General Knowledge Quiz
1. Which Trainspotting star made a guest appearance on the medical drama show ER?
A Robert Carlyle
B Michael McEwan
C Ewan McGregor
D Jimmy Nail
2. Which Canadian singer/ songwriter released a live album entitled Year of the Horse in 1997?
A Neil Young
B Neil Diamond
C Neil Richards
D Neil Royce
3. What sort of creature is a fritillary?
A A bird
B A butterfly
C A lizard
D A lemur
4. What sort of creature is a chat?
A A bird
B A lizard
C A rodent
D An insect
5. Which Dublin-born dramatist wrote The Rivals and School For Scandal?
A George Bernard Shaw
B Anthony Powell
C Richard Brinsley Sheridan
D Samuel Beckett
6. Which new stop-motion animation show on ITV2 features Nicholas Hoult as the voice of Patrick, a wannabe knight made from a wooden peg?
A Mike the Knight
B Crossing Swords
C Sir Gadabout
D Knightmare
7. Which French novelist wrote the play L’Arlesienne, for which Bizet composed incidental music?
A Albert Camus
B Moliere
C Ionesco
D Alphonse Daudet
8. Dendrochronology is the dating of past events by studying which natural phenomena?
A Volcanic ash
B Annual rings in trees
C Glacial formations
D Radioactivity of rocks
9. MCMLXXX is which year in Roman numerals?
A 1980
B 1990
C 1680
D 1880
10. What is an understatement that is made for the purpose of irony or emphasis called?
A Lexis
B Litotes
C Meiosis
D Lampoon
11. What was the original surname of film producer Sam Goldwyn?
A Goldfish
B Goldenstein
C Goldberg
D Goldman
12. Which ideal state is named from the Greek for ‘no place’?
A Utopia
B Ethiopia
C Mesopotamia
D Cephalonia
13. Of which country is the Markka the basic unit of currency?
A Finland
B Sweden
C Norway
D Denmark
14. Which Benedictine monk wrote Chronica majora, a history of the world from the Creation to 1259?
A Matthew Rome
B Matthew London
C Matthew Charles
D Matthew Paris
15. Which adjective describes elements with a higher atomic number than uranium?
A Lanthanides
B Alkalis
C Inert Gasses
D Transuranic