General Knowledge Quiz

1 The title of the BBC Two series about the Bloomsbury Set is Life in… what?

A Triangles

B Squares

C Circles

2 What is the name of the game played with 136 or 144 tiles bearing Chinese characters and symbols?

A Go

B Tangram

C Mahjong

3 What is the name of the friendly, rubbish-collecting monsters in the 2014 animated film of the same name?

A Binbrownies

B Wombles

C Boxtrolls

4 Which singer/songwriter had hits with Dreams, Walk On By and Out of Reach?

A Madonna

B Mariah Carey

C Gabrielle

Ted Danson See Question 10.

5 What is the pen name of David Cornwell, famous for espionage novels such as Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?

A Len Deighton

B John le Carré

C Ian Fleming

6 Which 19th-century painter cut his own ear off?

A Picasso

B Monet

C Van Gogh 7 Who played Julianne Potter in the 1997 romantic comedy My Best Friend’s Wedding?

A Sandra Bullock

B Julia Roberts

C Jennifer Aniston

8 Which town in SW France with a shrine to St. Bernadette has a reputation for miraculous cures? A Tours

B Vichy

C Lourdes

9 The satirical Newport rap group who had a hit with Guns Don’t

Kill People, Rappers Do is called Goldie Lookin’… what?

A Good

B Chain

C Tooth

10 Which US TV sitcom ran from 1998 to 2004 and starred Ted Danson as a cantankerous doctor?

A Cheers

B Fargo

C Becker