General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which Frankish ruling dynasty was founded by Pepin the Short?
A Plantagenets
B Goths
C Visigoths
D Carolingians
2. Who was the last British prime minister to sit in the House of Lords?
A Gladstone
B Salisbury
C Rosebery
D Balfour
3. What is the removal of salt from brine to produce fresh water called?
A Purification
B Debrination
C Desalination
D Freshification
4. Who was Harold II’S brother who fought against him at the Battle of Stamford Bridge?
A Josstick
B Rostog
C Tostig
D Ristog
5. What is the brightest star in the constellation Carina?
A Arcturus
B Canopus
C Marina
D Peroni
6. Jason Fox and Rudy Reyes feature on which Channel 4 military training show?
A Extreme Boot Camp
B SAS: Who Dares Wins
C Surviving the Cut
D The Paras
7. Which New Zealand detective fiction writer created Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard?
A Dame Ngaio Roberts
B Dame Ngaio Marsh
C Dame Ngaio Maoro
D Dame Ngaio Paou
8. What name is given to a celestial phenomenon that has undergone such total gravitational collapse that no light can escape from it?
A Red Dwarf
B White Dwarf
C Black space
D Black hole
9. Which band had a 1963 top ten hit with You Were Made For Me?
A Freddie and the Dreamers
B Herman’s Hermits
C The Beatles
D The Shadows
10. Who wrote the cantata Carmina Burana?
A Carl Orff
B Georges Bizet
C Wolfgang Mozart
D Richard Wagner
11. What name is given to the financial crisis in England in 1720 that revealed corruption among ministers?
A North Sea Bubble
B Irish Sea Bubble
C Atlantic Ocean Bubble
D South Sea Bubble
12. What does the name of the disease influenza literally mean?
A Influence
B Flu enzyme
C Cold influx
D Fast spreading
13. With which sport was Henry Cooper associated?
A Golf
B Motor racing
C American football
D Boxing
14. What is a galvanometer used to measure?
A Small electric currents
B Humidity
C Metal density
D Radiation leaks
15. Which English author wrote the novels The Magus, The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Daniel Martin?
A David Fowler
B George Fuller
C Peter Fisher
D John Fowles