Puzzles Breaktime Weekly General Knowledge Quiz
1 In what line of business does a usurer operate?
A Moneylending
B Law enforcement
C Retail
2 Which flower is the subject of the Wordsworth poem beginning “I wandered lonely as a cloud”?
A Sunflower
B Poppy
C Daffodil
3 Which king was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field?
A Richard III
B Henry II
C John
4 Which character did Stephen Fry play in Blackadder Goes Forth?
A Lieutenant George B General Melchett C Captain Darling
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What type of drink is a flat white? A Coffee
B Milkshake
C Beer
6 What was the title of Cilla Black’s first No.1 hit, that reached the top in March 1964?
A Anyone Who Had A Heart
B You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ C Alfie
7 Pierre Coffin is the voice of which animated sidekicks?
A Despicable Me’s Minions B Toy Story’s Aliens C Madagasar’s Penguins
8 May is another name for the spring blossom of which tree? A Hawthorn
B Cherry
C Apple
9 What is a male goose known as? A Drake
B Cob
C Gander
10 What type of fence features in the title of a 2002 film set in 1930s Western Australia and starring Kenneth Branagh?
A Rabbit-proof fence
B Sheep-proof fence
C Deer-proof fence
11 ‘In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of…’ what, according to Tennyson in the poem Locksley Hall?
A Passion
B Love
C Romance
12 Which famous 12th century ivory game pieces were discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Lewis in 1831?
A The Lewis Chessmen B The Lewis Dice
C The Lewis Dominoes
13 In which European country are the cities of Gothenburg, Malmö and Kiruna?
A Norway
B Sweden
C Denmark 14 In the Old Testament Book of Exodus, God promises to bring the Israelites to a land flowing with which two foods?
A Meat and potatoes
B Bread and wine
C Milk and honey
15 How should a musical note marked pizzicato be played on a violin, viola or cello?
A By plucking the string
B By blowing into the instrument
C By striking the string with the wood of the bow
16 Which Leonard Cohen song begins “(Now) I’ve heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord”?
A Suzanne
B Hallelujah
C Take This Waltz
17 What type of creature is a siskin?
A A bird
B A reptile
C A mammal
18 Which BBC series based on novels by Elizabeth Gaskell starred Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon?
A Chingford
B Cranford
C Candleford
19 In which decade did synchronised swimming and table tennis become Olympic sports?
A 1990s
B 1980s
C 1970s
20 Whose love (or luve), according to his poem, is like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June?
A Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B William Shakespeare
C Robert Burns