General knowledge quiz

HISTORY

1 The day on which the Allied invasion of Normandy was launched from Britain in 1 is known as what?

2 Which dictator ruled over Spain from 193

until his death in 1975?

3 In which city did the Jewish girl Anne Fra write her celebrated diary whilst in hiding from the Nazis?

4 Which two countries collaborated on the

supersonic aircraft Concorde?

5 Which country in the Mediterranean was awarded the George Cross for its resistan German attack during World War II?

6 By what name was the separate developm policy of the white and non-white popula in South Africa known?

FILM & MUSIC

7 Which German composer wrote the orato Carmina Burana?

8 With which sort of music is Enrico Caruso usually associated?

9 Andrés Segovia helped revive the popula of which instrument?

10 Which French mime artist developed the white-faced character Bip?

11 Women in Love and Gothic were directed which controversial British film maker?

12 Which US actor co-starred with Katharine Hepburn in nine films?

SCIENCE

13 Which hereditary disease causes the bloo

not to clot properly?

14 Which optical phenomenon consists of an arc of light across the sky composed of th colours of the spectrum?

15 Which giant planet orbits the Sun every 8

years, between Saturn and Neptune?

16 Which gas is represented by the symbol H

17 Which sometimes fatal infection is cause

the bacterium Legionella pneumophila?

18 Which branch of mathematics, whose na means “the reunion of broken parts”, use symbols to represent unknown quantities

WORDS

19 What name is given to an artificial lake in which water is stored?

20 Which country is called Österreich in Ger

21 From which European language is the So African language Afrikaans derived?

22 Which charity is represented by the initia NSPCC?

23 Which heavenly beings get their name fr the Greek for messengers?

24 What name is given to a word that has th same meaning as another word?

UK

25 Which village near Balmoral is famous fo its Gathering, the most celebrated of the Highland Games?

26 What is the administrative centre of

Hertfordshire?

27 Whom did Margaret Thatcher succeed as

leader of the Conservative Party?

28 Which English city is the administrative c

of Cumbria?

29 In which English county is the port of

Harwich?

30 Which UK government securities introdu in 1956 entitle the holders to participate prize draw?

Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror