General knowledge quiz
POT LUCK
1 The Iron Age hill fort of Maiden Castle
is in which English county?
2 On 7 December 1787, which American
state became the first to join the Union? 3 What links the Emperor, the Chariot,
the Tower and the Hanged Man?
4 Which English cricketer took all ten wickets in a single innings against Australia in 1956?
5 What was the name of the third son
of Adam and Eve?
6 Which bird was chosen as the military
emblem of imperial Rome?
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
7 ’The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex’ is the opening sentence of which Jane Austen novel?
8 Theodore Decker is the central character of which 2013 novel, which was adapted into a 2019 film?
9 Porterhouse Blue and its sequel Grantchester Grind are among the comic novels of which British writer?
10 Montmorency is the name of a dog that cruises the Thames in which novel by Jerome K Jerome?
11 In a poem by Longfellow, which
’mighty man’ stands ’under a spreading chestnut tree’?
12 Which author penned the novel
A Monster Calls?
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
13 What is the name of the railway bridge between Dundee and Fife, completed in 1887?
14 Sn is the chemical symbol for which
metallic element?
15 What is measured using a
sphygmomanometer?
16 Dilute acetic acid slowly fermented from ethanol and used in the kitchen is more commonly known by which name? 17 The modern version of which everyday object was invented by
William Addis, supposedly during a period of imprisonment around 1780? 18 Argentite is a major ore of which metal?
GEOGRAPHY
19 Hibernia became the
Roman name for which island?
20 Karachi is a former capital of which country?
21 Ibiza, Majorca and Minorca
belong to which island group?
22 Which river is said to separate
Kentish men from the men of Kent?
23 Which city of Louisiana is
sometimes known as the Big Easy?
24 Which Mediterranean island is politically
divided by its so-called Green Line?
FOOD AND DRINK
25 Slivovitz is an East European
brandy flavoured with which fruit?
26 In Japanese cuisine, what is a mooli? 27 Higher in pectin than sweeter varieties, which bitter orange is traditionally used to make marmalade? 28 Which cut of salt cured pork
do the Italians call ’pancetta’?
29 Which fish is most often smoked
and sold as a kipper?
30 Which British writer coined the phrase ’Life’s too short to stuff a mushroom’ in her 1975 book Superwoman?
Solutions in Monday’s Irish Mirror