GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ

1. From which country did the former slave Toussaint L’Ouverture expel the Spanish and the British?

A Argentina

B Puerto Rico

C Trinidad

D Haiti

2. Of which African country is Gaborone the capital? 3. What does the letter E represent in Einstein’s equation “E = mc2”? 4. Which British female athlete won the silver medal at the 1997 World Cross-Country Championship in Turin?

A Kelly Holmes

B Sally Gunnell

C Paula Radcliffe

D Denise Lewis

5. What is the point in the orbit of a body around the sun at which it is closest to the sun called?

A Perihelion

B Equator

C Maximum Positive Capability D Macaque

6. Eva Green and Himesh Patel are among the stars of which BBC1 drama set in 19th-century New Zealand and based on a novel by Eleanor Catton?

A Harlots

B The Secrets She Keeps

C The Luminaries

D I May Destroy You

Actress Eva Green See Question 6 7. Which mountain is the second highest in the world and is also called Mount Godwin Austen? 8. Which Polish-born scientist became widely known for his television series The Ascent of Man?

A Jacob Pokawski

B Jacob Rakowski

C Jacob Bronowski

D Jacob Kaminski 10. Which American artist and photographer associated with the Dada movement worked in Paris from 1921?

A Man Ray

B Richard Dada

C Drew Richards

D Neil Bradstow

11. Who was the first US President to resign office? A John Quincey Adams B James A Garfield C Richard Nixon

D William McKinley 13. The spoof doggy documentary Best In Show was written directed by and starred which star of Spinal Tap?

A Harry Shearer

B Christopher Guest

C Michael McKean

D Rob Reiner

14. Which American actor/ singer played ‘Hutch’ in Starsky and Hutch?

A Richard Plaice

B Tony Adams

C David Soul

D Michael Cod

15. Which two classic races for three-year-olds are run at Epsom in June?

A The Grand National and the

Derby

B The Derby and The Oaks C The Three Guineas and the

Derby

D The Derby and the Ashes