How is your General Knowledge? 1 point for each correct answer.

1. Which kind of dancer was Mr. Bojangles?

2. Which William featured as a team captain in Question Of Sport?

3. Where did William III defeat a French army in 1690?

4. What does hydrogen combine with to form water?

5. Where in The House of Lords do peers with no party loyalties sit?

6. What is the northernmost point of the British Mainland?

7. Which branch of medical science is concerned with muscle?

8. Which actor’s real name was Reginald Carey?

9. Prince George of Denmark was the husband of which English Queen?

10. What was the true vocation of the detective in the stories by G. K. Chesterton?

11. Which TV programme has Judith Harn & Carol Vorderman presented?

12. Who was the first woman elected to the British Parliament?

13. Where on the human body is the skin the thinnest?

14. Which French writer lived with the composer Chopin?

15. On what day in 1939 did Britain declare war on Germany?

16. Which advertiser said “We care because you do”?

17. What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?

18. Whose real name is Bernard Schwarz?

19. What did the “D” stand for in Franklin D Roosevelt?

20. Who bought Elizabeth II her first corgi?


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