General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which flat race run at Newmarket was the last of the Classics to be instituted? A The Grand National B The Derby C One Thousand Guineas D The Oaks 2. Who wrote Northanger Abbey? A Jane Austen B George Eliot C Elizabeth Gaskell D. William Thackeray 3. Which German novelist won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature? A Jaroslav Seifert B Czeslaw Milosz C Heinrich Boll D Claude Simon 4. What is the third book of the Old Testament? A Genesis B Exodus C Leviticus D Job 5. On which channel could The Jack Docherty Show be seen? A Channel 4 B BBC Two C Channel 5 D ITV 6. Which whodunit film stars Daniel Craig as a detective investigating a murder at a family gathering? A Axes Out B Guns Out C Poisons Out D Knives Out 7. Which architect designed the rebuilt St Paul’s Cathedral? A Sir Richard Arkwright B Arthur Young C Isambard Kingdom Brunel D Sir Christopher Wren 8. Which US duo asked us to Walk Right Back in 1961? A Simon & Garfunkel B The Everly Brothers C Johnny Cash & June Carter D Bob Dylan & Joni Mitchell 9. What does the title of Hitler’s book Mein Kampf mean? A My Dream B My Camp C My Struggle D My Home 10. With which theatrical genre are Eugene Ionesco and Arthur Adamov linked? A Theatre of Comedy B Theatre of the Catastrophic C Theatre of the Absurd D Theatre of Tragedy 11. What name is given to the three wars between Rome and Carthage that gave Rome control of the Mediterranean? A The Crimean Wars B The Punic Wars C The Napoleonic Wars D The Turin Wars 12. Which US poet and essayist wrote the transcendentalist creed Nature in 1836? A Ralph Waldo Peterson B Ralph Waldo Richardson C Ralph Waldo Harrison D Ralph Waldo Emerson 13. Which rock guitarist was honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque in 1997? A Eric Clapton B Jimi Hendrix C Brian May D Joe Satriani 14. Which female singer teamed up with Johnny Mathis on the 1978 hit, Too Much Too Little Too Late? A Lulu B Cyndi Lauper C Cheryl Baker D Deniece Williams 15. In which 2001 film comedy did Ben Stiller play the titular dim-witted male model, who becomes the pawn of corrupt fashion executives involved in an assassination plot? A Envy B Bruno C You Don’t Mess with the Zohan D Zoolander