General Knowledge Quiz

1. Which group had hits in the Sixties with Kon-tiki, Foot Tapper and Atlantis, among others?

A The Shadows

B The Beatles

C The Monkees

D The Rolling Stones

2. Which British novelist wrote Room at the Top?

A John Galsworthy B E.M. Forster C John Braine D Anthony Powell

3. Which car manufacturer makes the model Ka?

A Fiat B Ford C Renaut D Peugeot

4. Which English author wrote the allegorical novel The Pilgrim’s Progress?

A Daniel Defoe

B Henry Fielding

C John Bunyan

D Jonathan Swift

5. Which Eastenders character was played by Paul Nicholls?

A Robbie Fowler

B Grant Mitchell

C Joe Wicks

D David Wicks

6. Starring Catherine Tate, which Netflix comedy is set in the fictional HMP Woldsley?

A Hard Lines B Hard Times C Hard Cell D Hard Cheese

7. Of which food fish is sockeye a variety?

A Trout B Haddock C Salmon D Tuna

8. Which Oscar-winning actor directed Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in the 1980 comedy Stir Crazy?

A Clint Eastwood

B Sidney Poitier

C Michael Caine

D Paul Newman

9. Who preceded Fiona Bruce as presenter of The Antiques Roadshow?

A Angela Rippon

B Jill Dando

C John Craven

D Michael Aspel 10. What was the pen name of novelist Mary Ann Evans?

A Thomas Hardy

B George Eliot

C Mrs Gaskell

D Jane Austen

11. In which war was the Battle of Borodino?

A The Crimean War B The Great War

C The Second Crusade D The Napoleonic War

12. On which soap did the alsatian dog Well ‘Ard feature?

A Brookside

B Emmerdale

C Eastenders

D Coronation Street

13. What was Richard Griffiths’s character in the TV series Pie in the Sky called?

A Henry Crabbe

B Harold Crabbe

C Henry Salmon

D Horace Cray

14. Who wrote the opera Taverner?

A George Lloyd

B Sir Harrison Birtwistle C William Boyce

D Peter Maxwell Davies

15. Which wizard in The Lord of the Rings bred his own race from orcs and men before being defeated by the Ents?

A Sauron

B Gandalf

C Saruman

D Morgorth