General Knowledge Quiz
1. What name is given to the ninth month of the Muslim year?
A Shawwal
B Safar
C Ramadan
D Rajab
2. Which of the following works was composed by Vaughan Williams?
A The Barber of Seville
B Turandot
C Hugh the Drover
D The New World Symphony
3. Which artist won the 1997 Turner Prize?
A Gillian West B Gillian Wearing C Gillian Weaver D Gillian Wooly
4. What is the Sunday before Easter called?
A Palm Sunday B Ascension Sunday C Whit Sunday D Mothering Sunday
5. In which year did World War I start?
A 1913 B 1911 C 1918 D 1914
6. Which album by David Bowie featured the hits Ashes to Ashes and Fashion?
A Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps);
B The Man Who Sold the World C Aladdin Sane
D The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
7. In Greek mythology who was the lover of Hero, who swam to
her across the Hellespont?
A Phineus
B Orpheus
C Eurydice
D Leander
8. Which German town is famous for its castle which was supposedly an escape-proof prisoner-of-war camp in World War II?
A Hamelin
B Bamberg
C Colditz
D Cochem
9. What was the name of the crew’s cat in the sci-fi horror film Alien, starring Sigourney Weaver? A Jones
B Smith
C Whiskers
D Ripley 10. Which knighted British actor, noted for his roles in The Heiress and The Fallen Idol, died in 1983? A Alec Guinness
B Cary Grant
C Ralph Richardson
D Laurence Olivier
11. Who succeeded Trygve Lie as secretary general of the United Nations?
A Dag Johannson
B Deg Larsson
C Dug Wolfskjöld
D Dag Hammarskjöld
12. Which vocalist released a 1997 album entitled Am I The Kinda
Girl?
A Cathy Dennis
B Cathy Burke
C Cathy Parr
D Cathy Jackson
13. Which organ is stimulated by the drug digitalis?
A Lungs
B Brain
C Heart
D Eyes
14. What is the national currency of Belize?
A Dollar
B Pound
C Franc
D Guilder
15. Who succeeded Neil Kinnock as leader of the British Labour Party?
A John Smith
B Tony Blair
C John Prescott
D William Hague