GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ
1 What name is given to the young of a bear?
A Pup
B Calf
C Cub 2 Which is the world’s deepest ocean?
A The Atlantic
B The Pacific
C The Arctic 3 Who sang the 1962 hit Return to Sender?
A Stevie Wonder
B Buddy Holly
C Elvis Presley 4 In which decade was the film Jaws released?
A 1990s
B 1970s
C 1980s 5 Which 1963 crime was Ronnie Biggs involved in?
A The Hatton Garden safe deposit theft
B The Great Train Robbery
C The Baker Street robbery 6 Shira Haas and Stephen Graham are starring in which new Netflix crime thriller series based on a graphic novel by Si Spencer?
A Corpses
B Figures
C Bodies 7 What nationality is tennis star Roger Federer?
A American
B Swiss
C Spanish 8 Which city was the US sitcom Friends set in?
A Los Angeles
B New York
C Seattle 9 Memphis is the second largest city in which US state? A Alabama
B Kentucky
C Tennessee 10 Who wrote the 1977 horror novel The Shining?
A Stephen King
B Neil Gaiman
C R. L. Stine 11 What is Princess Leia’s surname in Star Wars? A Antilles
B Gallia
C Organa 12 Who was Britain’s Home Secretary from 2001 to 2004? A John Reid
B Jack Straw
C David Blunkett 13 Which fruit has the French name ‘fraise’?
A Plum
B Strawberry
C Apple 14 Which TV sci-fi series featured the Klingons? A Doctor Who
B Star Trek
C The X-Files 15 In which ocean is New Zealand located?
A The Indian
B The Atlantic
C The Pacific 16 Who created the fictional hero Tarzan?
A Rudyard Kipling
B Robert Louis Stevenson C Edgar Rice Burroughs 17 What is the French word for black?
A Gris
B Bleu
C Noir 18 Which Shakespeare play does Bottom feature in?
A A Midsummer Night’s Dream B Much Ado About Nothing C Twelfth Night 19 Who created the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks?
A Phil Redmond
B Julia Smith
C Kevin Laffan 20 In which European country is Pisa located?
A France
B Greece
C Italy