The Best General knowledge
IBA 5 TO 15 MCQS TEST
- What is the capital of Finland?
- What is the name of Bridget Jones’ baby in the third Bridget Jones film?
- At the time of writing (December 2022) how many episodes of The Simpsons are there?
- Which five colours make up the Olympic rings?
- In which decade was Madonna born?
- What is the most sold flavour of Walker’s crisps?
- What’s the biggest animal in the world?
- For one point, put the following Kardashian-Jenners in order of age, oldest to youngest: Khloe, Kylie, Rob, Kourtney, Kendall, Kim, Kris
- How many times has Andy Murray won Wimbledon playing singles?
- Which country is brie cheese originally from?
- In what franchise would you find the character Katniss Everdeen?
- What year was Heinz established?
- What is the capital of Iceland?
- Who came second in the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2019?
- What year did Margaret Thatcher die?
- What does IPA stand for?
- Who painted the Mona Lisa?
- Which planet is closest to the sun?
- What was Queen Elizabeth II’s surname?
- Who plays Delboy Trotter in Only Fools And Horses?
- What is the largest country in the world?
- Which fashion designer reportedly had a relationship with Winston Churchill?
- How many valves does the heart have?
- What is the name of the school in Sex Education?
- In Harry Potter, what is the name of The Weasley’s house?
- Put these Tom Hanks films in chronological order: Catch Me If You Can, Forrest Gump, The Terminal, Bridge Of Spies
- Typically, what four ingredients go into a cosmopolitan cocktail? (For one point)
- Who has been the First Minister of Wales since December 2018?
- Which city had the first ever fashion week?
- What nut is in the middle of a Ferrero Rocher?
- What’s a baby rabbit called?
- How many minutes in a game of rugby league?
- Typically, what’s the strongest muscle in the human body?
- Name one landlocked country in Europe
- Who did Anne Hathaway play in Les Miserables?
- What fruit takes the scientific name Mangifera indica?
- What does He stand for on the periodic table?
- What does LGBTQ stand for?
- What did Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams collectively create?
- To a single decimal point, many kilometers in a mile?
- Where in England would you find the themepark Dreamland?
- What month was Prince George born?
- For two points, if all of the states of America were placed in alphabetical order, what would be first and last?
- Who is the highest spiritual leader of Tibet?
- What is the Papaver Rhoeas flower better known as?
- Who plays Emily in the hit Netflix show, Emily In Paris?
- Which rapper’s real name is Dylan Kwabena Mills?
- Who is manager of the England football team as of 2020?
- For one point, which of these actors is Scottish? Jamie Dornan, Michael Sheen, James McAvoy, Daniel Craig
- How many episodes of Scrubs were there? Closest wins the point.
- What year was Google images invented, and for a bonus point, what prompted its creation?
- What was the most streamed show on Netflix in 2020?
- How many Olympic gold medals does Sir Mo Farah have?
- How many elements are there in the periodic table?
- What relationship were Monica and Ross in Friends?
- Where was the mojito cocktail created?
- What are the three water signs in astrology?
- What is the name of the person who does the voiceovers on Love Island?
- What was the name of Britney Spears’ first single?
- Which supermodel was born in Streatham, London?
- How many sides does a heptadecagon have?
- Which London Underground line has the most stations?
- How many bones does a shark have?
- What star sign would someone born on August 24th be?
- What does the AC button on a calculator stand for?
- Which book begins with the line, “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again…”
- In cockney rhyming slang, what is a ‘dog and bone’?
- Who is older Jeremy Corbyn or Theresa May?
- What did Snickers bars used to be called before the name was changed in 1990?
- Including the recruiter round how many games were there in Squid Game?
- How old was Emma Raducanu when she won the US Open in 2021?
- What grain is the Japanese spirit Sake made from?
- What was the most popular girls name in the UK in 2020?
- What is Scooby Doo’s full name?
- What is the name for a donkey crossed with a zebra?
- Who is Taylor Swift’s “We are never ever getting back together” rumoured to be about?
- Which is the highest grossing Harry Potter film?
- How many time zones are there in Russia?
- Which novel begins, “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
- Which UK city is Banksy from?
- Who invented the World Wide Web in 1990?
- Which country’s rugby team is known as The Springboks?
