General Knowledge Quiz
1. What were Sir Winston Churchill’s middle names? A Percy Horace
B Leonard Spencer C Richard Stanley
D Lionel Harold 2. What is the atomic number of carbon?
A 6
B 2
C 45
D 22 3. Which engineer built the Suez canal?
A Giacomo de Festino
B Guiseppe de Milano
C Bruno de Ricardi
D Ferdinand de Lesseps 4. In the 1970s both Roxy Music and The Crusaders had top ten hits with different songs with the same name - what was it?
A West Life
B Night Life
C Love Life
D Street Life 5. What is fly agaric? A A fly
B A mushroom
C A seaweed
D A gooseberry 6. Which recent BBC1 adaptation of a novel by Rumer Godden stars Gemma Arterton as nun Sister Clodagh?
A The Song of Bernadette
B Doubt
C Beyond the Hills
D Black Narcissus 7. In which country is the city of Kosice?
A Slovakia
B Iraq
C Turkey
D Iran 8. Which friend of Florence Nightingale campaigned successfully for prison reform ? A Elizabeth Bennet
B Elizabeth Fry
C Elizabeth Gaskell
D Elizabeth Herbert 9. In which two months are the Dog-days?
A July and August
B September and May
C April and June
D December and January 10. What sort of creature is a kelpie?
A An English river fish
B An Atlantic sea bird
C An African monkey
D An Australian sheep dog 11. On which Italian island is the volcano Mount Etna?
A Crete
B Sicily
C Corsica
D Sardinia 12. What did Hippolyte MegeMouries invent in 1889?
A Margarine
B Flushing toilet
C Penicillin
D Cement 13. Which creatures are also called hogs or swine?
A Pigs
B Wildebeest
C Cows
D Deer 14. Which war lasted from 185456?
A The Napoleonic
B The Great War
C The Crimean
D The Two Years War 15. To which future king of England was Margaret Maid of Norway betrothed?
A Henry II
B John
C Richard II
D Edward II