General knowledge quiz
POT LUCK
1 In which play does Lady Bracknell exclaim the words ‘A handbag’? 2 A portrait of which former president appears on the obverse of a US one-cent coin, commonly known as a penny? 3 Which item of headwear is named after a Crimean harbour near Sevastopol, the site of a siege in 1854? 4 How many keys are there on a standard piano?
5 What is the name of a figure with four triangular faces in the shape of a pyramid?
6 ’Bistre’ describes which colour?
HISTORY
7 In which decade of the 20th century was the PAYE tax scheme introduced in the UK?
8 Which modern US state was sold to America by Russia in 1867, an arrangement known as Seward’s Folly? 9 What was the nickname of the 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz, conqueror of the Moorish kingdom of Valencia?
10 ’For which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me’ is the last entry in the diary of which 17th-century figure? 11 Which British prime minister became the Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876? 12 What was the nationality of John Paul II who, in 1978, became the first non-Italian to be elected Pope since 1522?
MUSIC
13 In 1985, Ricky Ross, Lorraine McIntosh, James Prime, Dougie Vipond,
Ewen Vernal and Graeme Kelling formed which pop-rock band? 14 Which Norwegian composer wrote the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt?
15 What is the first line of the
Queen song Bohemian Rhapsody? 16 Love Changes Everything is a song from which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, first produced on the West End stage in 1989? 17 Eleanora Fagan was the real name of which jazz singer, nicknamed ’Lady Day’? 18 What nationality is songwriter-rapper, Drake?
GEOGRAPHY
19 Which US state is known as the Bluegrass State?
20 Indira Gandhi International Airport serves which major Asian city? 21 What is the largest county in the Republic of Ireland? 22 Sydney is the capital of which Australian state?
23 Which mountain is the highest point in the British Isles outside of Scotland? 24 Which mountains divide Russia into its European and Asian regions?
FILM
25 Which actress born and raised in New York City appears as the primary heroine Nicky Parsons in the Bourne film series? 26 Which actor is best known for his role as Chewbacca in the Star Wars movie franchise?
27 Which English rock musician played the lead singer of the fictional band Weird Sisters in the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire film? 28 ’Houston, we have a problem,’ is a line from which 1995 Ron Howard film? 29 Starring Michael Caine and Ian Hendry, the 1971 British crime thriller Get Carter was set in and around which English city? 30 The Meltdown, Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Continental Drift and Collision Course are the subtitles of sequels to which children’s film?
Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror