General knowledge quiz

ART & LITERATURE

1 Who wrote Three Men in a Boat? 2 Who created the characters Jeeves and Wooster? 3 Who wrote Jane Eyre? 4 Who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire? 5 Which US novelist wrote The Grapes of Wrath? 6 Who wrote the long-running play The Mousetrap?

GEOGRAPHY

7 What does DC stand for in Washington DC? 8 Patagonia is divided between Chile and which other country? 9 In which country is Geneva? 10 In a 2018 census, which Indian city overtook Mumbai as the country’s most populous? 11 In which country is Cognac? 12 What is the state capital of West Virginia?

NATURE

13 What sort of creature is a sturgeon? 14 What sort of creature is a beagle? 15 What is the name for the close-grained white tissue which forms the tusks of elephants? 16 What sort of creature is a natterjack? 17 What sort of fruit comes from the tree Prunus domestica? 18 Which UK seabird is known as the ‘clown of the sea’ or ‘sea parrot’?

SPORT & LEISURE

Who became the youngest ever world heavyweight boxing champion in 1986? Who followed Ian Botham to become the second Test cricketer to score 3000 runs and take 300 wickets? Which football club paid a record seven million pounds for Andy Cole in 1995? 22 What is the name of the Chinese game played

with 144 small ivory tiles? 23 Which famous cycle race was won by American Greg LeMond in 1986, 1989 and 1990? 24 Which US golfer won the Masters in 1958,

1960, 1962 and 1964? 19 20 21

POT LUCK

25 By what name was a Norseman also known? 26 Which American national holiday was first celebrated by the Pilgrim Fathers? 27 Through which system of signs and spaces is written language organised? 28 Which Swiss dish consists of cheese melted into wine or cider, into which bread is dipped? 29 Which valuable metal is stored at Fort Knox? 30 Frances O’Grady is General Secretary of which organisation? Solutions at the end