General Knowledge Quiz
1 B; 2 A; 3 D; 4 D; 5 B; 6 D; 7 A; 8 B; 9 A; 10 D; 11 B; 12 A; 13 A; 14 C; 15 D.
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