General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which loud-mouthed rockstar is acknowledged to be the reason why live shows of TFI Friday were banned?
A Shaun Ryder
B Liam Gallagher
C Bono
D Robbie Williams
2. Who starred as Sam Malone in TV’s Cheers?
A Woody Harrelson
B Ted Danson
C Danny DeVito
D Christopher Walken
3. Who was elected Ireland’s eighth president in 1997?
A Mary Robinson B Gerry Adams C Mary McAleese D Bertie Ahern
4. Who scored a double century in England’s Test Match victory over Australia at Edgbaston in 1997?
A Alec Stewart
B Nasser Hussain
C Graham Thorpe
D Michael Atherton
5. Which cartoon character said: “I tawt I taw a puddy tat”?
A Jerry
B Roadrunner
C Foghorn Leghorn
D Tweety Pie
6. Meryl Streep won a Best Actress Oscar for playing which politician in the 2011 film The Iron Lady?
A Sarah Palin
B Hillary Clinton
C Glenda Jackson
D Margaret Thatcher 7. In which Anglo-Saxon epic poem does the hero slay the monster Grendel and become king
of the Geats?
A Beowulf
B Ethelbert
C Hrothgar
D Hygelac
8. Who wrote the original Borrowers stories about a family
of miniature people upon which the film of the same name is based?
A Emily Dickinson
B Beatrix Potter
C Enid Blyton
D Mary Norton
9. Which popular soap features the character Toadfish?
A Home and Away B EastEnders C Neighbours D Coronation Street 10. Which Pride and Prejudice character was played by Jennifer Ehle in the 1995 BBC drama?
A Elizabeth Bennet
B Jane Bennet
C Lydia Bennet
D Catherine de Bourgh
11. Who played Bradley Hardacre in Brass?
A Timothy Burton B Timothy Easton C Timothy West D Timothy Dalton
12. Which British PM said: “I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me”?
A Ramsay MacDonald
B Winston Churchill
C Lord Salisbury
D Benjamin Disraeli
13. Who wrote The Vicar of Wakefield and She Stoops to Conquer?
A George Eliot
B William Thackeray
C Oliver Goldsmith
D Charles Dickens
14. Who wrote Jane Eyre in 1847?
A Jane Austen B Emily Brontë C Charlotte Brontë D Elizabeth Gaskell
15. Which British poet is best known for his translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam?
A Rudyard Kipling B Lord Tennyson C Percy Bysshe Shelley D Edward Fitzgerald