11. In which US state is Palm Springs?
A Florida
B California
C North Carolina
D Oregon 12. Which female R & B band released an album entitled EV3 in 1997?
A TLC
B En Vogue
C Destiny’s Child
D All Saints 13. In which state is Jamestown which was the first permanent English settlement in what is now the USA ?
A North Carolina
B Virginia
C Florida
D Georgia 14. Into how many constellations is the sky divided?
A 12
B 62
C 37
D 88 15. Which British dramatist wrote Ralph Roister Doister?
A Simon Uvedale
B Nicholas Udall
C Richard Udall
D Ian Locher