General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which flat race run at Newmarket was the last of the Classics to be instituted?
A The Grand National
B The Derby
C One Thousand Guineas
D The Oaks
2. Who wrote Northanger Abbey? A Jane Austen
B George Eliot
C Elizabeth Gaskell
D. William Thackeray
3. Which German novelist won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature?
A Jaroslav Seifert
B Czeslaw Milosz
C Heinrich Boll
D Claude Simon
4. What is the third book of the Old Testament?
A Genesis
B Exodus
C Leviticus
D Job
5. On which channel could The Jack Docherty Show be seen? A Channel 4
B BBC Two
C Channel 5
D ITV
6. Which whodunit film stars Daniel Craig as a detective investigating a murder at a family gathering?
A Axes Out
B Guns Out
C Poisons Out
D Knives Out
7. Which architect designed the rebuilt St Paul’s Cathedral?
A Sir Richard Arkwright
B Arthur Young
C Isambard Kingdom Brunel
D Sir Christopher Wren
8. Which US duo asked us to Walk Right Back in 1961?
A Simon & Garfunkel
B The Everly Brothers
C Johnny Cash & June Carter
D Bob Dylan & Joni Mitchell
9. What does the title of Hitler’s book Mein Kampf mean?
A My Dream
B My Camp
C My Struggle
D My Home
10. With which theatrical genre are Eugene Ionesco and Arthur Adamov linked?
A Theatre of Comedy
B Theatre of the Catastrophic C Theatre of the Absurd
D Theatre of Tragedy 11. What name is given to the three wars between Rome and Carthage that gave Rome control of the Mediterranean?
A The Crimean Wars
B The Punic Wars
C The Napoleonic Wars
D The Turin Wars
12. Which US poet and essayist wrote the transcendentalist creed Nature in 1836?
A Ralph Waldo Peterson
B Ralph Waldo Richardson
C Ralph Waldo Harrison
D Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. Which rock guitarist was honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque in 1997? A Eric Clapton
B Jimi Hendrix
C Brian May
D Joe Satriani
14. Which female singer teamed up with Johnny Mathis on the 1978 hit, Too Much Too Little Too Late?
A Lulu
B Cyndi Lauper
C Cheryl Baker
D Deniece Williams
15. In which 2001 film comedy did Ben Stiller play the titular dim-witted male model, who becomes the pawn of corrupt fashion executives involved in an assassination plot?
A Envy
B Bruno
C You Don’t Mess with the Zohan D Zoolander