General knowledge quiz

HISTORY

1 What was the name of the Roman Empe personal bodyguards?

2 Which landmark was built in India in the century by the Mughal emperor Shah Je in memory of his wife Mumtaz?

3 What name was given to hiding places fo priests built into Catholic houses during reign of Elizabeth I?

4 For what were quern-stones used in the Neolithic Age?

5 Which Buckinghamshire estate, code named Station X, housed the World War Government Code and Cypher School? 6 Who was the mother of both Richard I an King John?

FILM & MUSIC

7 Which group had a hit single in the mid-S

with the song Help Me, Rhonda?

8 Which actress plays the title character in

1987 US romcom film Roxanne?

9 Who plays botanist Mark Watney in the 2

science fiction action film The Martian?

10 Which British singer had a UK hit in 1973 with the song Saturday Night’s Alright fo Fighting?

11 Which was the only film directed by Alfre Hitchcock to win a Best Picture Oscar?

12 Ashley Roberts is best known for being a member of which pop girl group?

SCIENCE & NATURE

13 In plants, what colour is the pigment chlorophyll?

14 What type of creature is a bummalo?

15 A tetrapod is a vertebrate with how man limbs?

16 What colour is the explosive liquid nitroglycerine?

17 What is the first name of the astronomer whom the Hubble Space Telescope is na

18 What name is given to the science of soil management and crop rotation?

SPORT & LEISURE

19 What shape of pitch is a game of Austral rules football played on?

20 Which sport has produced the most winn of the BBC Sports Personality of the Yea Award?

21 In football, which English team is nickna

The Baggies?

22 What nationality was Ben Hogan, the win

of nine golf majors?

23 In what year did the Open Era of tennis b

24 Which Spanish city hosted the Summer

Olympics in 1992?

GEOGRAPHY

25 Syriza is a political party in which Europe country?

26 On which continent is the landlocked cou of Burundi?

27 What is the capital of Greenland?

28 What is the longest river in North Ameri

29 With a population of almost 200,000, th city of Yonkers is situated in which Amer state?

30 In which region of France is the port of Le Havre?