General knowledge quiz

HISTORY

1 Which American civil rights campaigner w

assassinated in Memphis in 1968?

2 Who was the second wife of Henry VIII?

3 Which American silversmith was famous for his night ride to warn the people of Massachusetts of the approach of British troops?

4 The hull of which Tudor warship was raise

and placed in dry dock in Portsmouth in 1

5 Which Greek philosopher was tutor to

Alexander the Great?

6 In which 1805 battle was Admiral Nelson

mortally wounded?

FILM & MUSIC

7 Who played Ripley in the 1979 film Alien?

8 Who recorded the 1986 hit Papa Don’t Preach?

9 Who directed the 1963 horror film The Bi

10 Who sang the 1984 hit Girls Just Want to Fun?

11 Who played Danny Zuko in the 1978 film Grease?

12 Which 1984 film famously features the lin “I’ll be back”?

SCIENCE

13 Which condiment has the chemical formu

Nacl?

14 Which well-known British medical journal

established in 1823?

15 What name is given to the apparent

brightness of a celestial body in astronom

16 What is the most common blood group in

world?

17 Dry ice is a solid form of which gas?

18 What name is given to any muscle with tw

heads?

SPORT & LEISURE

19 In which sport are Goal Shooter and Goa

Attack positions?

20 With which sport is Jansher Khan associa

21 Which tennis player was stabbed by a

spectator in 1993?

22 Which British rower won his fourth Olymp

gold medal in 1996?

23 Which Argentinian footballer used his ha score against England in the 1986 World Finals?

24 Which British heavyweight boxer was the

to win three Lonsdale Belts?

UK

25 Which British electronics engineer invent the C5?

26 Which English county used to be divided sections called ridings?

27 Who headed the Official Monster Raving Loony Party from 1983 to 1999?

28 Which Conservative politician resigned in following the disclosure of his involvemen with Christine Keeler?

29 In which county is Stevenage?

30 What appears in the middle of the flag of Wales?