- What does a Geiger Counter measure?
- What is the smallest country in the world?
- Aside from the six main characters, which character appears the most on Friends?
- How many Prime Ministers has the UK had in 2022 so far?
- What is a group of spiders called?
- In which year did the first episode of Come Dine With Me air?
- Who won Love Island in 2022?
- Who wrote A Brief History of Time?
- Which Disney Princess has a tattoo?
- What are Canada’s two national sports?
- How many teeth does the adult human have?
- What is the full name of Harry and Meghan’s second child?
- What colour is the Elizabeth tube line on the tube map?
- Who are the three main characters in the musical Chicago?
- Where in Italy is pizza believed to have first been made?
- In which year did Beyoncé release the song “Single Ladies”?
- What is the most common pub name in the UK?
- When was the first iPhone released?
- In which two countries can you not buy Coca Cola?
- How many people watched the final episode of Game of Thrones?
- Zagreb is the capital city of which country?
- Who won The X Factor in 2011?
- Which dish was voted as the national dish of the UK?
The best General knowledge Quiz answers
- Helsinki
- William
- 738
- Black, green, blue, yellow and red
- The 1950s (1958)
- Cheese and Onion
- The blue whale
- Oldest to youngest: Kris, 67, Kourtney, 43, Kim, 42, Khloe, 38, Rob, 35, Kendall, 27, Kylie, 25
- Twice – in 2013 against Novak Djokovic and in 2016 against Milos Raonic
- France
- The Hunger Games
- 1869
- Reykjavík
- Netherlands
- 2013, on the 8th April
- Indian Pale Ale
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Mercury
- Windsor. Her full name is Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor
- David Jason
- Russia
- Coco Chanel
- Four – the mitral, tricuspid, aortic and pulmonic valves
- Moordale High
- The Burrow
- Forrest Gump (1994), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge Of Spies (2015)
- Fresh lime juice, vodka, cranberry juice, triple sec/cointreau/orange liqueur
- Mark Drakeford
- New York, in 1943
- Hazelnut
- A kit
- 80 minutes
- The masseter – the main jaw muscle
- Any of the following 14 countries: Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Vatican City.
- Fantine
- Mango
- Helium
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (or queer)
- Twitter
- 1.6km
- Margate
- July
- First: Alabama. Last: Wyoming
- The Dalai Lama
- A poppy!
- Lily Collins
- Dizzee Rascal
- Gareth Southgate
- James McAvoy is Scottish. Jamie Dornan is Irish, Michael Sheen is Welsh and Christian Bale is English.
- 181 episodes.
- July 2001, as a result of mass Google searches in February 2000 when Jennifer Lopez wore a jungle print dress, designed by Donatella Versace, to the Grammy Awards.
- The Umbrella Academy season 2, with 43million streams.
- Four Olympic gold medals. He first was at the London 2012 Olympic games when he finished the 10,000m in a time of 27:30.42. He won gold the same year for the Men’s 5,000m, which he completed in 13:41:66. At the Rio 2016 Olympics, he won another gold medal for the 10,000m, and a fourth gold medal for the 5,000m.
- 118 elements
- Brother and sister
- Cuba
- Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces
- Iain Sterling
- Baby One More Time
- Naomi Campbell
- Seventeen
- District Line (60 stations)
- None (a shark’s skeleton is made entirely of cartilage)
- Virgo (August 23 – September 22)
- All clear
- Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier
- A phone
- Jeremy Corbyn (born 1949, Theresa May was born 1956)
- Marathon bars
- Seven – recruiter round, red light – green light, honeycomb, tug of war, marbles, glass stepping stones, squid game.
- Eighteen
- Rice
- Olivia
- Scoobert Doo
- A zeedonk
- Jake Gyllenhaal
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
- Eleven
- 1984
- Bristol
- Tim Berners-Lee
- South Africa
- Radiation
- Vatican City
- Gunther
- Three (Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and current PM Rishi Sunak)
- Clutter or cluster
- 2005
- Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti
- Stephen Hawking
- Lacrosse in the summer, hockey in the winter
- 32
- Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor
- Purple
- Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly and Billy Flynn
- Naples
- 2008
- Red Lion
- 2007
- North Korea and Cuba
- 19.3 million
- Croatia
- Little Mix
- Chicken Tikka