General knowledge quiz

2022-07-09 -

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1 Which US president was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth?

2 What name is given to the great epidemic of plague that ravaged medieval Europe?

3 From which country did the famous wartime traitor Vidkun Quisling come?

4 In World War II, what was the German air force called?

5 In what year did the D-Day landings take place?

6 Which Italian-born US gangster was imprisoned for tax evasion in 1931?

7 Which percussion instruments can be clashed together, struck or put together in a hi-hat?

8 Which founder of an acting dynasty starred in the films The Browning Version and The Go-Between?

9 Which actress starred in the films The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and A Room with a View?

10 Which instrument associated with Scottish music consists of a windbag, chanter and drones?

11 Which British popular entertainer starred in the film Sing As We Go?

12 Who was the lead singer of the Boomtow Rats?

13 What name is given to the small bones that make up the spine?

14 Of which organ of the body is the tricuspid valve a part?

15 What name is given to fog containing a high proportion of smoke?

16 What letter is represented by three dots in Morse code?

17 Which celestial object is also known as a quasi-stellar object or QSO?

18 Which disease of the central nervous system is represented by the abbreviation MS?

19 What is the usual US name for what we call petrol?

20 Which fabric used especially for military uniforms gets its name from an Urdu word meaning dust-coloured?

21 What name is given to the native Polynesian people of New Zealand?

22 To which metallic element does the word ferric relate?

23 Which charitable organisation is represented by the abbreviation RSPB?

24 Which African animal’s name means ‘river horse’?

25 Which Hampshire city is on a peninsula between the estuaries of the Rivers Test Itchen?

26 In which London park is London Zoo?

27 Which town is the administrative centre of the Kent?

28 Which London theatre was formerly calle Royal Victoria Hall?

29 What is the seat of the Duke of Bedford?

30 Which of the British Isles has three legs on its flag?

Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror