GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ
1 Who was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945?
A Eleanor Roosevelt
B Michelle Obama C Jacqueline Kennedy
2 A linebacker is a position in which sport?
A American football B Basketball
C Ice hockey
3 The works of which children’s author include Horton Hears a Who!, Fox in Socks and Oh, the Places You’ll Go!?
A Beatrix Potter
B Dr. Seuss
C Roald Dahl
4 The rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum are the four compartments of what in a ruminant animal?
A Lung
B Heart
C Stomach
5 The population of which rare Australian marsupial has been decimated by a contagious facial cancer?
A Koala
B Tasmanian devil
C Kangaroo
6 For which football club did Michael Owen make his Premiership debut? A Manchester City B Chelsea
C Liverpool
7 Which Asian city has the most skyscrapers in the world?
A Hong Kong
B Dubai
C New York
8 By what name is the Arthurian figure Elaine of Astolat known in a poem by Tennyson and paintings by John William Waterhouse?
A The Lady of Shalott
B The Lady of Avalon
C The Lady in the Lake
9 Which ITV drama stars Vicky McClure as police bomb disposal expert Lana Washington? A Gunpoint
B Point Blank
C Trigger Point
10 In what year did the Scottish Parliament hold its first elections after devolution?
A 2005
B 1999
C 2000
11 Which American playwright wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly, Last Summer? A Tennessee Williams
B Arthur Miller
C Eugene O’Neill
12 Gouda, Edam and Leyden are cheeses from which country? A Germany
B France
C The Netherlands
13 Which seabird has varieties including the Atlantic, Horned and Tufted?
A Puffin
B Albatross
C Gull
14 Precious Ramotswe is the main character in which series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith?
A The No. 1 Men Detective Agency
B The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
C The No. 1 Animal Detective Agency
15 In Greek mythology, the Titan Mnemosyne was the personification of what? A Force
B Memory
C Time
16 Which famous scientist won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics? A Albert Einstein
B Max Planck
C Neils Bohr
17 Chinese gooseberry is an alternative name for which fruit? A Kiwi
B Lychee
C Mandarin
18 Singer David Lee Roth rejoined which rock band in 2007?
A Led Zeppelin
B AC/DC
C Van Halen
19 Tijuana is a city in which country?
A Mexico
B Honduras
C Ecuador
20 The films of which director include Strictly Ballroom? A Baz Luhrmann
B Martin Scorsese
C David Lynch