General knowledge quiz

ART & LITERATURE

1 What nationality was painter Claude Monet? 2 Which French man of letters wrote Candide? 3 Who wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? 4 Who created the characters Jemima PuddleDuck

and Mrs. Tittlemouse? 5 Who wrote The Birthday Party and The

Caretaker? 6 Which Russian novelist wrote The Brothers

Karamazov?

GEOGRAPHY

7 Which country’s capital is Havana? 8 Boston is the capital of which US state? 9 What is the longest river in South America? 10 What is the largest continent? 11 What is the capital of the Balearic Islands? 12 In which ocean is Mauritius?

NATURE

13 What sort of creature is an eland? 14 In mammals, what is the outer layer of the skin called? 15 What sort of creature is a grouse? 16 How many pairs of legs do arachnids have? 17 What sort of creature is a weevil? 18 Persian, Siamese and Abyssinian are breeds of what domestic creature?

SPORT & LEISURE

19 What nationality was former motor-racing driver Niki Lauda? 20 At which sport was Boris Spassky world champion 1969-72? 21 In tennis, what is the minimum number of games per set? 22 At which Suffolk racecourse is the Two

Thousand Guineas run? 23 How many players are in a volleyball team? 24 Which US tennis player won the Wimbledon men’s singles title in 1981, 1983 and 1984?

POT LUCK

25 What was Cinderella’s lost slipper made of? 26 What is the predominant colour of the UN flag? 27 Which alcoholic drink, native to Russia and

Poland, was first made from potatoes, but now mainly from cereal grain? 28 How is diluted acetic acid better known in culinary terms? 29 What is both a city in Morocco and a traditional red felt hat from Turkey? 30 Which battle does the Bayeux Tapestry

depict? Solutions at the end