General Knowledge Quiz
1. What is the longest continuous hiking-only trail in the world?
A The Pennine Way
B The Ridgeway
C The Alpine Way
D The Appalachian Trail
2. Which Dadaist artist is best known for The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even?
A Marcel Duchamp
B Jean Arp
C Francis Picabia
D Hannah Höch
3. Which device was used as a means of capital punishment during the French Revolution? A Broad-Axe
B Guillotine
C The Gallows
D Executioner’s Sword
4. In which Dutch city can the Rijksmuseum be found?
A Rotterdam
B Amsterdam
C Eindhoven
D Arnhem
5. Which light-footed youngster played Billy Elliot?
A Rupert Grint B Daniel Radcliffe C Orlando Bloom D Jamie Bell
6. What was the name of the puppet who accompanied Andy Crane and Andi Peters in CBBC’s Broom Cupboard?
A Edd the Duck
B Gary the Goose
C Jan the Hen
D Jo the Swan
7. Which East London featherweight stopped Justin Murphy in the fourth round of their 1996 bout?
A Colin Hendry
B Colin Boss-Roberts
C Colin McMillan
D Colin McDonald
8. In which religion is nirvana the attainment of perfect serenity?
A Buddhism
B Hinduism
C Islam
D Judaism
9. In mathematics what does rms stand for?
A Random-memory-system B Root-maths-system C Real-maths-sorting D Root-mean-square
10. What was the Spice Girls’ film called?
A The Spice Girls Uncut B SpiceWorld: The Movie C Spice Land the Movie D More Spices
11. Who starred as TV’s Hamish Macbeth?
A Robert Burns
B Robert Hamer
C Robert Carlyle
D Robert Jackson
12. What sort of creature is a Clydesdale?
A A dog
B A horse
C A cat
D A bird
13. Which Dominican-born British novelist wrote Wide Sargasso Sea?
A Frank Rhys
B Harold Rhys
C Jean Rhys
D Michael Rhys
14. Which saint and missionary wrote the epistles to the Corinthians and Galatians in the New Testament?
A St John
B St Paul
C St Mark
D St Luke
15. In which country is the plateau known as the Mato Grosso?
A Mexico
B Chile
C Brazil
D Uruguay