General knowledge quiz
POT LUCK
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What is Earth’s heaviest known naturally occurring element?
On which day of the week did Solomon Grundy take ill?
Which celebrity chef is the uncle of the British dance music DJ Judge Jules? Which comedian presents The Last Leg alongside Josh Widdicombe and
Alex Brooker?
The name of which fuel is derived from the Latin words for stone and oil? Coquimbo is a wine-producing region of which country?
SPORT
Which British professional snooker player is nicknamed ‘the Wizard of Wishaw’? Which country’s national Rugby League team is known as the Wolverines? Which uncapped Hampshire leg-spinner was selected as part of the 2017-18 England cricket squad for the Ashes series in Australia?
Battledore is an old name for which modern racket sport?
In which country were the 2018 Olympic Winter Games held?
Which football manager was sacked in September 2017 after four Premier League games in charge at Crystal Palace without a point or goal?
GEOGRAPHY
Hibernia was the Roman name for which island?
The towns of Rochester, Chatham, Rainham, Strood and Gillingham are known traditionally by which collective name? The mainland of which continent has its northernmost point at Ras ben Sakka? A former British protectorate, which sultanate joined with Tanganyika in 1964 to become Tanzania?
The island of Zealand forms a part of which European country? What name is given to the footpath that runs between Edale in Derbyshire and Kirk Yetholm in the Borders?
TELEVISION
Zoe Ball and Jamie Theakston co-hosted which 1990s children’s TV show? Which BBC crime drama starring Martin Compston, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar returned for a fifth series in 2019? ‘The Fat Controller’ is the nickname of which manager of the North Western Railway in the Thomas the Tank Engine children’s series?
What do the names Simmons, Thiel, Hughes, Keppel, Ashman, Gibson, Rainford, Cooke and Webster have in common? The surname of which TV doctor is an anagram of the surname of the series’ creator, Dominic Minghella? Dreamed up in 1951, the tiger appearing in Frosties breakfast cereal advertisements was given which name?
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Who authored the poem which begins: ‘Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night’?
How is the Oscar Wilde character
Mrs Arbuthnot described in the title of a play first performed in 1893? ‘Carlson said, ‘Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?’’ is the concluding line of which work by John Steinbeck? The French writer Simone de Beauvoir sustained a long-term romantic relationship with which French existentialist philosopher? Daphne du Maurier’s 1936 novel Jamaica Inn is set in a lodging of the same name in which English county?
What is the title of TV personality
Dani Dyer’s first book, launched in 2019?
Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror