General knowledge quiz

HISTORY

1 Of which country was Macbeth king from 1040?

2 The guilder was the pre-euro monetary unit of which country?

3 Who was the final Stuart monarch of Great Britain?

4 Of which Native American tribe was Sitting Bull chief?

5 In which war was the Battle of Bunker Hill?

6 Which US president made the Emancipation Proclamation?

FILM & MUSIC

7 Which of the Monty Python team played The Missionary in the 1982 comedy film of that name?

8 Who starred as Hawkeye in the 1992 remake of The Last of the Mohicans?

9 Which family group sang ABC?

10 Who sang classic tune Blueberry Hill?

11 Who played The Bodyguard in the 1992 film

12 The 1994 hit single Sure was released by which British boy band?

SCIENCE

13 How is Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation more commonly known?

14 What does the pH scale measure?

15 Which way of transmitting messages uses signals of short and long duration (dots and dashes)?

16 Which branch of medicine is concerned with the wellbeing of the female reproductive system?

17 Which indigestion treatment is more properly

called sodium hydrogen carbonate?

18 What is the astronomical term for the hypothetical ‘explosive’ event that marked the origin of the universe?

WORDS

19 What is a hurdy-gurdy?

20 Of what is claustrophobia a fear?

21 Which now defunct South African racial-segregation policy means ‘apartness’ in Afrikaans?

22 What is a kayak?

23 For which former organisation do the initials TGWU stand?

24 For what former Government scheme does the acronym SERPS stand for?

UK

25 In which English county can the resort of Eastbourne be found?

26 Of which political party was Roy Jenkins the leader from 1982 to 1983?

27 What is the largest of the Channel Island 28 Which British entrepeneur founded the Virgin record company in 1969?

29 Which Scottish lake in the Glen More valley is

alleged to be the home of a monster?

30 Of which English county is Oxford the

administrative centre?

Solutions to the right