General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which TV series followed the further adventures of Trude Mostue and others after their graduation?
A Doctor, Doctor
B The Graduates
C Vets in Practice
D Airport
2. Who was the fourth wife of Henry VIII?
A Anne Boleyn
B Anne of Cleves
C Jane Seymour
D Catherine Parr
3. What name is given to political party officials responsible for discipline?
A Swords
B Rapiers
C Spears
D Whips
4. Which pioneer of Pop Art died in New York in 1997?
A Richard Hamilton
B Roy Lichtenstein
C Andy Warhol
D Jasper Johns
5. What is the national currency of Egypt?
A Pound
B Peso
C Shekel
D Colon
6. Which upcoming horror-comedy sees Lupita Nyong’o and Josh Gad fighting off a zombie invasion on a school trip?
A Little Monsters
B Little Horrors
C Little Terrors
D Little Demons
7. Which large flightless bird of Mauritius was extinct by the end of the 17th century?
A Dodo
B Ostrich
C Penguin
D Bilbo
8. Who wrote the poem The Faerie Queene?
A Lord Tennyson
B Lord Byron
C Percy Bysshe Shelley
D Edmund Spenser
9. Who had a top ten hit single in 1969 with Tracks Of My Tears?
A The Beatles
B Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
C The Rolling Stones
D The Beach Boys 10. Who starred as Heathcliff in the 1939 adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights?
A Timothy Dalton
B Laurence Olivier
C Donald Crisp
D Richard Attenborough
11. Who invented the clerihew and wrote the detective story Trent’s Last Case?
A Colin Dexter
B E. C. Bentley
C Agatha Christie
D Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
12. Followers of which religion fast during Ramadan?
A Islam
B Buddhism
C Judaism
D Hinduism
13. Which film-maker has directed Mel Gibson in the comedy western Maverick and in the Lethal Weapon films?
A Richard Linklater
B Steve Miner
C Ron Howard
D Richard Donner
14. How is paralysis agitans otherwise known?
A Polio
B Parkinson’s disease C Hodgkin’s disease D Tourettes Syndrome
15. Of which city were the Medici a noble family?
A Dijon
B Turin
C Milan
D Florence