General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which US government department is represented by the initials CIA?
A Criminal Investigative Agency B Central Internal Authority C Central Intelligence Agency D Crime Initiative Association
2. Which ‘angry young man’ wrote the novels Lucky Jim and The Old Devils?
A Kingsley Amis
B John Wain
C John Braine
D Stan Barstow
3. Of which mountain system is Mount Gerlachovka the highest peak?
A The Alps
B The Carpathians
C The Pyrenees
D The Cairngorms
4. Which acute viral infection killed about 20 million people in an epidemic in 1918-19?
A Typhoid
B Influenza
C Hepatitis
D Rubella
5. Who was the last Saxon king of England?
A Edward the Martyr
B Harold II
C Edgar
D Alfred the Great
6. Kirsten Dunst played Peggy Blumquist in season two of which TV series which was a spinoff from a Coen Brothers movie?
A Fargo
B Unbroken
C True Detective
D True Grit
Kirsten Dunst See Question 6
7. What was Bruce Willis’s character in the TV series Moonlighting called?
A David Addison
B Michael Fox
C Barry Frank
D Joey Ritchie
8. After which Roman general was the Fabian Society named?
A Fabia Majestica B Fabium Imperia C Fabius Maximus D Fabias Regalis
9. Who played Jim Phelps in TV’s Mission: Impossible?
A Richard Graves
B Robert Graves
C Peter Graves
D Marshall Graves 10. Which great English Metaphysical poet was appointed Dean of St Paul’s in 1621?
A Sir Walter Raleigh
B Ben Jonson
C Andrew Marvell
D John Donne
11. Which former viceroy of India was the great-grandson of Queen Victoria?
A Earl Mountbatten
B Earl Snowdon
C Earl Stansgate
D Earl Salisbury
12. Which meteorological instrument was invented by Evangelista Torricelli?
A Weather cock
B Mercury barometer
C Wind Sock
D Torricelli meter
13. What is the capital of Colombia?
A Papayan B Bogota C Manizales D Caracas
14. Which Liverpool rock band released an album entitled Mother Nature Calls?
A Cast
B Oasis
C Ocean Colour Scene
D Blur
15. Who sailed around the world in the Gipsy Moth IV?
A Frank Butcher
B Francis Doncaster
C Frank Rogers
D Francis Chichester