General Knowledge Quiz
1 In the Old Testament, Lot’s wife looked back while fleeing from Sodom and was turned into a pillar of what?
A Sand
B Ice
C Salt 2 What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?
A Skin
B Carapace
C Crust 3 Susan Sarandon played the determined mother of a boy with a rare disease in the 1992 film Lorenzo’s… what?
A Oil
B Legacy
C Lifeline 4 For what, in the British Police, does CID stand?
A Criminal Investigation Department
B Criminal Intelligence Division
C Criminal Insanity Disclosure
5 Who stars as undercover journalist Woody in the BBC crime comedy Suntrap?
A Sacha Baron Cohen
B Kris Marshall
C Kayvan Novak
6 Which country won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1996?
A Ireland
B France
C Netherlands 7 Which 16th century French apothecary’s collections of prophecies in verse are credited by some with predicting world events?
A René Descartes
B Marquis de Sade
C Nostradamus
8 Which county contains the towns of Tring, Berkhamsted and Letchworth?
A Hertfordshire
B Hampshire
C Herefordshire
9 The spice saffron is obtained from the flower of which plant?
A Orchid
B Marigold
C Crocus
10 What is the title of Billy Joel’s only UK Number One hit, from 1983?
A Uptown Girl
B Tell Her About It
C We Didn’t Start the Fire