General knowledge quiz

HISTORY

1 The Entente Cordiale of 1904 was an

agreement between which two countries

2 By which name, meaning “Great Soul”, was the Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi known?

3 Which Italian dictator formed an alliance with

Hitler in 1936?

4 In which century did the Great Plague of

London take place?

5 According to legend, which wife of Leofrc, Earl of Mercia rode naked through the marketplace of Coventry as a protest?

6 Of which North African country was Hassan II

king from 1961-99?

FILM & MUSIC

7 Which Mozart opera features the character Papageno, the birdcatcher, and the Queen of the Night?

8 From which film does the Jack Nicholson line “Here’s Johnny!” come?

9 Which singer-songwriter has released singles called The Celts, Book of Days and Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)?

10 Which West End musical features characters called Jean Valjean, Cosette and Fantine?

11 What shape are the pavement plaques of Los Angeles’s Hollywood Walk of Fame?

12 Which of the Beatles wrote “Octopus’s Garden”?

SCIENCE & NATURE

13 Alopecia is a condition that results in the loss

of what?

14 What is the name of the chemical process by

which plants convert sunlight into food?

15 The magic lantern was an early form of what

item of photographic equipment?

16 Lyme disease is spread by which parasitic

creature?

17 In astronomy, what are the Perseids and

Geminids?

18 What type of creature is the coelacanth, presumed extinct for millions of years until a specimen was found alive in 1938?

SPORT & LEISURE

19 With which sport is Chicago’s Wrigley Field

associated?

20 Which football team was named after a temporary glass structure built to house 1851 Great Exhibition?

21 Keirin and Omnium are races from which

Olympic sport?

22 What name is given to someone employed to

carry golf clubs?

23 The cheapest properties on a Monopoly board, Old Kent Road and Whitechapel Road are what colour?

24 Where were the first Winter Olympics held in

1924?

GEOGRAPHY

25 The Gobi desert is in the rain shadow of which mountain range that blocks the rain clouds from reaching it?

26 Which Scandinavian country’s only land

border is shared with Germany?

27 Zanzibar is part of which African country?

28 The Malagasy Republic is an old name for

which island nation?

29 Speleology is the study of what type of

geological feature?

30 A large statue of which figure with its arms outstretched overlooks the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?

Solutions in Monday’s Daily Record