General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which American Civil War general captured and burned Atlanta in 1864?
A James Madison
B Andrew Jackson
C John Quincy Adams
D William T. Sherman
2. What sort of creature is a treehopper?
A A squirrel
B A bird
C A monkey
D An insect 3. Which chemical element, symbol Lr, is named after the winner of the 1939 Nobel prize in physics?
A Lawcium
B Littlium
C Lawrencium
D Lorium
4. Which Frankish ruling dynasty was founded by Pepin the Short?
A Plantagenets
B Goths
C Visigoths
D Carolingians
5. Who was the last British prime minister to sit in the House of Lords?
A Gladstone
B Salisbury
C Rosebery
D Balfour
6. Christopher Walken and Stephen Merchant are among the stars of which BBC comedy set in Bristol?
A Misfits
B The Outlaws
C The Cleaner
D After Life
7. What is the removal of salt from brine to produce fresh water called?
A Purification
B Debrination
C Desalination
D Freshification 8. Who was Harold II’s brother who fought against him at the Battle of Stamford Bridge?
A Josstick
B Rostog
C Tostig
D Ristog
9. What name is given to a celestial phenomenon that has undergone such total gravitational collapse that no light can escape from it?
A Lightless cavern
B Dark abyss
C Black space
D Black hole
10. What does the name of the disease influenza literally mean?
A Influence
B Flu enzyme
C Cold influx
D Fast spreading
11. What is the brightest star in the constellation Carina?
A Arcturus
B Canopus
C Marina
D Peroni
12. Which band had a 1963 top ten hit with You Were Made For Me?
A Freddie and the Dreamers
B Herman’s Hermits
C The Beatles
D The Shadows
13. Who wrote the cantata Carmina Burana?
A Carl Orff
B Georges Bizet
C Wolfgang Mozart
D Richard Wagner
14. What name is given to the financial crisis in England in 1720 that revealed corruption among ministers?
A North Sea Bubble
B Irish Sea Bubble
C Atlantic Ocean Bubble
D South Sea Bubble
15. Which New Zealand detective fiction writer created Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard?
A Dame Ngaio Roberts
B Dame Ngaio Marsh
C Dame Ngaio Maoro
D Dame Ngaio Paou