General Knowledge Quiz

1. What sort of creature is a grouse?

A A fish

B A rodent

C A bird

D An insect

2. Which fabric causes the lung disease byssinosis?

A Silk

B Nylon

C Leather

D Cotton

3. What were WS Gilbert’s forenames?

A Wallace Spencer

B Watt Shaw

C William Schwenk D William Samuel

4. Which bird has honey and rough-legged varieties?

A Pelican

B Buzzard

C Puffin

D Parrot

5. What does the heraldic term mullet denote?

A A halo

B A comet

C A moon

D A star

6. Which film featuring Zazie Beetz won the 2020 BAFTA Award for Casting?

A Joker

B Seberg

C Lucy in the Sky

D Nine Days

7. Which famous Italian conductor first conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1937?

A Arturo Niccolo

B Arturo Toscanini

C Arturo Rinaldo

D Arturo Milo

9. Which legless European lizard is also called the blindworm?

A Longworm

B Slowworm

C Slimyworm

D Fatworm 10. Whose ‘name was Tallulah’ In Alan Parker’s child-star gangster flick Bugsy Malone?

A Cybill Shepherd

B Jodie Foster

C Holly Hunter

D Sharon Stone

11. The Shekel is the national currency of which country?

A Syria

B Israel

C Hungary

D Argentina

12. Who was shot by Nathuran Godse on September 17th, 1948? A Mahatma Gandhi

B Ali Khamenei

C Deng Xiaoping

D Umaru Dikko

13. Who wrote the novels Tess of the D’Urbervilles and The Return of the Native?

A D.H. Lawrence

B Thomas Hardy

C Laurie Lee

D Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

14. Who was deputy leader of the Labour Party from 1981 to 1983? A Tony Blair

B John Prescott

C Denis Healey

D Neil Kinnock

15. Which study of thinking knowledge and truth literally means “love of wisdom” in Greek? A Astronomy

B Philosophy

C Poetry

D Psychology