General Knowledge Quiz

1 What was the name of the 1988 comedy in which Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger played mismatched siblings?

A Kindred Spirits

B Twins

C Big Brother

2 Which surname is shared by TV detectives George (played by Martin Shaw) and Dirk (portrayed by Stephen Mangan)?

A Barnaby

B Frost

C Gently

3 Which London football club’s nickname is The Addicks?

A Fulham

B Queens Park Rangers C Charlton Athletic

4 Dame Evelyn Glennie is famous for being a virtuoso musician on what?

A Cello

B Percussion

C Piano

5 House, hedge and tree are all varieties of which small bird?

A Pigeon

B Sparrow

C Finch 6 What name is given to a

Rastafarian hairstyle of long tightly curled strands?

A Cornrows

B Afro

Roger Moore See Question 10.

C Dreadlocks 7 What is a commonly used alternative name for the trachea? A Kneecap

B Windpipe

C Nostril

8 To which Mediterranean country does the adjective Hellenic relate? A Spain

B Italy

C Greece

9 Who, according to the song and film of the same name, went “up diddley up up” and “down diddley down down”?

A Phileas Fogg

B Baron Munchausen

C Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

10 In which 1970s TV drama did Tony Curtis and Roger Moore come together to right wrongs in the justice system?

A The Avengers

B The Persuaders!

C The Sweeney