General Knowledge Quiz Questions

Questions

1. What was the maiden name of former British professional cyclist Dame Laura Kenny?
2. The calendar currently used in Britain is named after which Pope?
3. James James composed the tune for which country’s national anthem?
4. Which type of dog can also be a word for someone who compiles crosswords?
5. Fremantle is a port in the metropolitan area of which Australian city?
6. What name is given to the trinkets on a bracelet?
7. What’s the better-known name for a nose kiss, a gesture of affection where one rubs the tip of their nose against another person’s face?
8. The Seahawks are a professional American football team based in which American city?
9. The piranha is native to which continent?
10. What was the crew number of a German Panzer IV tank, used extensively during the Second World War?
11. Which prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in Wiltshire is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe?
12. Which politician mistakenly thought that Marie Antoinette won the Nobel Prize for Physics?
13. Carole Smillie is best known for assisting Nicky Campbell on which UK game show?
14. In the equation E = mc squared, what does the "c" stand for?
15. Hyperion, the world’s tallest known living tree, was found in 1968 in a remote area of which American national park?
16. Generally, a spear becomes what weapon when it is too long to be wielded with one hand in combat?
17. Who launched his literary career in 1984 when he sold his first thriller novel The Hunt for Red October?
18. Which country was the first in the world where all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections?
19. In mathematics, what is the differential of 9X?
20. Which Roman turf fortification on stone foundations was built some twenty years after Hadrian's Wall to the south?
21. Which former Brentford footballer appeared as Dave Dodds in the 2001 film Mike Bassett: England Manager?
22. Who played fencing instructor Verity in the Bond film Die Another Day?
23. What is the name of a bell-shaped women’s hat that was popular during the Roaring Twenties?
24. On 4 February 2002, the shipping forecast sea area Finisterre was renamed to what by the UK's Meteorological Office in honour of its founder?
25. If "Dexter" is used for "left," what word is used for "right" in science and heraldry?
26. Alfred Watkins is known for developing the idea of what straight alignments connecting historic structures, prehistoric sites, and landmarks?
27. What colour is the door and window wood of Coronation Street's Rovers Return?
28. In which country did the so-called Orange Revolution take place?
29. What do Americans call the large open-topped waste container for loading onto a lorry, which is known as a skip in the UK?
30. Which British actor plays Frasier's old friend Alan in the reboot of Frasier?

Answers

1. Trott
2. Pope Gregory (Pope Gregory XIII)
3. Wales
4. Setter
5. Perth
6. Charms
7. Eskimo kiss
8. Seattle
9. South America
10. Five (commander, gunner, loader, driver, radio operator/bow machine-gunner)
11. Silbury Hill
12. David Lammy (on his Mastermind TV appearance)
13. Wheel of Fortune
14. Speed of light
15. Redwood National Park
16. A pike
17. Tom Clancy
18. New Zealand
19. 9
20. The Antonine Wall
21. Bradley Walsh
22. Madonna
23. Cloche
24. FitzRoy
25. Sinister
26. Ley lines
27. Green
28. Ukraine
29. Dumpster
30. Nicholas Lyndhurst