General knowledge quiz
ART & LITERATURE
1 Which British novelist wrote Brighton Rock?
2 Which French novelist wrote The Three Musketeers?
3 Which British author created the famous Larkin family in the 1958 novel The Darling Buds of May?
4 What nationality was the painter Goya?
5 Which Irish novelist wrote the Gothic novel Dracula?
6 Who was Britain’s poet laureate from 1972 to 1984?
GEOGRAPHY
7 In which US state can the city of Pittsburgh be found?
8 Of which country is Stockholm the capital?
9 Scapa Flow is a section of which ocean?
10 The Galapagos Islands are part of which South American country?
11 Sicily is the largest island in which sea?
12 Of which former Soviet republic is Tbilisi the capital?
NATURE
13 What name is given to trees of the genus
Larix?
14 To which continent is the plant poison ivy
native?
15 Which lark is noted for singing while hovering
or as it rises almost vertically in the air?
16 Which spiny shrub is also called furze or whin?
17 Which fish gets its name from its long
whisker-like barbels?
18 Which flowering plant is sometimes called the
Michaelmas daisy?
SPORT & LEISURE
19 What is the highest numbered compartment
on a roulette wheel?
20 Which British ice-dance partnership won the
1984 Olympic gold medal?
21 Which is the better poker hand, two pairs or a
straight flush?
22 At which sport did Freddy Trueman represent
England?
23 At which sport was Ray Reardon world
champion six times in the 1970s?
24 Which six-a-side team game is played with a
stick and puck on a rink?
POT LUCK
25 According to the Old Testament, who received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai?
26 In which country did the form of theatre known as kabuki originate?
27 In Arthurian legend, which knight of the round table failed in the quest for the Holy Grail because of his love for Guinevere?
28 By what name was Zimbabwe known until 1979?
29 What nationality was the pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud?
30 Which sort of animals does one associate with equestrianism?
Solutions at the end