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General Knowledge Quiz

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1 A 1974 Sam Peckinpah crime drama film was entitled Bring Me the Head of… who?

A Don Diego de la Vega

B Alfredo Garcia

C Inigo Montoya

2 Who played the butler to Matt Lucas’s impoverish­ed aristocrat Pompidou in the BBC comedy of that name?

A Alex Macqueen

B David Walliams

C Kevin Eldon

3 Kabul is the capital of which country?

A Kuwait

B Turkey

C Afghanista­n

4 What is the name of the fictional island which is home to Thomas the Tank Engine?

A Sodor

B Tabor

C Gondor

5 Which country was the birthplace of the author Rudyard Kipling and the setting for many of his stories?

A Canada

B India

C Gambia

6 Sean Connery starred in the 1990 film The Hunt for Red… what?

A Riding Hood

B October

C Velvet 7 In which country is the exclusive skiing resort of St. Moritz?

A Switzerlan­d

B France

C Italy

8 Mesmerism is an archaic term for what type of technique, popularly used for therapy or entertainm­ent?

A Hypnotism

B Sleight of hand

C Meditation

9 In which country was former British tennis player Greg Rusedski born?

A Russia

B America

C Canada

10 Which 2004 zombie comedy film starred Simon Pegg and Nick Frost?

A Zombieland

B Shaun of the Dead C Slaughterh­ouse Rulez

 ?? ?? Simon Pegg See Question 10.
Simon Pegg See Question 10.

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