General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which Russian goldsmith was famous for his jewelled Easter eggs which were given by the tsars to the tsarinas?
A Maurice Lecroix
B Peter Carl Faberge
C Christian Dior
D Jean Cartier
2. Which controversial policy of the European Union is abbreviated to CAP?
A Common Agricultural Policy B Common Armament Policy C Creative Arts Programme D Cultural Alignment Policy
3. Which English poet wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese? A Percy Bysshe Shelley
B Lord Tennyson
C Lord Byron
D Elizabeth Barrett Browning
4. Who was the faithful wife of Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey? A Pandora B Miranda C Helena D Penelope
5. Which author wrote The Trial and The Castle?
A Edgar Alan Poe
B Richard Adams
C Jon Grisham
D Franz Kafka
6. Which TV sketch comedy ran from 1969 to 1974 and featured comedians including Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam?
A Not the Nine O’clock News B Monty Python’s Flying Circus C The Goodies
D Rutland Weekend Television
7. What was the name for a Roman marketplace that was the civic centre of a town? A Piazza B Forum C Ampitheatre D Colosseum
8. What is the name of the alphabet used for writing modern Slavic languages such as Russian? A Russo alphabet B Slavian alphabet C Cyrillic alphabet D Eastern alphabet
9. Which purple-black halogen is represented by the symbol I? A Indium B Iodine C Iridium D Iron
10. Who Which wrote cousin the and music son-in-law and lyrics of Mohammed for the film was The the Sound fourth of caliph Music? of Islam?
A A Rodgers Ali and Hammerstein
B B Lionel Shanawaz Bart
C Richard and Robert Sherman D C Leonard Tariq Bernstein
D Patel
11. In which country is the city of Wagga Wagga? A Columbia B Australia C Sri Lanka D India
12. What name is given to the art of decorating cloth with a needle and thread of which the Bayeux Tapestry is an example? A Embroidery B Patching C Sewing D Knitting
13. Who was the second president of the US?
A Thomas Jefferson
B John Adams
C George Washington
D James Monroe
14. Who starred in the title role in the 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia? A Peter O’toole
B Anthony Quinn
C Spencer Tracy
D Laurence Olivier
15. Which one of the teenage mutant ninja turtles wore an orange head scarf and was ‘a party dude’?
A Michelangelo
B Raphael
C Leonardo
D Donatello