General Knowledge Quiz

 What is the name of the football stadium where England play home matches?

Which businessman founded Virgin Records and Virgin Airlines?

What notable event affected London in September 1666?

Who painted the Mona Lisa?

Who was created by Gepetto the woodcarver?

What was signed by King John at Runnymede in 1215?

Who has a dog called Snowy and is friends with Captain Haddock?

What colour jersey is won by the leader in the Tour de France?

Which star can be used to work out where due North is?

The cob and pen are the male and female of which aquatic bird?

Who was prime minister of the UK for most of the Second World War?

What is the name of the wizard at the court of King Arthur?

Who created Tracy Beaker?

 In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is Charlie’s surname?

What term is used in tennis for 40-40?

Comice, Conference and Williams are varieties of which fruit?

Who is the bear in The Jungle Book?

Which character in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland muttered “Oh dear! I shall be late”?

Which city did the ancient Greeks by legend besiege for 10 years?

Who picked a peck of pickled pepper?

In photography, what sort of lens enables a speedy transition from long shots to close-ups?

Who had an encounter with the three bears?

What is the most expensive property on a standard British monopoly board?

What material was used to make a famous bridge in Shropshire a town now being named after it?

What colour belt are martial arts experts entitled to wear?

How many holes are there on a standard golf course?

Which organisation is based on Tracy Island?

What is the artistic technique of gluing a number of items together to form a new work called?

What is the name of the nanny played by Emma Thompson in two films?

What is the name of Donald Duck’s girlfriend?

 Which television programme shares its name with a naval flag?

What is the largest planet in the solar system?

What is the name of the Australian throwing stick that can return to its thrower?

What is the name of Winnie the Pooh’s donkey friend?

Who were all the King’s horses and men unable to put together again?

Which game is played in autumn using the fruit of the horse chestnut tree?

From what country does Lego come?

From what tree do acorns come?

The name for which group of prehistoric animals comes from the Greek for “terrible lizard”?

What term in tenpin bowling describes having knocked all the pins down after your second bowl?

What is the more familiar name for the disease rubella?

What is the name of the dog in Shaun the Sheep?

Which sport takes place in a velodrome?

What term is used in cricket for the two men on the field who decide on whether batsmen are out

Who leads a gang of outlaws in Sherwood Forest?

What is the innermost colour of a rainbow?

What colour are the benches in the House of Commons?

Which famous horse race is run at Aintree on a Saturday in spring?

Which stone, a form of calcium carbonate, are the White Cliffs of Dover made of?

What was the name of Harry Potter’s pet owl?

Which film and musical are about a miner’s son who wishes to become a ballet dancer?

 Which television series is set in the town of Pontypandy?

 Which country in ancient times was mummification carried out on people when they died?

What is the name of the Lion in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe?

What did Spain send to attack Britain in 1588?

What has the scientific formula H2O?

Air Force One is a plane used by the holder of what position?

How many wives did Henry VIII have?

In which town do the Flintstones live?

In netball, for what does WA stand?

Helped by his slave Morgiana, who foiled the 40 thieves?

Who was caught red-handed trying to blow up parliament in 1605?

How many sides does a hexagon have?

What is the name of Peter Pan’s piratical enemy?

What did Romans use a hypocaust for?

The African and Asian are the two main forms of which mammal,

 Crawl, backstroke and butterfly are different methods in which sport?

What sort of animal is Basil Brush?

Which liner sank on her maiden voyage in 1912?

Which artist painted a number of pictures of sunflowers?

Which king received an arrow in his eye at the Battle of Hastings?

Which people travelled in longships and raided Britain from Scandinavia in medieval times?

In a nursery rhyme, how much are the bells of St Martin’s owed?

Leona Lewis and Alexandra Burke are former winners of which competition?

What is the object hit by the players in ice hockey called?

Which structures were built in medieval times as a mixture of residence and defensive building?

Which stringed instrument is bigger than a violin but smaller than a cello?

Which chess piece can only move diagonally?

What is the London home of the prime minister?

Spitfires and Hurricanes helped win which battle in 1940?

Which ship sank off Portsmouth in 1545 but was retrieved from the seabed in 1982?

In computing, what is Mb short for?

What colour are dandelions?

Which is the only vowel not on the top row of a computer keyboard?

What kind of animal is Beatrix Potter’s Mrs Tiggy-Winkle?

Sheriff Woody Pride and Buzz Lightyear are major characters in which series of films?

 Who stole Christmas in a Dr Seuss book?