General Knowledge Quiz
1. From which tree does the chewing gum ingredient chicle come?
A Elm tree
B Palm tree
C Ash tree
D Sapodilla tree
2. Which party did Herbert Asquith represent as leader and Prime Minister?
A Conservatives
B Liberals
C Labour
D Whigs
3. Which Oscar-winning actor was born Reginald Truscott-jones?
A Robert Deniro
B Richard Dreyfuss
C Peter Finch
D Ray Milland
4. Of which planet are Titania and Oberon satellites?
A Jupiter
B Uranus
C Saturn
D Mars
5. Kirsten Dunst plays which character in the Spider-man films directed by Sam Raimi?
A Mary Jane
B Aunt May
C Louise
D Gwen
6. Which US sitcom launched Tim Allen’s acting career?
A Seinfeld
B Home Improvement
C The Larry Sanders Show D Cheers
7. What sort of creature is a pipistrelle?
A A frog
B A bird
C A bat
D A lizard
8. The Scottish writer James Boswell is primarily remembered for his 1791 biography of which writer?
A Robert Burns
B William Shakespeare
C Geoffrey Chaucer
D Samuel Johnson
9. Which sport is played on a pitch 22 yards long?
A Football
B Cricket
C Rugby
D Tennis 10. Which Shakespeare play features the character Polonius? A Measure for Measure
B Macbeth
C Hamlet
D The Tempest
11. In which story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did Sherlock Holmes first appear?
A The Hound of the Baskervilles B The Sign of Four
C Introducing Holmes
D A Study in Scarlet
12. Which statesman who presided over Athens’ golden age is the subject of a play by Shakespeare?
A Pericles
B Lucrece
C Adonis
D Troilus
13. Who wrote The Ginger Man? A A.A. Milne
B C.S. Lewis
C Robert Louis Stevenson
D J.P. Donleavy
14. What was the profession of entertainers Edgar Bergen and Ray Alan?
A Ventriloquists
B Singers
C Mime artists
D Comedians
15. Which band had a top ten hit single in 1982 with Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag?
A The Mamas and the Papas B The Village People
C Queen
D Pigbag