Quiz 1

General Knowledge

Question 1

Which town is home to Keele University?

London
Birmingham
Newcastle

Question 2

Polar bears are left or right handed?

Left
Right
Who was daft enough to find out?

Question 3

The Mekon were the arch enemy of who?

Flash Gordon
Dan Dare
Captain Kirk

Question 4

Which horse won the 1996 St. Leger?

Shantee
Shanntoo
Shantou

Question 5

Who was the world welterweight boxing champion in 1898?

Battling John McGier
Mysterious Billy Smith
London Jim South

Enough sport

Now some watery stuff

Question 6

What is the bottommost plank of a vessel's hull called?

Larboard
Garboard
Bumboard

Question 7

How deep is Loch Ness?
(approximately)

275
698
755

Question 8

Who played captain Kid in the 1945 film?

Charles Laughton
Errol Flin
Douglas Farbanks

Question 9

Herm, Jethou and Lihou are part of which island group?

Outer Hebrides
Falkland islands
The Channel Islands

All sorts

Question 10

Which state of the USA is called the "Beaver State"?

Washington
Oregon
South Dakota

Question 11

What is a nunatak?

An Eastern oriental carpet
Ecclesiastical road rage
An isolated mountain peak

Music

Question 12

Which duo had a hit with "Runaway train" in 1992?

Rolf Harris and Oliver Newton-John
Amanda Barrie and Johnny Briggs
Elton John and Eric Clapton

Question 13

Another duo, who took Gloria into the top 40 in 1993?

Tina Turner and Share
Van Morrison and John Lee Hooker.
Cliff Richard and Kim Wild

Question 14

What was Suzi Quatro's last solo top ten hit in 1978?

Can the Can
Back street blues
If you can't give me love.

Question 15

Who had a hit with Oh Carolina in 1993?

Shaggy
Mr. Oizo
John Cale

Question 16

Jeffery Daniel, Jody Whatley and Howard Hewitt comprised which group?

Ace of Base
The Pretenders
Shalamar.

A few questions for the more literary

Question 17

Which novel begins with "Hale knew they meant to murder him before he had been in Brighton three hours" ?

High Fidelity
Brighton rock
Vanity Fair

Question 18

Who wrote "The Devil Rides Out?

William Boyd
James M Cain
Dennis Wheatley

Question 19

Captain Corelli's Mandolin was written by who?

Louis de Bernières
Dame Iris Murdoch
Gustave Flaubert

Question 20

The thriller Executive Orders was written by ?

Elmore Leonard
Tom Clancy
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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