General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which Italian navigator under the patronage of the Spanish monarchy made several voyages to the Americas?
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. Into how many constellations is the sky divided?
A 12 B 62 C 37 D 88
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?
A 12 B6 C8 D4
6. Which Netflix comedydrama stars Asa Butterfield as a teenager in high school and Gillian Anderson as his mother?
A Sex Education B Arrested Development C Stranger Things D School of Rock
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. 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
9. Who played crime writer Maddy Magellan, Jonathan Creek’s sidekick in the BBC One series?
A Caroline Quentin B Pauline Quirke C Dawn French D Jennifer Saunders
10. Which astrological phenomena are found in millions in the Oort cloud beyond Pluto?
A Stars B Meteors C Comets D Asteroids
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, the first permanent English settlement in what is now the USA?
A North Carolina B Virginia C Florida D Georgia
14. Who wrote the 1997 Number One song Perfect Day?
A David Bowie B Freddie Mercury C Louis Armstrong D Lou Reed
15. Which 1990 film starring Kevin Bacon saw natives of a small American town defending themselves against strange underground creatures?
A Rumours B Tremors C Murmurs D Schemers