General Knowledge Quiz
1 Who wrote the poems The Hunting of the Snark and You Are Old, Father William?
A Edward Lear
B Lewis Carroll
C Spike Milligan
2 Who played the eponymous Time Lord in the 1996 television film Doctor Who?
A Richard E. Grant
B Paul Mcgann
C Sylvester Mccoy
3 The Madeira Islands are an autonomous region belonging to which country?
A France
B Portugal
C Italy
4 Which American jazz saxophonist’s nicknames were ‘Bird’ and ‘Yardbird’?
A Charles Mingus
B Ray Charles
C Charlie Parker
5 In Greek mythology the ferryman Charon transported the dead across which river into Hades?
A Styx
B The Acheron
C The Lethe
6 The 1977 Carly Simon hit Nobody Does It Better was the theme tune to which James Bond film?
A From Russia With Love
B On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
C The Spy Who Loved Me
7 In which field was 19th century English physicist William Henry Fox Talbot a pioneer?
A Surgery
B Astronomy
C Photography
8 Who released the song It’s The End of the World as We Know It in 1987 and 1991?
A UB40
B R.E.M.
C INXS
9 What sort of creature is a kookaburra?
A Snake
B Marsupial
C Bird
10 Fleur East and Joan Collins star in which new film, which features the story of one couple in two separate timelines?
A Tomorrow Morning
B Yesterday Afternoon
C A week on Thursday