General knowledge quiz
POT LUCK
1 What was the original name of the Golden Hind, the ship used by Francis Drake?
2 Which three letters of the modern alphabet weren’t used in the original Roman version?
3 What links Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart to
Manchester City FC?
4 Pung, kong and chow are terms used in which board game? 5 2018 is the Chinese year of which animal?
6 What sort of portmanteau is named after a UK prime minister?
THE USA
7 The islands of Hawaii were initially given which name after their discovery by Captain Cook?
8 Which baseball team faced the
Los Angeles Dodgers at the
2017 MLB World Series?
9 Number One Observatory
Circle in Washington DC is the official residence of which elected official?
10 Which overseas Pacific territory of the USA is the largest and southernmost of the
Mariana Islands?
11 Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and which other US president have been granted honorary knighthoods? 12 Working in collaboration with Tony Asher, which American wrote the song God Only Knows for the Beach Boys? MUSIC
13 Skimbleshanks, Bustopher Jones and Grizabella are characters from which musical written by
Andrew Lloyd Webber? 14 Cheek to Cheek is the title of a 2014 collaborative album recorded by Lady Gaga and which other singer?
15 Which British band had a Christmas no 1 UK single with Stay Another Day?
16 The song Thanks for the
Memory became something of a signature tune for which British-born comic?
17 Which druid priestess is the eponymous heroine of an 1831 opera by Vincenzo Bellini?
18 What is the literal meaning of the Japanese term ’karaoke’?
GEOGRAPHY
19 The solano is a hot dry wind blowing from the south through which European country?
20 The largely uninhabited
French island of Tatihou lies in which body of water?
21 Which US state has its capital at Lansing? 22 The confluence of the Goyt and the Tame is the source of which larger English river? 23 Which sea area used in shipping forecasts includes the Isle of Man?
24 What colour is the five-pointed star at the centre of the national flag of Vietnam?
NATURAL HISTORY
25 What name is given to the hybrid offspring of a male horse and a female donkey?
26 How many fully-formed fingers or digits did the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex have on each of its ’hands’? 27 Cranesbill is a common name especially given to the wild-growing plants belonging to which genus of garden flower?
28 Often causing lameness, a bony spavin is an abnormal growth of bone in the lower leg of which animal?
29 Which English town became the world’s first ’garden city’ when it was founded in 1903 according to a model laid down by
Ebenezer Howard?
30 Which naturalist and animal rights campaigner wrote Born Free in 1960 and founded the Elsa Wild Animal appeal in 1961?